2012S_Arch Design 1_Dayem Section

ARCH-2210 | Adam Dayem, Adjunct Professor Architecture Design 1 Selected Student Work: The intent of this studio was to study interacting systems.  In The Three Ecologies, Felix Guattari espouses thinking transversally across conventionally held systemic boundaries, i.e. natural / unnatural, human / non-human and material / immaterial.  In the studio, transversal thinking across systems was applied […]

2012S_Arch Design 1_Bitoni Section

ARCH-2210 | Franics Bitoni, Adjunct Professor Architecture Design 1 Selected Student Work: In his book titled The Three Ecologies, philosopher and psychoanalyst Felix Guattari formulates a definition of ecology that operates at three scales. For Guattari, ecologies are constructed beginning with the individual, or self, aggregations of individuals then produce collective bodies. These collective bodies then […]

2011F_Design Development

ARCH4240/50/60 | Demetrios Comodromos, Lecturer + Mark Mistur, Associate Professor/ Associate Dean Design Development Selected Student Work: A technology-based design studio emphasizing the materialization and making of architectural design projects as a critical extension and progenitor of the design process and architectural consequence. The integration of building code requirements accessibility, building environmental systems, structure, construction, and […]

2011F_Italy Program_Combs Studio

ARCH4240/50/60 | Lonn Combs, Assistant Professor Vertical Arch Design Studio, Italy Selected Student Work: ‘The idea that architecture belongs in one place and technology belongs in another is comparatively new in history, and its effect on architecture, which should be the most complete of the arts of mankind, has been crippling.’ -Reyner Banham, ‘The Architecture of […]

2011F_Vertical_Zbigniew Oksiuta

ARCH4240/50/60.02 | Zbigniew Oksiuta, Lecturer Vertical Arch Design Studio, Zbigniew Oksiuta Selected Student Work:   Lisa Laue Ariel Smith Jason Wang Brenna Weisslender

2011F_Vertical_David Bell

ARCH4240/50/60.02 | David Bell, Associate Professor Vertical Arch Design Studio: “Earth & Sky” Selected Student Work: The premise for this studio was to explore how architecture can express the relationship between earth and sky. The vehicles for this exploration were two projects each of which had either the earth or the sky as the primary focus […]

2011F_CASE

ARCH4240/4250/4260/4360 (CASE) | Jefferson Ellinger, Assistant Professor and Graduate Director CASE Center for Architecture, Science, and Ecology Selected Student Work: The design studio at the Center for Architecture Science and Ecology seeks to develop design techniques in which environmental research; innovation, analysis and performance, is synthesized with what might be considered traditional design techniques to holistically […]

2011F_Arch Design 2_Vetcher Section

ARCH-2220/2620 | Florencia Vetcher, Adjunct Professor (re)Configuring Identity: Expanding the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY Selected Student Work: The Hyde Collection; initiated by Ms Hyde in the 1940’s holds some of the world’s greatest works of art including pieces by Rembrandt, Picasso and Van Gogh. In the spirit of Ms. Hyde’s vision for the collection to […]

2011F_Arch Design 2_Krueger Section

ARCH-2220/2620 | Ted Krueger, Associate Professor (re)Configuring Identity: Expanding the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY Selected Student Work: In the design studio, students from a wide range of backgrounds have the opportunity to consider the same problem, in a sense, to consider it together. Each however, understands it differently and approaches it with the strength and […]

2011F_Arch Design 2_Crembil Section

ARCH-2220/2620 | Gustavo Crembil, Assistant Professor (re)Configuring Identity: Expanding the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY Selected Student Work: The Hyde Collection historical development, from domestic collection to museum, follows the historical path the institution “museum” itself. Its peripheral location, however, doesn’t shelter it form the contemporary institutional dilemmas and challenges. Its singular site situation, trapped between […]

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