2011F_Design Studio_Dayem Section

ARCH-2200 | Adam Dayem, Adjunct Professor. Mars: An Architecture of Terra-formation. Selected Student Work: The basis of formal and conceptual development in this studio was a set of interlocking wood joint components.  Joints were devised as relational conditions based on geometric affiliations between parts.  Specific geometry built into the wood beca a type of information guiding […]

2011F_Design Studio_Titus Section

ARCH-2200 | Anthony Titus, Professor Mars: An Architecture of Terra-formation Selected Student Work: ARCH 2200 is the first semester of the four semester long sequence of core design studios within the School of Architecture at Rensselaer. In this semester one will engage in fundamental design principles of the discipline of architecture, focusing upon the conceptualization and realization […]

2011-12 FP_Perry Section

Final Project | Chris Perry, Assistant Professor TECHNO-FUTURISM 2 Architecture, Science, Technology FP Students 2011-12 – Chris Perry Section /// Techno-Futurism The instrumental and aesthetic implications of architecture’s engagement with science and technology has a long history, part of which includes the period following the Second World War when the rapid technological advances of the […]

2012S_S(aroud)OUND_Oatman Studio

Smart Geometry @ EMPAC SPECIAL preview performance. This Friday night, at 8.30 PM for ARCH, ARTS and Smart Geometry attendees. Troy Gasholder, 1115 5th avenue, Troy, NY 12180. There will be shuttles leaving the EMPAC circle starting at 8-ish, and running until 11 PM.  It will probably also be a great night for a walk, […]

2011-12 FP_Leitao Section

Final Project | Carla Leitao, Adjunct Professor Cloud Disassembly Games, Cities, and Time-off FP Students 2011-12 – Carla Leitao Section The CLOUD DISASSEMBLY Thesis Section looks into future architectures that can disassemble other structures as well as themselves – questioning the paradigm of the building as unity, and focusing on concepts of synthetic material character, […]

2011S_Slip Casting Workshop

2011F_Italy Program_Combs-Griffa

/ 2011 Italy Program / / BuildSmart Workshop (Torino) / Faculty: Cesare Griffa  + Lonn Combs Politecnico di Torino, Faculty of Architecture II Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , School of Architecture August 29th to September 30th, 2011 Location: Castello dl Valentino and FabLabItalia, Torino. Week 1: Preliminary Design Week 1: Prototyping Week 3: Prototypes (almost) working […]

2010F_Arch Design 2_Combs Section

ARCH-2200 | Lonn Combs, Assistant Professor Material Manifestations: Archive and Exhibition Center for the Legacy of the Shakers Selected Student Work: The preservation of history through it’s material production is the subject of this core design studio. Addressing the utopian society of the Shakers who flourished during a relatively brief period of the 19th Century, the studio […]

2010F_Arch Design 2_Crembil Section

ARCH-2200 | Gustavo Crembil, Assistant Professor Material Manifestations: Archive and Exhibition Center for the Legacy of the Shakers Selected Student Work: In the context of a discipline that is desperate to experience materiality, craft is rarely mentioned today in architecture. Craft is not only knowledge of material properties and techniques; it is an adaptive behavior whose perpetual […]

2010F_Arch Design 2_Carvalho Section

ARCH-2200 | Jeremy Carvalho, Adjunct Faculty Material Manifestations: Archive and Exhibition Center for the Legacy of the Shakers Selected Student Work: Asceticism and Educational Process – In many ways, the study of Shaker culture illuminated the ascetic behavioral codes and concepts of rigorous production that remain central to architectural education. Total focus upon a body of work, […]

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