Undergraduate Open House
Join us to learn more about the School of Architecture at Rensselaer, the application process, and the Rensselaer student experience! The School of Architecture provides a unique and contemporary program that is both pragmatic and visionary. The agenda for Tuesday November 11 is listed below. Begin your day checking in with Admissions [CLICK HERE]. 9:00 am: Information Session at […]
Fall 2013 Electives
Please see here the list of courses available for next semester: FALL 2013. ARCH4840 Architectural Acoustics 1 Providing an overview of the essentials for architectural acoustics design of performance and public spaces, including concert halls, theaters, museums, classrooms, sports arenas, courtrooms, and religious buildings. The course may be used as a concentration in an architecture […]
S’13 COURSES
Spring 2013. Please see here the list of elective courses available for next semester: ARCH4850 Architecture Acoustics 2 In the spring semester, students will have the opportunity to design their own performance hall. This process will include continued studies of acoustics measurements, simulated sound fields, community noise issues, and professional practice in acoustics consulting. The […]
Ngai FP Studio (Fall 2011)
Parametric Urban Sustainability Faculty: TED NGAI, Lecturer Introduction: Urban Sustainability Performance 2010 marked the year when more than half of the world’s population was residing in urban areas. The dramatic rise of urban population in the twentieth century, from 13% in in 1900, 29% in 1950, 46% in 2000, to finally reaching 50.46% in 2010, […]
AD2 (Fall 2011)
ARCH 2220/2620 (re)Configuring Identity. Expanding the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York Faculty: JEREMY CARVALHO, GUSTAVO CREMBIL, TED KRUEGER, ANDREW SAUNDERS (Cordinator), FLORENCIA VETCHER “Mere size is something says Browning, and I never felt the significance of this unexpected declaration as much as I did in the presence of a tiny oblong panel belonging to […]
AD2 (Fall 2010)
ARCH 2220/2620. Material Manifestations. Archive and Exhibition Center for the Legacy of the Shakers. Faculty: JEREMY CARVALHO, LONN COMBS, GUSTAVO CREMBIL, ANDREW SAUNDERS (Coordinator), FLORENCIA VETCHER “The Shakers have lasted longer a gained more fame than any other utopian community this country has produced.” “Do your work as though you had a thousand years to […]
Final Project
ARCH 4980 ARCHITECTURE IN THE EXPANDED FIELD Final Project: Directed Research Sequence DEAN’S PREFACE The education of an architect is comprised of an ecology of interests acquired over many years to adequately prepare the students to move forward as leaders in the profession. Once they arrive in their final year (referred to as ‘Final Project’ […]
S’12 Courses
Spring 2012. Please see here the list of courses available for next semester: ARCH4850 Architecture Acoustics 2 In the spring semester, students will have the opportunity to design their own performance hall. This process will include continued studies of acoustics measurements, simulated sound fields, community noise issues, and professional practice in acoustics consulting. The course […]
Leiteao FP Studio (2011-12)
Thesis FINAL PROJECT section 03 Cloud-Architecture. Active Erosion and Disassembly: Games, Cities and Time-off Faculty: CARLA LEITÃO In the CLOUD Studio, we will look into a possible future in the design of spaces which takes serious advantage of two inter-related characters: ultra-locality and remote connection. For this, will use two main attitudes of tectonic […]
Leitao FP Studio (2010-11)
ARCH 4980: B. Arch Final Project 1 TransverCity: the CLOUD Institution Faculty: CARLA LEITÃO In the CLOUD Thesis, we will look into a possible future in the design of institutions which takes serious advantage of two inter-related characters: ultra-locality and remote connection. For this, will use two main attitudes of tectonic research: advanced material sensitivity […]