Peter Eisenman (Lecture Spring 2013)
Professor Kenneth L. Warriner Memorial Lecture Series. A Defense of Architecture. As a world-renown architect, Peter Eisenmans’ professional work is often reflective upon his own writings on the faculty. Both the built and theoretical realm of Eisenman’s works concentrate on studying the layers of physical and cultural archaeologies at each site. Peter Eisenman is an […]
Alisa Andrasek: Open Synthesis
Alisa Andrasek is a researcher, experimental practitioner, and educator of computational architecture and design. She is the founder of Biothing, a research laboratory that concentrates on computational potentials in design.
Neri Oxman: Neri Oxman, MIT Media Lab (Spring 2013 Lecture)
Founder of MIT’s Media Lab, Neri Oxman, has dedicated her profession as a designer and architect towards investigating how our built world can be influenced by fabrication technologies and digital design techniques.
Recent Lecture: Michael Hansmeyer
Thu Sep 12, 6pm @ Empac. “Digital Grotesque” Based in the CAAD group at ETH’s architecture department in Zurich, Michael Hansmeyer is dedicated in developing algorithmic architecture and complex structures by using generative art mentalities and other computational softwares. ” In the Digital Grotesque project, we use these algorithms to create a form that appears […]
Spring 2014 Lecture Series
Lecture Series (Spring 2014). Admission is FREE and will begin at 6pm. Except when noted, all lectures are at EMPAC / The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media + Performing Arts Center . 110 8th Street, Troy NY 12180. Monday, January. 27 ROGER DUFFY SOM: An Evolving Legacy Wednesday, February 26 CATHERINE INGRAHAM Plasticity: Architecture and […]
Mallory Buckner (class 2015) in ‘Art by Architects’ (AIA Houston)
Student News: BArch student Mallory Buckner exhibited her art work at “Art by Architects”. AIA Houston Art by Architects is a juried exhibition showcasing art by local AIA members and architecture students. Selected works was available for sale with a portion benefiting Architecture Center Houston Foundation. Art by Architects Exhibition July 26, 2013 – July 31, 2013 […]
The New Sharon & David Jepson ’63 Fund
Making a Difference. Celebrating Reunion With a Gift. David Jepson ’63 is marking the celebration of his 50th reunion year in a grand way, with a $500,000 gift to the Institute. David and Sharon Jepson’s gift will begin to fund the Sharon H. and David G. Jepson ’63 Fund for the School of Architecture, […]
Eric Tan (’09) named “2013 Young Gun”
Emergent talent and leadership. Eric Tan was recently recognized by the Curbed Network as one of the “2013 Young Guns“. Gensler Principal Maddy Burke-Vigeland, who has worked with Tan on a number of projects, says: “As a young architect, he is engaging, he crosses disciplines, he connects with clients, he connects with interns… he’s a natural leader […]
Spring 2013 Reviews
FINAL REVIEWS SCHEDULE: Monday April 29 Studio: URBAN FURNITURE Time: 2pm / Location: Gallery Instructor: Lonn Combs Guest Critics: Jesse LeCavalier, Angie Co, Daniel Ramirez, Francesco Bedeschi, Donald Sherefkin, Yael Erel, Philipp Von Dalwig, Adam Dayem, Jeremie Carvalho, Francis Bitonti, Mark Mistur, Chris Perry, Elena Perez-Guembe Wednesday May 01 Studio: FINAL PROJECT 2 (Directed Research) Time: 2pm / Location: Gallery East Instructor: Jeremie Carvalho Guest Critics: Reese Campbell, Lonn Combs, Elena Perez-Guembe, Florencia […]
Julia Watson assigned Use Case Leader
Assistant Professor Julia Watson has been assigned as Use Case Leader for the IEEEActionable Data Book for STEM Education for the Bali World Heritage Site Interactive Guidebook. Using the Bali World Heritage Site Guidebook, co-written with Dr Steve Lansing, Assistant Professor Julia Watson will be assisting ex-Apple Technology Group Leader Tyde Richards, with development of the IEEE […]
SoA @ CANstruction
WE ARE NOT IN CANSAS ANYMORE! The 3rd annual Canstruction is on its way at Albany’s State Museum. This program not only highlights the ingenuity of those in the architecture, engineering and construction fields, but also serves as a fundraising and canned food drive for the Food Pantries of the New York’s Capital District. This year, […]
Crembil wins “VIDA Art & Artificial Life” grant
Assistant Professor Gustavo Crembil was awarded a prestigious VIDA 1.4 Art & Artificial Life Production Incentive for “TZ’IJK,” an art installation that will use mud-encased giant spherical robots to provide insights into possible parallel narratives between contemporary robotics and Mayan creation myths. Crembil shares the award with collaborator Paula Gaetano-Adi, a former electronic arts instructor […]
6 SHOWS ONLY @ EMPAC
Feb 28, March 1 & 2. 7pm & 9pm. SoA + HASS + EMPAC // RPI’s School of Architecture (SoA) and School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS), in conjunction with EMPAC are pleased to present: THE MACHINE STARTS A new media performance under the direction of renowned visiting artists Mary Ellen Strom and […]
OCCUPY DUBAI
Tue Feb, 6 pm @ The Greene Gallery, TYLER HOPFT (Browns Fellow 2013) will present: occupy DUBAI. What 99%? The project is an exploration on the flamboyance and extravagance of the extremely wealthy. One measure of this within architecture is the height of the towers and the speed of growth in a city. Dubai has […]
EMERGENT VERTISCAPES
Tue Feb, 6 pm @ The Greene Gallery, RICHARD OFF (Browns Fellow 2010) will present: EMERGENT VERTI-SCAPES. Innovative High-Rise Development & Hyper-Dense Urbanism In Southeast Asia. Kuala Lumpur + Singapore / Hong Kong + Shanghai The developing nations of China and Malaysia are emerging as industrial powers, and their foremost cities are building extensive skylines […]
Digital Sessions S’2013
@ Digital Futures Lab, 7-9PM. Greene Building 2nd Floor. All session are from 7-9PM. All dates are tentative per school conflicts. Please refer to the weekly emails for exact dates. Contact with any questions. DIGITAL SESSIONS SCHEDULE PROCEDURAL TECTONICS > 1/30 – 1/31: An introduction to the use of Grasshopper’s analysis and recursive features for the production […]
FALL 2013 LECTURE SERIES
Lecture Series (Fall 2013). Admission is FREE and will begin at 6pm. Except when noted, all lectures are at EMPAC / The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media + Performing Arts Center . 110 8th Street, Troy NY 12180.
2012 Smart Geometry
March 19-24, 2012 @ EMPAC. Smart Geometry 2012: MATERIAL INTENSITIES. Host Directors: Demetrios Comodromos + Jefferson Ellinger. Imagine the design space of architecture was no longer at the scale of rooms, walls and atria, but that of cells, grains and vapour droplets. Rather than the flow of people, services, or construction schedules, the focus becomes the […]
Perry Goes Soft
Geofutures‘ Director Chris Perry writes in [bracket] # 2 Edited by Neeraj Bhatia and Lola Sheppard of Infranet Lab, this second volume in the impressive [bracket] series “examines the use and implications of soft today – from the scale of material innovation to territorial networks.” In a back-to-back series of short presentations, [bracket] editorial advisors […]
Superdome by Alex Dorn & Tyler Hopft
@ 10 Top Images on Archinect’s “Student Work” Pinterest Board superNODE by TYLER HOFT AND ALEX DORN Design Development Studio Critics: Mark Mistur and Demetrios Comodromos UNstudio’s ‘Newer Orleans’ project was re-adressed formally, programatically and conceptually and then developed to DD.
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, […]
300 Clouds_(Benjamin Badeau)
A video by 2011 Architecture graduate Benjamin Badeau, 300 Clouds Benjamin Badeau’s 300 Clouds re-contextualizes Chris Marker’s 1962 film La Jetée, imagining a different Earth and a new set of challenges shaped by the myriad, interwoven environmental catastrophes of the past 50 years. Will the count continue to slip, or can the ominous forms on […]
“Sleeping Life” Anthony Titus
Exhibition @ Glass Gallery, Greene Building / RPI SLEEPING LIFE, by Anthony Titus Opening Reception: October 25th at 6PM. This elegant show of constructed paintings takes its imagery, forms and themes from the history of painting, the cartoon stylizations of the Superflat movement, and the presentation of landscape as mediated by television. The Opening Reception […]
Graduate Open House: NYC (11/17) & Troy (11/19)
GRADUATE OPEN HOUSE: Thursday, November 17, 4pm-7pm @ CASE/NYC Saturday, November 19, 10am–2pm @ SoA/Troy Thursday, November 17, 4pm-7pm Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE) Skidmore, Owings & Merrill 14 Wall Street, 24th Floor New York, New York Featured Graduate Programs: Master of Architecture Master of Science, Architecture: Geofutures M.S. and PhD, Built Ecologies […]
Spring 2013 Lecture Series
Lecture Series (Spring 2013). Admission is FREE and will begin at 6pm. Except when noted, all lectures are at EMPAC / The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media + Performing Arts Center . 110 8th Street, Troy NY 12180. ///
What makes a good architecture school?
CASE/RPI featured at ARCHDAILY.
Fall 2011 Lecture Series
Lecture Series (Fall 2011) Admission is FREE and will begin at 6pm. All lectures are at EMPAC / The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media + Performing Arts Center, 110 8th Street, Troy NY 12180. Schedule JOEL SANDERS Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture Wed Sept 7th – Concert Hall HEATHER ROBERGE Sheet Logics Wed Sept 21st […]
Perry Hall Exhibition
Exhibition Perry Hall: ‘Tidal Empire’ Opening Reception: Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2011, 6 pm Location: Green Gallery, School of Architecture (2nd floor) Perry Hall uses a set of experimental techniques that draw upon the organizing principals found in nature. In his Livepaintings (time-based paintings), he stimulates paint with temperature changes, vibration, turbulence, and various substances, transforming […]
Fall 2012 Lecture Series
Lecture Series (Spring 2012) Admission is FREE and will begin at 6pm. Except when noted, all lectures are at EMPAC / The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media + Performing Arts Center . 110 8th Street, Troy NY 12180. Schedule MATIAS DEL CAMPO Sublime Bodies Wed, October 17, 6pm – 8pm Theater @ EMPAC DAVID REED […]
Digital Sessions F’2012
Digital Futures Lab @ Greene Building 2nd Floor. Blog: www.kinch-sessions.com As in the past semester, Casey Rehm will be available for studio and student specific workshops or assistance on Friday’s from 11-5. Please contact him at to schedule a meeting. Additionally, this semester Fleet Hower will be available to additional assistance on Monday’s from […]
Hyde Collection Charrete (Fall 2011)
Regional Initiative: Master Planning & Design Charrette Hyde Collection SCHEDULE Session 1: SETTING THE AGENDA Thursday, September 22, 6-9:00pm 6:00p Welcome Comments: Andrew Saunders, Assistant Professor and charrette co-coordinator Mark Mistur, Associate Dean and charrette co-coordinator 6:10p The Opportunity and Charge: David Setford, Director Erin Coe, Curator Board Members 6:30p The Hyde Collection: Opportunity […]
Techno-Futurism 2
Final Project: Chris Perry Section (2011-12)
Smart Geometry 2012
@ The Huffington Post. PRESS COVERAGE
Book Launch
Sunday April 1st, 5:30 pm. BUILDING FUTURES: RE-ENVISIONING THE HYDE AT RENSSELAER. The Hyde Collection: 161 Warren Street, Glens Falls, NY 12801. The Hyde Collection’s board of trustees and David F. Setford, executive director, along with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Dean of the School of Architecture Evan Douglis, cordially invite you to attend the book launch […]
Press Coverage:
S(around)ound @ The Gasholder Building (Audio slideshow). Times Union (Albany). March 28, 2012 at 3:00 pm by Michael Janairo, Arts & Entertainment Editor. Violinist Todd Reynolds returned to the Gasholder Building in Troy to perform last Saturday and Sunday night in “S(around)ound” — pronounced “surround sound.” The experimental violinist and composer worked with students from […]
2012 Smart Geometry
MARCH 12-24, 2012. The sg2012 challenge, Material Intensities, is intended to dissolve our notion of the built environment as inert constructions enclosing physically sealed spaces. Spaces and boundaries are abundant with vibration, fluctuating intensities, shifting gradients and flows. The materials that define them are in a continual state of becoming: a dance of energy and […]
Oksiuta @ EMPAC
Faculty Lecture: A Biological Future? In his research, Rensselaer Architecture professor Zbigniew Oksiuta develops living biological habitats by combining art, architecture, engineering, and the biological sciences. His work looks beyond historical, social, urbanistic, and aesthetic factors to reduce the notion of space to its absolute minimum: the physical and chemical parameters that enable physiological existence. […]
Oatman Studio Review
Exhibition. Thursday March 1st, 2:00 PM. Greene Gallery.
Spring 2012 Lecture Series
Lecture Series (Spring 2012) Admission is FREE and will begin at 6pm. Except when noted, all lectures are at EMPAC / The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media + Performing Arts Center . 110 8th Street, Troy NY 12180. Schedule PATRICK SCHUMACHER Parametric Order Mon Feb 13th – Theater ALICE AYCOCK Work Wed Feb 15th – […]
3D Systems Partners With RPI
Building Futures: Re-Envisioning The Hyde at Rensselaer Company Prints Students’ Proposals for Unified Hyde Collection Campus. ROCK HILL, S.C., Feb 14, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — When a beloved museum in upstate New York needed a new master plan for its sprawling campus, it turned to a potent resource to spark the brainstorm: students at […]
Re-envisioning The Hyde (Opening)
Preview Reception: Friday February 10, 2012.
Digital Sessions S’2012
Digital Sessions by Casey Rehm at Digital Futures Lab. Workshop Blog : http://rpi-digitalarch.blogspot.com/ or http://www.kinch-sessions.com/ Tutorials will be posted to the blog the following week. Students are also encouraged to submit examples of their work from the sessions for publication. All sessions to be held in Digital Futures Lab (Greene Building) from 7-9pm unless otherwise noted. Workshops will […]
Building Futures: Re-Envisioning The Hyde at Rensselaer
Regional Initiatives Building Futures: Re-Envisioning The Hyde At Rensselaer The Hyde Collection’s board of trustees and David F. Setford, executive director, along with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Dean of the School of Architecture Evan Douglis, cordially invite you to attend the opening reception for an exhibition of future architectural ideas for the development of The […]
Theodore Spyropoulos : Behavioural Frameworks
Theodore Spyropoulos is co-founder of experimental architecture and design studio Minimaforms, and Director of the Architectural Association’s world renowned Design Research Lab (AADRL) in London.
TEDx Talk by E/Ye Design
/ Jefferson Ellinger, Assistant Professor / New Architectures: Nature and Phenomena TedX Talk Jackson Hole, WY. October 2nd, 2011 Jefferson Ellinger (Assistant Professor at RPI) and Nona Yehia, partners in the architecture firm E/Ye Design, practice and conduct research at their office in Wyoming and at CASE/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York City. Talk: Architects, […]
Method Design wins AIA Award
/ Demetrios Comodromos, Clinical Professor / Method Design wins AIA Award for DPR Residence METHOD DESIGN 377 Park Avenue South, Floor 2 New York, NY 10016 p. 212.203.5524 f. 212.625.2502 www.methoddesign.com
Fall 2011 Final Project Reviews
Fall 2011 Schedule (December 2nd, 2011): Final Project 1 & Thesis Reviews LEITAO (Gallery East) Time Student Degree Guest(s) Fac. Helper(s) Title 11:00 AM Sean Burns B.Arch Ed Keller Anthony Titus Zbigniew Oksiuta Death of a Stadium 11:30 AM Sheldon Pei B.Arch Ed Keller Anthony Titus Zbigniew Oksiuta Reconstitution of the Olympic Stadium 12:00 […]
DWELL: exhibition at Woodside Arts Center
/ Michael Oatman, Associate Professor / DWELL: An exhibition curated by Michael Oatman and Leah Rico Opening and Reception SUNDAY, October 9, from 5:30-8:30 PM Contemporary Arts Center, Woodside, South Troy. NY. Beer provided by Brown’s Brewing, music by local stars SUPER 400. DWELL features 6 site-specific works that question the conventions, symbols and role(s) […]
Hyde Collection Charrete (September 22 – 24 , 2011)
Master Planning & Design Charrette. Coordinators: Andrew Saunders, Mark Mistur.
Rome Prize winner
Lonn Combs, Assistant Professor Lonn Combs awarded American Academy in Rome Prize. Each year, through a national competition, the Rome Prize is awarded to approximately thirty individuals who represent the highest standard of excellence in the arts and humanities. Prize recipients are invited to Rome for six months to two years to immerse themselves in […]
Choice Market (Evan Douglis)
New Work by Evan Douglis “The Brooklyn emporium Choice has opened its latest location in Dumbo, and the new cafe reflects the district’s industrial-chic aesthetic. A subdued palette of tan Chinese stone, polished concrete, and Cor-ten steel offers a comfortable yet contemporary look, but a surprise awaits overhead in the cafe’s exuberant ceiling. With volutes […]
Andrew Saunders wins FLATCUT / Acadia 2011 Competition
/ Andrew Saunders, Assistant Professor / / FLATCUT / Acadia 2011 Competition / LIGHTING Category Winner: LUMINESCENT LIMACON by Andrew Saunders LUMINESCENT LIMACON is a folded lighting design by Andrew Saunders, an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. The Luminescent Limacon is inspired partly from the Dutch Ruff, or flamboyant […]
Lonn Combs
Changing Rooms Installation by Easton + Combs (Lonn Combs, Assistant Professor) Location: Extension Gallery, Chicago. CHANGING ROOM is a mirage of the intimate in the realm of the public. As the daydream is to daily life, a momentary slippage that can re-qualify the onslaught of a quotidian continuum, so too is the CHANGING ROOM to […]
Thom Mayne (Fall 2010 Lecture)
Professor Kenneth L. Warriner Memorial Lecture Series Questions on the continuity of contradiction Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne is founder of the influential studio Morphosis and co-founder of the Southern California Institute of Architecture. He marries conceptual ideas with form, challenging the way we perceive structure, building and the environment. From www.ted.com: Widely regarded as […]
Tom Wiscombe (Fall 2010 Lecture)
Fall 2010 Lecture Series Composite Assemblies Tom Wiscombe is the founder and principal of EMERGENT, an internationally recognized design office operating at the forefront of digital design since 1999. EMERGENT’s work stands out in terms of its synthesis of form, pattern, color, and technology. In 2009, ICON Magazine named Principal Tom Wiscombe one of the […]
Perry Kulper Exhibition (Fall 2010)
Exhibition Perry Kulper: ‘Rare Breeds + Extinct Species’ Opening Reception: Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010, 6 pm Location: Green Gallery, School of Architecture (2nd floor) Biography: Perry Kulper is an architect and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan. Prior to his arrival at the University of Michigan he was a member of the […]
Material Manifestations Exhibition (Fall 2010)
An exploration on potential futures for the Shaker legacy.
Anna Dyson/CASE @ 2009 Metropolis Conference (Spring 2009)
Connecting academic research with architecture’s need for innovation. Anna Dyson, the director of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s graduate program in architectural materials research, talks about a ground-breaking educational/research program called Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE), a joint research effort between RPI and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
Spillout!
The Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company explores the symbiosis of architecture and dance taking the performers and the audience to the extreme edge of discovery as the dancers spill over, under, through, around and deeply into an inhabitable installation. Experiencing Spillout! will give students the unique opportunity to explore an artistic environment that is unlike anything […]
2010 Copenhagen_Comodromos-Campbell
(Summer) D151ORT Pavilion at Copenhagen Distortion Festival. The project is a international collaboration between students from the Architecture, Experiment and Technology master course at Department 8, Royal School of Architecture led by Niels Andersen and Ali Tabatabai and CITA (the Centre for IT and Architecture) at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, […]