FP_PERRY SECTION 12-13
Final Project | Chris Perry, Assistant Professor TECHNO-FUTURISM: Hudson River Valley Redux FP Students 2012-13 – Chris Perry Section Chris Perry, Section Leader Michael Oatman, FP Assessment Committee Part I: Techno-Futurism 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 […]
FP_Ngai Section 12-13
Final Project | Ted Ngai, Lecturer NOVUM ORGANUM / NEW ORGANON A Material and Behavioral Experimentation in Architecture and Urbanism FP Students 2012-13 – Ted Ngai Section “It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been […]
FP Carvalho Section 12-13
Final Project | Jeremy Carvalho, Adjunct Professor STANDARD DEVIATION: Bio-Industrial Infrastructure FP Students 2012-13 – Carvalho Section Premises: Could an architectural approach to systems design create a catalytic series of relationships among natural resources and industrial production? To what extent can a ‘constructed ecology’ harness or facilitate manifold processes of energy production & consumption? What prototypes […]
FP_Leitao Section 12-13
Final Project | Carla Leitao, Adjunct Professor Cloud-Architecture: REASSEMBLY FP Students 2012-13 – Carla Leitao Section In the past 2 years this section has looked at the possible concept of Cloud Architecture. The first studio – CLOUD Institution/Transvercity – looked at the design of Cloud Structures with the capacity to create or inspire novel forms of institution […]
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 […]
Caitlin Gordon
ARCH-4980.3 | Carla Leitao, Adjunct Professor THE NEW DEMOCRATIC SPACE An Expression of Potential Legislation CAITLIN GORDON This project looks into the field of political science and, specifically, local legislation and elections to develop spatial connections which reorganize and foster community interaction. Despite the numerous advances in methods of communication which have been utilized to […]
Adam Petela
ARCH-4980.3 | Carla Leitao, Adjunct Professor URBAN GROWTH APPROACHED THROUGH MATERIALISM ADAM PETELA Stepping back and understanding the final result (the urban footprint) of city growth maintains an acceptance of the complex systems which contribute to an urban area, but simultaneously eliminates requirement to investigate each and every system individually. One of the broadest players […]
Alexander Klafehn
ARCH-4980.3 | Carla Leitao, Adjunct Professor POST-OLYMPIC URBANISM Agent-based Modeling as a Tool for Organization ALEXANDER KLAFEHN The influence of parametric software as a tool for creating forms and spaces has exploded over the past decade, spawning new directions for how the design process can be managed. This thesis looks at the use of evolutionary […]
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, […]
Patrick McAndrews
ARCH-4980.3 | Carla Leitao, Adjunct Professor THE SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL NETWORK PATRICK McANDREWS The Socio-Ecological Network is the establishment of a symbiotic relationship between the components of a social network and an ecologic network. The social network is the society and hierarchy that develops codes of conduct for member and context interactions. The ecological network is the […]