Blast-Off! Alexandra Rempel & Lonn Combs

Wed Feb-24, 6pm @ GR101. Blast-Off! Discussion: REMPEL & COMBS. This semester’s Blast-Off! Career Development Chat will take place on Wednesday, February 24, from 6-7:30 p.m. in Room Greene 101. Professors Alexandra Rempel and Lonn Combs will talk about their career paths and discuss a variety of career and graduate school options available to you. This […]

Prof. Oksiuta: lecture and workshop at Michigan State

Mon Feb-15, 2016. Professor Zbigniew Oksiuta will lecture at Michigan State University’s Department of Art, Art History, and Design as part of the Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series. The following day, Oksiuta will also lead a workshop “in which participants will create dynamic, biological membranes.” Zbigniew Oksiuta is an architect and artist experimenting with the […]

Spring 2017 Lecture Series

Höweler + Yoon; Kunlé Adeyemi; William Horgan (Grimshaw Partners); Marcelo Spina (P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S); Pezo von Ellrichshausen; and Rick Joy. All events start 6:00pm at EMPAC. 110 8th Street / Troy, NY 12180. Admission is free.

Kallipoliti exhibition at Storefront for Art & Architecture

Opening: Feb. 16th, 7pm “CLOSED WORLDS” Storefront for Art & Architecture – 97 Kenmare Street, Manhattan. Exhibition: Feb 17 – April 9, 2016. Assistant Professor Lydia Kallipoliti will launch her Closed Worlds exhibition at the Storefront for Art and Architecture on Tuesday, February 16th. Closed Worlds will exhibit an archive of 41 historical living prototypes built over […]

[Recent Lecture] Maurice Cox, Detroit Planning Director

Mon Feb-01, 6pm @ EMPAC: PORTRAITS OF RESILIENCE: NEW ORLEANS / DETROIT. Maurice Cox, Planning Director City of Detroit_ Maurice Cox, a nationally respected community designer and leader of the public interest design movement, is planning director for the city of Detroit. Prior to moving to Michigan, he was director of Tulane City Center and […]

Urban Swales in Dry Futures – Archinect

Geofutures MArch II program/student project featured in the December issue of Inside Rensselaer. The featured project, which placed second in the speculative category of the Dry Futures competition sponsored by Archinect, is called Urban Swales and was the culmination of a year’s worth of research and design work by recent MArch II graduate Ahmad Khan, […]

Kallipoliti and Axel (’10) to discuss Volume #46 Shelter

Assistant Professor Lydia Kallipoliti and alumni Nick Axel (class of 2010) will participate as part of Volumme #46 release at the Storefront for Art and Architecture’s Definition Series: Shelter, Not Shelter. Kallipoliti publishes the article “Pieces of Nature and the Architecture of Closed Worlds” in Volume #46, issue on “Shelter.” The concept of shelter is an […]

Faculty Search: Design & Computation

ASSISTANT / ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN DESIGN & COMPUTATION. The School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, seeks candidates to fill a tenure track or tenured position as an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor. Candidates are desired who are accomplished in architectural design, specifically the application of experimental forms of computation to the […]

Gustavo Crembil and Mae-ling Lokko win Rotch Studio Grant

The Rotch Traveling Scholarship have announced Prof. Gustavo Crembil and CASE doctoral candidate Ms. Mae-Ling Lokko, as this year’s winners of the 2015-16 Rotch Traveling Studio Competition.  Their application, entitled “Old Accra: Upcycling of Agrowaste”, was reviewed by a jury and chosen from applications submitted by faculty nationwide.  The award includes $20,000 to be used […]

Kallipoliti Awarded Honorable Mention at Shenzhen Biennale

Assistant Professor Lydia Kallipoliti was awarded Honorable Mention for her seven city manifestos by the independent jury of the UABB Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2015. As part of the Bi-City Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism held in Shenzhen, China, Kallipoliti presented the project “Autonomy & Autodigestion”. She is also served as an invited panelist […]

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