Carla Leitao
Assistant Professor Greene Building, Room 102 518-276-4060 Carla Leitão is an architect, professor, and writer bridging architectural practice, academic research, and innovative design. Since 2010, she has been a Lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) School of Architecture, where her work at the CRAIVE Lab explores intersections of architecture, urban systems, technology, ubiquitous cultures, and […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Evan Douglis
Professor & Dean Greene Building, Room 115 518-276-6460 Master of Architecture, Harvard University; Bachelor of Architecture, The Cooper Union Evan Douglis is the principal of Evan Douglis Studio LLC; an internationally renowned interdisciplinary design firm. The firm’s unique cutting edge research into computer-aided digital design and fabrication technology as applied to a range of […]
Michael Oatman
Associate Professor Greene Building, Room M113 518-276-3188 Master of Fine Arts, University at Albany; Bachelor of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design Artist Michael Oatman has taught in the School of Architecture at Rensselaer for 25 years. He is the permanent Artist-in-Residence, only the fourth person to hold the position since inaugurated by […]
Student Availability & Office Hours
Student Availability and Office Hours. Below is a synced Google calendar showing the office hours of the publications staff members. These office hours designate times that the publications office is staffed with someone that can help you regarding archived work, answer questions about policies, et cetera.
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 […]
Chris Perry
Associate Professor Associate Dean for Graduate Education Co-Director, Master of Science in Architecture Program Greene Building, Room 105 518-276-8435 Master of Architecture, Columbia University; Bachelor of Arts, Colgate University Chris Perry is Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Education at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s School of Architecture where he oversees the school’s professional and […]