Christianna Bennett
The world is currently undergoing changes that affect the ways in which traditional societies conduct themselves and create relationships with their environment. Traditionally, indigenous peoples have added richness to the biological life on this planet due to their profound insights into specific landscapes and ecologies. Today this knowledge is being threatened, and as a result, the planet is losing vital resources and landscapes. This thesis seeks to explore the relationships between landscape, cultural identity, and biology and how these facets are working in the modern world, ridden by climate change and calling for the need to adapt.
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 […]
Catherine Callaghan
ARCH-4980.4 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer JAKARTA [Network of Water][Flow of People] CAT CALLAGHAN Jakarta, the capital city of the island nation of Indonesia, has traditionally had a strong relationship to water. In the past sixty years, rapid population growth has degraded the rivers systems which have become highly polluted with household and industrial waste. This […]
Caitlin Walsh
ARCH-4980.1 | Chris Perry, Assistant Professor CULTURAL REACTIVATION Tamarack [art] Lodge CAITLIN WALSH In the foothills of the Catskills, a small Jewish community started a summer retreat for the Jewish New Yorkers. It grew, hitting its peak in the fifties and sixties, and was known as the Borscht Belt. At this time there were resorts, […]
Ayana Coker
ARCH-4980.4 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer [AGRO]URBANSCAPE Integrating Rural Agriculture into the Urban Void AYANA COKER The city of São Paulo is growing at an exponential rate, leaving more than 30 percent of the city’s buildings abandoned. It is the goal of this thesis to introduce rural agriculture into the urban landscape as a response to […]
Andrew Fini
ARCH-4980.3 | Carla Leitao, Adjunct Professor A READILY MORPHABLE SPACE ANDREW FINI This is an exploration about an adaptable system that generates immersive performance spaces with the ability to morph and change based on the user or performer inputs, or on preprogrammed configurations that correspond to the performance. Through the use of this kit of […]
Internships Opportunities
Internships SCHENECTADY, NY DOWNTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Urban Initiatives Group and Schenectady Light Opera Company (www.sloctheater.org) are currently offering full and part-time internship opportunities working at our new performing arts center located in downtown Schenectady. In 2010, Schenectady Light Opera Company acquired three historic buildings in order to create a new performing arts center in […]
Instructions on Uploading Work
INSTRUCTIONS ON UPLOADING WORK. All students are required to upload digital copies of their work to the School of Architecture FTP address. The easiest way to do this is to use the program CyberDuck, available for both Windows and Mac. You can download this software at CyberDuck’s website found here. Before you upload work to […]
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, […]