Spring 2019 Electives
Elective Courses available: ARCH4020.01 Bedford Seminar: Advanced Building Structures (Civil) This interdisciplinary seminar consists of students from both the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering department. Presentation of a variety of structural typologies bears direct relation to practical experience and the necessity for constructive interdisciplinary discourse. Specific structural typologies are examined through historic and contemporary […]
Baker, Flahive, & Vollas [Brown’s Fellowship]
Talk: Mon Sept 24, Greene Gallery @6pm | Show: Sept 24-28, GR201 Kelsey Baker, Victoria Flahive, and Maria Vollas, students recipients of the Robert S. Brown Traveling Fellowship, will present a three-part exhibition on their recent travel experiences abroad. Their exhibitions will be on display from September 24th-28thth in Greene 201. The September 24th presentation will begin at 6:00 […]
Cody Seipp’18 final project featured in Dezeen
Student News: Recent BArch graduate, Cody Seipp, had his final project for Amazon’s “hyper-designed” headquarters in Detroit featured in the influential architecture and design website, Dezeen. Seipp’s project imagines the city of Detroit in 2051 after the major redevelopment orchestrated by the retail giant, Amazon. This futuristic condition offers an alternative outcome to real-life events. Although Detroit […]
Prof. Okisiuta and arch students show in Poland
Rensselaer Architecture @ Poland. Architectural Evolutions. Between Art and Science: Zbigniew Oksiuta & students of Rensselaer Architecture. July 07, 2018 – August 18, 2018. Galeria Arsenal Elektrownia. Bialystok, Poland. Professor Zbigniew Oksiuta recently closed an exhibition in Poland the includes works from various periods of his creative and research production. A significant section of the show […]
Alison Notation’21 wins Sheng Fund Scholarship
Student News: BArch Sophomore Alison Notation was awarded the Sheng Fund Scholarship by the Connecticut Architecture Foundation, receiving a $5,000 prize. This memorial scholarship fund was established in 1997 by the Sheng family memory of Suzanne Sheng who was a Connecticut architect working with James Lawler, FAIA at the time of her death. The first […]
Kathryn Prigmore’78 on Black Women in Arch.
Alumni News: KATHRYN PRIGMORE’78: “Black Women in Architecture: A History of Activism” Friday June 22nd, 11am S9 Architecture: 460 West 34th St., 20th Floor, NYC Admission is Free Kathryn Prigmore ’78 will be one of the speakers at the African American Architects 50 Years After Whitney M. Young’s AIA Address to be held Friday, 6/22, at 11 a.m. at S9 […]
Charette with students from Kindai University, Japan
Academic Exchange: Charette with Kindai University guests_ This past semester, RPI hosted a group of students from our sister school, Kindai University in Japan. Led by the internationally renowned architect, Shinichi Ogawa, twenty-four students attended an accelerated collaborative workshop with Rensselaer students from our vertical design studio sequence. Using RPI’s campus as a case-study site, […]
ISATMA 2018 @ CRAIVE Lab
Sunday May-20, 2-6pm @ CRAIVE: ISATMA 2018: Expanding the Improvising Community across Abilities, Bodies and Cultures. Participate! Experience! Create! The International Symposium on Assistive Technology for Music and Art (ISATMA) is devoted to new technologies and artistic concepts that provide artists across abilities access to creative tools for making multimedia works. It addresses adaptive interfaces […]
“History of Ecological Design” by Lydia Kallipoliti
Faculty News: Assistant Professor Lydia Kallipoliti published the online textbook “History of Ecological Design” for Oxford English Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. Undergraduate BArch student Emily Klein was the research assistant to this project. The textbook could be accessed following this link.
Michael Webb [Recent Lecture]
Mon Apr-23 6pm @ EMPAC Theater: MICHAEL WEBB: “True Green, Ice Cores, and the Representation of Infinity”_ Michael Webb is an English Architect who studied architecture at the then Regent Street Polytechnic School of Architecture (now the University of Westminster) from 1953 to 1972. A project he designed during his fourth year at the Polytechnic found […]