Emre Arolat [Recent Lecture]
Wed April-18 6pm @ EMPAC: EMRE AROLAT_ Emre Arolat received a B.Arch. and Master of Architecture degree both from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul. In 2004, he established EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture together with Gonca Pasolar. The firm has professionally grown to over 70 employees, based in New York, London and Istanbul. EAA is highly […]
Fall 2018 Electives
Elective Courses available: ARCH4020/CIVIL4020 Bedford Sem: 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 […]
Alicia Imperiale: “La Triennale Occupata” (ArchiteXX Talk)
Thu April-12 6PM @ Greene Library: ALICIA IMPERIALE: “La Triennale Occupata: The Occupation of the XIV Milan Triennial of 1968″_ Presented by Alicia Imperiale, PhD, Lecturer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Respondent: Lydia Kallipoliti, Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Pizza will be served. This talk examines the theme of activism in Italy in the period leading up […]
Open Studio @ CRAIVE Lab
FRIDAY, APRIL 13th, 6-8.30pm: OPEN STUDIO @ CRAIVE Lab Hosted by faculty Carla Leitao. The CRAIVE Lab is located at 250 Jordan Rd, Troy, NY, 12180, in RPI’s Tech Park. Next to the Children’s Science Museum. Entrance door sign: “ERL – Emergent Reality Laboratory” The CRAIVE Lab facility is a 360 degree, 39’x32’ visual and […]
S18 Positions Series : Culture
Wednesday, April 4th, 4:00pm @ Greene Gallery “Culture”_ On Wednesday, April 4th, 2018, the student-coordinated discussions series at Rensselaer, Positions Series, will host “Culture,” with guest speaker Chris Cornelius, leader of research and idea-driven practice, studio:indigenous, in Milwaukee. He will be presenting along with faculty Michael Oatman. The heavily- concentrated work of Cornelius is based […]
Thomas Phifer [Recent Lecture]
Wed March-28 6pm @ EMPAC: THOMAS PHIFER_ Thomas Phifer is an internationally recognized American architect “with a portfolio of award winning cultural, commercial and residential projects throughout the United States. The office’s work is defined by an exquisite sense of design, meticulous attention to detail and a profound sensitivity to a building’s relationship to its environment” […]
RPI CANstruction
2018 RPI CANstruction_ RPI CANstruction, an Architecture student group, is fundraising for a March 27th build day. CANstruction is a fundraising/design-build competition where local architecture and engineering firms compete against each other to build amazing structures using only cans. Those cans, as well as the rest of the funds raised, are donated directly to the […]
Portfolio Review Session
Friday, March-23, 1-4pm @ Greene Gallery: PORTFOLIO REVIEW SESSION. A group of our faculty and architecture practitioners from around the region, will review student portfolios and offer suggestions. Students will spend 5 minutes with each reviewer, and then will move on to the next one. This format will enable students to receive critiques and suggestions […]
Ciro Najle [Recent Lecture]
Wed Mar-21 6pm @ EMPAC: CIRO NAJLE: “The Generic Sublime”_ Ciro Najle, architect, researcher, educator, Dean at the School of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Visiting Professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, co-founder and former Director of the Landscape Urbanism Graduate Design Master Program […]
Lydia Kallipoliti at GSAPP Columbia University
Assistant Professor and Geofutures Co-Director, Lydia Kallipoliti, will present on Tuesday, March 20th at GSAPP Columbia University. She will be a guest at the seminar Speculative City: Crisis, Uncertainty, and Projections in Architecture, and speak about the genealogy of closed resources and prototypes of the last century, among other things. Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer and scholar. She […]