Fall 2025 Lecture Series
Rensselaer Architecture is pleased to announce its lecture series for fall 2025. All events start 5:00pm at EMPAC Theater, admission is free. Søren Pihlmann / pihlmann architects Adding Less, Changing More – When Form Features Constraint Wednesday, September 10 pihlmann architects was founded by Søren Thirup Pihlmann in 2021. Their portfolio ranges from temporary pavilions, […]
Leandro Piazzi awarded the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers
Leandro Piazzi, Lecturer, of BALSA CROSETTO PIAZZI has been awarded the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers, along with his partners Juan Manuel Balsa and Rocío Crosetto Brizzio. From The Architecture League NY: Established in 1981, the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers is a biennial juried portfolio competition for early-career […]
Three RPI Students Honored as METROPOLIS Future100
From METROPOLIS: Each year, METROPOLIS sets out to designate the top graduating architecture and interior design students in the United States and Canada through its Future100 program, this year sponsored by Formica, Keilhauer, OFS, and Sherwin-Williams. RPI Students Eric Diaz, Reneah Joanna Fedelicio, and Jiaxin Ruan were included among the honorees this year. Our students […]
Alumni Gathering at Perkins&Will, Boston
June 6, 2025, 6 p.m. est 2023 President of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Associate Principal, Perkins & Will, Boston, and RPI School of Architecture alumna Emily Grandstaff-Rice ’99 invites all friends and family of the School of Architecture to join Dean Evan Douglis to celebrate our collective journey that began at RPI and […]
Professor Matt Burgermaster wins AIA Tri-State Design Award
RPI School of Architecture Professor Matt Burgermaster and his office MABU received a 2024 Tri-State Design Award from the American Institute of Architects for the project “Twenty Ways Home”. The Tri-State Design Awards is a bi-annual program that recognizes regional design excellence across the states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. This adaptive reuse […]
Spring 2025 Lecture Series
Rensselaer Architecture is pleased to announce its full lecture series for spring 2025. All events start 5:00pm at EMPAC Theater unless otherwise noted. Admission is free. Wednesday, January 29 Ludwig Godefroy Concordance Wednesday, February 05 Sara Navrady / Mecanoo Architectural Alchemy: Space, Meaning & Connection Wednesday, February 12 James Carpenter Embodied Light in the Public […]
Bay Area RPI School of Architecture Alumni Experience
Register Here! It is our pleasure to invite School of Architecture alum to the first-ever Bay Area RPI School of Architecture Alumni Experience on Monday, January 27, 2025, 6-8 p.m. Chuck Oraftik ’66 has graciously arranged for us to enjoy hearty hors d’oeuvres, drinks, and conversation at his former firm, HOK Inc., at One Bush […]
Erel and Moriarity Receive ACADIA Design Award
Assistant Professor Yael Erel and Lecturer Claire Moriarty recently received the Best Project Award for their project Augmenting Reflectors – SPSF Reflector Fabrication presented at ACADIA 2024 Designing Change Conference. This project explores reflecting dynamic light caustics off of augmented mirrored sheets. It manifests a multi-layered design for change: metal sheet augmentation, sound-responsive light projections as well as revolving reflective […]
RPI Student Work Featured in Dezeen
Ten RPI student architecture projects have been featured in the online magazine Dezeen as part of their Dezeen School Shows. Projects featured include work from each year of the five-year B. Arch. program at RPI. The School of Architecture included a statement about its featured work: “Situated within one of the premier technological research universities […]
Patcharada Inplang + Thongchai Chansamak
“Read the River – Read the Wood Grain“ Monday, November 11th, 5:00 p.m. est EMPAC Lecture Hall Annual Global Perspectives Lecture Thongchai Chansamak and Patcharada Inplang co-founded Sher Maker, an architecture and design studio in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in 2018. Chansamak completed his architecture degree at Chiang Mai University in 2008, while Inplang earned her […]