[Recent Lecture] Maurice Cox, Detroit Planning Director
Mon Feb-01, 6pm @ EMPAC: PORTRAITS OF RESILIENCE: NEW ORLEANS / DETROIT. Maurice Cox, Planning Director City of Detroit_ Maurice Cox, a nationally respected community designer and leader of the public interest design movement, is planning director for the city of Detroit. Prior to moving to Michigan, he was director of Tulane City Center and […]
Urban Swales in Dry Futures – Archinect
Geofutures MArch II program/student project featured in the December issue of Inside Rensselaer. The featured project, which placed second in the speculative category of the Dry Futures competition sponsored by Archinect, is called Urban Swales and was the culmination of a year’s worth of research and design work by recent MArch II graduate Ahmad Khan, […]
Kallipoliti and Axel (’10) to discuss Volume #46 Shelter
Assistant Professor Lydia Kallipoliti and alumni Nick Axel (class of 2010) will participate as part of Volumme #46 release at the Storefront for Art and Architecture’s Definition Series: Shelter, Not Shelter. Kallipoliti publishes the article “Pieces of Nature and the Architecture of Closed Worlds” in Volume #46, issue on “Shelter.” The concept of shelter is an […]
Faculty Search: Design & Computation
ASSISTANT / ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN DESIGN & COMPUTATION. The School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, seeks candidates to fill a tenure track or tenured position as an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor. Candidates are desired who are accomplished in architectural design, specifically the application of experimental forms of computation to the […]
Gustavo Crembil and Mae-ling Lokko win Rotch Studio Grant
The Rotch Traveling Scholarship have announced Prof. Gustavo Crembil and CASE doctoral candidate Ms. Mae-Ling Lokko, as this year’s winners of the 2015-16 Rotch Traveling Studio Competition. Their application, entitled “Old Accra: Upcycling of Agrowaste”, was reviewed by a jury and chosen from applications submitted by faculty nationwide. The award includes $20,000 to be used […]
Kallipoliti Awarded Honorable Mention at Shenzhen Biennale
Assistant Professor Lydia Kallipoliti was awarded Honorable Mention for her seven city manifestos by the independent jury of the UABB Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2015. As part of the Bi-City Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism held in Shenzhen, China, Kallipoliti presented the project “Autonomy & Autodigestion”. She is also served as an invited panelist […]
[Recent Lecture] Testa & Weiser
Mon. Nov. 16th @ EMPAC PETER TESTA & DEVYN WEISER: Superpositions Testa & Weiser is a Los Angeles based architecture and design studio founded by partners Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser in 2002. The studio is known for conceptual and technical breakthroughs that integrate advanced material processes at all scales. From pioneering software applications to […]
[Recent Lecture] Marie Ange-Brayer
Thu Oct 29, 6pm @ EMPAC: Marie Ange-Brayer: “Naturalizing Architecture” Archilab Marie-Ange Brayer is currently Chief Curator of Design and Industrial Perspective for the MNAM-CCI collection at the Centre Pompidou, the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe. From 1996 to 2014 Brayer was director of the Frac Centre in Orleans, France and in […]
F15 POSITIONS SERIES : What Ground?
Saturday, November 21st, 2:00pm “What Ground?”_ On Saturday, November 21st, 2015, the student-coordinated discussions series at Rensselaer, Positions Series, will host “What Ground?,” with guest speakers Adam Frampton (OnlyIf, principal) and James Ramsey (raad, principal). The presentations will be followed by a round-table discussion with all in attendance. “What Ground?” poses the following: An inquiry […]
[Recent Lecture] Steven Ehrlich
Mon Oct 26 6pm @ EMPAC: Steven Ehrlich: “Evolving Multicultural Modernism”_ Steven Ehrlich, founding partner of Ehrlich Architects and member RPI class of ’68, learned early on the significance of how architecture responds to the culture and the environment – he is a self-proclaimed “architectural anthropologist.” Upon graduating from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor […]