Fall 2013 Electives

Please see here the list of courses available for next semester: FALL 2013. ARCH4840 Architectural Acoustics 1 Providing an overview of the essentials for architectural acoustics design of performance and public spaces, including concert halls, theaters, museums, classrooms, sports arenas, courtrooms, and religious buildings. The course may be used as a concentration in an architecture […]

Crembil wins “VIDA Art & Artificial Life” grant

Assistant Professor Gustavo Crembil was awarded a prestigious VIDA 1.4 Art & Artificial Life Production Incentive for “TZ’IJK,” an art installation that will use mud-encased giant spherical robots to provide insights into possible parallel narratives between contemporary robotics and Mayan creation myths. Crembil shares the award with collaborator Paula Gaetano-Adi, a former electronic arts instructor […]

6 SHOWS ONLY @ EMPAC

Feb 28, March 1 & 2. 7pm & 9pm.  SoA + HASS  + EMPAC // RPI’s School of Architecture (SoA) and School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS),  in conjunction with EMPAC are pleased to present: THE MACHINE STARTS A new media performance under the direction of renowned visiting artists Mary Ellen Strom and […]

OCCUPY DUBAI

Tue Feb, 6 pm @ The Greene Gallery, TYLER HOPFT (Browns Fellow 2013) will present: occupy DUBAI. What 99%? The project is an exploration on the flamboyance and extravagance of the extremely wealthy.  One measure of this within architecture is the height of the towers and the speed of growth in a city. Dubai has […]

EMERGENT VERTISCAPES

Tue Feb, 6 pm @ The Greene Gallery, RICHARD OFF (Browns Fellow 2010) will present: EMERGENT VERTI-SCAPES. Innovative High-Rise Development & Hyper-Dense Urbanism In Southeast Asia. Kuala Lumpur + Singapore / Hong Kong + Shanghai The developing nations of China and Malaysia are emerging as industrial powers, and their foremost cities are building extensive skylines […]

Digital Sessions S’2013

@ Digital Futures Lab, 7-9PM. Greene Building 2nd Floor. All session are from 7-9PM. All dates are tentative per school conflicts. Please refer to the weekly emails for exact dates. Contact  with any questions. DIGITAL SESSIONS SCHEDULE PROCEDURAL TECTONICS > 1/30 – 1/31: An introduction to the use of Grasshopper’s analysis and recursive features for the production […]

Perry Goes Soft

Geofutures‘ Director Chris Perry writes in [bracket] # 2 Edited by Neeraj Bhatia and Lola Sheppard of Infranet Lab, this second volume in the impressive [bracket] series “examines the use and implications of soft today – from the scale of material innovation to territorial networks.” In a back-to-back series of short presentations, [bracket] editorial advisors […]

Superdome by Alex Dorn & Tyler Hopft

@ 10 Top Images on Archinect’s “Student Work” Pinterest Board superNODE by TYLER HOFT AND ALEX DORN Design Development Studio Critics: Mark Mistur and Demetrios Comodromos  UNstudio’s ‘Newer Orleans’ project was re-adressed formally, programatically and conceptually and then developed to DD.

“Sleeping Life” Anthony Titus

Exhibition @ Glass Gallery, Greene Building / RPI SLEEPING LIFE, by Anthony Titus Opening Reception: October 25th at 6PM. This elegant show of constructed paintings takes its imagery, forms and themes from the history of painting, the cartoon stylizations of the Superflat movement, and the presentation of landscape as mediated by television. The Opening Reception […]

Graduate Open House: NYC (11/17) & Troy (11/19)

GRADUATE OPEN HOUSE: Thursday, November 17, 4pm-7pm @ CASE/NYC Saturday, November 19, 10am–2pm @ SoA/Troy Thursday, November 17, 4pm-7pm Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE) Skidmore, Owings & Merrill 14 Wall Street, 24th Floor New York, New York Featured Graduate Programs: Master of Architecture Master of Science, Architecture: Geofutures M.S. and PhD, Built Ecologies […]

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