Angela Garcia Paredes / Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos [Lecture & Exhibition]
LECTURE: Wed Apr-10, 6pm @ EMPAC. EXHIBITION: Apr-10 to 19 @ GR201. “The Dream of Space Produces Forms” / ANGELA GARCIA DE PAREDES (PAREDES PEDROSA) This lecture and accompanying exhibition are Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos respond to the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale’s theme of Freespace by focusing on the section –the architectural tool which explores the spatial […]
Lighting Research Center featured in Metropolis Magazine
The Lighting Research Center Is Making Exciting Connections Between Light, Color, and Well-Being. The Lighting Research Center (LRC) is doubling down on efforts to educate designers and manufacturers about the potential impact light has on human health.
FALL 2019 ELECTIVES
Elective courses available: ARCH4020/CIVIL4020: 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 […]
Emily Grandstaff-Rice [Kornblut Lecture]
Mon Apr-8 6pm @ CBIS Auditorium. The Kornblut Lecture Series is designed to introduce students to legal issues they may face in their future practices This semester guest speaker is Emily Grandstaff-Rice ’99, an alum and practitioner in Boston. Ms. Grandstaff-Rice is Director At-Large of the AIA Board of Directors, where she has taken a […]
CANstruction 2019
CANstruction is a fundraising/design-build competition where local architecture and engineering firms (and SoA / RPI students!) 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 Food Pantries of the Capital District. The structures were build and exhibited […]
Michael Oatman in “Return to Entry” show at Purdue University
Faculty News: April 4, 5:30PM at Ringel Gallery, Purdue University, Indiana. Associate Professor Michael Oatman is a featured artist in “Return to Entry,” an exhibition commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon Landing. In conjunction with the Barron A. Hilton Flight Archive at Purdue, Oatman is the first artist invited to work […]
RetrofitNY / Saul Brown [BldgSci Lecture]
Thu Mar-28, 12pm @ Greene 101: Retrofit_NY / Saul Brown. The second lecture for 2019 Building Science Lecture Series exploring building sciences in the 21st Century will be held on Thursday, March 28 at 12-1 pm in the Greene 101, with the lecture by Saul Brown from RetrofitNY focused on scaling, affordable net-zero energy buildings […]
Rome – Generative Excavations [Exhibition]
Opening: Mon Mar-25, 2PM @ Greene Gallery: Generative Excavations: Contemporary Architectural Readings – Rome, 2017_ This show presents the design investigations developed by the students participating in the Generative Excavations studio, led by Lecturer Yael Erel, as part of Fall 2017 Semester-Abroad Program in Italy. The show closes on March-29 with a Rensselaer Italian Studies […]
Haresh Lalvani [Recent Lecture]
Tue Apr-02 6PM @ EMPAC: “Shaping, Self-Shaping, Meta-Shaping” / HARESH LALVANI. Dr. Haresh Lalvani is a tenured professor of Architecture at Pratt Institute where he has influenced generations of designers, artists and architects. Known worldwide for his morphological, structural, and design innovations, Lalvani holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and has […]
Seung H-Sang / Iroje [Recent Lecture]
Wed Apr-03, 6pm @ EMPAC: “Landscript” / SEUNG H-SANG (IROJE ARCHITECTS & PLANNERS) Seung H-Sang’s work is critically concerned with the ‘beauty of poverty’ in 20th century Western culture . He graduated from Seoul National University and studied at Technische Universitaet in Wien. He established his award winning practice “IROJE Architects & Planners” in 1989, […]