[recent lecture] Heneghan Peng
Wed Mar-2, 6pm @ EMPAC. “SETTING OUT”: HENEGHAN PENG Heneghan Peng Architects (hparc) is a design partnership practicing architecture, landscape and urban design. The practice was founded by Shih-Fu Peng and Róisín Heneghan in New York in 1999 and in 2001 they relocated their main office to Dublin, Ireland. Heneghan Peng Architects advocates a multi-disciplinary approach […]
Closed Worlds: Encounters That Never Happened
Saturday, February 27th 12-6 pm Rose Auditorium, The Cooper Union 41 Cooper Sq., New York “Encounters That Never Happened” On Saturday, February 27th, Storefront for Art and Architecture and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union jointly hosted a public conference, Closed Worlds: Encounters That Never Happened. The conference steams from […]
[recent lecture] Cristian Nanzer
Mon Feb-22, 6pm @ EMPAC. “INHABITED TERRITORIES. FROM INTIMATE TO PUBLIC”: CRISTIAN NANZER Argentinean architect Cristian Nanzer developed his practice in his native province of Cordoba, where his design work ranges from private residences in partnership with Mariela Marchisio, to public scale projects with several design partnerships and collaborations. Among his practice’s selected wining competition proposals […]
Blast-Off! Alexandra Rempel & Lonn Combs
Wed Feb-24, 6pm @ GR101. Blast-Off! Discussion: REMPEL & COMBS. This semester’s Blast-Off! Career Development Chat will take place on Wednesday, February 24, from 6-7:30 p.m. in Room Greene 101. Professors Alexandra Rempel and Lonn Combs will talk about their career paths and discuss a variety of career and graduate school options available to you. This […]
Prof. Oksiuta: lecture and workshop at Michigan State
Mon Feb-15, 2016. Professor Zbigniew Oksiuta will lecture at Michigan State University’s Department of Art, Art History, and Design as part of the Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series. The following day, Oksiuta will also lead a workshop “in which participants will create dynamic, biological membranes.” Zbigniew Oksiuta is an architect and artist experimenting with the […]
Spring 2017 Lecture Series
Höweler + Yoon; Kunlé Adeyemi; William Horgan (Grimshaw Partners); Marcelo Spina (P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S); Pezo von Ellrichshausen; and Rick Joy. All events start 6:00pm at EMPAC. 110 8th Street / Troy, NY 12180. Admission is free.
Kallipoliti exhibition at Storefront for Art & Architecture
Opening: Feb. 16th, 7pm “CLOSED WORLDS” Storefront for Art & Architecture – 97 Kenmare Street, Manhattan. Exhibition: Feb 17 – April 9, 2016. Assistant Professor Lydia Kallipoliti will launch her Closed Worlds exhibition at the Storefront for Art and Architecture on Tuesday, February 16th. Closed Worlds will exhibit an archive of 41 historical living prototypes built over […]
[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 […]