FALL 2014 ELECTIVES
Please see here the list of courses available for next semester: FALL 2014. 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 […]
INDIA, WHERE TO BE BLESSED BY ELEPHANTS
Wed March 26, 6PM, GR120. INDIA’15: FIRST MEETING. This Wednesday, March 26, at 6PM in room GR 120, there will be a meeting with professor David Bell to introduce the Spring 2015 India Study Abroad Program.
CASE: New York City as Design Laboratory.
Wed March 26 7PM, GR120. FALL’14 @ CASE/NY: INFO MEETING. At this time, the School of Architecture is opening up applications for the Fall 2014 Semester in NYC Program at the Center for Architectural Science (CASE). Prof. Demetrios Comodromos and your classmates that have attended the semester CASE program will be doing an open information session on […]
Recent Lecture: Smiljan Radic (Chile)
Thu 3/20, 6pm @ EMPAC SMILJAN RADIC: “SURROUNDINGS” Smiljan Radic was born in Santiago de Chile in 1965. He studied at the Catholic University of Chile’s School of Architecture, where he graduated in 1989. Later, he studied at the Istituttto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Italy, travelled for three years on and off, and finally […]
Inhabitation + Topography, Re-Defined
REVIEW: March 5 & 7, Greene Gallery THE TERRESTRIAL + THE EXTRA: Inhabiting the “Uninhabitable” [Final Project Mid-Semester Review] As the School’s 5th year students wrap up their final semester, the mid-semester review serves as a culmination from their fall research in Final Project I and the schematic design proposal under-works this spring with Final […]
Andrew Saunders: Robotic Lattice Smock
SHOW: 3/17-21, Greene 201. LECTURE: Wed 3/19, 6pm, Greene Gallery Andrew Saunders: “Robotic Lattice Smock” (in collaboration with Robofold) [Browns Presentation] LECTURE: Wed 19, 6pm @ Greene Gallery Andrew Saunders: Assistant Professor, SoA-RPI Gregory Epps: Founder Robofold (London) In “Style: Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts”, Gottfried Semper the nineteenth-century German architect and historian demonstrates that […]
Joseph Fala: The Sacred & Avant-garde
Feb 28th, 7-8pm, First United Presbyterian Church JOSEPH FALA: “The Sacred & Avant-garde” Joseph Fala, a student in his fourth year of studies at Rensselaer Architecture, will be performing a grandiose composition of the 20th century classical French masterworks at the First United Presbyterian Church in Troy, NY tonight at 7pm. All are […]
Nick Axel @ Dubai’s Gulf Architecture Biennal
Alumnae Nick Axel (B. Arch 2010) awarded Honorable Mention by Dubai’s Gulf Architecture Biennale. Nick Axel: “Global Security Pipeline”. 02/25/2014. The Gulf Architecture Biennale has announced the results of the ‘Hormuz Bridge International Competition’. There were three winners, four honorable mentions, and 25 selected entries for the first publication. HONORABLE MENTION: Global Security Pipeline, by Nick Axel With the onset of […]
[Rensselaer Positions Series]
The Positions Series is a collection of student-led discussion events taking place at the Rensselaer School of Architecture. With a conversational basis, this forum for discussion aims to examine imperative matters regarding the field of architecture, its pedagogy, and its practice. Each gathering opens with a set of carefully-articulated initial questions, and is followed by discussion and debate. The series […]
Recent Lecture: Hernan Diaz Alonso
Mon 17, 6pm @ EMPAC. “FORM & GLOOM.” Hernan Diaz Alonso is principal and founder of Xefirotarch, a Los Angeles-based design practice. Considered one of the most influential voices of his generation, Diaz Alonso assumed the new role of Graduate Programs Chair at SCI-Arc, after having coordinate the school’s graduate thesis process for the past several years. […]