Recent Lecture: Roger Duffy
Mon Jan 27, 6pm @ EMPAC “S.O.M. An Evolving Legacy.” Roger Duffy is an American architect, known “for rigorous and unconventional approach to design” [Metropolis magazine]. He currently works as a partner at the renown firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. He has been a design partner in the New York office since 1995, and is a member of the American Institute of […]
Yugoslavia as Pangaea
Wed Jan 29, 6 pm @ Greene Gallery, ALEX DORN (Browns Fellow 2013) will present: Yugoslavia as Pangaea. First Robert S. Brown Traveling Fellowship lecture of the semester – this coming Wednesday, January 29 at 6 PM, Greene Gallery. Alumni Alex Dorn’s lecture YUGOSLAVIA AS PANGAEA is presented as “a study of boundaries: shifts and […]
BROWNS’14 WINNERS
Travel Fellowship: BROWNS 2014 WINNERS. The Dean’s Office is pleased to announce the winner of the 2014 Brown’s Traveling Fellowship for Students and Tenured-Faculty: Student Winners: Mallory Buckner, A Tactile Universe Andrew van Meerbeke, Interventions on the Built World William Pyatt, Architecture and the State – The Affect of Political Architecture Tenured-Faculty Winner: Dr. Ted […]
Spring’14 Studios
Arch Design Faculty Roster: SPRING DESIGN STUDIOS @ Rensselaer School of Architecture
Nick Axel (class 2010) at Storefront for Art & Architecture, NYC.
Alumnae News: MAKING BEING DOING. December 17 to 21, Nick Axel (SoA-RPI’ 2010) will be in residency at Storefront for Art and Architecture as a part of their Younger than Storefront: Five-Day Artist Residencies program and BEING exhibition. About the project What is a residency for? What does one do during a residency? One works. But […]
Saunders + Robofold
Browns Fellowship’13: ROBOTIC LATTICE SMOCK. Assistant Professor Andrew Saunders recently collaborated with Robofold (London, UK) in a design-research project with the support of SoA-RPI’s Browns Fellowship. Industrial design studio Robofold is one of “2013 Emerging Design Studio” nominees by ICON Magazine. Specialized curved folding techniques and robotic fabrication methods , the studio has been providing prototype for leading […]
Recent Lecture: Philip Yuan
Thu Nov 21, 6pm @ EMPAC “Autonomous Tectonics”. Dr Philip F. Yuan is Associate Professor at the Architecture and Planning Institute of Tongji University, Shanghai, Director of Archi-Union Architects, and a member of the Shanghai Urban & Planning Consultant Community. He has won the following important domestic and international design awards: 2nd prize for Excellent […]
JIAO-ZHI: TECTONIC INTERWORKINGS AT SHANGHAI’S SOUTH BUND
This catalog celebrates the student work developed during the 2012 joint design studio with CAUP / Tongji University, in Shanghai, and displays 16 students team projects with complementary essays. This 9-weeks intense design studio is the core component of SoA-RPI’s China Program, a biannual one-semester immersive cultural and academic exchange program. >> “In the […]
Prof. Comodromos distinguished as design educator
Faculty Recognition: DEMETRIOS COMODROMOS (RPI), one of “DesignIntelligence® 30 Most Admired Educators for 2014.” Each year, DesignIntelligence honors excellence in education and education administration by naming 30 exemplary professionals in these fields. The 2014 class of education role models was selected by DesignIntelligence staff with extensive input from thousands of design professionals, academic department heads, […]