2012 Smart Geometry
MARCH 12-24, 2012. The sg2012 challenge, Material Intensities, is intended to dissolve our notion of the built environment as inert constructions enclosing physically sealed spaces. Spaces and boundaries are abundant with vibration, fluctuating intensities, shifting gradients and flows. The materials that define them are in a continual state of becoming: a dance of energy and […]
Oksiuta @ EMPAC
Faculty Lecture: A Biological Future? In his research, Rensselaer Architecture professor Zbigniew Oksiuta develops living biological habitats by combining art, architecture, engineering, and the biological sciences. His work looks beyond historical, social, urbanistic, and aesthetic factors to reduce the notion of space to its absolute minimum: the physical and chemical parameters that enable physiological existence. […]
Spring 2012 Lecture Series
Lecture Series (Spring 2012) Admission is FREE and will begin at 6pm. Except when noted, all lectures are at EMPAC / The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media + Performing Arts Center . 110 8th Street, Troy NY 12180. Schedule PATRICK SCHUMACHER Parametric Order Mon Feb 13th – Theater ALICE AYCOCK Work Wed Feb 15th – […]
3D Systems Partners With RPI
Building Futures: Re-Envisioning The Hyde at Rensselaer Company Prints Students’ Proposals for Unified Hyde Collection Campus. ROCK HILL, S.C., Feb 14, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — When a beloved museum in upstate New York needed a new master plan for its sprawling campus, it turned to a potent resource to spark the brainstorm: students at […]
Digital Sessions S’2012
Digital Sessions by Casey Rehm at Digital Futures Lab. Workshop Blog : http://rpi-digitalarch.blogspot.com/ or http://www.kinch-sessions.com/ Tutorials will be posted to the blog the following week. Students are also encouraged to submit examples of their work from the sessions for publication. All sessions to be held in Digital Futures Lab (Greene Building) from 7-9pm unless otherwise noted. Workshops will […]
Building Futures: Re-Envisioning The Hyde at Rensselaer
Regional Initiatives Building Futures: Re-Envisioning The Hyde At Rensselaer The Hyde Collection’s board of trustees and David F. Setford, executive director, along with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Dean of the School of Architecture Evan Douglis, cordially invite you to attend the opening reception for an exhibition of future architectural ideas for the development of The […]
Theodore Spyropoulos : Behavioural Frameworks
Theodore Spyropoulos is co-founder of experimental architecture and design studio Minimaforms, and Director of the Architectural Association’s world renowned Design Research Lab (AADRL) in London.
TEDx Talk by E/Ye Design
/ Jefferson Ellinger, Assistant Professor / New Architectures: Nature and Phenomena TedX Talk Jackson Hole, WY. October 2nd, 2011 Jefferson Ellinger (Assistant Professor at RPI) and Nona Yehia, partners in the architecture firm E/Ye Design, practice and conduct research at their office in Wyoming and at CASE/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York City. Talk: Architects, […]