6 SHOWS ONLY @ EMPAC
Feb 28, March 1 & 2. 7pm & 9pm. SoA + HASS + EMPAC // RPI’s School of Architecture (SoA) and School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS), in conjunction with EMPAC are pleased to present: THE MACHINE STARTS A new media performance under the direction of renowned visiting artists Mary Ellen Strom and […]
OCCUPY DUBAI
Tue Feb, 6 pm @ The Greene Gallery, TYLER HOPFT (Browns Fellow 2013) will present: occupy DUBAI. What 99%? The project is an exploration on the flamboyance and extravagance of the extremely wealthy. One measure of this within architecture is the height of the towers and the speed of growth in a city. Dubai has […]
EMERGENT VERTISCAPES
Tue Feb, 6 pm @ The Greene Gallery, RICHARD OFF (Browns Fellow 2010) will present: EMERGENT VERTI-SCAPES. Innovative High-Rise Development & Hyper-Dense Urbanism In Southeast Asia. Kuala Lumpur + Singapore / Hong Kong + Shanghai The developing nations of China and Malaysia are emerging as industrial powers, and their foremost cities are building extensive skylines […]
Digital Sessions S’2013
@ Digital Futures Lab, 7-9PM. Greene Building 2nd Floor. All session are from 7-9PM. All dates are tentative per school conflicts. Please refer to the weekly emails for exact dates. Contact with any questions. DIGITAL SESSIONS SCHEDULE PROCEDURAL TECTONICS > 1/30 – 1/31: An introduction to the use of Grasshopper’s analysis and recursive features for the production […]
FALL 2013 LECTURE SERIES
Lecture Series (Fall 2013). 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.
2012 Smart Geometry
March 19-24, 2012 @ EMPAC. Smart Geometry 2012: MATERIAL INTENSITIES. Host Directors: Demetrios Comodromos + Jefferson Ellinger. Imagine the design space of architecture was no longer at the scale of rooms, walls and atria, but that of cells, grains and vapour droplets. Rather than the flow of people, services, or construction schedules, the focus becomes the […]
Perry Goes Soft
Geofutures‘ Director Chris Perry writes in [bracket] # 2 Edited by Neeraj Bhatia and Lola Sheppard of Infranet Lab, this second volume in the impressive [bracket] series “examines the use and implications of soft today – from the scale of material innovation to territorial networks.” In a back-to-back series of short presentations, [bracket] editorial advisors […]
Superdome by Alex Dorn & Tyler Hopft
@ 10 Top Images on Archinect’s “Student Work” Pinterest Board superNODE by TYLER HOFT AND ALEX DORN Design Development Studio Critics: Mark Mistur and Demetrios Comodromos UNstudio’s ‘Newer Orleans’ project was re-adressed formally, programatically and conceptually and then developed to DD.
2012S_S(aroud)OUND_Oatman Studio
Smart Geometry @ EMPAC SPECIAL preview performance. This Friday night, at 8.30 PM for ARCH, ARTS and Smart Geometry attendees. Troy Gasholder, 1115 5th avenue, Troy, NY 12180. There will be shuttles leaving the EMPAC circle starting at 8-ish, and running until 11 PM. It will probably also be a great night for a walk, […]
300 Clouds_(Benjamin Badeau)
A video by 2011 Architecture graduate Benjamin Badeau, 300 Clouds Benjamin Badeau’s 300 Clouds re-contextualizes Chris Marker’s 1962 film La Jetée, imagining a different Earth and a new set of challenges shaped by the myriad, interwoven environmental catastrophes of the past 50 years. Will the count continue to slip, or can the ominous forms on […]