Spring 2020 Electives

Elective courses available: ARCH4020.01 / Bedford Seminar: Advanced Building Structures 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 discourse. Specific structural typologies are examined through historic and contemporary […]

Lydia Kallipoliti’s CLOSED WORLDS @ Los Angeles

The exhibition CLOSED WORLDS curated by Geofutures Co-Director Lydia Kallipoliti will open on Thursday March 7th, 6pm at WUHO Gallery ( 6518 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles). The exhibition opening will be complemented by a symposium organized by the LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design moderated by Anthony Fontenot. Participants will include Marikka Trotter, Aaron […]

Fall 2019 Lecture Series

John Hardy (Bamboo University), Reiser + Umemoto, LO-TEK, Roth of Azulik, and Diebedo Francis Kere. All events start 6:00pm at EMPAC (110 8th Street / Troy, NY). Admission is free.

Lydia Kallipoliti to lecture in London and Chicago

Assistant Professor Lydia Kallipoliti will be speaking in the Lecture Series of the Architectural Association (AA) in London and School of Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). For more information, please click the links below: London: AA “New Canonical Histores” Lecture Series: https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=3978 Chicago: SAIC / Mitchell Lecture Series: http://www.saic.edu/events/lydia-kallipoliti

“Ambiguous Territory” exhibition opens in NYC (Chris Perry co-curator)

Faculty News: AMBIGUOUS TERRITORY, an exhibition co-curated by Associate Professor Chris Perry that includes work by professors Gustavo Crembil, Lydia Kallipoliti, and the Geofutures Program, opens at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York City on December 6th, 6-8pm and will continue until February 7th, 2019. AMBIGUOUS TERRITORY: ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE, AND THE POSTNATURAL Curated by Cathryn […]

Cody Seipp’18 final project featured in Dezeen

Student News: Recent BArch graduate, Cody Seipp, had his final project for Amazon’s “hyper-designed” headquarters in Detroit featured in the influential architecture and design website, Dezeen. Seipp’s project imagines the city of Detroit in 2051 after the major redevelopment orchestrated by the retail giant, Amazon. This futuristic condition offers an alternative outcome to real-life events. Although Detroit […]

Kathryn Prigmore’78 on Black Women in Arch.

Alumni News: KATHRYN PRIGMORE’78: “Black Women in Architecture: A History of Activism” Friday June 22nd, 11am S9 Architecture: 460 West 34th St., 20th Floor, NYC Admission is Free Kathryn Prigmore ’78 will be one of the speakers at the African American Architects 50 Years After Whitney M. Young’s AIA Address to be held Friday, 6/22, at 11 a.m. at S9 […]

ISATMA 2018 @ CRAIVE Lab

Sunday May-20, 2-6pm @ CRAIVE: ISATMA 2018: Expanding the Improvising Community across Abilities, Bodies and Cultures. Participate! Experience! Create! The International Symposium on Assistive Technology for Music and Art (ISATMA) is devoted to new technologies and artistic concepts that provide artists across abilities access to creative tools for making multimedia works. It addresses adaptive interfaces […]

Lydia Kallipoliti at GSAPP Columbia University

Assistant Professor and Geofutures Co-Director, Lydia Kallipoliti, will present on Tuesday, March 20th at GSAPP Columbia University. She will be a guest at the seminar Speculative City: Crisis, Uncertainty, and Projections in Architecture, and speak about the genealogy of closed resources and prototypes of the last century, among other things. Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer and scholar. She […]

Quingyun Ma [Recent Lecture]

Wed Oct 4th – EMPAC Theater: QINGYUN MA: “C.A.N. Project”_ Qingyun Ma is a designer principal at the renowned MADA s.p.a.m. architecture firm, and currently an educator at the University of Southern California. As an internationally involved designer, Ma has become a leader in the field and commands an understanding of modern issues in global urbanization. […]

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