Sat Apr 18th, 5:30pm @ CASE/SOM: “IT’S ALIVE!”_ Date: Saturday, April 18th, 2015 Time: 5:30 p.m. Location: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill & Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology 14 Wall St # 25, New York, NY 10005 RSVP for current RPI-SoA students and alumni required to positions.series.rpi.soa@gmail.com On Saturday, April 18th, 2015, the Rensselaer Positions […]

Student-Run Series

Sat Nov 8th, 1:00pm @ Greene Gallery “LATENT TERRITORIES” On Saturday, November 8th, 2014, the Rensselaer Positions Series fifth discussion, “Latent Territories,” took place in the Greene Gallery. Guest speakers Felipe Correa, Mario Gooden, and Madeeha Merchant joined architecture students for a conversation on the emerging territories in the Middle East, South Africa (Johannesburg), and […]

Student-run Series

Sat Nov 1st, 1:50pm @ Greene Gallery: “CITIZENS” On Saturday, November 1, 2014, the Rensselaer Positions Series’ fourth discussion, “Citizens” took place in the Greene Gallery. Executive Director of the Architectural League of New York, Rosalie Genevro, along with RPI SoA faculty Brendan Moran, and student Mallory Buckner (B.Arch.) joined students for a conversation on […]

SOA-RPI Delegation
@ NOMA Conference

CONFERENCE: Oct 1-4, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Rensselaer chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) is sending a delegation of two students and one faculty member to the 42nd Annual NOMA International Conference and Expo in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 1-4, 2014 at the historic Loews Philadelphia Hotel. With the theme, “For the LOVE of It: […]

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 […]

[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: CATHERINE INGRAHAM

Wed Feb 26, 6PM @ EMPAC “Plasticity: Architecture and New Natures”. Catherine Ingraham is Professor of Architecture in the graduate architecture program at Pratt Institute in New York City, where she formerly served as Chair of Architecture from 1999-2005. Ingraham’s contributions to architectural culture are perhaps best summarized as an expansion beyond traditional disciplinary domains […]

Kristen Abruzzese

ARCH-4980.3 | Carla Leitao, Adjunct Professor EMBASSY SPECIES FOR THE INFORMATION LANDSCAPE KRISTEN ABRUZZESE For the embassy, the continually buffering digital landscape represents a crisis.  As digital tools continue to take on the efforts of effectively transferring information, it pushes the historical purpose and program of embassy into a corner. In terms of numbers, the quantity of […]

Aviel Rappoport

ARCH-4980.1 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer CHARTER CITY An Investment in Change AVIEL RAPPOPORT The Goal of this proposal is to initiate change in a stagnant environment. The project will implement research from case studies into Fordlandia, special economic zones in China, and imperialistic architecture to try and remedy the improper housing and unemployment rate that faces Argentina […]

Mary Rose Basile

ARCH-4980.1 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer TIDAL CITYSCAPE MARY ROSE BASILE The technological systems that allowed for the growth of cities are responsible for many of their ecological and social problems today. Environmental changes initiated by the growth of modern cities now serve as a threat, especially to cities on the coast. Miami is particularly susceptible to threats […]