By Stefano Romagnoli, Master of Landscape Architecture Candidate, 2019 Infrastructures are an intrinsically human and cultural phenomenon, which have occurred for millennia to sustain civilizations of many scales and levels of technology. “Global Energy Landscapes” is an essay on the new capabilities and responsibilities of…
In Youngjin Song’s (MDes ’17) “A Spoon,” viewers are invited to choreograph improvisational movements with the spoons presented in front of them; a spoon is animated by two people and vice versa, the two subjects are animated by the object. The project presents an attempt…
How do we define systems in which design is simultaneously dependent yet not predetermined? Can we work within that degree of freedom and produce a critical and coherent product? The Irving Innovation Fellowship provides a platform for the development of these research interests and their…
This exhibition features work produced in the Fall 2016 studio Hybrid Formations: Interdisciplinary Design (SCI-6463). Led by Volkan Alkanoglu, Lecturer in Architecture, the course examines and implements techniques and strategies for the design of prototype structures out of aluminum sheet metal. It is a study…
2016 Urban Land Institute Hines Competition Winning Submission The Midtown Beat is the 2016 Urban Land Institute Hines Student Competition Winner based in Atlanta, Georgia. The project draws from Atlanta’s rich cultural and economic history to ensure its continued place as the primary hub of…
Jakarta epitomizes and defies the definition of a megacity. The capital of Southeast Asia’s largest economy and the world’s second most populated metropolitan area appears as an agglomeration of villages, stretched across the 21st century mutation of a colonial entrepot. Interconnected with he interior of…
Peak House is modular mountaineering shelter – a bivouac – constructed for a remote site in the Slovenian Alps. Such shelters pepper the Alps across Europe, serving as much-needed outposts from harsh winds, snow conditions, and treacherous terrains. The project was an international collaboration between…
The KPF Traveling Fellowship is a student travel award sponsored by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF). The aim of the award is to support emerging talent and encourage creative, new thinking and international research. This award allows any March I, March I AP or March…
The project was a small two-story house which was located at Chambery, France. The goal of the competition was to achieve a surplus-energy house by manipulation of the given base design through integrated building strategies. A site weather file, two floor plans and a building…
September 8, 2014–October 19, 2014 Elements of Architecture is a 15-volume publication released in 2014 as part of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition: Fundamentals, held in Venice, Italy. Informally referred to as the “Venice Architecture Biennale,” this year’s gathering of exhibitions, events, and publications was…