The Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture (SoA) is pleased to announce the opening of EX-CHANGE, our annual showcase of student work.
The 2022 EX-CHANGE celebrates projects from first year through PhD programs through an exhibition in the College of Fine Arts (CFA) Great Hall on view from August 29-September 11, 2022. A salon-style gallery of projects connects a custom-built display in the Great Hall to the architecture studios located on the second floor of the building. The exhibition, designed by means+methods, led by Aviva Rubin (B.Arch ‘07) and Carolynn Karp, will be accompanied by a catalog designed by Group Project, Jimmy Luu and Ryan Menefee (DC ’08, HNZ ’09).
On Friday, September 9, 2022, from 4:30-8:30pm, the SoA will host a Welcome Back Celebration in the CFA Great Hall, featuring tours of the exhibition at 4:30pm and 7:30pm. The 2022 EX-CHANGE catalog will be available in both print and digital editions. To receive a printed catalog via in-person pickup or by mail, please use this form to order a copy. To join a tour at the opening celebration, please register here.
The 2022 EX-CHANGE offers a comprehensive look at the SoA’s student work using the lens of the three challenges the SoA addresses: artificial intelligence, social justice, and climate change.
“The design for the exhibition explores how form and surface can bend, fold, and stretch, embracing the multiplicity of voices, authors, and approaches to architecture across the SoA,” according to means+methods’ Rubin and Karp. “Works have been organized by thematic focus, allowing for different and new relationships to form across various levels and programs within the school. Using a light structural system, the student work threads through and around a permeable armature which is both defined and agile. The result is a ribbon, drawn in three dimensions through space.”
“For the accompanying catalog, we have transformed the spatial strategy of the exhibition into an imaginative graphic language of encoded ribbons that punctuate and mark a dense archive of the work presented in the Great Hall,” explain Group Project’s Luu and Menefee. “The publication embodies the sense of materiality, accumulation, and energy we saw in the work produced by students in the SoA over the past year.”
Every year, EX-CHANGE provides a team of students with an unparalleled opportunity to work alongside alumni and professionals in the development of a unique exhibition and publication that reflects on the school’s work.
The SoA gratefully acknowledges our 2022 sponsors who have helped make this project possible: PERKINS EASTMAN, Strada | Design With People In Mind®, PWWG Architects, Sota Construction Services, Inc., Desmone Architects, GBBN, and Akhil Badjatia.
EX-CHANGE 2021–22
DESIGN TEAM
means+methods
Aviva Rubin (B.Arch ‘07) and Carolynn Karp
Group Project
Jimmy Luu and Ryan Menefee (DC ’08, HNZ ’09)
STUDENT TEAM
Spring
Neha Chopra
Grace Kolosek
Shanice Lam
Mali Tribune
Yanan (Selina) Zhou
Summer
Ariba Asad
Rebecca Cunningham
Zihan (Keanu) Dong
Brian Hartman
Tianshu Huang
Grace Kolosek
Anna Stewart
Yanan (Selina) Zhou
Fall
Ariba Asad
Vanshika Bhaiya
Neha Chopra
Rebecca Cunningham
Zihan (Keanu) Dong
Tianshu Huang
Grace Kolosek
Adrienne Hin To Luk
Meghna Roy
Anna Stewart
Ashley Su
Yanan (Selina) Zhou
Jing Jing Wu
FACULTY-STUDENT COMMITTEE
Ray Gastil
Zain Islam-Hashmi
Bobuchi Ken-Opurum
Phyllis Kim
Jon Kline
Jackie McFarland
Tommy CheeMou Yang
Akanksha Tayal (NOMAS)
Shray Tripathi (NOMAS)
Jordan Luther (AIAS)
Graana Khan (inter•punct)
Yanan (Selina) Zhou (inter•punct)
DIRECTOR
Sarah Rafson with Tommy CheeMou Yang
STAFF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Meredith Marsh
Aaron Martin
Terry Hritz
Jon Holmes
David Koltas
2022 SPONSORS
PERKINS EASTMAN
Strada | Design With People In Mind®
PWWG Architects
Sota Construction Services, Inc.
Desmone Architects
GBBN
Akhil Badjatia
