The third session of LOUDREADERS welcomes you to join WAI Architecture Think Tank and Team Thursday as they present and discuss the contents, concepts, process, strategies, ideas, and design of the recently published Narrative Architecture: A Kynical Manifesto (Rotterdam: NAI010 Publishers, 2020) on Sat 18 Apr at 4:00pm EST.
LOUDREADERS Online Conversation Series Hosts Inter·Face Sat 11 Apr at 5pm EST
LOUDREADERS Online Conversation Series Welcomes Traumnovelle Sat 04 Apr at 4pm EST
LOUDREADERS online conversation series begins Saturday 04 April at 4:00pm EST with Traumnovelle, a militant faction founded by three Belgian architects: Léone Drapeaud, Manuel León Fanjul, and Johnny Leya. Traumnovelle uses architecture and fiction as analytical, critical, and subversive tools to emphasize contemporary issues and dissect their resolutions.
WAI Launches Online Conversation Series LOUDREADERS
Kalla Co-Professors Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia launch LOUDREADERS, an online conversation series in collaboration with inter·punct. LOUDREADERS is a cross between podcast, YouTube channel, Zoom meeting, lecture series, digital curatorial program, and online workshop that establishes networks of solidarity around the world while discussing urgent positions, discourses, and media about architecture, urbanism, art, and culture.
SoA Faculty Gerard Damiani and Andrew Moss Win Pittsburgh Magazine Best of Design Awards
The SoA congratulates faculty Gerard Damiani and Andrew Moss, whose firms won awards in Pittsburgh Magazine’s 2020 Best of Design. Damiani is design principal of Studio d’ARC, which won Best Renovated Kitchen for a spacious, Scandinavian-inspired space in a Fox Chapel home. mossArchitects won the award for Best Room for a two-story great room with a stunning view.
Vivian Loftness Appointed to AIA 2020 COTE Top Ten Awards Jury
Dana Cupkova Presents in USC Architecture Virtual Lecture Series Wed 01 Apr at 6pm PST
Prof. Dana Cupkova is a presenter in a web lecture panel on Wed 01 Apr at 6:00pm PST on the agency of design technologies as catalysts for exploring issues of urban ecology, affordable housing, and spatial justice. The lecture is hosted by USC Architecture. Register in advance to attend the webinar.
Vivian Loftness Appointed to The National Academies Committee for Accelerating Decarbonization in the United States
SoA professor Vivian Loftness, and professor Chris Hendrickson in the CMU Civil and Environmental Engineering department, have been appointed to The National Academies Committee for Accelerating Decarbonization in the United States: Technology, Policy and Societal Dimensions. The two-year committee is focused on the technologies and policies needed today for full decarbonization by 2050.
SoA Student & Faculty Awards Application Deadline Extended to Tuesday 31 March
In Memory of Professor Ömer Akin
Alumnus Gabriel Cuellar Awarded ACSA 2020 Course Development Prize
The SoA congratulates alumnus Gabriel Cuellar (B.Arch ‘08) for receiving a 2020 Course Development Prize presented by ACSA and The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University. Cuellar’s course proposal “Exist, Flourish, Evolve” — Territorial Care and the Upper Misi-ziibi explores how architecture can uphold and promote the Rights of Nature in the context of the Mississippi headwaters watershed.
Daniel Cardoso Llach speaks at the CMU History Department on the Experimental Archaeology of CAD Project
Professor Daniel Cardoso Llach presented progress on his “Experimental Archaeology of CAD Project” to students and faculty in the CMU History Department. The project examines the development of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) systems through a combination of historical, ethnographic, and creative technology prototyping methods.
School of Architecture Students Featured in Local News Coverage of Lunar Gala
SoA students Michael Powell and Vincent DeRienzo were recently featured in a TribLive article about local Pittsburgh fashion experts assisting Carnegie Mellon’s ‘Lunar Gala’ student designers. The annual fashion show takes place Saturday 29 February at 8:00pm on the CMU campus. The 2020 show, ‘Yesterday’, features SoA students in leadership roles and on a number of the design teams.
Call for Applications for the 2020 SoA Student & Faculty Awards
MODU and Eric Forman Studio’s Heart Squared on View in Times Square
Heart Squared, an interactive cloud of steel and mirrors dedicated to love and diversity, is open to the public in Times Square through the end of February. It is this year’s winner of New York City’s annual Times Square Valentine Heart Design Competition. Alumnus Tom Sterling (B.Arch ‘16), Architectural Designer at MODU Architecture, is a member of the project team that developed the installation.
Christina Brown (B.Arch ’20) Contributes to Studio Informing $650 Million Plan to Redevelop Singapore’s Sungei Kadut Industrial Estate into an Eco-District
Christina Brown (B.Arch ’20) participated in a study abroad course in spring 2019 that is now being used to inform the $650 million redevelopment of Singapore’s Sungei Kadut industrial estate into an Eco-District. Christina and teammate Supratim Sengupta led the presentation of the final studio proposal to government officials from JTC Corporation, the Singapore Food Authority (SFA), and the Singapore Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA).
Ray Gastil Presents "Health By Design: Challenges for Urban Transformation" at Georgetown University Tue 25 Feb
Remaking Cities Institute Director Ray Gastil presents "Health by Design: Challenges for Urban Transformation" at Georgetown University on Tuesday 25 February. The event is presented by the Georgetown Urban Health Collaborative in coordination with the Georgetown University Global Cities Initiative.
Spring Lecture Series Welcomes Craig Dykers on Mon 24 Feb
Ray Gastil to Speak at The Climate of Urban Design Symposium at UT Austin School of Architecture Feb 27-28
Remaking Cities Institute Director Ray Gastil will speak at The Climate of Urban Design, a symposium on urban design education and practice presented by the AIA Regional and Urban Design Committee (RUDC), the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, and The American Institute of Architects February 27-28, 2020.
Jeremy Ficca and Stefan Gruber Awarded ACSA 2020 Architectural Education Awards
The SoA congratulates Jeremy Ficca and Stefan Gruber for receiving 2020 Architectural Education Awards presented by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). Ficca was awarded in the Creative Achievement category for his course Fabricating Customization, and Gruber was awarded in the Collaborative Practice category for the project Urban Acupuncture for Community Forge.