In August 2015—with support from the school's Boone Powell Prize in Urban Design—Haley Fitzpatrick traveled to Iceland to "...study how tourism was affecting projected urbanization, cultural identity and resource capacity, specifically along the coastal settlements." The photographs featured in this exhibition represent a portion of her image donation received by the school's Visual Resources Collection.
On Friday, January 20, the Center for American Architecture and Design will host Gabriel Díaz Montemayor as part of the Friday Lunch Forum series.
Roughly every other Friday during the fall and spring semesters, the Center hosts the Friday Lunch Forum Series. The aim of the series is for faculty, staff, and students to meet in an informal atmosphere to debate topics and to share ideas about history, practice, theory, and new directions for architecture. Recordings of each forum will be posted as they become available.
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The Visual Resources Collection will screen Anthony McCall's Line Describing a Cone, a 30-minute 16mm film produced in 1973. The film provides the opportunity for viewers to engage as a community with the projected light as it emerges to become a fully-realized conic volume.
This screening serves as a break from final review preparations and an experience that will likely inspire future work.
Please note: space will be limited.
Professors Keith Simon and Matthew Tanteri's undergraduate Environmental Controls I "Light Show" took place on November 17th on the third floor of the Sutton Hallway. Students worked alone or in groups to design and build an exterior light fixture for the campus area between Goldsmith Hall and the West Mall Building. Each light fixture was accompanied by a luminaire brochure that included fixture specifications, a candlepower distribution curve, electrical calculations, and an HDR glare analysis.
TA’s: Sean Patrick O'Brien, Theresa Cascio and Sanaz Deldar
Brook Muller is a professor of architecture and core faculty member in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Oregon. He also directs A&AA’s Graduate Certificate Program in Ecological Design. Muller's research bridges design theory and ecologically responsive practice. From 1993-1996, he worked with Behnisch Architects in Stuttgart, Germany, serving as co-project leader on the IBN Institute for Nature Research, a European Union pilot project for human and environmentally friendly building.
Anna Livia Brand comes to the school from the University of New Orleans's Department of Planning and Urban Studies. Her research focuses on the historical development of and contemporary planning and design challenges in black mecca neighborhoods in the American North and South, including Chicago’s Bronzeville, New York’s Harlem, Washington D.C.’s Shaw, New Orleans’s Treme, Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn, and Houston's 3rd and 4th Wards.