Join us for a cover letter workshop on March 10, 2016! We will be meeting in Sutton 2.110 at 11:00am to discuss cover letters: where to start, how to organize content, and how to compose a successful conclusion. Hosted by UTSOA Career Services.
Beijing-born architect Ma Yansong is recognized as an important voice in the new generation of architects. He is the first Chinese architect to win an overseas landmark-building project. As the founder and principal of MAD Architects, Ma leads design across various scales. In recent years, many of Ma’s designs follow his conception of the “Shanshui City”, which is his vision to create a new balance among society, the city and the environment through new forms of architecture. Since designing the “Floating Island” in 2002, Ma has been exploring this idea through an international practice.
This workshop will be a two-hour hands-on tutorial for students who are interested in learning how to make prints from black-and-white film negatives in the UTSOA's Darkroom. Students will learn how to use an enlarger to expose their negatives onto resin-coated paper. Correct exposure and developing times will be covered as well as proper print washing and drying techniques. Negatives can be provided if needed.
Tutorials are open to all SOA faculty, students, and staff. Class size is limited to 6 for each session, and openings frequently fill quickly.
Dr. Jeff Wilson is CEO and Professor Dumpster at Kasita, an Austin based company building small, smart, beautiful and affordable urban housing. In his role as ‘Professor Dumpster’ he lived in a 33 sq ft modified trash dumpster for a year on his university campus. Wilson’s work on sustainability, minimalism, and social experimentation has been featured in The Atlantic , USA Today , The View and The Washington Post .
The Materials Lab hosts a screening of Reconversão (Reconversion), a survey of works by Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura, 2011 winner of the Pritzker Prize. In the words of the Pritzker jury, Souto de Moura’s work “requires an intense encounter not a quick glance…like poetry, it is able to communicate emotionally to those who take the time to listen.” Director Thom Anderson overlays footage of the buildings with insightful narration that flows between the architect’s poetic writings, the words of mentors Alvaro Siza and Aldo Rossi, bits of biography and histori
Hilary Sample is an architect and co-founder of MOS with Michael Meredith. She is an associate professor at Columbia University GSAPP.
On Friday, February 26, the Center for American Architecture and Design hosted Evan M. Greulich as part of the Friday Lunch Forum series.
Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, the talk was not recorded.
In the first part of this two-part workshop, Ceramicist Melanie Schopper taught a group of interior design students how to make reproducible clay tiles. Fourteen students attended the workshop where they learned how to hand carve patterns they designed into 4 ½” x 4 ½” clay tiles. Each student had the opportunity to design two tiles and many chose to work outside the traditional square form. Triangles, trapezoids, and hexagons appeared and a few students carved their tile into smaller pieces that would fit back together after firing.