Architects and designers working in India are now dealing with an entire gamut of social, cultural and economic phenomenon that are molding the built environment at phenomenally rapid rates. In the process, the role of the professional architect has been marginalized - for within conventional praxis, the professional does not engage with this broader landscape but rather chooses to operate with the specificity of a site and in the process often becomes disconnected with the context of practice.
Professor Ann Johns and Beili Liu
Teaching Assistant Bryan Martello
A group exhibition surveying works by students from the Learning Tuscany Study Abroad 2015 studio course: Spatial Exploration of Culture and Site
Senior Lecturer and Conservation Scientist Fran Gale and Historic Preservation program graduate student Izabella Dennis participated in the 1st International Congress of Culture, Heritage and Sustainability https://infoccps2015.wix.com/ccps in Oaxaca, Mexico during May 2015. The congress was hosted by two Oaxaca Architecture Schools – 5 de Mayo and the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez.
The Design Futures Public Interest Design (PID) 2015 Student Leadership Forum was part of a five-day, interdisciplinary series of events held at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. Student leaders from across the country collaborated with practitioners and university faculty from eleven universities, to strategize ways to use design as a tool for social equity and positive change in underserved communities.
The School of Architecture's Visual Resources Collection [VRC] is excited to announce its inaugural pop-up lighting studio to support model photography, complete with a DSLR camera and tripod set-up. VRC staff will be on-hand to help with any questions related to lighting, camera settings, composition, etc.
We hope this resource will accommodate the extra volume of documentation required by students at this time of year, in addition to providing an opportunity for instruction in model photography.
The Visual Resources Collection will be offering an introductory workshop on The Basics of Photographic Composition on Sunday, April 26, 2015 from 2–3pm in UTSOA Visual Resources Collection, Sutton Hall 3.128.
This single, one-hour session will focus on familiarizing students with image composition best practices. The workshop will cover the basics of selective focus and depth of field and how they relate to aperture with a concentration on architecture, urban landscape, and model photography.
On Friday, April 24, the Center for American Architecture and Design hosted Clay Odom as part of the Friday Lunch Forum Series. He presented “Productions.”
FRIDAY LUNCH FORUM
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.