Georgia Tech’s Solar Decathlon Groundbreaking Ceremony will take place from 4-8pm on Friday, February 9, 2007 at the IPST Building on the corner of 14th Street and Hemphill. Come meet Georgia Tech’s Solar Decathletes. Live Music by “the Highway band.”
Architect, Theorist, and Writer Jennifer Bloomer is the Spring 2007 TVS Distinguished Critic and Visiting Professor. Bloomer is teaching a graduate Options II Design Studio and will present a public lecture, titled I Sing the City Eclectic: the Enduring Mystic of Urbanism on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 5:00 p.m. in the College of Architecture auditorium.
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Christian Lange from the London office of Norman Foster & Partners has been selected to fill the position of Lecturer and assistant to Professor Lars Spuybroek, the newly appointed Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design.
Professor Betty Dowling is Chairing a panel session titled "New Approaches to the Built Environment" at the 2006 Southeast Society of Architectural Historian's Annual Conference and has co-curated an exhibition with Anne Fairfax, titled New Classicism: The Rebirth of Traditional Architecture.
Assistant Professor Michael Gamble and his firm G+G Architects recently designed the Barber House, an elegant, multi-level modernist brick house located in Ansley Park in Midtown Atlanta. The house is currently featured in Atlantan.
Architect and housing expert David Baker, FAIA, of DB+P Architects in San Francisco is the 2006 John Portman Visiting Critic. Baker is serving as design consultant and critic this fall to Options I Studios, led by Professors David Green, Ed Akins, and Jimmy Smith. This graduate level studio is designing multi-family housing along the proposed Atlanta Beltline Project
Architecture Program Director and Associate Professor Ellen Dunham-Jones is on reduced time this academic year, serving as a Guest Professor at Lund University in Sweden and working on a book with June Williamson on retrofitting suburbs. Associate Professor Chris Jarrett is serving as Acting Director and George Johnston as Interim Associate Director through December 31st.
The schematic design of Georgia Tech's Solar Decathlon House is on exhibit in the College of Architecture Atrium, August 21-September 15, 2006. Led by Professors Ruchi Choudhary, Chris Jarrett, and Franca Trubiano, and involving over 60 faculty and students from four of the six Colleges at Georgia Tech, the off-the-grid solar-powered house employs state-of-the-art advanced ecological technologies and new emerging materials. The house will be built by students in the spring and summer and shipped to DC in September 2007.
AIA Georgia announces that Sarah Susanka, FAIA, bestselling author, architect and cultural visionary is scheduled to speak at Georgia Tech College of Architecture Auditorium on July 18, 5:30-7:30pm. The lecture is open to the public and costs $10.00. Reservations are needed and can be made through the calendar section of the Georgia AIA Web site.
The Architecture Program is pleased to announce the 2007 Velux Prize Jury, scheduled on Thursday, April 26, 2007: Sarah Graham of AGPS Architecture in Zurich and Los Angeles, Jury Chair; Ila Burdette of Perkins+Will in Atlanta; Ted Cavanagh, Chair, School of Architecture at Clemson University in Clemson; Amy Landesberg of Amy Landesberg Architects in Atlanta; and Edgar Stach of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
The Architecture Program is pleased to announce the 2007 SGF-IR Prize Jury, scheduled on Tuesday, April 24, 2007: Thomas Leeser of Leeser Architecture in New York, Jury Chair; Winka Dubbeldam of Archi-Tectonics in New York; Nathaniel Belcher, Director, School of Architecture at Florida International University in Miami; Sheila Colon of Stanley, Beaman & Sears in Atlanta; and David Yocum of bldgs in Atlanta.
Undergraduate Student Paul Lawrence Knight is this year's winner of the J. Neil Reed Prize, sponsored by The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation. The $4,000 Prize is awarded annually to a student, an intern or a recently registered professional in the field of architecture or landscape architecture for study travel that honors the legacy of Neel Reid.
Professor Lars Spuybroek, Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design, is organizing a symposium on “Uniformity and Variability,” 9:00-6:00pm, March 31, 2007 in the College of Architecture Auditorium. In addition to Professor Spuybroek, guest speakers include: 1) Christopher Hight, Assistant Professor, Rice School of Architecture; 2) Manuel DeLanda, Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University; 3) Ali Rahim, Director, Contemporary Architecture Practice and Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania; 4) Detlef Mertins, Professor and Chair, University of Pennsylvania; and 5) Marc Kirschner, Chair, Department of Biology, Harvard Medical School. The event is free and open to the public but on-line registration is requested, by going here.
The City of Duluth with the Architecture Program at Georgia Tech staged a Living Memorial Competition dedicated to all veterans of the City of Duluth, both living and dead. Professors Doug Allen, Richard Dagenhart and David Green led the effort with the senior design studio students.
The winners of the Duluth Living Memorial Competition are:
1st place: Allyson Barfoot
2nd place: Lindsay Graham
3rd place: Bryce McQueen
Honorable Mention: Blue Marshall
Assistant Professor Benjamin Flowers was awarded the Society of Architectural Historians [SAH] Emerging Scholars Award. Funded by the SAH's Scott Opler Endowment for Emerging Scholars, the award consists of a full one-year membership to the Society of Architectural Historians. An announcement of the award will be given at the Annual Meeting and in the SAH Newsletter.
The Ecole Nationale Superiere d'Architecture Paris-La Villette and the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech are sponsoring a conference on “Architecture, Technology, and the Historical Subject.” We invite any submission that critically engages Walter Benjamin's reflections on the relationship between architecture, technology and perception from the 19th century to the present. Deadline for submissions is March 30, 2007.
Georgia Tech's Solar Decathlon Groundbreaking Ceremony will take place from 4-8pm on Friday, February 9, 2007 at the IPST Building on the corner of 14th Street and Hemphill. Come meet Georgia Tech's Solar Decathletes. Live Music by 'the Highway band.'
Architect, Theorist, and Writer Jennifer Bloomer is the Spring 2007 TVS Distinguished Critic and Visiting Professor. Bloomer is teaching a graduate Options II Design Studio and will present a public lecture, titled I Sing the City Eclectic: the Enduring Mystic of Urbanism on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 5:00 p.m. in the College of Architecture auditorium.
The Architecture Program is pleased to announce the 2006 Portman Prize Jury, scheduled on December 7, 2006. Jorge Silvetti of Machado/Silvettiin Boston, Jury Chair; Sherry Ahrentzen of the Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family in Phoenix; David Baker of David Baker + Partners in San Francisco; Hina Jamelle of Contemporary Architecture Practice in New York; and Walter Miller of John Portman & Associates in Atlanta.
Christian Lange from the London office of Norman Foster & Partners has been selected to fill the position of Lecturer and assistant to Professor Lars Spuybroek, the newly appointed Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design.
Assistant Professor Mark Cottle was awarded a Graham Foundation Grant Award for a forthcoming publication titled Chromotopia: Essays on Color in Modern and Contemporary Architecture.
Professor Betty Dowling is Chairing a panel session titled "New Approaches to the Built Environment" at the 2006 Southeast Society of Architectural Historian's Annual Conference and has co-curated an exhibition with Anne Fairfax, titled New Classicism: The Rebirth of Traditional Architecture.
Assistant Professor Michael Gamble and his firm G+G Architects recently designed the Barber House, an elegant, multi-level modernist brick house located in Ansley Park in Midtown Atlanta. The house is currently featured in Atlantan.
Assistant Professor Mark Cottle was recently interviewed by Creative Loafing for his perspective on the significance of the Renzo Piano's expansion of the High Museum of Art.
Architect and housing expert David Baker, FAIA, of DB+P Architects in San Francisco is the 2006 John Portman Visiting Critic. Baker is serving as design consultant and critic this fall to Options I Studios, led by Professors David Green, Ed Akins, and Jimmy Smith. This graduate level studio is designing multi-family housing along the proposed Atlanta Beltline Project
Architecture Program Director and Associate Professor Ellen Dunham-Jones is on reduced time this academic year, serving as a Guest Professor at Lund University in Sweden and working on a book with June Williamson on retrofitting suburbs. Associate Professor Chris Jarrett is serving as Acting Director and George Johnston as Interim Associate Director through December 31st.
Nader Tehrani, the 2005-6 Ventulett Chair in Architectural Design and principal of Office d'A in Boston, led a team of graduate and undergraduate students in the design and fabrication of an acrylic 3-D construct using a computer numerically controlled router in the Advanced Wood Products Laboratory. The installation consists of more than 1500 customized pieces that explore the different spatial, programmatic, and structural possibilities imparted by this high-tech fabrication technique.
BEET is a new Master of Science study track in the College of Architecture. The focus of this M.S. program is reflective and rigorous research in emerging architectural technologies, particularly those engaged with issues of ecological importance.
CCC is a new Master of Science study track in the College of Architecture. The focus of this M.S. program is on new developments in computer-aided design and manufacturing technologies reshaping design thought and practice.
August 21-September 15, 2006. Led by Professors Ruchi Choudhary, Chris Jarrett, and Franca Trubiano, and involving over 60 faculty and students from four of the six Colleges at Georgia Tech, the off-the-grid solar-powered house employs state-of-the-art advanced ecological technologies and new emerging materials. The house will be built by students in the spring and summer and shipped to DC in September 2007.
Artist-in-Residence Ruth Dusseault is one of four contemporary photographers exhibiting their work at the High Museum of Art. In her body of work entitled "Changing Places," Dusseault explores her fascination with progress and the utopian vision of architects and urban designers in the constantly changing postmodern city.
New York Architect Christine Franck has been selected as this year's Harrison Design Associates Visiting Scholar and will be co-teaching a course on Principles of Classical Design this spring with Professor Betty Dowling.
Artist-in-Residence Ruth Dusseault has won a design grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for her proposal, Landscape of Tourism. She will be photographing older tourist attractions that are designed to engage visitors with the natural environment.