(via new wave) Founded in 2005, the goal of URBANbuild is to address New Orleans’ deteriorating neighborhoods and to provide students the chance to work together on the design, development and construction of affordable housing. The program is run by Tulane’s School of Architecture and by senior professor of practice Byron Mouton and adjunct lecturer Sam Richards. […]
(via KU Today) Dedication set for Audio-Reader’s architecture student-built pavilion A group of University of Kansas students enrolled in the Department of Architecture’s Dirt Works Studio are putting the finishing touches on the Sensory Pavilion, a structure they designed and built in the Audio-Reader Sensory Garden. A dedication ceremony starts at 11:30 a.m. Friday, May […]
(via Fast Company) … An Architect Goes Computer Crazy You might expect the person heading up Microsoft’s chatbot project to have a PhD in AI from MIT, but Cheng’s path to directing FUSE is as circuitous as the path between Tay’s artificial neurons. Born in Nebraska to a Chinese mother and a Japanese father in […]
(via Archdaily) Architects are famously cynical about the long hours and over-education required for what can be a thankless career. But in a recent study conducted by WalletHub, “2016’s Best & Worst Entry-Level Jobs”, recent grads and seasoned professionals alike may be surprised to find that “architect” is ranked 10th out of 109 evaluated professions. […]
(via News from Tulane) Tulane Architecture Students Give Local Bookstore New Life When Vera Warren Williams enters her freshly renovated Community Book Center at 2523 Bayou Road in New Orleans, she can scarcely believe it is the same space that she has struggled to maintain since opening the Seventh Ward location in 2003. With its […]
(adapted from Curbed by Patrick Sisson @freqresponse) Auburn University Lions Park Scout Hut designed by Rural Studio participants. Rural Studio The granddaddy of design-build programs, Rural Studio, founded by Samuel Mockbee and D. K. Ruth at Auburn in 1993, recruits architecture students to help a long-standing mission to develop affordable housing and community structures for rural western […]
(via Autodesk Design Academy) Tools such as intuitive CAD (computer-aided design) software and 3D printing are making education exciting and fun. Autodesk Fusion 360 allows for easy modeling, printing, testing and tinkering of ideas. In this On Air event, Alex Lobos explains how CAD/CAM (computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing) exploration leads to hands-on learning and real-world interaction with […]
(via Curbed) Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture School Students Built These ‘Survival Cabins’ by Asad Syrkett @asadsyrkett In collaboration with Tarragona, Spain-based design firmAixopluc (Catalan for “home”), students from the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture built a number of shelters on the school’s Scottsdale, Arizona, campus, Taliesin West (formerly home to Wright’s Arizona residence and […]
(via ArchDaily) The Best Architectural Installations of Coachella 2016 A photo posted by Onch Movement | Jewelry (@onchmovement) on Apr 18, 2016 at 12:04am PDT Coachella, the annual music festival that takes place in California‘s Colorado Desert, is a spectacle on numerous levels, but it is the associated visual artists, architects, sculptors, and designers that […]
(via Architectural Lighting) PolyThread Textile Pavilion: Illumination Through Absorption “PolyThread,” is a knitted textile pavilion designed by Jenny E. Sabin, principal of Philadelphia-based Jenny Sabin Studio and the Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger assistant professor of architecture at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. The luminous structure uses photoluminescent and solar-active yarns to capture […]