Friday, October 30, 2009

Fall 2009, Week 10

Announcements

Please remember to check your Architecture mailboxes located in CFA 200.

Deadlines

11.03 Last Day to Drop Course with a W

SoArch Events

11.02 12:00pm, CFA 206A | SoArch Scandinavia Summer 2010 Study Abroad  Learn about funding opportunities from the Office of International Education.
11.03 4:30pm, CFA 214 | 2010 Gindroz Travel Prize Informational Meeting
11.03 4:30pm, MMCH203 | Year 1 Group Advising Session  Question & Answer session about the upcoming Spring 2010 schedule and the registration process.
11.03 6:00pm, Baker Hall A51 (GE Auditorium) | Digital Tectonics Robotic Fabrication Symposium Lecture  Architect and educator Martin Bechtold investigates computer-aided design and manufacturing applications in architecture, with a current focus on structural systems, construction automation, and robotics.  In this one-hour presentation, Bechtold shares recent robotic fabrication explorations at Harvard University and discusses the emerging influence of robotics upon the design and production of architecture.
11.04 12:00pm, CFA 317 | Digital Tectonics Robotic Fabrication Symposium  Participants will explore the application of rule based design systems through the utilization of Grasshopper.  Space may be limited.  Please RSVP before 3 Nov to Jeremy Ficca
11.04 4:30pm, MMCH203 | Year 3 Group Advising Session  Question & Answer session about the upcoming Spring 2010 schedule and the registration process.
11.04 6:00pm, Baker Hall A61 (GE Auditorium) | Digital Tectonics Robotic Fabrication Lecture  Educator and programmer Kostas Terzidis engages interdisciplinary research spanning arts, architecture and computer science. In this one-hour presentation Terzidis will look into the current state of computation-based design and offer insights in the possibility of using exhaustive permutations for the generation of architectural plans.
11.05 9:00am, CFA 214 | Digital Tectonics Robotic Fabrication Symposium  Architect Fabio Gramazio will join professor Jeremy Ficca's course Digital Tectonics and discuss the current Pike Loop installation in Manhattan
11.05 10:30am, CFA 317 | Digital Tectonics Robotic Fabrication Lecture Workshop  In this intermediate workshop Kostas Terzidis will utilize the Processing computer language to explore the application of advanced algorithms and tecniques.  Space may be limited.  Please RSVP by 3 Nov to Jeremy Ficca
11.05 4:30pm, Kerr | SAC Meeting
11.05 6:00pm, Baker Hall A51 (GE Auditorium) | Digital Tectonics Robotic Fabrication Lecture  Architect and partner in Gramazio & Kohler, Fabio Gramazio explores the non-standardized architonic products through highly controlled robotic fabrication processes.  In this one-hour lecture Gramazio presents a diverse selection of work including a robot fabricated brick facade, the 2008 Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, variable perforated concrete wall panels and an alpine hut.
11.06 4:30pm, MMCH A14 | IScream  Faculty will present electives for S10
11.07 4:00pm, Edge Studio  5411 Penn Avenue | 2009 Gindroz Travel Prize winner Kaitlin Miciunas' exhibit opening
11.09 10:30-11:30pm, MMCH 103 | Sleeping Bag Weekend  Attend an Architecture Class
11.09 11:30-12:30pm, MMCH 103 | Sleeping Bag Weekend  Architecture Information Session and Tour
11.09 1:30-4:30pm, MMCH 3rd-Floor and CFA 200 | Architecture Open Studios
11.09 4:30pm, MMCH203 | Year 2 Group Advising Session  Question & Answer session about the upcoming Spring 2010 schedule and the registration process.
11.011 4:30pm, CFA214 | Year 4 Group Advising Session  Question & Answer session about the upcoming Spring 2010 schedule and the registration process.

CMU Events

11.11 7:00pm, Baker Hall A51 (Giant Eagle Auditorium) | Design Lectures 2009-10  Presents Christian Schwartz (Design'99) "Type Outside the Bubble"  The most important breakthrough in typography in the last 20 years is probably the Font menu, which brought the idea of typographic choice to anyone who has ever sat down in front of a word processor. Never before have so many people been aware of the vast spectrum of typefaces, had a favorite typeface, blogged about type, or been willing to sit through an entire documentary film about a typeface. In spite of this enthusiastic new cult following, type still has a reputation of being design for designers, and design for design’s sake. Type designer Christian Schwartz will discuss a wider view of type and culture at large, and will talk about the cross-pollination between the two.

Opportunities

Call for Entries | Modern Painters RE:VISION Design Awards 2010  The first international competition of its kind, the Re:Vision Design Awards challenges emerging designers of all stripes to revisit, rethink and reimagine how we live in our homes. Modern Painters welcomes submissions from across the design spectrum—whether from the field of furniture, lighting, product, interior or environmental design (or some combination of these)—that thoughtfully explore new ways to live, work, play and interact in the domestic environment.  Deadline 17 November 
The Posner Center Internship Program is searching for applicants!  The goal of the program is to provide a practical experience. During the spring 2010 semester, the student will research their own topic, using books and artifacts in the Posner Memorial Collection in preparation for a summer or fall 2010 exhibit at the Posner Center. The exhibit will be promoted by the University Libraries and accessible to all Posner Center visitors, including the University’s Board of Trustees.   The application requires that students compose an essay explaining their interest or research question, suggesting possible books to use from the Posner Memorial Collection, and including a brief bio.  Deadline November 30, 2009. Please direct questions to the Special Collections Librarian, Mary Kay Johnsen.

Faculty News

Don Carter | The Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) has released its second installment in Heinz Endowments’ funded research on Hazelwood. Remaking Hazelwood, Remaking Pittsburgh: Urban Design Recommendations for Pittsburgh’s Next Big Urban Project is a guiding document whose aim is to promote a comprehensive and sustainable urban design-based approach to the revitalization of Hazelwood through the redevelopment of the 178-acre ALMONO site. The recommendations are the result of a two-year investigation by the RCI into the history, conditions and future of Hazelwood, a once thriving but still promising neighborhood located along the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh’s southeast end. The urban design recommendations incorporate ideas produced by students from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture, particularly those in the fifth-year Urban Laboratory: Community and Urban Design Studio.
Douglas Cooper | Has produced a 2010 Calendar featuring some of his images of Pittsburgh, one per month.  They retail for $15 and can be purchased at the CMU Bookstore, Kards Unlimited (Shadyside), Top Notch Art Center (Craig St.), Pleasant Present (Squirrel Hill), Pitt Bookstore, Museum Store  Heinz History Center, Pat’s Lunch  (Terminal Bldg.), Joseph-Beth Bookstore (Southside works), Beehive  (Carson St.), Penguin Bookshop (Sewickley)
Paul Rosenblatt and Matt Fineout | SPRINGBOARD  Launches Museum Architecture Team (M.A.T.), Opens New York Office .

School of Architecture faculty are once again well-represented in this year's list of 2010 Design Pittsburgh Award Winners.  Congratulations to Gerard Damiani, studio d'ARC architects, p.c.; Jeffrey Davis, Kent Suhrbier & Kevin Gannon, FortyEighty Architecture; Mick McNutt, Jonathan Golli & Jeffrey King, EDGE Studio; Stefanie Danes, Perkins Eastman; Matthew Plecity, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Architects; Tom Price, STRADA and Dan Rothschild & Ken Doyno, Rothschild Doyno Collaborative.

Student News

Dan Addis | Third-year archi Dan Addis Navigates the Structure of the Course