March 2009
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Mar 31st
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Mar 28th
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JC on MP: DURABILITY IN ARCHITECTURE →
Click the link above to read some writing on pollution and LEED by Joe Combs (M.Arch 2010) on MATTER PRACTICES.
Mar 28th
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La Chaux-de-Fonds
(An update from Laura Blosser, M.Arch 2010 who is on exchange at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland this semester). > Additional posts and updates from LB on DBL. Time passes quickly. Moreover, the time for completing all I desire has passed. Now I’m all judgment and edit, weighing ambition against sanity, overthrowing regulation and making time for guilty...
Mar 28th
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Mar 27th
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ALUMNI TRAVEL AWARD 2009 →
This is the 3rd year that the RISD Department of Architecture will offer a travel award to two students ($3000 and $1500 for first and second prizes respectively) based upon their submission of work from the past year (Spring and Fall 08 and Wintersession 09).  Students can receive information on the submission deadline and requirements by emailing archdept@risd.edu Past award publications can be...
Mar 25th
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Mar 25th
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YOUR VOTES NEEDED FOR A GRANT!
Something from Jason Atkins (M.Arch 2009): Hey all, I’m working on an Engineers without Borders project to construct rainwater harvesting tanks for Kerala, India. We are now one of ten finalists for Mountain Dew’s Energize Your Community competition. By becoming a top 5 finalist we will recieve a $10,000 grant to construct mock-ups here and in India. To help reach this goal we need...
Mar 25th
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DP BOOK 2007-08 →
Last year’s DP booklet.
Mar 25th
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ARCH DES Davis Park installation booklet for Tulay Atak’s section. More posts about ADP.
Mar 25th
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BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED. →
An older Digital Media lecture, but this video makes you think (twice).
Mar 25th
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Mar 24th
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GIRLS IN THE BOYS CLUB. →
Mar 24th
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Mar 24th
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PARDON ME?
Kevin Kelly, Out of Control can be read here. As a response to the installation in the gallery and the short lecture on Monday: A conversation I had with Kyna last week came back to my mind — what do you do about making with hands?  This question is still in my notebook, has not yet settled in my mind, so I found the installation to be a good excuse to bring up the topic, my stance differs for...
Mar 23rd
NARRATIVE FLOWS →
The blog for the Landscape Architecture Urban Systems Studio, Narrative Flows. “This course focuses on one of the world’s great megacities and the third largest city in India – Kolkata (Calcutta) – at the western edge of the Bengal Delta, and asks how we should honor, conserve and wisely use this vital natural resource when creating sustainable urban lifestyles for the 21st Century.”...
Mar 22nd
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Additional images from  ADP’s installation at Davis Park. View the full set on FLICKR, or upload some images.
Mar 22nd
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Images of work from the SKIN DEEP: LIGHT AS AIR pre-midterm review (critic: Anastasia Congdon). Comments on the review are posted on the studio blog. This studio is sponsored by
Mar 22nd
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Mar 22nd
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Mar 20th
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Mar 20th
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RC ON MATTER PRACTICES →
Click the link above to read a bit of writing on sustainability and material practices by Roselle Curwen (M.Arch 2009) on MATTER PRACTICES. Another snippet can be found here.
Mar 19th
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BIBLIOGRAPHY / COLLECTION →
Collected sources compiled by Yu Morishita.
Mar 19th
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Mar 17th
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Mar 17th
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Mar 17th
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BRIAN GOLDBERG PRESENTS →
There’s a google group for the informal film series Brian Goldberg has been running. If you would like to be notified about screenings you can request group membership at http://groups.google.com/group/beb-screenings
Mar 16th
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“Often we hear the terms, designer or architect, not only referring to the...”
– Kyna Leski from Concepts as Tools
Mar 13th
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Mar 13th
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Mar 13th
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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PRINCIPLES students have been mapping Davis Park — the site of ADP09’s set of built interventions. All images can be viewed, by professor name, through DIGICATION.
Mar 12th
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Mar 12th
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Mar 11th
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“6. Problem making is essential to problem solving because the definition of a...”
– Kyna Leski, #6 of 10 ‘Ground Rules for Navigating the Creative Process’ as posted on RISDSPEAKS (a new PUBLIC-not-moderated RISD blog)
Mar 11th
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LOUISE GIRLING M.Arch 2009 - two diagrams from her DP BLOG
Mar 10th
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Cezar Nicolesu (B.Arch 2009) on What We Do. There’s a well stated blurb about his travels / architecture a third of the way through.
Mar 9th
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SPACEBOOK ≠ FACEBOOK
From an FB message (apparently a RISD graduate is behind MyArchN): “Hello RISD Architecture, thanks for the add. Is really great to connect with peers of the Bayard Ewing Bldg! I’m 1986 Risd Graduate from Architecture and founder of MyarchN, an online social network dedicated to Architecture and Related Arts. (…) MyarchN, the premier online social network devoted exclusively...
Mar 9th
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DESIGNING AT A DISTANCE, studio publication. See this post to read about the recent panel discussion. The students who were a part of the studio/whose work is featured in Designing at a Distance include: Ian Armitage, Vincent Bauer, Cassandra d’Alessandro, Claire Davenport, Stefan DiLeo, Chelsea Limbird, Brian Rubenstein, Nicholas Simpson, Damir Vukovljak, and Seth Wiseman. The publication...
Mar 6th
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Mar 6th
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Mar 6th
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JASON ATKINS, B.Arch 2009 / DP. See his website.
Mar 6th
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RC ON MATTER PRACTICES
(written by Roselle Curwen, M.Arch 2009) “At an Art and Design School where materials are being explored and used in many ways I would have to say that very little fall under the 3 principles of development; including, no waste, environmentally considered in every stage, and valuable. In the architecture department most of the materials I use and see are not ecologically responsible,...
Mar 5th
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RISD students use Pawtucket as laboratory
PAWTUCKET — This spring, downtown Pawtucket will be the classroom for a group of architecture students from the Rhode Island School of Design. According to The Pawtucket Foundation’s Executive Director Thomas Mann, the Foundation has formed a partnership with RISD’s Architecture Department. Twelve students in the Advanced Design studio led by professors Thomas Gardner and Matthew Miller will use...
Mar 2nd
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SICHUAN PROVINCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DESIGN →
Digication page for the project, with work from Yong Huang, Matt Elson, Andy Simes and Walter Zesk. (Critics: Gabriel Feld, Peter Tagiuri)
Mar 1st