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As part of an art college, the Architecture department is unique among its peers, which are typically set in universities or technical colleges. Our values as artists and designers set us apart: Artistic sensibility, material reasoning, spatial cognition, critical visual thinking, symbiotic meaning/making and imagination prosper here. By studying architecture, you will learn to think critically; t
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05/26/2021
The Architecture Senior Show “Studio Denouement” is currently on view at Woods-Gerry from May 25-28th. With this final exhibition, the graduating class of 2021 makes a small ode to studio culture and shows work that encapsulates each of their methods of production and representation. We hope you enjoy the work!
Please join us Thursday, May 13, 2021, 6PM EST, for the final installment of the RISD Architecture Lecture Series, the keynote lecture titled "On Dispossession" with Cameron Rowland and Rizvana Bradley.
Open to all within the RISD () and Brown () community, link in bio!
04/30/2021
Please join us for the second event in the Heterogeneous Constructions lecture series Monday, May 3 at 11.30a EST, link in bio.
This event will feature a conversation between architect Roger Boltshauser () and structural engineer John Ochsendorf (), moderated by RISD Architecture faculty Aaron Forrest () and Brett Schneider and Harvard GSD faculty Yasmin Vobis (). The Heterogeneous Constructions series explores ideas and practices that challenge contemporary conventions around architectural materials, bringing together leading thinkers and makers from a range of disciplines. The series is funded by the RISD Architecture Design Research Seed Fund.
Photo by Philip Heckhausen.
04/08/2021
“The Student Visa Review" is an interactive online exhibition, the result of a collaboration between RISD Architecture and the , launching Friday April 9th. The exhibition is comprised of a collection of audio reports by undergraduate and graduate students in the RISD Architecture Department who reflect on navigating their remote learning experiences during the pandemic.
To learn more and participate in the launch event, click on the registration link in our bio! You can also watch the event which will be live-streamed on YouTube.
Stay tuned for these upcoming lectures and events at RISD Architecture. More details to follow!
09/26/2020
We are pleased to announce the fall segment of the RISD Architecture 2020-21 Lecture Series: “Systems of Architecture.” Through a series of conversations, we will explore the systems of power at work throughout the built environment. Our guests, who include practitioners, writers, researchers, artists, and urbanists, will discuss labor, borders, hierarchies of knowledge, economics, privatization, and much more. The series will be fully remote, free, and open to the public. Swipe through for a rundown of key dates, and be sure to check back here for more information on each of the lectures and all of our guests. If you’re joining us from outside of the RISD community, we look forward to welcoming you- please email [email protected] to be added to our newsletter, where you'll receive updates and the links to join in on these conversations.
05/18/2018
A wild model appeared! Johnny Yueh Han Lin MArch18's secant and folded plate panelization of closely intersecting tori is on the loose. From and Nick Safley's advanced topics in computation course.
05/01/2018
Drawings by Inhwan Ivan Tae BArch17 () from Carl Lostritto's () Architecture Based On Drawing Building's Advanced Studio.
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04/29/2018
Model of a housing and urban development project by Wilfred Rodriguez MArch19 () for Urban Ecologies Studio with Laura Briggs
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04/28/2018
Model and plans for a desk crit by Peter Shanahan, a Brown student taking courses at . ()
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04/27/2018
Axon from Architectural Analysis of SANAA's Rolex Learning by Fan Wu BArch18 ()
04/26/2018
Event spaces between the physical and digital from an ongoing thesis by Nick Meehan BArch18 () advised by David Gersten ()
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04/24/2018
Model from the entry studio, Making of Design Principles by Noah Shipley BArch21 ()
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04/22/2018
Model of an office tower with the character of a tree by Adelaide Mackintosh MArch18 () from Nick Safley's Character Creation advanced studio.
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04/21/2018
A pine wood wall-hung mirror constructed of hand-tooled joinery by Sage Dumont BArch18 () with .furniture
04/19/2018
"It's actually the first drawing I did for my thesis. The red lines are a plan of Machu Picchu and the black are family spaces." fom Gelei Mai's BArch18 thesis advised by Emanuel Admassu ().
04/18/2018
Drawing fom "Orientation of The Outlier" by Celeste Martinez MArch16 () from her thesis advised by Hansy Better ()
04/17/2018
Detail of a drawing pretending to be an engraving of a model by D**g Eun Lim BArch19 for Nancy Nichols' () and Nick Safley's advanced topics computation course on surfaces.
04/16/2018
Constructed by folding Yupo paper with an oscillating plane in mind. Split/Mirror/3point. Model by Jimmy Cheng MArch18 () for Nancy Nichols' () and Nick Safley's advanced topics in computation course on surfaces.
04/15/2018
Mapped connections form a network and solidfy into this model by Oleg Mulanov BArch19 (). From Architectural Projections, a course exploring methods of orthographic projection.
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04/12/2018
Model by Claire Yang BArch21 () using principles of sectional expansion and contraction for the entry studio Making of Design Principles with Jacqueline Shaw ().
04/12/2018
"Standards and Deviations" is a study of the subtle misalignments generated through iterative processes and present in the environment. From an ongoing thesis by Marcus Lee BArch18 () advised by Amy Kulper
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"Staged Frames" by Leah Lin MArch19 () from Silvia Acosta's and Yoko Inoue's Transformations in Japan studio, a joint travel studio of the Architecture and Ceramics departments that explored imaginative revision of spatial and material environments uncovered in Kyoto and Naoshima. Work from the studio is on display now in the BEB gallery.
04/08/2018
Details from Architectural Analysis drawings by Clarisse Empinado BArch20 (.e) of Rudolph Hall for 's section.
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04/08/2018
Drawings of models by Christopher Villalta MArch20 () of Wrapped Trees by Christo and Jeanne-Claude for Architectural Design Studio
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04/06/2018
An ongoing thesis titled 'Opine' focuses on inverting systems of global corporations to fund missing social needs. In this example, becomes even more luxurious to fund an affordable housing project that sits above the store.
By Kevin Crouse MArch18 () with his advisor Emanuel Admassu ()
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04/05/2018
Axon of a performance hall in Bermuda by Abbie Zhang MArch19 () for an advanced studio with John Gardner and Warren Schwartz (.design )
04/05/2018
A study in hyperbolic paraboloids by Andrea Kelly MArch18 () for the entry studio, Making of Design Principles
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Anthony Azon BArch19 () works on his tile in collaboration with local artists from the CFQMA-BATHA-FES in with Laura Brigg's advanced studio
04/02/2018
Oil painting from a winter day in Providence by Gaby Carucci BArch18 ()
"I studied different views of Providence and the effect that different phenomenons, such as light and the weather, had on the landscape and how this changed our very own perception of the elements in it; such as the buildings."
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04/01/2018
Process model by Cherry Yang BArch20 () for Making of Design Principles, the entry studio at
A windswept field of grass meets the aberrant force of human (Its a mouse pointer) by Daniel Stone BArch18 () for Carl Lostritto's () Introduction to Computation course.
03/31/2018
Design of a mall for the merkato in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia by Hiba Karim BArch18 and Tyler Mills BArch17 ( ) from Emanuel Admassu's () Between Content and Container (volume ll) advanced studio
03/29/2018
Process diagrams for an island by Montana Gray BArch19 () for Silvia Acosta's Advanced Studio
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03/29/2018
Models made by hand over the course of a semester. Tweaked and edited by Daniel Stone BArch18 () for the design of a building to support creative production for Jim Barnes' BArch69 advanced studio
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