University of Oregon Department of Architecture

How does architecture act as an interface between seemingly disparate environments, social structures, and contextual anomalies? In what ways is, ‘interface’ challenged or guided by the concept of ‘appropriateness’?

Monash University Student Housing, Melbourne

Monash University Student Housing, Melbourne

A nominee in this year’s Institute of Architects Awards that will be presented to the jury on Saturday 24 March is the Monash Student Housing that sets a new standard of student housing.

UB School of Architecture & Planning Buffalo, NY

UB School of Architecture & Planning Buffalo, New York Design Event, Lecture News, Date

UB School of Architecture & Planning Event : Buffalo, NY

UB School of Architecture & Planning Buffalo Exhibition : Architecture Information

UB School of Architecture & Planning Events 2012

Upcoming Lecture in March
Wednesday, Mar 21
5:30 pm
301 Crosby Hall, UB South Campus

SA&P Lecture: Keller Easterling
California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Lecture Title: Disposition

Question: How can space be information?

Keller Easterling is an architect and writer from New York City and a professor at Yale University. Her book, Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) researches familiar spatial products that have landed in difficult or hyperbolic political situations around the world. A previous book, Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America applies network theory to a discussion of American infrastructure and development formats. A forthcoming book, Extrastatecraft: Global Infrastructure and Political Arts, examines global infrastructure networks as a medium of polity.

Recent Lecture in March
Wednesday, Mar 7
5:30 pm
301 Crosby Hall, UB South Campus

SA&P Lecture: David Gissen
California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Lecture Title: Maintenance Environments

Question: What does the historicization of space and objects look and feel like?

David Gissen is the author of the book, Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments, and editor of the “Territory” issue of AD. His work explores novel conceptions of nature within architecture and the foundations for experimental forms of historical inquiry. He is an associate professor and coordinator of history and theory in the Division of Architecture, California College of the Arts.

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Rolex Learning Center Switzerland: SANAA

Rolex Learning Center, Switzerland

Built on the campus of EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, The Rolex Learning Center designed by the internationally acclaimed Japanese architectural practice, SANAA, will open on 22 February 2010.

Deakin University Melbourne Lecture Theatre

Deakin University’s new Burwood Highway Frontage Building is set to be a world-class educational facility that will create a major impression at the entrance of the University.

Uppsala University Building, Swedish Education

Uppsala University Building,

Uppsala Universitet: the new university building unites the past and the future by extending the lines from the historical surroundings into an innovative structure pointing towards future study and work life.

Yuan Ze University Buildings: Calatrava Taiwan

Yuan Ze University Buildings - Santiago Calatrava Taiwan

Yuan Ze University in Taiwan, affiliated with Far Eastern Group, one of Taiwan’s largest industrial conglomerates, has commissioned world-renowned architect, engineer and artist, Santiago Calatrava to design an ambitious new building complex for its campus.

Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University

Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University Building

Architecture firm Goettsch Partners (GP) has designed the signature building that will be the new home of Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music and provide additional space for the School of Communication on Northwestern’s Evanston campus. The university is planning to break ground and begin construction this spring.

Silesian University of Technology Lecture Halls

Silesian University of Technology Lecture Halls

The project of modernization and interior design of three lecture halls (A, B, C) at Silesian University of Technology, awarded with the 1st prize in the open architectural competition in 2007.

McGee Art Pavilion, School of Art & Design

The McGee Art Pavilion is an expansion to the School of Art and Design at the New York State College of Ceramics in Alfred, New York. The Pavilion is designed as a large ceramic vessel for holding art and light.