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Library Ideas discussed - What is a library?

A holding area/storage
Dispensing of information
Digital technology and ease of use
Apple Store model
Children's area with LeapFrog
A quiet place to study
Public accessibility
Free WIFI
Free Workshop
Meeting area
Experiential
Download
Competition
Types of libraries (Film, Music, etc.)
Define needs of a community
Form can define content
FREE
Nice interior design
A comfortable place
A safe place
Organized
Encourages studying
Adaptive and flexible for the rapid evolution of technology

Please add more to this list.

Next Week December 2nd:  Please bring inmore ideas of what a library should be and provide a location for our REHAB project.  Post your ideas to the blog.

Hearst Tower

Landscape

Treehotel

The UFO is one of the rooms available at the Treehotel in Harads, Sweden.

Link to Treehotel website

Deep Sea Hotel

Cool thing.

Habitat 67.

Began as a thesis for modern-style living. In Montreal. Designed for Canada's World's Fair.

First Meeting Activity

The Sphere Exercise -
Team 8 was broken up into five groups. Each team member worked together for the first time to design a armature that would suspend a 6 inch sphere at least 3 inches off the ground by using up to 15 sheets of 8 1/2" x 11" size paper and Scotch Tape. Each team had 60 minutes to design and construct their structure. As time concluded, each team selected a Team Representative to present their finish product. In addition to presenting how the design evolved each team was required to describe what the intend use of the design would be.

NICE WORK EVERYONE!

Here are some photos of the teams in action:

Center for Architecture Event on 11/16

 

Architecture Students

Please See the Event Information Below

 

This event is for students interested in applying to one of the many accredited architecture programs in NYS.  This event will take place at

The Center for Architecture

located at

536 LaGuardia Place

NY, NY 10012

(212) 683-0023

 

Admission is FREE!!

 

 

 

 

Sat 11.16.2013

When: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16

Where: At The Center

The Center for Architecture’s ninth annual architecture schools exhibition showcases exemplary student work from 14 New York area schools: The City College of New York, Columbia University, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Cornell University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New York Institute of Technology, Parsons the New School for Design, Pratt Institute, Princeton University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Syracuse University, State University of New York at Buffalo, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University. Join us to hear the school of architecture Deans discuss current directions in architectural education.

Architectural education is the last remaining form of synthetic and self-generative pedagogical processes we have in higher education, meaning that students are asked to generate rather than regurgitate knowledge. How is this core strength vital to the future of the city?
The process requires the integration of large quantities of information into realized designs. What skills and thought processes will the architects of the future need to contend with broad questions of useful buildings, environmental degradation, economic stagnation, and social inequity? How are we educating our students to think critically about the future of the city and the buildings which define it habitability and value?
Due to architectural education’s self-generative process, it is essential that we teach students to be responsible for the work they produce. The current spate of articles appearing in newspapers and journals points to an absence of professional responsibility in the field. How do we teach our students to be financially responsible for their clients’ budget and to be better stewards of the existing context by not designing estranged iconic objects? How does this relate to the life cycle of buildings and sustainability?

Speakers:
George Ranalli, AIA, Dean, The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, Ciity College of the City University of New York
Elizabeth O’Donnell, AIA, Acting Dean, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Archive, The Cooper Union
Judith DiMaio, AIA, Dean, School of Architecture and Design, New York Institute of Technology
Urs P. Gauchat, Hon. AIA, Dean, College of Architecture and Design, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Brian McGrath, AIA, Research Chair in Urban Design at the School of Constructed Environments, Parsons The New School for Design
Tom Hanrahan, AIA, Dean, School of Architecture, Pratt Institute
Kent Kleinman, AIA, Dean, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cornell University
Evan Douglis, Dean, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Robert Shibley, FAIA, Dean, School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Robert A. M. Stern, FAIA Dean, School of Architecture, Yale University
Winka Dubbeldam, Assoc. AIA, Chairman of Architecture, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Speaks, Dean, School of Architecture, Syracuse University
Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Dean, School of Architecture, Princeton University

Moderator: Vishaan Chakrabarti, Director of Columbia University’s Center for Urban Real Estate (CURE), and Partner at SHoP Architects.

Price: free

This exhibition was made by possible by the generous support of the following sponsor:


Arch Schools 2013 is on view from November 16, 2013 - March 22, 2014. Exhibition and related programs are organized by the AIA New York Chapter in partnership with the Center for Architecture Foundation