Friday, October 26, 2012
Installation designs commended for ability to inspire while generating renewable power for thousands of homes around the world
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Friday, October 26, 2012
Two teams of Georgia Tech School of Architecture students were recently selected as the first and third prizewinners in the prominent Land Art Generator competition for public art installations in New York’s expansive Freshkills Park. “Scene-Sensor” by James Murray and Shota Vashakmadze captured first place and a handsome $15,000 prize, while “Pivot” by Vermouth (Vee) Hu and Ben Smith (currently a graduate student at Yale University) finished third. Hundreds of entrants—professional and student design teams from around the world—submitted their designs for a site-specific public artwork that, in addition to its conceptual beauty, had to harness energy cleanly from nature and convert it to electricity for the utility grid. Organized by the …
Thursday, October 4, 2012
“Drawing is an obsession; my mind can never stop doing it,” Adjaye, who designed the $500 million National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., tells students on campus Wednesday.
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
By Vett Vandiver Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture welcomed internationally recognized architect David Adjaye to campus on Wednesday for an afternoon question-and-answer session. The student-initiated organization gray_matter(s) hosted the famous architect. Adjaye, who designed the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American Culture and History, which will open in Washington, D.C. in 2015, discussed his current and future projects, while offering advice and sharing his thoughts on architecture. “I’m always designing for the future, but through the lens of the present,” Adjaye said. Adjaye was asked to quickly design an original sketch on a notepad. “Drawing is an obsession; my mind can never stop doing it,” he said …
Sunday, August 12, 2012
During his tenure, Alan Balfour reorganized the College of Architecture into five schools: Music, Industrial Design, City and Regional Planning, Building Construction and Architecture, greatly enhancing the visibility and distinct character of each.
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Sunday, August 12, 2012
Alan Balfour, dean of Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture since 2008, has announced his intention not to seek reappointment to that position. Balfour will return to the Georgia Tech faculty as a professor in the School of Architecture upon concluding his tenure as dean, effective June 30, 2013. “Georgia Tech has benefited greatly from Dean Balfour’s bold vision for education and research in the built environment as well as in music and the arts,” Rafael L. Bras, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs at Georgia Tech, . “His leadership has propelled the College of Architecture to new levels of excellence and reconfirmed Georgia Tech as a center of cultural and creative activity in the region, the nation and the world…
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Award established with intention of encouraging students to develop a holistic design approach that ties the big idea to the small detail
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The well-received documentary, “John Portman: A Life of Building,” recently was screened at the Atlanta Film Festival and on May 23 will air on Georgia Public Broadcasting. Forgoing a traditional narrator, “John Portman: A Life of Building” relies on interviews with architecture and art critics, business associates and Portman himself to tell the story of the remarkable career of the acclaimed Atlanta architect. In other Portman-related news, the 2012 Portman Prize Competition, established by John Portman & Associates (PORTMAN), has been awarded to Marion Filliatre, a first-year student in the Master of Architecture (M. Arch) program at Georgia Institute of Technology’s (Georgia Tech) School of Architecture. Filliatre received first place …
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Architect Peter Polites discusses his influences, including the Beatles, as he prepares a solo show of his paintings opening Oct. 4.
Peter Polites claims he’s not fun at parties, but judge for yourself. He was a folk singer in the '60s, he’s an accomplished architect and he has a solo exhibit of paintings opening Oct. 4 at the Millennium Gate Museum in Midtown Atlanta. That'll sustain a conversation through a few drinks and hors d’ouvres, right? His painting reached a new level, he said, while working as the architect for the $10 million Newington Cropsey Museum in New York. “I had the rare opportunity to closely study masterpieces by the Hudson River School painters, especially Jasper Cropsey,” Polites remarked in a release. Despite his architectural background, his paintings are entirely of natural subjects, stormy skies, beaches, and warm sunrises. WAVES: New …
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Bill Palmer
9:25 am on Saturday, October 27, 2012
Great creativity both in the esthetic and ecology realms. Just one question....the electric capacity is stated as 5500 megawatt-hours. But megawatt-hours is not a "power" measurement, it is an "energy" parameter. Over what period of time (e.g., 1 hour, 1 day, 1 year, etc) is that amount of energy produced? Thanks. Bill Palmer more ›