Hardhat Tour of the Contemporary Jewish Museum!

Majors, join us for fieldtrip to the Contemporary Jewish Museum by Daniel Libeskind where there will be an informal presentation by the project architect George Klumb followed by a hard hattour of the construction site.

When: Friday, February 9 at 2:30PM. We will be meeting at 1pm at the SFMoMA Café for lunch.
Where: 121 Steuart St., San Francisco (map). We plan on carpooling, so indicate if you can drive and how many seats you have available in your RSVP.

Why: Come spend Friday afternoon learning about an exciting contemporary construction project in progress. Come early and have lunch with your fellow Architectural Design and CEE majors in San Francisco. All sponsored by the Department.

RSVP to reserve a space on the tour and please indicate your interest in attending lunch before the tour.

We have reached capacity for this trip. Thanks to all those that RSVPd

Special Thanks: to Professor John Loomis, Patti Walters, Lorraine Potter, and students for helping coordinate this special event.

Art History Department Presents Lecture by Joshua Prince-Ramus

Joshua Prince-Ramus was the partner-in-charge of the celebrated Seattle Central Library, when he was the head of the New York outpost of the (OMA) Office for Metropolitan Architecture. OMA is the architecture firm founded by Rem Koolhaas. Check out this video clip of Joshua discussing the Seattle Central Library:



Tuesday, March 6, 7PM, Cummings Art Building - Room Art 2

Prince-Ramus has since separated from OMA, using its existing New York office to establish a new venture in partnership with another former OMA architect Erez Ella. OMA’s two offices were already legally and physically separated, and a minority of the architects in New York had experience in the Rotterdam office. “At some point, we took stock and realized that we were better off being two offices that collaborated when it was mutually beneficial,” says Prince-Ramus. The new firm will be known as REX, or Ramus Ella Architects.
In the split, REX will continue working on a performing arts center in Dallas (see photo above), a multi-disciplinary building at CalTech, and a mixed-use development in Louisville, Ky. Meanwhile a campus building at CalTech will be run by OMA. The two firms will continue to collaborate on current and future projects.

Grad Spotlight - Arch Design 05-06- Marcela Delgado

left to right, Marcela Delgado, Julia Hu, and Lauren Schneider- our first architectural design grads 05-06

Marcela Delgado, one of our first three graduates in Architectural Design (05-06) has just recently brought us up to date on what she has been doing since graduation.

This last November, she located a position as an Intern Architect with HKS
in Dallas. Marcela tells us that HKS has a broad based practice which includes among other projects - institutional, healthcare and sports facilities. www.hksinc.com

Meanwhile, prior to her new position, she had been hard at work polishing her portfolio, taking the GRE’s, and applying to the following graduate architecture schools: Harvard, Berkeley, Yale, Columbia, University of Texas, University of Virginia, and Princeton. As of March 20, 2007, Marcela has been accepted to master’s degree programs in architecture at Harvard, Berkeley, Yale, Columbia, and University of Texas.

I requested that Marcela allow us to post her portfolio, and she has just sent her gracious permission. I felt that viewing her portfolio might be beneficial to all of you with that task ahead.

Click to download Marcela’s Portfolio (pdf)

Many thanks to her for allowing us to post her portfolio! Btw, Marcela begins studies at Harvard GSD fall 07.

Final Critique Photos (31Q & CEE134a)

Final reviews- Sophomore drawing class- CEE 31Q
Originally uploaded by Stanford Architecture

Here are two photosets of the final critiques for Patti Walters’s Accessing Architecture Through Drawing and John Barton’s Site and Space.
(Click the images to open the photoset)

Happy New Years!

Happy New Years to everyone and congratulations for a quarter well done. I look forward to a great 2007. Keep your eyes on the blog for upcoming events and information. Enjoy the rest of break!

-joseph

ARCHITECTURE AT STANFORD

School of Engineering/

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
www.stanford.edu/dept/archdesign/, AND http://www.stanford.edu/dept/archdesign/cgi-bin/blog/


The Architectural Design Major… features architecture design studios that provide a unique learning experience for students from many disciplines. Majors can also try an internship in an architectural firm for credit.

Studio Courses for Winter 2006-07:

CEE 130: Architectural Design, TTh 3:15-5:05

CEE 137A: Form and Structure, MW 4:15-6:05

CEE 31: Accessing Architecture Through Drawing, TTh 1:15-3:05



See also http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/november9/arch-110905.html

After a long absence, a fully-fledged program in architecture has returned to Stanford. The increasingly popular Architectural Design Program, which was officially launched in November 2004, had 13 majors within the first five months. In June 2006, a pioneering group of three graduates received the first BS in Engineering degrees with a field of study of Architectural Design. Ten seniors are expected to graduate from the Program in June 2007. Currently, the Program has 26 majors, and it is still growing.

One of the key themes of the new program is sustainability. Students learn to develop solutions that integrate the diverse elements that sustainability demands. Through coursework and independent projects, students become familiar with central ideas linked to energy systems, ecologically friendly building materials, water conservation, and indoor air quality. The emphasis on green architecture is also manifested in the new Green Dorm, a proposed Stanford dormitory that students themselves are helping to design. Central to design for sustainability is software that will be available in the new studio as well as other accessible computer clusters.

The increased interest that students have in taking architecture studio classes has led to a need for increased studio space, and this will be accommodated in the proposed Energy and Environment Building (slated for completion Dec. 2007). The Program has plans to respond to student needs by creating a complex of spaces to house a new design studio as well as communal work spaces to be shared by architecture students and students specializing in structural engineering and construction management. The integration of architecture, structures and construction is central to the vision of the new program, as is the concept of having Stanford architecture students immersed in path breaking green architecture practices.

GUEST ARCHITECTS TEACHING A STUDIO THIS WINTER QUARTER 06-07!!!!

WINTER QUARTER- NEW INTERMEDIATE LEVEL


ARCHITECTURE STUDIO

CEE 137A: FORM AND STRUCTURE, MW, 4:15-6:05,
(4 units), Terman 101, Haesloop and Hastrup

Prerequisites- CEE 31(Q) and CEE 130

This studio concentrates on a building of intermediate complexity. The focus of the class is on the articulation and integration of structure, form, site, and program. Special attention is given to the development of a schematic design in the context of site topography and structural systems.

• Eric Haesloop is a principal of Turnbull Griffin Haesloop, a San Francisco based architecture firm. Turnbull Griffin Haesloop is a firm concerned with establishing a “sense of place” inspired specifically by each individual site and client. A graduate of Yale School of Architecture, Eric is a LEED accredited professional and has extensive design experience in the Bay Area.
• Stefan Hastrup is an associate at Turnbull Griffin Haesloop, a Berkeley based architecture firm. A graduate of Yale School of Design, Stefan also has extensive design experience in the Bay Area including the Visual Arts Museum and Performance Forum at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, and the renovation and expansion of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts on the Stanford Campus.