Archive for the 'Architects' Category

Save the Date - Lecture by award-winning Chicago architect Joseph Valerio, FAIA

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

Please join us for a lecture by Joseph Valerio, FAIA on January 23, 2008 in the Blume Earthquake Engineering Center at 6:00PM, Building 540, Room 108.

Spring Architectural Speaker Series

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

The Stanford University Architect and Campus Planning Office is hosting a Spring lecture series with a total of 4 Wed. eve speakers - all are free and open to the public. The following lectures begin at 6:30 pm and all are held in William R. Hewlett Teaching Center 201.

April 11 - Stan Boles, Architect, BOORA, Portland. www.boora.com

April 25 - Cheryl Barton, Landscape Architect, (SF). www.toocb.com

May 9 - Scott Erdy, Architect, Erdy McHenry Architecture, Philadelphia. www.em-arc.com

May 23- Scott Wyatt, Architect, NBBJ, Seattle. www.nbbj.com

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Cathedral of Christ The Light - under construction tour by CEE 130 students

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

CEE 130: Architectural Design: 3-D Modeling, Methodology, and Process students went on a hard hat tour of the Cathedral of Christ The Light in Oakland.

Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM) is the design firm, and Craig Hartman is the design architect. Two other architects working extensively on this project -Eric Keune and David Diamond-gave us an overview powerpoint of the project and a tour of the site.

See the photos! flickr

Art History Department Presents Lecture by Joshua Prince-Ramus

Friday, January 19th, 2007

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

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

Friday, December 1st, 2006
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WINTER QUARTER- NEW INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

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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.

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Tour the Frank Lloyd Wright Hanna House

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

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A special tour of the Hanna House has been arranged for Patti’s soph seminar class and she would like to extend an invitation to all of you. The tour will be Friday, 10/27, 12-1.

Carpooling available from Tresidder parking lot leaving about 11:50 or meet us there. Let Patti know if you need a ride.
The address is 737 Frenchmans Road. Basically, Lomita to Mayfield to Frenchmans Rd.

The Hanna House, sometimes called the “honeycomb house” is considered one of the masterworks of twentieth-century architecture.