Architectural Design @ Stanford

There are three very special courses coming this spring. One is our CEE 137B Intermediate Studio (required for the major) which will be taught by a team of engineers and architects from Skidmore Owings and Merrill, SF.

Three others count as electives.

If you want to put your computer modeling skills in high gear take advantage of our new CEE 135A Parametrics course which will not only introduce you to the software used by Gehry Technologies, but also features use of the PRL Product Realization Lab with its rapid prototyping and laser cutting technologies!!!

If you want to learn more about professional job opportunities in a wide variety of disciplines related to the built environment check out CEE 131A Introduction to the Design Professions which will host a wide variety of outside speakers- meets once a week- a two unit course.

And our portfolio course CEE 139 finds a new course time Tues. 5:15-6:15 and will now be 2 units. John Barton is teaching this,and we anticipate extra outside architects will be coming in to overview and make suggestions with regard to your portfolios.

This new post shares portfolios of students continuing to graduate studies in architecture. We think it will be of interest for those developing their portfolios to see the portfolios that assisted these students in getting into the schools of their choice.

Marcela Delgado who graduated in 2005-06, applied to a number of graduate schools of architecture in 2006-07. She has been accepted at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Berkeley, and the University of Texas. To see her portfolio click here. (pdf)
Joseph Bergen who is graduating this year (2006-07) was accepted at Harvard and Yale. To see his portfolio click here.

Photos of CEE 137a’s 1/4″ study models of buildings from selected architects. Flickr

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.

Every Tuesday night from 7-10pm there is an open life drawing session at the Palo Alto Art Center. There is a $5 fee for the evening. This is a great opportunity to exercise your drawing arm at a very reasonable cost.

Thanks to Liz for the heads up