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.

Check out the student work produced for Fall 2007’s session of CEE31 - Accessing Architecture Through Drawing.

Flickr.

A student initiated class hosted by the Architectural Design Program adds Stanford’s campus to Google’s geographic information feature: Google Earth. http://aucompetition.sketchup.com/images/stanford.jpg

The course led by Joseph Bergen and Steven Lehrburger focused on a competition hosted by Google to “Build Your Campus in 3D.” John Barton, a lecturer in architecture, graciously volunteered to be the faculty adviser for this course and was instrumental in guiding the team. In addition to Lehrburger and Bergen, Stanford’s winning team included Anh Tran, Alexia Nielsen, Nthando Thandiwe, Joachim De Lombaert, Ellis Lau, Brian Truebe, Preston Rutherford and Daniel MacDougall.

About 300 teams took part within the United States and Canada. There were seven winning teams. To view Stanford’s entry locate the Stanford campus on Google Earth and then click on the “3-D buildings” button. If you do not have Google Earth,you can see aerial views of the models by going to Google’s “3D Warehouse” website and searching for the Stanford University collection.

For a complete article on this competition click the Stanford Report Link.
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/august22/google-082207.html