Architecture – RISD Academic Affairs

Yeadon’s Sketchbooks Acquired by CCA

Written on May 29, 2018. Posted in Architecture and Design.

The Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA) in Montréal has acquired the four Prix de Rome sketchbooks completed by Peter Yeadon (Professor, Interior Architecture) in 2000. The four books will be added to the CCA’s substantial archival holdings, which...

Schneider Publishes on Mass Timber

Written on May 29, 2018. Posted in Architecture and Design.

Brett Schneider (Assistant Professor, Architecture) published, The Art and Craft of Mass Timber, in the Spring/Summer issue of the Harvard Design Magazine titled, Into the Woods. The issue “treks into the woods to come to terms with its precarious...

Yeadon Wins London International Creative Award

Written on May 15, 2018. Posted in Architecture and Design.

Peter Yeadon (Professor, Interior Architecture) and two collaborators has just received an award at the 2017 London International Creative Competition. Thousands of submissions were reviewed by the jury, which awarded an Honorable Mention to Yeadon,...

Knowles and Students Selected as Finalists for Race-to-Zero

Written on May 1, 2018. Posted in Architecture and Design.

Jonathan Knowles (Professor, Architecture) and his students were selected as finalists in the U.S. Department of Energy, Race to Zero, student design competition. This semester, students in Knowles’ technology seminar used the Race to Zero competition...

Yeadon Project Published in Biomimicry Book

Written on April 17, 2018. Posted in Architecture and Design.

Peter Yeadon (Professor, Interior Architecture) was recently featured in a new book on biomimicry, entitled, Interdisciplinary Expansions in Engineering and Design with the Power of Biomimicry. The chapter, Biomimetic Facade Applications for a More...

RISD Architecture Wins ACSA Award for Southlight

Written on April 3, 2018. Posted in Architecture and Design.

The RISD Department of Architecture received the Collaborative Practice award for the Southlight project at the most recent annual meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). The Collaborative Practice award recognizes...

Yeadon Project Published in Lithuania

Written on April 3, 2018. Posted in Architecture and Design.

Peter Yeadon (Professor, Interior Architecture) was recently referenced in STRUCTUM, a Vilnius-based magazine that focuses on the built environment, which recently reviewed his research on an interactive facade system prototype. In the article entitled,...

Knowles, Techstyle Haus, at ACSA Annual Meeting

Written on March 20, 2018. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Architecture and Design.

Jonathan Knowles (Professor, Architecture) was invited to speak about the Techstyle Haus project during the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. The theme of the meeting was ‘The...

Yeadon Project Featured in Academic Paper

Written on March 20, 2018. Posted in Architecture and Design.

Peter Yeadon (Professor, Interior Architecture) was recently featured in the Institute of Physics (IOP) Materials Science and Engineering conference publication for 2017. Dr. Bogusawa Konarzewska (Gdańsk University of Technology) presented a research...

Yeadon Work Published by Japanese Researchers

Written on March 6, 2018. Posted in Architecture and Design.

Peter Yeadon (Professor, Interior Architecture) recently had his research prototype interactive facade system featured by two researchers at Sugiyama Jogakuen University in Nogoya, Japan, have published a paper in Architecture Research. In their article,...

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