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Michael Kilkelly received his Bachelor of Architecture from Norwich University in 1995. Following graduation, Michael joined The S/L/A/M Collaborative in Glastonbury, Connecticut where he was responsible for the design and technical coordination of several healthcare and residential projects. Michael continued his education at the MIT, where he received a Master of Science in Architecture Studies with a concentration in Design and Computation in 1999. Michael has worked for a number of Boston area architecture and design firms, including Martha Schwartz Inc, Edificium and ADD Inc. He has also taught architectural design at The Boston Architectural College, Wentworth Institute of Technology and Northeastern University. Michael joined Gehry Partners in 2005, bringing over ten years of experience in project design, construction documentation and design technology management. Since joining the firm, he has worked on a diverse range of projects including sporting arenas, residential towers and performance halls. Michael was named an Associate of the firm in 2007 and is currently leading an effort to streamline the firm's 2D and 3D documentation methodologies. ]]>
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Despite waiting in line for up to an hour in 40˚ temperatures and unending rain, the students held out and saw every house. The Solar Decathlon gets better every year, and is a testament to public enthusiasm for modern architecture and renewable energy. Special thanks to faculty and students of Virginia Tech for giving us a private tour of the LumenHaus; it was a highlight of our weekend Decathlon experience and was very inspiring. To find out more about the LumenHaus and the Solar Decathlon click here.
see more of the union station bike shopAmong other things visited in D.C. was the new Union Station Bicycle Depot, designed by KPG Design Studio. This new public facility is a jewel among jewels in the Nations Capitol. With an estimated $4 million construction cost (including site work), the bike depot uses three curved structural tubes with a laminated glass skin as an enclosure system. It’s passively heated and cooled and offers bike commuters a secure, dry place to store their bike while using the D.C. metro.
See More Plaster CastsPremise: An architect must have the ability to simultaneously record the physical facts and interpret the emotive qualities of a site. This exercise is a vehicle to explore ways to translate both the physical and metaphysical qualities of a place into the development of a new object.
Click Here to see all the portaitsThe drawings were required to be at least 5 feet in one direction and the images used were photographs that were exchanged, and taken, by students in the class. The media used to complete the drawings were chosen by the students and range from Birch plywood, fabric, foam core, museum board, and brown roofing paper.]]>
CASE DesignSteve Sanderson, founding partner of CASE Design will lecture in Chaplin Hall on October 9, at 4pm. Prior to CASE, Steve was the Director of Design Technology at SHoP Architects. At SHoP, he was a project lead on numerous high-profile international projects including: the East River Waterfront Masterplan for the City of New York, a new pedestrian bridge for the Battery Park City Authority, a commercial development for the Olympic Games in Beijing, China and a proposal for twin residential towers in Busan, South Korea. As Director of Design Technology, Steve was responsible for introducing Parametric Modeling, Computational Design, and Environmental Analysis into SHoP’s design and delivery process, establishing the firm as an industry thought leader. He has taught design studios and seminars at Columbia University’s GSAPP and Yale University’s School of Architecture and speaks internationally on the role of technology in design innovation. Steve holds a BS (Hons) in Industrial Design from Virginia Tech and an ME in Product-Architecture and Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology.
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Peter Peter Gisolfi will lecture in the Chaplin Hall Gallery on October 2 at 4pm.
Gisolfi is an architect, landscape architect, and teacher whose built work reconciles the influences of context and program. His concern for the relationship of architecture to its setting translates into graceful connections between buildings and landscapes. His analytical approach to design was inspired by studies in music theory and composition as an undergraduate at Yale, and his graduate training in architecture and landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Gisolfi founded the firm of Peter Gisolfi Associates, architects, landscape architects, and interior architects, in 1976 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. He is principal-in-charge of design. He is also a Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the City University of New York, where he is Chairman of the School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture. He was previously an Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University for 12 years. The work of Peter Gisolfi Associates has received many design awards and has been featured in national magazines, newspapers and numerous books.
In his new book Finding the Place of Architecture in the Landscape, Peter Gisolfi asserts that the most successful architecture relates clearly to setting – to landscape. Landscape can be “natural,” “vernacular,” or “designed,” but it is the basis for all architectural and landscape architectural endeavors. The book examines 40 of the firm’s projects, large and small, with site plans, building plans, renderings, and photographs. Unlike traditional monographs which are organized by project types, Mr. Gisolfi has chosen to organize the book by settings, based on the types of landscapes encountered:
• Townscape is the landscape of cities, towns, and villages.
• Campus addresses the interdependence between buildings and open space that creates a composite designed place, a designed landscape.
• Landscapes and Buildings addresses exurban settings, open green landscapes – designed, vernacular, or natural.
• Gardens and Houses embraces the Italian villa idea and the Romantic landscape tradition.
• Transformation is the adventure of changing a building or a designed landscape that already exists.
“His buildings adjust their style to the place, always unemphatically enhancing the landscape and disciplined by it. This book is filled with examples of the shaping of places, the physical development of architecture’s holistic realm.”
- from the Introduction by Vincent J. Scully, Jr.
Peter Gisolfi’s lecture will explain the settings described in the book and will illustrate them with examples. In addition, he will discuss recent sustainable projects based on the same ideas.
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Zip Car Dispenser ;)
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September 16 at 4:00pm, Chaplin Hall Gallery
The prototype parking structure modeled on a giant PEZ dispenser doles out cars in lieu of candy. The tower will maximize Zipcar's presence in the city, providing a recognizable corporate symbol for the emerging car company in underutilized residual urban spaces. The project won a Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Design Award.
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