The Architect's Newsletter

APRIL 11, 2023

Students and faculty at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) are expressing support for groundskeepers, movers, and custodial staff at the school picketing for fair wages.

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The Architect's Newsletter

APRIL 21, 2022

The post RISD exhibition <i>The Black Biennial</i> provides platform for Black experiences appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper. “1,097 visitors came to the opening night and more than one hundred visitors every day since then.” This information was provided to me during a conversation I had with two [.].

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The post Regional Plan Association and RISD reimagine NYC’s notorious Rikers Island as a green energy hub appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Archinect

MARCH 22, 2024

Beers credited his Fulbright program mentor Oscar Niemeyer and former RISD professor glass artist Dale Chihuly among his influences as he pursued an architecture that suffused fine art, luxury, and a highly-tuned sensibility for good design.

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Archinect

MARCH 30, 2022

A new face will lead one of the UK’s most prestigious design institutions after the announcement that RISD professor Amy Kulper will be the next Director of University College London’s The Bartlett School of Architecture. Her work as an academic has earned her the University of Michigan’s Donna M.

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Archinect

APRIL 13, 2023

“We express our unequivocal support for the custodians, groundskeepers, and movers currently on strike for a fair, decent wage at RISD,” a statement by the architecture department reads. We firmly believe that RISD must fairly compensate and support the people whose tireless labor makes our work fundamentally possible.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 6, 2023

” Princeton University School of Architecture Dean Monica Ponce de Leon follows Jover on October 23 , preceding a lecture from RISD ’s Jacqueline Shaw on November 13 to conclude the Fall term. The spring begins with Rice University Assistant Professor Maggie Tsang’s lecture on March 4 , followed by Felecia Davis on April.

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Archinect

APRIL 18, 2022

The College of Architecture and Design at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville has appointed RISD Associate Professor Carl Lostritto as its new Director.

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Archinect

MARCH 1, 2022

Previously on Archinect: RISD students are helping NASA develop its Artemis mission uniforms for 20 The selected projects cover three topics laid out in the solicitation: “Autonomous Construction,” in which The Colorado School of Mines will develop tools and me.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) associate director of the Center for Complexity Marissa Brown directed the Snowtown Project , which was born from another RISD course called Art and Design as Community Practice. The images are courtesy of RISD.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Ramon Tejada , assistant professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), is the recipient of the 2024 Vilcek Prize in Design. Noguera is a professor of industrial design at the Rochester Institute for Technology and earned his MA in Industrial Design from RISD.

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Bustler

MARCH 28, 2024

Santos (writer, artist, educator), Eric Telfort (department head, RISD Illustration ) and Clement Valla (associate professor, Experimental & Foundation Studies , Computation, Technology and Culture faculty coordinator). The symposium is free and open to the public.

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Architecture Here and There

JANUARY 4, 2023

Sadly, RISD has strayed from its mission. I hope to receive an email from someone at RISD saying that’s not true, and chastising me for not appreciating the extent to which RISD has been incorporating traditional elements into its teaching of aesthetics.). (I Maybe there is evidence here of a cause and an effect.

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Dwell

AUGUST 29, 2023

The recent RISD-graduate makes textiles that evoke barber shops, Miami, and the Carribbean diaspora. The 23-year-old designer recently finished a BFA at RISD. Jevon Brown is sitting in a backyard in Sacramento with a lot of possibilities to consider. When I got into textiles, it was a huge culture shift," he says.

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Dwell

AUGUST 29, 2023

Trained as a painter, Palazuelos switched to designing furniture, lighting, and tabletop objects shortly after finishing her undergraduate degree in painting at RISD. The peculiar, slightly disturbing container is part of a series called Soft Vessels by Mexico City designer Maika Palazuelos, who calls her studio Panorammma.

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Architecture Here and There

APRIL 3, 2023

Postcard of Waterman Building (1893), RISD’s first permanent edifice. RISD VR blog) Editor’s note: This is the second of several sections of the epilogue to Lost Providence, first published in 2017. To shape its guidance, RISD should touch base with its origins. Further sections are upcoming soon.

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Deezen

MARCH 30, 2022

Kulper, who is currently the head of architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design ( RISD ), will replace outgoing director Bob Shiel on 1 September 2022. Kulper's current job at RISD has seen her co-chair the ACSA national conference Black Box: Articulating Architecture's Core in the Post-Digital Era.

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Bustler

JUNE 8, 2022

2022 design submissions will be reviewed by: Anna Karlin , Ionna Vautrin , Ayako Takase (Observatory/RISD), & Carol Gay. Open to three categories: Manufactured, Professional and Student, the esteemed panel of judges will make their decisions based on a set evaluation ranging from aesthetics, marketability and innovation.

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BD+C

OCTOBER 17, 2018

It has been 30 years since the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) received a new student residence building, but that is about to change as Shawmut Design and Construction has recently broken ground on a new 43,500-sf residence hall on the Providence campus.

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Deezen

JUNE 10, 2022

The Bartlett is not the only architecture and design school to face allegations of racism with Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) recently introducing a series of initiatives to address the racism that it said had "pervaded systems and structures" at the school "for decades".

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Bustler

APRIL 23, 2023

Lily Auchincloss Rome Prize - Ajay Manthripragada ( Imbrex and Tegula ) Manthripragada currently teaches at the Harvard GSD and has taught at RISD , CalArts , and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in addition to his work as an independent practitioner.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Ozemba and Hung met while studying at RISD , and founded their brand in 2017 before debuting a range of handmade clay designs a year later. Components for In Common With's modular Up Down Sconce and Alien Orb Pendant are arranged by colour on the shelves. There's also a dedicated area for the team to prototype new products.

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Architecture Here and There

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

This would burnish Pawtucket’s reputation as an arts mecca, one-upping archrival Providence, which let the Rhode Island School of Design use “art” [with its RISD Art Museum addition] to attack the beauty of its host city. However it is used, the Read-Ott Mansion ought to be saved. To raze it would be shameful.

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Bustler

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

House on House" Alessandro Orsini and Nick Roseboro (Architensions) New York (NY) Friday, October 27th (12:30 ET) Moderator: Debbie Chen (US AD / RISD) 6. Ann's Warehouse" Jonathan Marvel (Marvel) New York, (NY) Friday, October 20th (12:30) Moderator: Gwen Fuertes (US AD / LMSa) 5.

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Deezen

JUNE 9, 2022

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) recently introduced a series of initiatives to address the racism that it said had "pervaded systems and structures" at the school "for decades". The photography is by Jack Hobhouse.

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2023

Will Choui Having trained at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Will Choui designs furniture that is based upon repeating sequences of two-dimensional geometries. Choui bends sheet materials into skeletal, unconventional forms, which he explains as "doing what they have to do and nothing else".

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A4 Architects

MAY 11, 2022

There are two National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) certified programs: Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Roger Williams University (RWU). Because of its age, compactness and rich resources of historic architecture it is not surprising that the state should have numerous schools of architecture.

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Architecture Here and There

MARCH 3, 2023

Superior Court on left, RISD College Edifice on right. Turning the pages of the several compilations of new waterfronts around the world, published over several decades by the Waterfront Center in Washington, D.C., one learns to appreciate the unique beauty of Providence’s new waterfront. Same view, circa 1940. Photographer unknown)

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The RISD mission as enunciated in its original by-laws was to foster “[t]he instruction of artisans in drawing, painting, modeling, and designing, that they may successfully apply the principles of Art to the requirements of trade and manufacture.” ” Wow!

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Architecture Here and There

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It is all the lovelier because it was taken before the rude modernist Rafael Moneo extension of the RISD Art Museum of 2008. At the end I have added a photo of College Hill, beyond Memorial Park, taken from downtown. Better lights for Providence. February 6, 2015.

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Architecture Here and There

APRIL 3, 2022

Architect Eric Daum recently passed along an illustration, above, done in 1910 by RISD president Huger Elliott. Illustration from 1910 for design competition of Cove Basin near new State House. It expressed how the area of Providence between the new State House and downtown might look in 1950 if it were designed in a classical style.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

JUNE 16, 2022

Blier was raised in coastal Maine, enrolled as a sculpture student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and later changed to landscape architecture, finally doing his MLA at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). Michael Blier, FASLA, at his Salem, Massachusetts, practice, Landworks Studio. Photo by Susannah Bothe.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Speaking to Dezeen at the River Cafe in London, Chesky, who graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), warned that history may be repeating itself as designers fail to embrace the potential of artificial intelligence (AI). I think AI can either displace a lot of creatives or it can empower a lot of creatives," he said. "As

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Architizer

APRIL 25, 2022

While pursuing his master’s degree at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Benjamin explored how different materials could be used in construction in new and exciting ways.

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Architecture Here and There

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Albany would be wise to replace Route 787 with a similarly traditional set of embellishments to the boulevard, parks and buildings it erects on the Hudson.

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The Architect's Newsletter

JANUARY 12, 2024

What happens when a classroom of fifth graders is offered the agency to ideate the design of their school?

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The Architect's Newsletter

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Crystal Williams, an educator, advocate, and award-winning poet and essayist, has been named the 18th President of the Rhode Island School of Design effective April 1, 2022. Williams, a graduate [.]. The post Crystal Williams named 18th president of the Rhode Island School of Design appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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