POSTED 02.02.2010
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POSTED 12.04.2009
MICHAEL GRAVES (FAIA) AWARDED
AIA/ACSA TOPAZ MEDALLION
The Board of The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) named Michael Graves, FAIA, as 2010 recipient of the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education.
POSTED 09.10.2009
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POSTED 08.12.2009
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE FACULTY POSITION AVAILABLE
The School of Architecture at Princeton University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in the area of the history and theory of architecture. Candidates must demonstrate their qualifications to teach and advise both undergraduate (A.B.) and graduate (M.Arch. and Ph.D.) students, as well as their scholarly contributions and standing in the field. In particular, candidates must demonstrate a capacity to act as an adviser to Ph.D. students working on topics related to their area of scholarship. The successful candidate will hold a Ph.D. in architecture or a related field. A record of teaching lecture and seminar courses, including the history and theory of architecture, urbanism or building technology is required. It is expected that the successful candidate will also actively participate in the design curriculum through design reviews, at the undergraduate and graduate levels, beyond their normal course offerings. The position will begin in the fall term of 2010 or spring term of 2011.
Please apply online at http://jobs.princeton.edu. Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2009 and will continue until the position is filled. (Note: only electronic submissions will be accepted.)
Princeton University is an equal opportunity employer and complies with applicable EEO and affirmative action regulations.
ACADEMIC CALENDAR 2009-10
SPRING TERM
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10
LECTURE SERIES: ENVELOPE CONVERSATIONS
6 pm, Betts Auditorium
BORDERS: A conversation about envelopes in their roles as both physical boundaries and as heuristic devices that can be applied in a broader discussion of political ecology of borders, divisions, and other such relationships of mediation.
- Richard Sennett, Professor, Department of Sociology, New York University and London School of Economics
- Eyal Weizman, Architect; Director, Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College, London
- Teddy Cruz, Professor in Public Culture, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego
- Gerald E. Frug, Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law, Harvard University
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25
LECTURE SERIES: ENVELOPE CONVERSATIONS
6 pm, Betts Auditorium
ATTACHMENTS: A discussion of the forces and ideas, tangible and intangible, which give the envelope its shape, with an emphasis on understanding the envelope as a limit, delineation, or definition and hence on the problems encountered in both modeling the envelope as an object and in understanding the envelope itself as a kind of model of its attachments.
- Bruno Latour, Professor and Vice-President for Research, Sciences Po, Paris
- Greg Lynn, Principal of Greg Lynn FORM ; o.Univ. Prof. Arch., University of Applied Arts, Vienna; Professor, UCLA
- Axel Kilian, Assistant Professor, Princeton University School of Architecture
- Dr. Albena Yaneva, Manchester Architecture Research Centre (MARC), University of Manchester
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MONDAY, MARCH 8 - FRIDAY, MARCH 12
Midterm Exams
SATURDAY, MARCH 13 - SUNDAY, MARCH 21
Spring Recess
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24
LECTURE SERIES: ENVELOPE CONVERSATIONS
6 pm, Betts Auditorium
GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES: A discussion of the technical aspects of envelope design, assembly, and operation, emphasizing the envelope's performance as an environmental membrane and the cultural implications of the varied performances demanded from envelopes deployed around the globe.
- Matthias Schuler, Engineer and CEO , Transsolar, Stuttgart; Adjunct Professor of Environmental Technologies, GSD , Harvard University
- Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
- Marc Simmons, Partner, Front, Inc. New York; Lecturer, Princeton University School of Architecture
- Ulrich Knaack, Engineer, Co-founder, Imagine Envelope, The Hague
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MONDAY, MARCH 29
LECTURE SERIES: ENVELOPE CONVERSATIONS
6 pm, Betts Auditorium
ENVELOPES: An examination of the building envelope as an architectural element that brings together technical, cultural and political issues, aimed at its contemporary definition and location within architecture and design practices. Participants expected to include architectural historians, critics, and practicing architects whose practice emphasizes surface.
- Jeffrey Kipnis, Professor, Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State; Visiting Professor, Princeton University School of Architecture
- Jesse Reiser, Associate Professor, Princeton University School of Architecture; Principal, Reiser + Umemoto RUR Architecture P.C., New York
- Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Visiting Professor, Princeton University School of Architecture; Partner, Foreign Office Architects, London
- Ben van Berkel, Principal, UNStudio, Amsterdam
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7
LECTURE SERIES: ENVELOPE CONVERSATIONS
6 pm, Betts Auditorium
BRANDING/IDENTITY: An exploration of the envelope as a site where identities are constructed and an investigation into the modes of experience through which these identities are disseminated and absorbed.
- Peter Arnell, Founder and CEO, The Arnell Group, New York
- Thom Mayne, Morphosis, Santa Monica, CA
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MONDAY, APRIL 12
Spring 2010 Open House
OPEN HOUSE LECTURE: MUSAC OUTTAKES
Luis Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón, Partners, Mansilla+Tuñón Arquitectos, Madrid
6 pm, Betts Auditorium
MONDAY, APRIL 19
2010 KASSLER LECTURE: UGLY IN AMERICA
Dave Hickey, Free-lance writer of fiction and cultural criticism; Professor of Modern Letters, University of Nevada Las Vegas
6 pm, Betts Auditorium
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21
LECTURE SERIES: ENVELOPE CONVERSATIONS
6 pm, Betts Auditorium
FACIALITY: A conversation focusing on the envelope as exteriority, and in possibilities opened by such a condition, which range from the creation of objects without interiors to reframing problems of political identity and relationships - for example the Cosmopolitan - in terms of pure surface.
- Jeff Koons, Artist, New York
- Sylvia Lavin, Director of Critical Studies and MA /PhD Programs and Professor of Architectural History and Theory at UCLA
- Elizabeth Diller, Architect, Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, New York; Professor, Princeton University School of Architecture
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MONDAY, MAY 3 - TUESDAY, MAY 11
Reading Period
TUESDAY, MAY 11
Dean's Date
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12 - SATURDAY, MAY 22
Spring Term Exams
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12 - TUESDAY, MAY 13
Senior Departmental Exams
SUNDAY, MAY 30
Baccalaureate Sunday
MONDAY, MAY 31
Class Day
Architecture Awards Ceremony, 2:30 pm, Betts Auditorium
Hooding Ceremony for Graduate Students, 5 pm, McCarter Theater
TUESDAY, JUNE 1
Commencement Day