The University of Miami School of Architecture presents its 2018 - 2019 Lecture Series, sponsored by Tecnoglass. This year's theme, Impact, explores practices and works that have a significant effect on the built environment, whether with large infrastructural interventions or small but potentially transformative contributions. The series contains lecturers from around the world including:
09/19 J.Meejin Yoon Höweler + Yoon 10/03 Livia Tani Ateliers Jean Nouvel 10/24 Lars Lerup Rice University 10/31 Lyndon Neri Neri & Hu Design & Research 01/30 Michael Maltzan Michael Maltzan Architecture (MMA) 02/20 Lisa Iwamoto IwamotoScott Architecture 03/06 Jürgen Mayer H. J. Mayer H. Architecture Design Research 03/27 Fernando Romero fr-ee
The University of Miami School of Architecture presents its 2017 - 2018 Lecture Series, sponsored by Tecnoglass. This year's theme, Housing, builds upon last year's theme, Water, as topics that are currently affecting the way we look at the city of Miami. The series contains lecturers from... View full entry
“Cities are man’s greatest achievements, and also man’s deadliest inventions”, stated Kunlé Adeyemi in his evening lecture at the University of Miami School of Architecture. The Nigerian born, Netherlands based architect was on hand addressing a full house as part of the... View full entry
March 30th marked the second annual U-Serve event at the University of Miami School of Architecture. U-Serve began in 2015 as an effort for the UMSoA to give back to the community. The inaugural U-Serve involved a smartphone-driven architectural inventory of East Little Havana, with about... View full entry
In a previous post, I wrote about a new focus of embedded technologies but today I got to see the work first hand in action. My colleague Dr. Juhong Park who leads the digital design initiatives at the school invited me to take part in his upper level studio's final review. The goal of the... View full entry
Last Halloween I was introduced to Wintercroft Masks; low-poly masks made from recycled paper products created by designer Steve Wintercroft. His designs are abstractions of animals, human faces, mythical creatures and others which are turned into geometric disguises. Designs are purchased in... View full entry
Yesterday marked the ground breaking ceremony for a new building on the University of Miami School of Architecture campus. This will be the first new building in the past ten years, and plans to hold larger studio spaces, review spaces, student lounge, and a new state of the art digital... View full entry
In 2013 Rodolphe el-Khoury gave a lecture at TEDxToronto where he discussed the relevance of embedded technology and architecture and dubbed it “The Internet of Things”. Now entering his second year as the Dean of the University Of Miami School Of Architecture, el-Khoury is implementing new... View full entry
This past Wednesday, Enrique Norten of TEN Arquitectos kicked off the lecture series season at the University Of Miami School Of Architecture. Once again sponsored by Tecnoglass, this year's focus is on Miami and the Tropical World. Dean Rodolphe el-Khoury explains to the audience that... View full entry
A new year is upon us here at the University of Miami School of Architecture, and to start things off, Patrik Schumacher is the first on the list for this year's UMSoA Currents lecture series. UMSoA Currents is a forum for the diversity of voices and interests in the field. Previous... View full entry
For the first time, that at least I can remember or have known, the University of Miami School of Architecture held its Upper Level Reviews and Graduate Thesis Reviews off campus to the Miami Design District. Occupying the historic Moore Building, reviews were spread out over a two day period... View full entry
Final reviews began this week here at the SoA. Mine just finished, and here is the evidence, or I should say "Aftermath" of a long, but successful semester. More photos to come later. View full entry
The Tecnoglass Lecture Series, “Call to Order”, continued this Wednesday with a presentation by local Miami architecture firm R & R Studio. The studio is helmed by husband and wife team Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt, and operates a small but influential practice near Miami’s... View full entry
This week Bernard Khoury gave a lecture at the University of Miami School of Architecture as part of their ‘Currents’ lecture series. ‘Currents’ casts a wide net of different speakers with varying topics, but usually focused on work being done in the present. Dean Rodolphe el-Khoury... View full entry
The University of Miami School of Architecture has had a long standing tradition of community engagement. Design studios have often revolved around a local focus or need in several of Miami’s impoverished neighborhoods such as Homestead, The West Grove, Allapattah, and Opa-Locka. Although... View full entry
You may have wondered what our background image in our blog page might have been. Obviously the topography and material give away that it is clearly a model of some kind. This photograph is just a sample of one of the several models students here at the UMSoA have been constructing for an... View full entry
Happy hump day everyone! I have the pleasure to announce that local construction company, Coastal Construction, is supporting the University of Miami School of Architecture by pledging $3.5 million to construct a state-of-the-art design studio. The new building, currently being hailed as the... View full entry
Photo by Brillhart Architecture - Model ShopIt's easy to forget that blog posts tend to be informal opinion based writing pieces that sometimes edge closely to the realm of narcissism. If this were a crime, I would most definitely be guilty. True, most of the work you find here on this blog is... View full entry
Directed by Seiji Anderson
For those that have been following the story so far, this blog was meant to chronicle just one first year graduate student class. Originally, the purpose was to highlight ways of communication and problem solving in a visual media. It has expanded to this professor's take on life at the School... View full entry
The University of Miami School of Architecture continues its lecture series, "A Call to Order" this Spring. This series is made possible in part from TECNOGLASS, whose mission is glass transformation and distribution through high manufacturing technology, completely satisfying and fulfilling our... View full entry
I've been reporting on various activities occurring on campus, one of which being the progress of the Design/Build Studio. The 5th installation developed by the School of Architecture is now complete and ready for use. Last week was the "soft opening", and it is now installed in the school's... View full entry
(This is only a fraction of the work from the semester long project)This semester has drawn to a close, with the final review happening yesterday afternoon. Over the course of the semester, the students were engaged in masqueraded mini-design exercises that secretly showed them how to draw... View full entry
(Large Strandbeest used in demonstrations)This year marked the 13th edition of ArtBasel Miami Beach. One of the great things about being in Miami during the "winter", is that the city explodes into a frenetic pace of artistic energy. Almost all neighberhoods, no matter how different, are... View full entry
The Design/Build studio has been developed and led by Prof. Rocco Ceo, and the Billy E. Miller Design-Build Visiting Critic Jim Adamson. Over the past 5 years the studio has created projects for community use, such as non-profit groups and the state park system. This year's project is... View full entry
University of Miami School of Architecture - EcoTent
With only a few weeks left in the semester, the students are hard at work developing their proposals. Below are a few small scale mockups that we are using to figure out where the designs need to be calibrated, trimmed, and re-worked before putting them through the CNC machine. (Above, Version... View full entry
Three interesting architects came to lecture at the University of Miami School of Architecture last week: Vicente Guallart who is the chief architect of Barcelona City and of his own practice Guallart Architects, and Gianfranco Bombaci and Matteo Costanzo of 2A+P/A. Guallart gave a lecture about... View full entry
An early rendering for one of the abstracted motion forms. This seat is an abstraction of the of a wine opener's movements. A small scale mock-up model done in MDF for Monday awaits. Rendering and model completed in Rhino. View full entry
It's been quite sometime since I've been able to put up a real update. Currently, my students are engaged in developing their skills in the realm of 3D software (SketchUp and Rhino). They have been given small assignments that relate back to their first assignment, the documentation of the... View full entry
As my students rigorously attack their SketchUp and Rhino tutorials, I decided to take a break and see what everyone else is doing around campus. The UM SoA isn't housed under one giant roof or in a warehouse like you see many other schools. In case you didn't know, the school is housed in... View full entry
The University of Miami School of Architecture lecture series Call To Order continued this past Wednesday when Matteo Ghidoni of Salottobuono addressed a crowd of faculty and students at Glasgow Hall. This was the second lecture in the series, with the first being Nader Tehrani of Nadaaa. Dean... View full entry
This blog gives a sneak peak into the architecture world at the University of Miami. What began as an experiment following one group of incoming graduate students through their first semester of design, has morphed into a window of the school of architecture through this professor's eyes. I will try to post as often as possible.
