Archinect - News

Beloved architectural historian, scholar, and academic Anthony Vidler passes away at 82

2023-10-20T15:16:00-04:00

Princeton University has shared news of the passing of beloved longtime School of Architecture faculty member Anthony Vidler yesterday, October 20th, after a short battle with illness. He was 82.

Vidler was known throughout academia as a formative mentor and thought leader who shaped the development of architecture from within the apparatus of higher education, inspiring thousands of students into both teaching and professional practice during his over 50-year career.

Born in England, Vidler studied at the University of Cambridge and Delft University of Technology before coming to the United States to teach as Princeton's William R. Kenan Jr. Chair of Architecture. It was there, in 1965, that he became the SoA’s first-ever History and Theory Ph.D. program director, steering it for a period of 30 years before he departed to serve as the Dean of Cornell University's College of Art, Architecture and Planning. He would later go on to be appointed Dean of The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin...

TenBerke’s new Princeton residences blend a refined exterior with an eclectic interior

2023-05-11T14:43:00-04:00

TenBerke, formerly Deborah Berke Partners, has completed what the firm calls its “most ambitious completed work to date.” The 485,000-square-foot project comprises two new residential colleges at Princeton University, each serving 510 students.

Image credit: Chris Cooper

Image credit: Christopher Payne/Esto

The taller building, named New College West, features soft-grey metal ‘treehouses’ inspired by its woodland setting. Meanwhile, the smaller Yeh College building is described by the team as “low-slung by outward-looking.” Both buildings feature a mixture of warm grey calcium silicate brick to create a “contemporary interpretation of historic masonry on the campus.”

Image credit: Chris Cooper

The ground floor of the buildings sees wood-formed precast concrete blended with extensive glazing framed in warm white oak. Inside, public and social activities are concentrated on the ground floor, seeking to depart from what the team calls the campus’ “traditionally h...

Princeton and IE University team to build vaulted brick pavilion using AI and augmented reality

2023-05-04T10:57:00-04:00

A team from Princeton University and the IE School of Architecture and Design are constructing a vaulted pavilion with the aid of artificial intelligence, holograms, and augmented reality at IE University’s campus in Segovia, Spain. The team, comprised of architects, engineers, craftspeople, and IE students, is led by Syrian-Spanish architect and IE architecture professor Wesam Al Asali along with Sigrid Adriaenssens, director of the Form Finding Lab at Princeton University.

The open-air vaulted pavilion will adopt a 10-foot-tall tripod structure without the need for formwork and will measure 16 feet long and 10 feet wide. To construct the pavilion, an initial layer of industrial hollow bricks will be laid, clad with tiles. Augmented reality glasses and Microsoft’s HoloLens app will then be employed in the bricklaying process, allowing builders to follow holographic guides to know the exact placement of bricks.

Image courtesy of IE University

“AR technology allows the craftsman to wo...

Robert Geddes, former Princeton Architecture Dean and Philadelphia Roundhouse designer, passes away aged 99

2023-02-14T12:47:00-05:00

Former Princeton University School of Architecture Dean Robert Geddes has passed away at 99.

Born in Philadelphia in 1923, Geddes served in the United States Army Air Force during World War II before finishing his studies at Yale and then earning an M.Arch from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. From there, Geddes went on to practice briefly under Hugh Stubbins in Cambridge, designing what would be the runner-up in the Sydney Opera House competition before returning to Philadelphia to form Geddes Qualls Brecher Cunningham Architects (or GQCA) in 1960.

Their most significant building, the 125,000-square-foot Brutalist Philadelphia Police Headquarters has turned into one of the city’s most fraught and essentially iconic landmarks. After initially being intended as a progressive example of then-Mayor Richardson Dilworth’s “de-politicized” police force, the structure would later take on a more sinister connotation as a symbol of violent authoritarianism and abuse thanks to (un-autho...

Construction begins on Adjaye Associates and Cooper Robertson's Princeton University Art Museum

2021-12-17T12:58:00-05:00

Construction has commenced on a new home for the Princeton University Art Museum. Designed by Adjaye Associates, with Cooper Robertson serving as executive architects, the new scheme will be built on the site of the former museum building on the Princeton campus, doubling the museum’s area to 144,000 square feet.

Exterior view from Prospect Drive. Image: Adjaye Associates

The three-story art museum will be comprised internally of nine pavilions, which seek to “break down the scale of the complex into more intimate modules and allows for deeply varied gallery experiences.” The pavilions are linked by two “art walks” — thoroughfares that flow through the building as a circulatory spine.

Grand Stair. Image: Adjaye Associates

The building’s nine pavilions are paired by four public zones, comprising gathering spaces, event and education spaces, and a café, inviting the public inside while controlling access to the galleries on the upper floors. Four of the nine gallery pavilions featur...

Alejandro Zaera-Polo has been removed from his faculty position as Princeton continues its row with the former SoA dean

2021-10-04T19:34:00-04:00

Princeton and former School of Architecture Dean Alejandro Zaera-Polo are officially cutting ties as the 57-year-old has been formally dismissed from his faculty position following a unanimous vote by an Ad-Hoc committee of the university’s board of trustees this summer.

Zaera-Polo served as Dean of Princeton's School of Architecture for a brief period from 2012 until 2014, when he resigned following allegations of plagiarism that eventually led to a defamation lawsuit brought by Zaera-Polo against the university, which then made an unsuccessful attempt to dismiss the four-part claim against itself and President Christopher Eisgruber.

Zaera-Polo had continued on as a faculty member despite the surrounding controversy.

In response to his dismissal, Zaera-Polo has issued a 5-hour “Gonzo-style” polemic against the university in which the AZPML founder touches on various topics including “Interpretation Trumps Evidence”, “Identity Politics”, and “The Post-truth University.” The Spanish...

The author of 'Architecture in Black' delivers an exhibition that depicts Blackness as a 'process of unraveling and becoming'

2021-04-12T14:59:00-04:00

In 2000, distinguished scholar, designer, inventor, and teacher Darell Wayne Fields, Ph.D. published "Architecture in Black." His book is a theoretical treatise that expands on the historical, philosophical, and semiotic texts regarding race in architectural discourse. It argues "architecture, as an aesthetic practice, and blackness, as a linguistic practice, operate within the same semiotic paradigm." Through this extensive examination, Fields curated On Solitude which is described as a "contemporaneous anthology" that shadows Architecture in Black.

Image © Michael Vahrenwald. Courtesy of Princeton University School of Architecture.

I thought Blackness’s intersection with architecture represented epic struggle and conflict. The conflict remains true in what the exhibition has to say (to me), but there’s a critical difference. The artifacts, interacting together, signify and witness architecture’s subtle, yet persistent, unraveling. - Darell Wayne Fields

Image © Michael Vahrenwald....

Princeton appoints Jay Cephas as Assistant Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture

2021-01-12T11:50:00-05:00

Princeton University School of Architecture has appointed Jay Cephas as Assistant Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture, effective July 1, 2021.

"We are thrilled to welcome Jay to the School of Architecture. The impact and originality of his scholarship will be transformative to Princeton and to the discipline of architecture as a whole," said Dean Mónica Ponce de León in a statement.

Cephas’ research focuses on how technology and labor converged with formulations of race and class identities to shape urban landscapes during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He was a 2019 W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and received a grant from the Graham Foundation in 2020 to support his work on the Black Architects Archive, an interactive digital repository of architectural practice that maps the genealogy of black architects from the nineteenth century to the present. Cephas also currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Archi...

Sir David Adjaye unveils design for new Princeton University Art Museum building

2020-09-24T18:34:00-04:00

Designed by Sir David Adjaye, the Princeton University Art Museum has revealed the design for its new building. The structure will replace and almost double the square footage of the existing facility, which occupies a central location on Princeton's campus. Stone, bronze, and glass make up the core material building blocks of the new facility, speaking "both to the present moment and the historic Princeton context."

"Sir David’s architecture will invite visitors to see themselves as citizens of a broader set of communities, which in turn will, we hope, nurture a deeper sense of our shared humanity." said James Steward, the Museums's Nancy A. Nasher-David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976 director in a statement. "The design will give us a building that fosters new modes of investigation, reflects and deepens our commitment to equity and inclusion and affords new moments of aspiration and inspiration."

The new Museum will occupy three stories and will feature seven primary interlocked p...

Princeton SoA students publish open letter demanding racial justice

2020-07-20T13:20:00-04:00

Students of the Princeton University School of Architecture have published a letter advocating for widespread changes to how the school operates in order to pursue an anti-racist agenda.

The open letter, published as an Op-Ed in The Daily Princetonian, offers a nine point plan for beginning to move the institution in the right direction. The letter, which is signed by over 80 current students and nearly 200 alumni, seeks to have the university divest from campus policing initiatives, recruit Black students, faculty, and speakers, provide administrative and financial support for Black students, center Black voices in the school's curriculum, "dismantle white supremacy in studio," ban inequitable labor practices at the school, implement anti-racism training for professors, staff, and students, deepen university and community relationships with the Black community, all the while pursuing these goals with a focus on transparency and accountability.

Previously on Archinect: "Princeton'...

Princeton's Monica Ponce de Leon: To overcome injustice in architecture, licensure should be "eliminated or radically transformed"

2020-06-11T17:28:00-04:00

Princeton University School of Architecture Dean Monica Ponce de Leon has issued a statement on behalf of the school offering solidarity with the growing protest movement seeking social and economic justice for Black people in America.

In a letter sent out to the Princeton SoA community, Ponce de Leon explains that "it is essential for us to acknowledge that the discipline of architecture and its institutions have always been complicit in social, economic, health, and environmental discrimination."

Previously on Archinect: "AIA, NOMA, and other organizations issue statements of solidarity with Black community." Courtesy of Wikimedia User Rosa Pineda.

She adds, "Without this acknowledgement, we will be powerless to impact the grotesque structural injustice that Black Americans and other groups have been subjected to for far too long."

Going further, Dean Ponce de Leon points to architecture's lengthy, complicated, and expensive educational and training system—and particularly, archi...

Princeton University researchers crack secret to Italian renaissance dome construction

2020-05-22T17:44:00-04:00

As part of a recent study, researchers at Princeton University and the University of Bergamo have uncovered the engineering techniques behind the self-supporting masonry of the Italian renaissance, reports the Princeton Engineering website. "Researchers analyzed how cupolas like the famous duomo, part of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, were built as self-supporting, without the use of shoring or forms typically required," the school writes.

"The double loxodrome is comprised of rows of vertical bricks that crisscross around the dome and are filled in by horizontal bricks. Effectively, each course of bricks creates a structural element known as a plate-bande that wedges interior bricks between the vertical end caps." Image: courtesy of the researchers. via engineering.princeton.edu

Looking at structures such as the famous Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, which is the largest masonry dome standing today, the team was able to discover an intricate geometric pattern...

Barbara Bestor & Roy Choi, Michael Meredith & Hilary Sample, Amanda Aman, and Princeton SoA to host featured online events today, tomorrow and Friday

2020-05-06T13:10:00-04:00

The remainder of this week's featured online events, highlighted in Archinect's Virtual Event Guide, include Barbara Bestor and celebrity chef Roy Choi in discussion as part of Woodbury's end of year celebration; Amanda Aman shares her travel research from the Arctic Circle; Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample of MOS will lecture and offer a Q&A; and Princeton SoA will be streaming their Arc 504 Final Review "In The Age Of Covid-19."

Are you hosting a virtual lecture? Presentation? Tour? Interview? Happy Hour? Submit it for consideration by clicking here.

Are you an expert in an arena that's especially important right now? Let us know if you would like to work with Archinect to host an online event.

LeBrun Grant Lecture - Architecture of the Arctic Circle Periphery with Amanda Aman
Wednesday, May 6, 2020 | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Amanda Aman, AIA, LEED AP BD+C presents her travel research and will describe the architecture of the Arctic Circle and delineate how certain features can be a...

Princeton University sues design and construction teams over delayed project

2019-12-26T14:25:00-05:00

Princeton University has filed a $10.7 million lawsuit against the design and construction firms responsible for the creation of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment complex at the school due to “extensive changes and delays” involved in the delivery of the project.

The Daily Princetonian reports that the Trustees of Princeton University are suing lead designers Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (TWBTA) and sub-consultants Jacobs Architects/Engineers, Inc. and Jacobs Consultancy Inc. (referred to collectively as “Jacobs Entities” in the lawsuit) in order to recoup extra costs incurred due to the delays, alleging that the team “failed to perform their professional design responsibilities in accordance with the prevailing standard of care, resulting in unnecessary and excessive additional costs and expensive project delays.”

Princeton University Deputy Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss tells The Daily Princetonian, “The University seeks to recover addition[al] costs i...

Five architecture school exhibitions to check out this Fall and Winter

2019-11-12T12:56:00-05:00

The Fall 2019 semester is well underway, mid-reviews are just around the corner, and application season for the 2020 school year is in full-swing.

What could be better than taking some time off to take in provocative architecture and maybe rekindle your inspiration? To help set this mood, we have collected a handful of recently-opened architectural exhibitions taking place on university campuses across America. From archival drawings to digital images and the architecture of plants, there is a bit of something for everyone on display this semester at American schools of architecture. Take a look!

A drawing by Claude Parent. Image courtesy of SCI-Arc.

Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)

In California, SCI-Arc is showcasing Claude Parent: Visionary Architect in the school's Kappe Library. According to the SCI-Arc website, the exhibition highlights the work of iconic French "supermodernist" architect Claude Parent via "a full-scale ramp installation based on the a...

Get Lectured: Princeton, Fall '19

2019-10-09T13:30:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2019

With a new school year already here, it's time for Archinect's latest edition of Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Focusing on the theme of “Atmosphere”, the Princeton University School of Architecture's Fall '19 event series has upcoming lectures from Débora Mesa, Sylvia Lavin, Philippe Rahm, Anna Dyson, and Atelier Barda.

Other events this semester include “On Content and Method: Current Interests in Conversation with Mario Gooden and James Welling”, the Current Interests exhibition, the Architecture Arboretum exhibition, and a two-part screening of the film “Liquid Landscapes”.

Check out previous posters on the Get Lectured Pin...

R&D facilities begin to see shift in design approach

2019-07-30T20:09:00-04:00

The focus on innovation and an increasing war for talent is causing a significant shift in the design of R&D facilities. Attracting the best talent requires expression of purpose both in the culture and the physical workplace. In the highly competitive research landscape centered around New Jersey, biopharmaceutical companies are aligning these values by moving the laboratory front and center, and putting their science on display.

Laboratory scientists are now moving from "back-of-house areas" to more visible zones where the intricacies of lab work can be better appreciated and embraced by building users. This presents "a whole new set of design opportunities and challenges," writes Gensler Sciences Leader, Brenda Nyce-Taylor.

The firm has recently completed an exciting science co-working space in collaboration with Princeton University and Biolabs that "supports entrepreneurial start-up scientists" by "putting innovation at the center with labs visible upon entry." It will be interesting to see how this new shift in design trend will impact the R&D industry in the coming years.

Princeton University explores algorithm-based construction design with New York-based research group The Living

2019-07-18T13:51:00-04:00

Commissioned by Princeton University, this project is simple in form but sophisticated in function. It involves an “open source building” to host research on the future of construction and computation. Just as biologists use an electron microscope to study organisms, architects will use this structure to study buildings.

The idea of algorithms designing buildings may sound exciting to some and concerning to others. However, after decades of attempts at harnessing this process, companies like The Living may have cracked the system to automatically generating building designs. The New York-based research studio focuses on computation, sustainability practices, and biology to explore variations of building prototyping.

Image courtesy of Pablo Marvel/Nova Concepts

Image courtesy of Michael Moran/Michael Moran Photography, Inc.

In a recent news release from the studio, the team shares their new collaborative project with Princeton University. "The Embodied Computation Lab is a building that includes new sustainability and low-carbon features, and the facade involves the use of custom algorithms trained to detect knots in wood—bringing the power of machine learning to the physical world."

With technology rapidly changing the way architects, designers, and construction teams work together, The Living has i...

Michael Graves drawings acquired by Princeton University Art Museum

2019-05-31T13:59:00-04:00

“We are pleased to be able to preserve and share these important drawings, which document numerous projects and reflect Michael Graves’s manifold interests and talents, here at the museum, where he was known as family, and with our global audiences,”

The Princeton University Art Museum has acquired a collection of nearly 5,000 drawings created by postmodern-era architect Michael Graves.

Graves, who died in 2015, was a prolific artist who sketched out many of his iconic building proposals using his signature yellow-, sienna-, and aqua-hued color pencils. The gifted collection is filled with many examples of Graves's virtuosic output and includes drawings made with ink washes, pen and marker, and pencil, as well.

Drawing of San Pietro church in Frascati, Italy from 1961 by Michael Graves. Image from the Estate of Michael Graves via the Princeton University Art Museum.

Graves started his practice in 1964 at Princeton University, where he taught for 39 years before retiring in 2001. Throughout that long and storied career, Graves drew up designs for an incredible array of boundary-pushing buildings, including the Portland Building in Oregon, the Dolphin and Swan hotels at the Walt Disney World resort in Florida, as well as an unbu...

Marshall Brown collages post-war architectural photography

2019-05-30T20:06:00-04:00

Marshall Brown, an Associate Professor at the Princeton University School of Architecture, has been producing a provocative series of post-war architecture collages since 2013.

14-9-2 2013-2014, Collages from magazine pages, glue, on archival paper, 17 x 14 vertical 14 x 17 horizontal

They often feature combinations of architectural photography from monographs on significant figures in recent architectural history. Projects by Enric Miralles, Gregory Ain, Zaha Hadid and countless other familiar names are mashed together to produce new compositions, impossible to build at full scale but fully realizable through Brown's unique collaging technique.

2019, Collage on archival paper, 24h x 18w in

The newest series, titled 'Je est un autre,' will be on view June 7th to July 27th at Western Exhibitions in Chicago, Illinois. The series is a nod to the collaging techniques popularized during the middle of the 20th century by architects including Mies van der Rohe and artists including Richard ...

Get Lectured: Princeton, Spring '19

2019-02-08T14:29:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Spring 2019

It's time for Archinect's latest Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

For Spring '19, Princeton Architecture's lecture series line-up features Fosbury Architecture, Oana Stanescu, Annette M. Kim, Jeanne Gang, Jesse Reiser, Rafael Moneo, Michael Maltzan, Amanda Levete, Henry Cobb, and more.

The school will also host exhibitions, workshops, discussions, symposia, and performances, such as the “Recurrent Visions: The Architecture of Marshall Brown Projects” exhibition, the Women in Design and Architecture Conference, and the Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions Roundtable.

Want to see more lecture posters? Check out previous pos...

Princeton announces call for Field Studies colloquium proposals

2018-10-02T01:40:00-04:00

Princeton has announced a call for proposals for Field Studies, a doctoral student workshop hosted by the PhD program in History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University. The workshop will be held at Princeton University’s School of Architecture in March 2-3, 2019.

The state of the discipline, or as this inquiry more specifically terms it, the field, is currently undergoing a crisis of identity. Despite having increased in visibility in recent decades, the disciplinary position of Architectural History and Theory (AHT) is experiencing the adverse side effect of a rampantly expanded field: a loose center. Disoriented by numerous “turns” (the critical, the post-critical, the technological, the semiotic, the curatorial, the environmental, to name only a few), many doctoral programs in AHT currently operate in a disciplinary fog that hinders rather than enables fruitful discussion. Correspondingly, other disciplines often seem unclear as to AHT’s object of study, a response t...

Sir David Adjaye to design new Princeton University Art Museum

2018-09-18T16:19:00-04:00

Princeton University has tapped Sir David Adjaye to build the school's new art museum. Done in collaboration with local firm Cooper Robertson, it will replace the current museum with a “dramatically enlarged space for the exhibition and study of the museum’s encyclopedic collections, special exhibitions and art conservation, as well as object-study classrooms and office space for the hundred person museum staff,” according to the school’s statement.

This is the latest major commission for the Ghanian-British architect who has completed a bunch of high profile projects for civic and cultural institutions over the years; most notably, the acclaimed Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. He is currently overseeing a number of museum designs including the new home for the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art in Riga.

Sir David Adjaye Photo by Ed Reeve.

Adjaye, who taught at Princeton's School of Architecture ...

Get Lectured: Princeton, Fall '18

2018-09-13T14:02:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2018

With a new school year upon us, it's time for Archinect's latest Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Princeton University's School of Architecture kicks off their Fall 2018 public events today! This semester features lectures from Carmen Argote, Germane Barnes, Yo Shimada, Alice Friedman, Sandra Barclay, Stan Allen, and Herman Hertzberger, and more. In November, Michael Meredith, Stan Allen, and Monica Ponce de Leon will take part in a roundtable for 44 Low-resolution Houses. The school will also screen three films by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine: “Moriyama-San”, “Koolhaas Houselife”, and “Barbicania”. Last but not least, don't miss o...

New Museum appoints V. Mitch McEwen as curator of IdeasCity initiative

2018-07-24T18:04:00-04:00

The New Museum announced today the appointment of V. Mitch McEwen as Curator of IdeasCity, the museum's initiative exploring the future of cities. McEwen is the principal and cofounder of A(n) Office, a collaborative of design studios in Detroit and New York exploring the intersection of architecture and exhibition.

IdeasCity is a creative and collaborative enterprise operating through conferences, workshops, commissions, projects, and exhibitions in order to investigate key issues and proposes solutions. The Curator is a two-year appointment linked to the biennial presentation of IdeasCity in New York and is responsible for the two-year cycle leading up to this presentation.

As Curator of IdeasCity, McEwen will head up the 2018–19 cities and launch an open call for cities around the world to apply for the 2020–21 cycle. The next IdeasCity will take place in Toronto on September 15, 2018, in partnership with the Bentway.

Since 2017, McEwen has been Assistant Professor at Princeto...

Sylvia Lavin appointed as Professor of Architecture at Princeton University

2018-03-02T16:26:00-05:00

Princeton University School of Architecture announced today that Sylvia Lavin will be joining their faculty effective July 1, 2018. Lavin is currently a Professor in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA, where she was Chairperson from 1996 to 2006 and the Director of the Critical Studies M.A. and Ph.D. program from 2007 to 2017.

Lavin received her Ph.D. from the Department of Art and Archaeology at Columbia University in 1990 after having received fellowships from the Getty Center, the Kress Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. Her most recent books include, Kissing Architecture, published by Princeton University Press in 2011 and Flash in the Pan, an AA publication from 2015.

Professor Lavin is also a curator: a recent exhibition, Everything Loose Will Land: Art and Architecture in Los Angeles in the 1970s, was a principal component of the Pacific Standard Time series supported by the Getty Foundation and traveled from Los Angeles to New Haven ...

Get Lectured: Princeton, Spring '18

2018-01-23T17:39:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2018

Archinect's Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The Princeton School of Architecture kicks off their Spring 2018 event series on February 6. Events include lectures from Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen, Meredith Miller from T+E+A+M, and David Adjaye, to name a few, as well as the “Lina Bo Bardi: Material Ideologies” conference and the “Material Colloquium”.

Feb 6 — 6pm
Amanda Williams, Artist; Visiting Professor in Architecture, Cornell University

Feb 15 — 6pm
Vivian Lee / Principal, LAMAS; Assistant Professor of Architecture, University of Toronto

Feb 22 — 6pm
Jennifer Bonner / Director, MALL; Assistant Profes...

Steven Holl-designed Lewis Center for the Arts complex opens at Princeton University

2017-10-10T16:14:00-04:00

A four-day arts festival marked the opening of Princeton University's new Lewis Center for the Arts complex this past weekend. Designed by Steven Holl Architects in partnership with BNIM, the 145,000-sq-ft facility is comprised of three buildings — the Wallace Dance Building and Theater, the New Music Building, and the Arts Tower — and completes the university's long dream of uniting the Center’s programs in dance, theater, music theater, the Princeton Atelier, and the Department of Music’s expansion under one, well, three roofs.

The three buildings are interconnected underground and joined in an 8,000 square-foot open indoor gathering space, dubbed the Forum. A landscaped outdoor plaza with a reflecting pool and green spaces — developed in collaboration with Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates — sits atop the Forum, and an outdoor installation by Maya Lin has been commissioned and will be added later.

Read on for more images and project details we've received from the ...

Get Lectured: Princeton, Fall '17

2017-09-15T17:20:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2017

Ready or not, it's the start of a new school year. Back for Fall 2017 is Archinect's Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The Princeton University School of Architecture just started their Fall '17 lecture series. Check it out below.

Sept 14 — 6pm
“Drawing Things Together”
V. Mitch McEwen / Assistant Professor at Princeton University School of Architecture; Principal, McEwen Studio / A(n) Office

Sept 28 — 6pm
“Loud Lines BairBalliet”
Kelly Bair / Partner at BairBalliet; Assistant Professor of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago
Kristy Balliet / Partner at BairBalliet; Associate Professor of Architecture, Ohio State University;...

After being rejected by Princeton, three Michael Graves properties slated for purchase by Kean University

2016-06-28T17:27:00-04:00

Through his will, he donated the properties to Princeton University, his neighbor and longtime employer. [...] “We were grateful to be able to consider the possibility of accepting Michael Graves’s properties, but concluded that we could not meet the terms and conditions associated with the gift,” [Princeton] said in a statement. Among those “terms and conditions” were preserving the houses and making them fit for education — a cost that Kean said it was willing to take on.

Estimates by Kean's president, Dawood Farahi, place annual maintenance costs for the three Princeton, NJ properties (including The Warehouse, Graves' home and studio) at $30,000 to $40,000 per year, and "retrofitting the buildings for student use would cost about $300,000. The three properties were appraised for a total value of nearly $3.2 million."

Related on Archinect: