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MILLIØNS pays deference to I.M. Pei with new café space for the Everson Museum

2024-08-07T15:00:00-04:00

A new café space from MILLIØNS at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York, meant to showcase a 4,000-object donation from its namesake, Louise Rosenfield, is up and running inside I.M. Pei’s 54-year-old Brutalist masterwork.

Image: Iwan Baan

The project’s commission was won after an international competition organized by Syracuse University School of Architecture dean Michael A. Speaks in 2019. Coming out of the pandemic, the institution was looking to increase public access to its collection overall while finding an appropriate use for Rosenfield's ceramics collection gift. The rare bequest stipulated it would be made available for use by visitors in a reversal of museum policy.

Image: Iwan Baan

The Los Angeles-based studio’s intervention entailed adding a pair of triple-height glass towers that double as a visible collections storage facility and display cases to the building’s East Wing Mather Court area. The incorporation of these definitive 'curatorial' elements works t...

Syracuse School of Architecture, SUNY-ESF researchers receive $100,000 grant to study the racial wealth gap in the United States

2023-07-27T15:13:00-04:00

A trio of researchers from the Syracuse University School of Architecture and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) have been awarded a new $100,000 competitive grant for their examination of root causes laden in the built environment that are underpinning the growing racial wealth gap in the United States.

Syracuse’s Associate Dean for Research, Eliana Abu-Hamdi, Associate Professor Iman Fayyad, and SUNY-ESF landscape architecture assistant professor Daniel Cronan were recently awarded the grant for their project “Closing the Racial Wealth Gap through Environmental Justice and Participatory Design.”

The funding was made possible through the Lender Center for Social Justice. Researchers say it will help them achieve their project’s aim of identifying a list of positive changes that can be enacted in the most heavily-impacted communities. The research is being conducted in three phases and will result in BIM-supported participatory planning that demonstra...

Architecture Office offers a different perspective on co-working design

2019-10-02T12:00:00-04:00

With their designs for a new flagship co-working environment "ShareCuse" in Syracuse, New York, Austin, Texas-based Architecture Office aims to reimagine the concept of an office cubicle by creating a "flexible office organization that does not kill the work environment."

While more conventional co-working spaces like WeWork and Cross Campus focus on interior branding and image, Architecture Office co-principals Nicole McIntosh and Jonathan Louie instead focus on understanding workspace typologies to challenge and fine-tune the mold of cubicle design.

Image © Caylon Hackwith

Set in a historic 1928 Syracuse Building within the downtown district, McIntosh and Louie pulled inspiration from the structure's 90-year history as an office space. Rather than using traditional cubicle enclosures that tend to create a daunting uniformity and repetative atmosphere, the duo played with black mesh screens to "filter the appearance of the spaces behind." When looking at the interiors of the co-wor...

Get Lectured: Syracuse, Fall '19

2019-09-16T16:30:00-04:00

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.

The Syracuse University School of Architecture is gearing up for their Fall 2019 event series, which includes a variety of lectures, talks, a film screening, the City Scripts Symposia series, the Everson Museum Café Design Competition symposium, and lectures on Neuro Architecture Imaging.

Some of the speakers for this semester are Maxi Spina & Jia Gu, David Eugin Moon, Deborah Hauptmann, Angel David Nieves, Zigeng Wang, and Syracuse faculty Jean François Bédard and Richard Rosa, and more.

The Everson Museum Café compe...

I.M. Pei's first museum scheme, the Everson in Syracuse, turns 50

2018-10-02T15:43:00-04:00

The Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, was renowned architect I.M. Pei's first museum design. Opening in 1968 to rave reviews, the architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable described at the time that the structure was "the architecture of today as art history will eventually record it...it does its own thing."

The 60,000 square foot facility is constructed out of concrete blended with local granite—an example of American brutalism that achieved a level of refinement and luxury sometimes lacking in the attitude of its peers. Pei's plans for the small-museum were quite unique at the time; his obsession over small details and his iconic circular staircase helped to make it a success.

Take a look at the landmark building.

Courtesy of the Everson Museum.

Get Lectured: Syracuse, Fall '18

2018-09-20T18:11:00-04:00

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.

Syracuse Architecture has shared their Fall 2018 lectures series, which includes speakers like Rachely Rotem of MODU, Marc Spector, Satoshi Toyoda of WeWork, Jennifer Bonner, Ellie Abrons, Jonathan Jackson of WeShouldDoItAll, and more. In early October, the “Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture” exhibition will open and David Erdman will be a special guest at the “Possible Mediums” book launch.

Syracuse Architecture also shared the events for their New York, London, and Florence programs (posters can be found in the ga...

Get Lectured: Syracuse, Spring '18

2018-01-25T13:17:00-05:00

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.

Organized by Randall Korman, retiring Syracuse Architecture professor and former associate dean, the Syracuse University School of Architecture Spring '18 event series features lectures and a special visiting critic studio on façades. Other upcoming events include the “Future Infrastructures: The Over and Under of I-81 Symposium” and “Thesis & Convocation”.

Jan 30
Randall Korman / Professor, Syracuse Architecture

Feb 13
Charles Burroughs / Emeritus Professor of Liberal Arts, Case Western Reserve University

Feb 22
Kenneth Frampton / Ware Professor of Architecture, Columbia Un...

Aggregating Architectures; A conversation with Taubman's new Dean Jonathan Massey

2017-09-14T19:10:00-04:00

This week we talk with Jonathan Massey, the new Dean at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. We talk about his approach to architectural education and his previous roles at Syracuse and the California College of the Arts, where he finished his deanship this year. We also discuss the world of architectural publishing as it relates to his work with Aggregate.

Jonathan Massey's inaugural lecture "Building Tomorrow" in the new wing

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Get Lectured: Syracuse, Fall '17

2017-09-07T12:35:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2017

Ready or not, the start of the new school year is coming up. 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.

Syracuse Architecture kicks off their Fall '17 lecture events tomorrow. Check out some of the speakers.

Sept 8
Tomas Koolhaas / Documentary Filmmaker, Los Angeles, CA
Film Screening: “REM” 6:00pm. Reception follows.

Sept 12
Lyndon Neri & Rossana Hu / Neri & Hu Design and Research Office, Shanghai, China
at Van Alen Institute, NYC 6:30pm (doors open 6pm)

Sept 18
Rubin Global Design Studio Medellín
Lecture

Sept 19
Francisco Sanin / Professor, Syracuse Architecture
Alejandro Echeverri / URBAM, Medellín
Jorge Pérez /...

Get Lectured: Syracuse University, Spring '17

2017-01-26T13:44:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter & Spring 2017

Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session for Winter and Spring 2017. Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss. Mark those calendars!

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

See which architects will be speaking at Syracuse University, School of Architecture's Spring '17 lecture series. Unless noted otherwise*, lectures take place at 5:30 p.m. in the Slocum Hall Auditorium. Listed below are upcoming events.

Feb 3
Maya Alam / Harry der Boghosian Fellow

Feb 3
1:00 p.m.*
“Ishness: In-Between & Other Uncertainties” Boghosian Fellow symposium
Participants:

Kristy Balliet
Balliet Studio / BairBalliet / Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture & Southern California ...

Get Lectured: Syracuse University, Fall '16

2016-09-12T14:24:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2016

Gearing up for another eventful school year this fall? Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session. Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss. Mark those calendars!

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

The Syracuse University School of Architecture kicks off their Fall '16 lecture series next week. Check out their international list of speakers below.

Sept 20
Georgina Huljich / P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, UCLA A.UD

Sept 22
Michael Peng / Gensler

Sept 27
Annabelle Selldorf / Selldorf Architects

Sept 29
Roger Sherman / Gensler, UCLA A.UD

Oct 4
Na Wei / WEI Architects/Elevation Workshop, China Central Academy of Fine Arts

Oct 18
Panos Dragonas / Dragonas Christopoulou Architects, Department of Architec...

SHOP to design Syracuse University's National Veterans Resource Complex

2016-06-23T13:33:00-04:00

What should a National Veterans Resource Complex look like, exactly? SHOP Architects has been given the official opportunity to find out, courtesy of Syracuse University. The early renderings for this project, which the school in a release is careful to note "are conceptual in nature and may not reflect the final NVRC design" show a rectilinear, sloping tiered structure with a massive central open-air courtyard.

According to Syracuse University, the NVRC "will include classroom spaces to accommodate local and national veteran-focused programming. It will also house a conference center and a roughly 1,000-seat auditorium, which will be available for use by the whole campus and fills a critical space void."

The facility will be designed to be LEED-certitified.

News on other notable military/governmental-themed designs:

Get Lectured: Syracuse University, Spring '16

2016-02-12T13:27:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2016

Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session. Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently 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.

Next up is the Syracuse University School of Architecture. Unless noted otherwise, lectures take place at 6 p.m. in the Slocum Hall Auditorium. Free and open to the public.

Feb 16
Tong Ming / Founding Principal - TM Studio; Professor, College of Architecture & Urban Planning - Tongji University

Feb 23
Bing Bu / Founding Principal, One Design Inc - Shanghai

Mar 8
Susan Dieterlen / Research Assistant Professor - Syracuse Architecture Faculty Research Fellow, Syracuse Center of Excellence

Apr 5
Byron Merritt / Vice President & Global Creative Director, Nik...

Adjaye, SHoP and Snøhetta emerge as finalists in Syracuse University's National Veterans Resource Complex competition

2016-01-20T15:36:00-05:00

Syracuse University is one step closer to selecting a world-class partner to conceptualize, design, and construct the new National Veterans Resource Complex (NVRC). The NVRC Selection Committee, made up of faculty, staff, students, and design professionals, recently reviewed the qualifications of 28 of the world’s foremost architecture firms. [...] has selected three finalists to advance to the final round of the competition. The finalists are: Adjaye Associates; SHoP; and Snohetta.

"Notably, each of these firms is among the seven finalists currently vying for the opportunity to design the Obama Presidential Library in Chicago," the school's announcement goes on to say.

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Two Syracuse Architecture Faculty Members Think "Glocal" as School Launches New Design | Energy | Futures MS Concentration

2015-12-22T09:00:00-05:00

This post is brought to you by Syracuse Architecture.

Exciting things are happening at Syracuse Architecture as the School gears up to launch a brand new three-pronged area of study within its post-professional Master of Science (MS) in Architecture. The new curriculum DESIGN | ENERGY | FUTURES is a concentrated research program focused on energy and the built environment, with opportunities for research and the creation of design projects ranging across a variety of scales—from urban design to high performance buildings, from landscape urbanism to building material research and product design. DESIGN | ENERGY | FUTURES will also explore a range of disciplinary and practice areas including adaptive re-use, real estate development and urban planning.

Syracuse's DESIGN | ENERGY | FUTURES strand launches fall 2016, and will require registered students to complete 30 credit hours, typically over the course of three semesters, one of which may be spent in residence at one the School’s cen...

Get Lectured: Syracuse, Fall '15

2015-09-08T13:15:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2015

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

Our next featured poster comes from the Syracuse University School of Architecture.

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

Listed below are upcoming lectures only. Unless noted otherwise, lectures take place at 5 p.m. in the Slocum Hall Auditorium. Free and open to the public.

Sept 15
Yichen Lu / Studio Link-Arc

Sept 22
Barbara Bestor / Bestor Architecture
L.C. Dillenback Lecture
Reception to follow

Sept 29
Kristian Koreman / ZUS (Zones Urbaines Sensibles)
Syracuse Architecture Gentrification Lab NYC

Oct 1
Roberto de Leon / De Leon & Primmer Architecture workshop
Syracuse Architecture
Visitin...

Get Lectured: Syracuse, Spring '15

2015-02-04T14:26:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter-Spring 2015

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

The next featured poster comes from the Syracuse University School of Architecture.

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

Unless noted, events take place at 5 pm in the Slocum Hall Auditorium, Syracuse University School of Architecture. Free and open to the public. AIA learning units available for most lectures.

Below are upcoming lectures only.

Feb 10
Aaron Betsky / Dean, Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture; Director, Shenzhen
Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture

Feb 12
David Tseng / Dean and Professor, Faculty of Architecture, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Feb 24
Kath...

Get Lectured: Syracuse, Fall '14

2014-09-12T14:25:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2014

Say hello to another edition of Archinect's Get Lectured! As a refresher, we'll be featuring a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. If you're not doing so already, be sure to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Today's set of posters comes from the Syracuse University School of Architecture in Syracuse, NY.

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

Note each event's location. Syracuse lectures take place at 5 pm in the Slocum Hall Auditorium. Fisher Center events take place at 19 E 31st St., Floor 2. To reserve a seat for Fisher Center events, click here. All events free and open to the public.

SEPTEMBER

Sept. 16 - Slocum
Thomas Kelley / Visiting Assistant Professor - University of Illinois-Chicago; Norman Kelley; Visiting Critic - Syracuse Architecture

Sept. 23 - Slocum
Georgina Huljich / Adj...

Get Lectured: Syracuse, Spring '14

2014-02-19T16:09:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2014

Archinect's Get Lectured is up and running again for the Winter/Spring '14 term! As a refresher from our Fall 2013 guide, every week we'll feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current season.

Since we've been receiving more submissions lately, we're gonna show off posters more often, and so you can see what events are happening in architecture schools right now!

For today, we have a two-sided poster packed with events from the Syracuse University School of Architecture.

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

Listed below are upcoming events only. Unless otherwise stated, Fisher Center lectures take place at 5 pm at 136 Madison Ave. All events have limited seating and require RSVP.
Slocum Hall lectures take place at 5 pm on campus.

FEBRUARY

Feb 19, March 5, March 19
6:00-8:30 pm
Symposium
Henk Ovink / Senior Ad...

GA Collaborative partners with Rwandan women's group for housing redevelopment

2014-01-02T22:07:00-05:00

Yutaka Sho has been working on housing redevelopment strategies in Rwanda since 2008, and from the beginning the challenges were clear. Building materials were severely limited and ripple effects from the 1994 genocide were still strong, leaving Rwandan society displaced and disproportionately female. After the genocide, the Rwandan government enacted the controversial "imidugudu" development strategy; a "villagization" program that tried to gather rural homesteads together in villages, to make it easier to deliver resources. Even more Rwandans were displaced as a result, and often did not receive the promised resources.*

Sho's work with the GAC is to aid reconstruction without further disrupting Rwandans' lives. They partnered with Dushyigikirane, a women's organization in the northern Rwandan town of Masoro, to help the community build their own housing so they wouldn't be forcibly relocated. GAC would help Dushyigikirane in designing the new village of 50 houses, using the ac...

Get Lectured: Syracuse University Fall '13

2013-09-23T14:47:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2013

Here on Archinect we recently launched "Get Lectured", where we'll feature a school's lecture series--along with their snazzy posters--for the current season. Check back regularly to stay up-to-date and mark your calendars for any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Today's lecture poster is from the Syracuse University School of Architecture.

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

Listed below are lectures only. All events are free and open to the public. Unless noted, lectures take place at 5 p.m. in the Slocum Hall Auditorium at the Syracuse University School of Architecture.

SEPTEMBER

September 10
Angie Co / Co + LeCavalier
Syracuse Architecture Visiting Critic

September 17
Rosalyne Shieh / SCHAUM + SHIEH
Syracuse Architecture Visiting Critic

September 19
David Ruy / Ruy Klein
Syracuse Architecture Visiting Crit...

Michael Speaks has been appointed as the new Dean of Syracuse's School of Architecture

2013-03-19T14:08:00-04:00

It was announced to the faculty and students today that our new dean is going to be Michael Speaks. I'm pretty excited to see what he can bring to our program as far as a fresh perspective and entrepreneurial endeavors.

Archinect member and current Syracuse student, Nathan Geller, shared the news that was distributed to the Syracuse community earlier today. Michael Speaks will be leaving his position of Dean at the University of Kentucky College of Design to take on the position of Dean of the School of Architecture at Syracuse University.

Official release...

Michael A. Speaks Named Dean of School of Architecture

Syracuse University Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric F. Spina today announced the appointment of Michael A. Speaks to the position of dean of the School of Architecture. Speaks is the current dean of the College of Design at the University of Kentucky, where he is also a professor of architecture. The appointment concludes a national search to replace former Dean Mark Robbins, who stepped down last spring. Speaks will assume his position on July 1.

The former director of the graduate program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, Speaks has taught in...

Five Teams Shortlisted in Syracuse’s “Movement on Main” Competition

2013-01-09T15:11:00-05:00

Five design teams have been named to receive $15,000 grants to revitalize Syracuse's Near Westside neighborhood as part of the "Movement on Main: Designing the Healthy Main Street" competition. The initiative, sponsored by Syracuse University, plans to redesign the area around Wyoming Street to once again make it an important agent of the community's social and recreational life.

Three teams were chosen from the submissions in the first round of the competition:

Coen + Partners, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN)
Stoss Landscape Urbanism (Boston, MA) with Höweler + Yoon Architecture, LLP, Nitsch Engineering, Inc., and Dr. Angie Cradock, Sc. D.
King and King Architects (Syracuse, NY) with Urban Movement Design and The Alchemical Nursery

Two teams had previously been invited as preselected participants:

Marpillero Pollak Architects (New York, NY) with Arup, Consulting Engineers, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, and HealthxDesign
peg office of landscape + architecture (Philadelphia, PA) with Sp(a)de Architecture and Barton & Loguidice, P.C. Engineering

Marcel Breuer Digital Archive

2012-06-13T19:24:00-04:00

The Marcel Breuer Digital Archive represents a collaborative effort headed by Syracuse University Library to digitize over 30,000 drawings, photographs, letters and other materials related to the career of Marcel Breuer, one of the most influential architects and furniture designers of the twentieth century.

OMA’s Stage Set for the Ancient Greek Theater in Syracuse, Italy

2012-05-14T13:40:00-04:00

Over the weekend, OMA’s design for the stage set at the historic Greek Theater in Syracuse, Sicily, was inaugurated with the performance of Aeschylus’s Prometheus Unbound, directed by Claudio Longhi. The scenography features three temporary architectural devices that reinterpret the spaces of the theater, which dates from the 5th century BCE.

UPSTATE at Syracuse University

2012-03-15T16:04:00-04:00

UPSTATE was created [as a] framework for sustained collaboration with the community and the city—in our case a post-industrial city in upstate New York that's been grappling with a shrinking population, eroding tax base, crumbling infrastructure, underfunded schools, cash-strapped services. The challenges aren't new—they're the challenges of cities all across the rust belt—but they're real, and they're intensifying.

Continuing a series on university design centers, Places editor Nancy Levinson interviews Julia Czerniak and Joe Sisko of UPSTATE at Syracuse University.

The slideshow features work by Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Cook+Fox, ARO and Della Valle Bernheimer, Onion Flats, the Near West Side Initiative, and others.

'Kinky' building by Toshiko Mori gets Bloomberg highlight

2011-04-20T17:23:21-04:00

The sculptural form is meant to advertise the center's building-innovation mission. The low, sloping volume encloses tall industrial space for experimentation, while the higher slab building houses labs that focus on a variety of evolving technologies, like indoor air quality.

Described as a building "advertising its construction- innovation mission with an angle here, a kink there," the recently opened $41,000,000 and 55,000-square-foot Syracuse Center of Excellence, an incubator dedicated to energy conservation, is a laboratory for sustainable building and energy technologies.

Ed Bogucz, the center’s executive director, took writer James S. Russell, writer of the soon-to-be-released book The Agile City, on a tour of the facility highlighting many of the technologies used in the building. From radient panels, automated blinds-between-panes and a fresh-and-filtered air system design to handle the next-door highway pollution, the green-roofed facility aims to demonstrate and test many of the technologies needed in the coming century. These practices, in turn, reduce the buildings energy use leading to smaller boilers and other infrastructural demands.

To learn more, visit "Syracuse Builds $41 Million Green Incubator: James S. Russell," Bloomberg and ...