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Knowlton School landscape architecture alum Bill Minadeo on his second Olympic skatepark design

2024-08-06T12:20:00-04:00

“We’ve done all the competitive events up to the Olympics so starting with Dubai this year and then through the Olympic qualifying series in Shanghai and Budapest,” he said. “There’s been a progression of design that goes through each of those different courses both in street and park that will ultimately lead up to the courses we’ve designed for Paris and the Olympics.”

Bill Minadeo, an OSU Knowlton School Class of 1991 landscape architecture alum, designed the first Olympic skateboarding park in Tokyo and the latest park and street courses in Paris. He said the park he created for this year’s competition, which is being staged outside the Place de la Concorde, was made “a little bit harder” for all 88 athletes while still retaining vital universal design characteristics. The Olympic skate park will be disassembled and reused in two permanent locations in Paris after the culmination of the medal round ends on August 11th.

Also of note, Team USA is participating this year without Alexis Sablone, the goofy-footed MIT School of Architecture alum who competed in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

Ohio State begins search for the next Howard E. LeFevre ‘29 Emerging Practitioner Fellow

2023-10-18T14:45:00-04:00

Following last week’s look at an opening for an Assistant Professor for AI in the Built Environment at the University of Florida, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an opportunity on Archinect Jobs for the Howard E. LeFevre ‘29 Emerging Practitioner Fellowship at the Ohio State University.

The fellowship, overseen by the university’s Knowlton School of Architecture, offers the “opportunity and resources for an emerging practitioner to pursue an advanced research project directed toward expanding the boundaries of the discipline.” In addition to their core research work, the successful applicant for the nine-month fellowship will be asked to teach design studios related to their topic and to prepare and present a public exhibition.

Related on Archinect: Fellow Fellows: Galen Pardee. Image credit: Steven Takacs

Why the role interests us

The Howard E. LeFevre '29 Emerging Practitioner Fellowship has been the subject of several features and news repo...

Ohio State researchers use machine learning to create 3D digital models of lost historic neighborhoods

2023-07-21T12:38:00-04:00

A team of researchers from The Ohio State University has developed a machine learning technique that converts old urban maps into three-dimensional digital models. According to the team, the models could potentially revolutionize research involving historic neighborhoods and the economic impact of their demolition.

The study, recently published in the journal PLOS ON, involved extracting and digitizing data from Sanborn Fire Insurance maps. The maps, created during the 19th and 20th centuries and frequently updated, were used by fire insurance companies to estimate their liabilities in about 12,000 U.S. cities and towns.

"We now have the ability to unlock the wealth of data that are embedded in these Sanborn fire atlases," said Ohio State Geography Professor Harvey Miller, a co-author of the study. "It enables a whole new approach to urban historical res...

Get Lectured: The Ohio State University, Spring '23

2023-03-20T16:50:00-04:00

Today, Archinect is continuing our Get Lectured series with a look at the events taking place this semester on the campus of the Knowlton School of Architecture at the Ohio State University in Columbus.

The spring has already seen appearances from Charles Renfro, Craig Dykers, Elissa Iturbe, Deanna van Buren, and Todd Gannon as part of the Baumer Lecture series, which will continue with UNC Chapel Hill professor Nichola Lowe on March 22 followed by a visit from Georgia Tech’s Catherine Ross on March 29.

The next month will see the continuation of the Baumer series with a lecture from Seattle-based GGN Associate Azzurra Cox on April 5. Her visit precedes the series’ conclusion with a presentation from the school’s 2022-23 LeFevre Fellow Georgina Baronian on April 21.

Lecture poster courtesy of the Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture.

Other events include the annual DeeDee and Herb Glimcher Lecture featuring WHY Architecture director Kulapat Yantrasast on March 22 from the Wexne...

Get Lectured: The Ohio State University, Fall '22

2022-10-13T09:00:00-04:00

The Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture at the Ohio State University has announced its Autumn 2022 Baumer Series, which takes place at the school’s Gui Auditorium from September thru November.

The school shares that this semester’s invited guests will each discuss “how their work considers and contends with interdisciplinary geographies—communities of labor, technology, nonhuman life, and politics both global and local” surrounding a theme of “Future Geographies.”

The Baumer Series kicked off in September with lectures from MIT M.Arch Program Director and Matter Design director Brandon Clifford on September 14, Yuts founding member of the Geography of Robots on September 21, and Harvard GSD professor Antoine Picon on October 5.

The lectures continue on October 12 with an appearance from UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Assistant Professor and licensed architect Kian Goh. Hunter College's Laura Wolf-Powers, who is the author of the new title University City: History, Race,...

Ohio State researchers discover new method for designing soundproof spaces

2021-08-12T13:07:00-04:00

A new study by researchers out of The Ohio State University investigates a different kind of design for absorbing vibrations that could better soundproof materials.

Ryan Harne, senior author of the paper and former associate professor of mechanical engineering at Ohio State, along with former Ohio State doctoral student Sih-Ling Yeh, tested how well built-in resonators handled vibrations under a variety of scenarios. Resonators are devices that use spring-like oscillation to control and change vibrations. Some absorb and neutralize them, and others amplify and direct them to specific places. They’re present in some vehicles, which use them to limit the sound emitted from a car’s muffler. Bridges and buildings also utilize them to limit noise and movement.

Contrary to previous studies relating to resonators, which focused on adding one to an existing structure or vehicle part, Harne and Yeh considered embedding resonators directly into a material, rather than adding it later.

Ryan ...

Knowlton SoA exhibition examines architecture’s role in the Great Lakes Megalopolis

2020-09-09T15:52:00-04:00

A new exhibition at the Knowlton School of Architecture on The Ohio State University campus aims to explore the work of The Great Lakes Architectural Expedition, a fictional public architecture office that takes Lake Erie as its principal client.

Created by Knowlton LeFevre Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture Galen Pardee, the exhibition uses archival models, drawings, documents, and studies to explore "the organizational structure of the Great Lakes Architectural Expedition itself, as well as early attempts by the Expedition’s Lake Erie Board to establish their roles as public advocates and draft the contours of non-human architect-client relationships," according to exhibition text.

"The Expedition’s mission has prompted a fundamental re-thinking of architecture’s role in the Great Lakes Megalopolis—engaging legal and physical terrains with equal dexterity, expanding architectural practice with non-human client structures, and transforming architects into agents for publ...

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Spring '20

2020-02-11T15:47:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2020

A new school term means 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 Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture's Baumer Lecture Series features kicked off last month with lectures by Amy Glasmeier, Zach Cohen, and Lola Sheppard. Upcoming speakers this semester include René Peralta, Marc Ryan, Keith Krumwiede, Anna Puigjaner, Miho Mazereeuw, Renia Ehrenfeucht, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Sylvia Lavin, and Galen Pardee.

Later this month, the school will host the “Fulfilled” symposium with Keith Krumwiede as keynote speaker. In March, Anthony Vidler will deliver the keynote for the “Bl...

Landscape architect Dorothée Imbert picked to lead Knowlton School of Architecture

2020-01-09T14:41:00-05:00

Landscape Architect and educator Dorothée Imbert has been named as the new Director of the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University.

Imbert will take up a four-year term starting Fall 2020 and will follow in the footsteps of Michael B. Cadwell, FAIA, the current director who has served for nine years.

According to a university statement, Imbert has served as landscape architecture faculty at the school since 2013, when she joined the institution as the inaugural Hubert C. Schmidt ’38 Chair in Landscape Architecture. Prior to this experience, Imbert established the landscape architecture program at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis and spent time teaching at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

In 2019, Imbert was named as one of the 25 Most Admired Educators in the country by the DesignIntelligence survey within the landscape architecture category. Imbert earned an architect's diploma from the Unit...

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Spring '19

2019-03-11T12:33:00-04:00

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.

So far, the Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture's Spring '19 lecture series has featured speakers like Eric Höweler, Farshid Moussavi, Aaron Betsky, Jennifer Bonner, Viola Ago, and more. Upcoming lecturers for the rest of the semester include Michael Osman, Rachel Weber, David Dixon, Liat Margolis, and Emily Mohr.

Check out previous posters on the Get Lectured Pinterest page.

Want another way to share your school's events? Send them to Bustler! Simply submit events for review here.

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Fall '18

2018-08-29T14:53:00-04:00

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.

The Ohio State University's Knowlton School of Architecture is back with a new Baumer Lecture Series for Fall 2018. The series invites prominent researchers and practitioners working in architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning who present technical, cultural, and theoretical understanding of the contemporary built environment.

Featuring a trippy poster designed by Assistant Professor Curtis Roth, the series starts today with a lecture by David Gissen of the California College of the Arts. Other upcoming speakers include...

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Spring '18

2018-01-17T13:30:00-05:00

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.

Check out who will be speaking in The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture's Baumer Lecture Series for the Spring 2018 term.

Jan 10
Adam Marcus and Andrew Kudless / California College of the Arts

Jan 17
Caroline Levine / Cornell University

Jan 24
Todd Gannon and Joe Day / Ohio State University and SCI-Arc

Jan 31
Andrew Zago / Zago Architecture

Feb 14
Tom Sanchez / Virginia Tech

Feb 21
Kate Cullity / Taylor Cullity Lethlean

Feb 28
Henri Bava / Agence Ter

Mar 7
William O'Brien, Jr. / MIT

Mar 21
Wonne Ickx / PRODUCTORA

Mar 28
Kristi Cheramie / The Ohio State Univ...

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Fall '17

2017-08-23T12:49:00-04:00

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.

The Ohio State University, Knowlton School of Architecture will launch their Fall '17 lecture series next Wednesday. Speakers include Nader Tehrani, Nicholas de Monchaux, Jackilin Hah Bloom, and the one and only Rem Koolhaas.

Aug 30
Ian Bogost / Georgia Institute of Technology

Sept 6
Teresa Galí-Izard / Arquitectura Agronomica

Sept 13
Jason Reece / The Ohio State University

Sept 20
Andrew Holder / The Los Angeles Design Group

Sept 27
Nader Tehrani / The Cooper Union

Oct 4
Joann Bacon / Allies and Morrison

Oct 1...

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Spring '17

2017-01-31T14:12:00-05:00

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.

Have a look at what lectures and exhibitions are coming up at the Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture.

Feb 3
Sarah Oppenheimer & Laurent Stalder / Artist & ETH Zurich
5:30pm at Film/Video Theater / Wexner Center for the Arts

Feb 8
Shane Coen / Coen + Partners
5:30pm at Gui Auditorium / Knowlton Hall

Feb 22
Tatiana Bilbao / Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO
5:30pm at Gui Auditorium / Knowlton Hall

Mar 1
Documentary Premiere: "Free to Ride" / Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity 5:30p...

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Fall '16

2016-09-13T12:58:00-04:00

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.

This fall, the Knowlton School of Architecture at the Ohio State University will feature lectures from leading practitioners like DLANDstudio's Susannah Drake, Peter Eisenman, Ryue Nishizawa, Paul Lewis of LTL Architects, and don't miss a conversation between Robert A.M. Stern and Paul Goldberger.

Below are upcoming lectures.

Sept 14
Margaret Dewar / University of Michigan
5:30pm at Gui Auditorium / Knowlton Hall

Sept 21
Susannah Drake / DLANDstudio
5:30pm at Gui Auditorium / Knowlton ...

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Fall '15

2015-09-21T12:56:00-04:00

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 poster comes from The Ohio State University, Knowlton School of Architecture with their Fall 2015 lecture series, "Energies".

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. Free and open the public. Unless noted, lectures begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Gui Auditorium (Knowlton Hall, Room 250).

Sept 23
Neil Denari / NMDA

Sept 30
Megan Sandel / Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health

Oct 7
François Roche / R&Sie(n)

Oct 12
Michael Blier / Landworks Studio
at Knowlton Hall Big Stairs

Oct 13
Neil Denari + Robert Somol / Stair Session with Baumer Dist...

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Spring '15

2015-01-16T13:04:00-05:00

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.

Our next featured poster comes from the Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture with their Spring '15 series, "Mingle"

"To Mingle is to shift states. It implies the ability to equally join and disconnect. It is a deliberate drift, an active movement that prioritizes overlap over blending, bleeding and blurring. In the realm of design and planning, a 'mingler' maintains distinct qualities while seeking productive alternatives. The lecture series includes lecturers that are nimble as they seek innovative ways to forward their respective fields."

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

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Fall '14

2014-09-09T14:38:00-04:00

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 poster features the Fall 2014 Baumer Lecture Series: "TWIST" at The Ohio State University Knowlton 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.

Below are upcoming lectures only. Unless noted, lectures begin at 5:30 p.m in the Gui Auditorium (Knowlton Hall 250). Free and open to the public.

SEPTEMBER

Sept. 17
Jim Diers / Asset-Based Community Development

OCTOBER

Oct. 1
John Peterson / Public Architecture

Oct. 8
Elena Manferdini / Atelier Manferdini

Oct. 17
Peter Eisenman / Eisenman Architects

Oct. 29
Ashley Schafer / The Ohio State University, Architecture

NOVEMBER

N...

Get Lectured: Ohio State University, Spring '14

2014-02-17T13:03:00-05:00

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, we'll feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current season. Be sure to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

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!

Our next poster comes from Ohio State University's Knowlton School of Architecture featuring "Doubling", as part of the Baumer Lecture Series.

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. Free and open to the public. Lectures will take place at 5:30 PM at the Knowlton Hall Auditorium (KN 250), unless noted otherwise.

FEBRUARY

Feb 26
June Manning Thomas / ...

Get Lectured: Knowlton School of Architecture Fall '13

2013-09-10T11:09:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2013

Here on Archinect we just 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.

We'll be starting out with Archinect's Most Followed Schools profiles. For today is the "Loose Fit" Baumer Lecture Series from the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University.

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

All lectures are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Unless noted, all lectures will be held at the Knowlton Hall Auditorium (KN 250) at 5:30 pm.

SEPTEMBER

September 4
Ken Smith / WORKSHOP (Ken Smith Landscape Architect):
Larger Landscapes

September 11
Tridib Banerjee / University of Southern California, Price School of Public Pol...

From the School Blogs: It's Almost Here

2011-05-19T11:15:56-04:00

Exit Reviews are starting tomorrow and we all can't believe they're here. They've felt so far away for so long. I'm probably about 98% done with my talk, I go Tuesday at 4:30 so I have time to polish it up.

From the Blogs: end of Winter, beginning of Spring

2011-05-02T18:16:46-04:00

The end of Winter Quarter was, as always, filled with excitement here at the KSA. My partner and I made a fun model of our proposed looping transit system for Ohio. (I'm pretty sure I can draw the state now without looking at a map.)