485 research outputs found
Maya Lin in Conversation
Full text linkRecord of a conversation held in Umrath Hall at Washington University in St. Louis on November 17, 2016 between Maya Lin and Sam Fox School faculty and students. The event was co-hosted by Women in Architecture + Design. Contents Introduction / Natasha Tabachnikoff -- Submissions / Sam Fox Students & Faculty -- In conversation / Maya Lin ; transcribed by Jenny Li. Question 1 / Francisco Coch ; Question 2 / Mingxi Li ; Question 3 / Jenna Schnitzler ; Question 4 / Jared Crane ; Question 5 / Natasha Tabachnikoff ; Question 6 / Rita Wang ; Question 7 / Kahlil Irving ; Question 8 / Allie Henner ; Question 9 / Kaitlyn Schwalber -- Maya Lin + urban design / Linda Samuels -- Between art + architecture / Mingxi Li -- Acknowledgements / Yulin Peng.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/books/1040/thumbnail.jp
Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Volume 1, Spring 2009
No full textSam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts. From the Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Volume 1, Spring 2009. Published by the Office of Undergraduate Research. Henry Biggs, Director, Office of Undergraduate Research and Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences; E. Holly Tasker, Editor
MFA 2018
Full text linkThis catalog displays the work of the MFA Class of 2018 from the Sam Fox School at Washington University in St. Louis.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/mfa_cat/1000/thumbnail.jp
Farzana H. Chohan, LEED AP BD+C, DTM / Master of Architecture and Urban Design, 1999
Full text linkInnovative Design of Life | Mosaic Designer | Project Leader Life Long……2014
“Outside of the box thinker”, is a presumption about an architect. And reality on ground restrains this creativity to work within the rigid confines of numerous internal and external factors associated with practicing of creativity in life. “Woman in Architecture” is a summation of creative life. As such this board reflects the creativity and diversity of WIA life. This is an illustration of the “Innovative Design of life”, my life, and a testimony of all other WIA.
Montage of my life has been a juxtaposition of conscious design decisions and organic development of design actions. Started with a norm-defying undergraduate thesis on “LEPROSY CENTER”. The research and one-on-one time spend with humans affected by highly stigmatized disease and designing a facility for them, encapsulated the meaning of word “plight”.
Creative self-expression have been an integral part of evolving life since then. Even in 21st century, WIA still face the age old biases in sophisticated forms and have to constantly innovate life, so am I.
Currently leading as, Lieutenant Governor of Education & Training at Toastmasters International D8 in areas of communication & leadership.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/wia_profiles/1025/thumbnail.jp
Ann Rolland, AIA, LEED AP / Master of Architecture, 1983
Full text linkHunter\u27s Point Campus | Queens, NY, Project Manager, 2013.
The new Hunter’s Point Campus accommodates 1,071 students and comprises an Intermediate School, a High School, District 75, and shared facilities. The site for the 145,000-square-foot school is a previously-undeveloped parcel of the Hunters Point South Development in Queens, now being reformed as part of the City’s rezoning and redevelopment project. The School complies with the requirements of the New York City Green Schools Guide. FXFOWLE’s design creates distinct learning environments that allow each program to function independently, while sharing common resources. The orientation and configuration of space capitalizes on light, air, and views. Major assembly spaces are clustered in the southwest wing of the building, while the auditorium is located as an object in the center of the third and fourth floors, straddling the I.S. and H.S. The project’s top floor is literally its crowning feature, with dining spaces located adjacent to a large outdoor terrace, affording sweeping views of Manhattan and the East River.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/wia_profiles/1017/thumbnail.jp
Sara Grant, AIA, LEED AP / Bachelor of Arts, 1999
Full text linkMiddle School for Girls, New York, NY \ Project Manager, 2011
The design of this 70,000 square foot middle school building centers around community spaces encouraging collaboration and engagement. The lobby and stair are celebrated as the connective tissue of the building and each classroom floor is centered around a common area with large and small informal meeting spaces incorporated throughout. Large gathering spaces like the library and music room serve as anchors and are expressed on the building façade. The building is designed to allow for abundant natural light screened through a screen of strong vertical ribs in response to the surrounding urban context. In designing for girls, the team sought to integrate appropriate learning and social spaces within an architecture that reflected this academically rigorous environment.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/wia_profiles/1026/thumbnail.jp
Lea Oxenhandler, LEED AP / Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, 2009
Full text linkThe City School | A Critique of the Architecture and Planning of Urban Educational Institutions
The architectural relationship between schools and their cities can become radically more contextual and porous, allowing schools to overcome the introverted ‘campus’ typology and branch out to the rest of the urban fabric they have historically isolated themselves from. This spatial and programmatic configuration allows schools, which are often lacking a key framework of amenities and resources, to best serve their own students, sharing programmatic resources across traditional physical and bureaucratic boundaries.
Utilizing existing vacant buildings and land on a large site in Philadelphia, this thesis seeks to create an interior and exterior teaching landscape that explores a learning environment that has a more open relationship to its surrounding community. Through adaptive reuse, this model for a new urban school system seeks to improve the overall urban experience both within and outside of schools.
This Master of Architecture thesis work was done at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and advised by David Leatherbarrow.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/wia_profiles/1032/thumbnail.jp
Laura Zeidker Finuf / Master of Architecture, 2011
Full text linkA.T. Still University, Interprofessional Education & Dental School, Kirksville, Missouri | Architectural & Interior Design Team, Completed 2013
The University desired a connection between students in the existing schools on campus with the new dental students – both socially and educationally. To promote this, the building includes classrooms and specialized labs used by other schools on campus and generous circulation space for study and collaboration.
Together with surrounding buildings, the new building defines a new outdoor green space, the first on the existing campus. The form reinforces existing campus patterns – a hard edge facing the town and soft shapes dominating the interior of the campus.
The transparent envelope reinforces the relationship between the interior and the landscape outside. A combination of clear and translucent glasses, the envelope modulates light and views according to the spaces inside. The interior materials used in the labs and public spaces vary in transparency, texture and color. At night, interior colors of different hues emanate a soft glow on the green space outside, revealing the activity inside to the campus, connecting the campus together.
AIA St. Louis 2014 Honor Award in Architecturehttps://openscholarship.wustl.edu/wia_profiles/1034/thumbnail.jp
Sarah Burnett / Master of Urban Design, 2010
Full text linkcere Concrete Jewelry | Business Owner / Designer, Concrete, May 2014-present
‘cere was created partially out of fascination and partially as a challenge. The idea was simple, to transcend the sophisticated and elegant qualities of concrete, perfected by architects like Tadao Ando, at a smaller, wearable scale. Outside of the architectural community, concrete is an overlooked material. It is associated with durability, heaviness and industry and is not recognized as an innately expressive medium. ‘cere takes that preconception and alters it by creating pieces that are light, delicate and beautiful yet are still raw and true to their materiality.
Each piece of jewelry is hand-cast in its own mold. This process, along with the intrinsic character of concrete, ensures that no two pieces are the same, meaning, that each item is as unique as the person who wears it.
‘cere is the abbreviation for the Latin word concrescere, the perfect past participle of the word concrete, meaning “to grow together.” www.cerejewlery.comhttps://openscholarship.wustl.edu/wia_profiles/1033/thumbnail.jp
Jen Stauber Francis, LEED AP (BD+C), CPRP / Master of Architecture / Master of Urban Design, 2006
Full text linkTopofeelia | Derived from Love of Place \ Photographer, Designer, Fabricator | Paper, Wood, Nails, Projection, 2013-2014
Topofeelia is a visual distillation of topophilia, defined by Yi-Fu Tuan as the affective bond between people and place or environmental setting (topos “place” and -philia, “love of”). This installation explores manifestations of love of place, sometimes unanticipated, in settings containing simultaneously miniscule and monumental encounters and considers reaction, pattern, connection, cycles, and becoming. The images represent place-gazing within North America, South America and Europe over the span of more than ten years (2003-2014). A non-traditional framing method minimizes barriers between the viewer and the photo, allowing the viewer to quickly “feel” into an image. Individual tiles of varying sizes and thicknesses are moveable, enabling changing patterns, relationships and viewing experiences to emerge. This work is rooted in the idea that there is profound value in art that is accessible on fundamental levels: visually, thematically, economically, and spiritually. All wood used in this process is recycled scrap material from a local Vermont furniture company.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/wia_profiles/1030/thumbnail.jp
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