Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photos of a university building in Martinsried, near Munich, by German studio Auer+Weber+Assoziierte. (more…)
Designer Robert Gaukroger has completed three wooden classrooms on stilts in a forest clearing in the Lake District, UK. (more…)
Istanbul practice Teget Architectural Office have completed an extension to a banking centre in Istanbul, Turkey. (more…)
Singapore’s newly-formed University of Technology and Design has appointed Thomas Magnanti (the former head of MIT’s Department of Engineering) as its new president, and Magnanti is pushing a “design thinking”-centered agenda.
[SUTD] is offering degrees in architecture and sustainable design, engineering product design, engineering systems and system design and information engineering and design.The word ‘design’ keeps appearing for a reason. Design as an academic discipline will be infused and stressed in all the courses, Prof Magnanti says. Students will be part of a multi-disciplinary team given projects to design a product or a system. They will use design processes such as identifying the end users and profiling them, understanding their needs for a product or service, building a prototype and then testing it with the end users for feedback, and then going back to enhance it further.
‘With training in design thinking, an engineer or architect will be able to bring together his creativity, imagination and technical knowledge to create products or systems that satisfy human needs,’ he says.
In the new economy, he adds, design thinking is hugely important. ‘Let me use an obvious example. Why is everyone crazy about Apple products? Because they look good, they work well, they have enabled people to discover new uses for their phone or portable music player such as the iPod. ‘In a knowledge economy it is these kinds of products that will sell – ones that satisfy customers’ needs and enhance their experience of using it.’
Click here for a Q&A with Magnanti.
Are your photos worth thousands of words? Thousands of dollars? Thousands more photos? Pulitzer Prize-winning photo editor Stella Kramer will help you get the picture (and figure out where to sell it) at Mediabistro’s one-night Breaking Into Editorial Photography seminar on Monday, December 7 in New York. Students will learn about how to get coveted magazine jobs and build a career as an editorial freelancer. Here’s your chance to hear tips on creating a dynamic portfolio, what photo editors at top publications are looking for, and when it pays to get representation; registration is a click away.
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Here’s your chance to get the scoop on the graduate program that we can’t stop talking about. This Saturday, November 7, the School of Visual Arts’ Design Criticism department will host an afternoon of presentations and informal discussion about its MFA in Design Criticism, better known by its rapper name, D-Crit. Students will talk about their experiences so far, D-Crit chairperson Alice Twemlow will provide a program overview, and faculty members Akiko Busch, Andrea Codrington, Steven Heller, and Phil Patton will discuss the courses they teach. We hear that there will be drinks (mimosas!) and snacks (doughnuts!), and if you ask nicely, we suspect they’ll let you peruse the twelve-volume reprint set of Domus that we spied in one of the D-Crit classrooms on a recent visit. Get all of the details here. Can’t make the open house? Click “continued…” for a look at the remaining events in the department’s stellar fall lecture series.
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The signs have really been there from the beginning, so this should really come as no surprise. Despite an influx of out of work students returning to school to receive various degrees in architecture, there have been questions over whether this is such a good idea, horribly gloomy reports from those inside university programs about future prospects, and even schools themselves telling students to scram for a year. And just a view of the industry itself these past couple of years doesn’t paint a very rosy picture at all either. So when the Higher Education Career Services organization in the UK announces that a study has found that less than 50% of graduating architecture students are finding jobs, it isn’t very revelatory. But it certainly doesn’t make it any less unfortunate. Here’s a bit:
Mike Hill, chief executive of HECSU, said: “We’re now starting to see the extent of the impact the recession has had on graduate employment.
“Any signs of economic recovery may not be reflected in the destinations of new graduates until the 2010 graduating cohort. In fact it’s likely that unemployment for 2009 graduates may be even higher than that reported here.”
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A quick note that I will be joining Project H’s Emily Pilloton, Metropolis Magazine’s Susan Szenasy, and Cooper-Hewitt curator Cynthia Smith for a panel discussion at the Cooper-Hewitt on Tuesday, October 6th as part of the NYC launch party for Emily’s book, Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People. Things will start off at 6:30, and the panel will be followed by a reception and book signing. Register for the event via the Cooper-Hewitt site here ($10 members and students/$15 non-members).
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