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EskewDumezRipple to deliver academic center for Georgia Tech in Atlanta

2023-10-30T14:29:00-04:00

EskewDumezRipple has announced plans for a new academic building for the Georgia Institute of Technology in midtown Atlanta.

The 416,500-square-foot Tech Square 3 will anchor Phase 3 of the newly created Technology Square, which links back to Georgia Tech’s main campus. The design calls for a “vertically-oriented quad” that directly engages the 5th Street corridor through a characteristically Southern ‘porch’ socializing space located at the ground level.

Rendering courtesy EskewDumezRipple

Two 14- and 18-story masses are combined into one building that supports the university’s Executive MBA program and H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering connected by a central shared core. A vertical rooftop garden element completes the project, situated on top of an architectural staircase that helps unify the building with an outdoor promenade.

Rendering courtesy EskewDumezRipple

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MASS Design founder Michael Murphy announces he is stepping down, will join the faculty at Georgia Tech

2022-10-10T11:30:00-04:00

MASS Design Group President and co-founder Michael Murphy has announced he will be stepping down from his post after 15 years to pursue new academic and professional initiatives in a move announced on Friday.

The announcement stated that MASS will continue under the leadership of Senior Principals and Managing Directors Christian Benimana and Patricia Gruits and Founding Principal and Chief Design Officer Alan Ricks. Murphy will now join the faculty at Georgia Tech as its new Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair.

The recent AIA Firm Award winners have become recognized throughout the design community for their commitment to restorative social justice projects and three core guiding principles of beauty, dignity, and the increased flow of natural air best exemplified in their designs for the Butaro District Hospital and subsequent commissions across Rwanda and the United States.

Previously on Archinect: new documentary tells the story behind MASS Design Group's cholera clinic ...

Innovation-minded Ingeborg Rocker has been appointed Chair of Georgia Tech's School of Architecture

2022-08-31T06:07:00-04:00

The School of Architecture at Georgia Tech University has announced the appointment of Ingeborg Rocker as its new Chair and William Harrison Professor of Architecture effective September 1st.

Rocker joins Georgia Tech after working in the software industry and holding separate academic positions at the Harvard GSD between 2005 and 2020. She co-founded her own Boston and Hong Kong-based practice, Rocker-Lange, in 2006 and will now look to enhance the school’s highly-technical course offerings by leveraging a reputation for engineering and building science that has long been associated with the 137-year-old Atlanta institution.

“At its core, architecture is trans-disciplinary,” she explained in a university press release, “ranging from vision and design innovation to technical and material realization. It is a unique discipline that can be theo...

UVA professor Ellen M. Bassett has been announced as dean of Georgia Tech's College of Design

2021-12-22T10:58:00-05:00

More movement at the top of the academic landscape this week as Georgia Tech has announced University of Virginia urban and environmental planning professor Ellen M. Bassett as the next John Portman Dean’s Chair of the university’s College of Design.

A former Fulbright Scholar, Bassett has taught at Portland State University, UVA, and Michigan State. At UVA Bassett serves as the Associate Dean for Research in addition to her teaching role and is currently director of the school’s Real Estate Design and Development certificate program.

Bassett holds degrees from the University of Michigan and University of Wisconsin-Madison, respectively, and spent over a decade working in East Africa as an urban and environmental planner in addition to working closely with the World Bank and U.S. Department of State in consultant roles.

A university statement lauded Bassett for her “deep commitment to international engagement, scholarship, and teaching” as well as her “real-world impact on communi...

Get Lectured: Georgia Tech, Spring '19

2019-03-27T16:03:00-04:00

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.

The Georgia Tech School of Architecture's lecture series is described as “a whole curriculum in itself that brings together students and faculty from across disciplines to engage with the leading thinkers and practitioners of the day” and also highlights alternative practices. Upcoming lectures include “Redesigning Cities Against Climate Change” featuring Peter Calthorpe and Rob Kunzing, and “Gentrification without Displacement?” with Joseph P. Riley and Jess Zimbabwe.

Upcoming symposia include: “Creating the Next Modeling System”, “Designing the Future of Health...

Get Lectured: Georgia Tech, Spring '17

2017-02-13T15:01:00-05:00

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.

Here's a glimpse of the lecture events happening at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Architecture for Spring '17.

Feb 15
James Carpenter / Founder, James Carpenter Design Associates
“Light in the Public Realm”

Feb 17
Thom Mayne / Founder, Morphosis
"Multiple Agendas”

Mar 3
Craig Dykers / Founding Partner, Snøhetta
Current Work

Mar 30
Santiago Calatrava / Founder, Santiago Calatrava Architects & Engineers
“Exploring the Art of Construction”

SYMPOSIA

Mar 11
“Origination”

Mar 31
“Architecture, Phantasm...

Repositioning and possible name change of Georgia Tech's College of Architecture underway

2015-10-07T20:55:00-04:00

Georgia Tech is launching a strategic repositioning of its College of Architecture, including a possible name change. "The College of Architecture currently faces several reputational challenges as it seeks to implement its strategic plan that took effect in 2014," Tech said in a posting on its website on Tuesday. "Student enrollment levels in the undergraduate architecture program need significant improvement. [...] its research contributions show similar opportunities for improvement."

Get Lectured: Georgia Tech, Spring '14

2014-02-10T15:03:00-05:00

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, every week 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.

Today's poster is from the Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Architecture in Atlanta, Georgia.

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 noted, lectures start at 6:00 p.m. and will take place at the Reinsch-Pierce Auditorium at the College of Architecture: 245 4th St, NW Atlanta, Georgia

FEBRUARY

Feb 12
6:00 p.m.
Diane Favro
2014 Academy of Medicine Distinguished Lecture in Architecture and the Classical Tradition: "Lab Bytes Rome: Digital Experiments on Augustan Rome"
at The Historic Academy of Medic...

Get Lectured: Georgia Tech School of Architecture Fall '13

2013-09-12T11:03:00-04:00

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.

Today's list is from the Georgia Institute of Technology, 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.

All lectures are free and open to the public.
Unless noted, events will be held at the Reinsch-Pierce Family Auditorium:
245 4th Street NW Atlanta, GA

AUGUST

August 28
6:00 pm
Mark Binelli / author of "Detroit City Is the Place to Be"
(presented with Art Papers)

SEPTEMBER

September 11
6:00 pm
Neil Denari / NMDA

September 18
6:00 pm
Lee Ann Gamble + Michael Gamble / G+G Architects

September 25
6:00 pm
Brian Bell + David Yocum / BLDGS

Se...

Dean of Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture, Alan Balfour, stepping down in June

2012-08-09T18:29:00-04:00

Alan Balfour, dean of Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture since 2008, has announced his intention not to seek reappointment to that position. Balfour will return to the Georgia Tech faculty as a professor in the School of Architecture upon concluding his tenure as dean, effective June 30, 2013.