Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

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Here’s a few shots from yesterday’s Master of Science: Material Systems end of term presentations.  For more information about Taubman College’s Master of Science degree and the Material Systems concentration, please visit:
taubmancollege.umich.edu/msms

To see more photos from these presentations, head over to our Flickr account.

Photos by Alex Jacque, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

If you’re downtown, why not stop in and check out the great research projects our faculty have been working on this past year. Our 2012-2013 Research Through Making exhibition is still open and will continue to run through April 21st. The exhibition is at our Liberty Research Annex (305 W. Liberty), and the hours of operation are Thursday-Sunday 3-7PM.

Current Research Through Making Installations:

• Electroform(alism): Masters, substrates and the rules of attraction
  Jean-Louis Farges and Anya Sirota
• Empty Pavilion
  McLain Clutter and Kyle Reynolds
• (DE)COMPOSING TERRITORY: Enclosure as a negotiation between bioplastics + environments
  Meredith Miller
• Crease, Fold, Pour: Advancing Flexible Formwork with Digital Fabrication and Origami Folding
  Maciej Kaczynski
• Platform for Architecture & Makin’ It, A Situation Comedy
  John McMorrough and Julia McMorrough

For more information on the Research Through Making exhibition, please visit taubmancollege.umich.edu/rtm

Photos by Peter Smith / Peter Smith Photography

The 2012-13 Architecture Fellows exhibition – 100 Drawings, 48 Characters, 12 Landforms – is up and running in the Taubman College gallery.  The exhibit runs through April 28, 2013, so stop on by!

A little about the fellowships:
Taubman College offers three fellowships in the areas of architectural research and instruction. Each of the fellowships includes teaching related to the candidate’s area of interest, resources for the development of work, possibilities to interface with scholars and researchers in the wider university context, and the opportunity to share the outcome of the fellowship with the College. Fellows spend one year in residence and teach three classes in addition to pursuing their fellowship interests.

2012-13 Fellows:

• Andrew Holder, Project/Oberdick Fellow
• Alexander Maymind, Research/Sanders Fellow
• Christian Stayner, Design/Muschenheim Fellow

Check the full set of photos from our the exhibition we recently hosted, The Piranesi Variations.

This event featured Architecture Chair John McMorrough in conversation with Jeffrey Kipnis (Professor of Architecture, The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture), and Sylvia Lavin (Director of Critical Studies, Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA).

A little about the exhibition:

The Piranesi Variations is a project for developed by the Yale School of Architecture for the 13th International Architecture Biennale in Venice. The project, developed by Professor Peter Eisenmann and his students, provides a new dimension, literally, to a landmark work by 18th-century engraver, mapmaker, and architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778). Eisenman’s students contributed historical analysis as a platform for three contemporary interpretations of Piranesi’s drawing – one from Eisenman’s own New York office, Eisenman Architects; a second from the architecture critic Jeffrey Kipnis of Ohio State University; and a third from architect Pier Vittorio Aureli of the Belgian office DOGMA. With access to Piranesi’s original folio, housed in Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Eisenman’s students “re-invented” Piranesi’s Rome as a detailed gold-painted 3D-printed model at the scale of the original etching – the first of its kind.

This multipart endeavor focuses on Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s 1762 “Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma,” a folio of six etchings that depict his fantastical vision of what ancient Rome might have looked like, derived from years of archaeological and architectural research. Each of the models created for this exhibition is 8 x 10 feet at its base — double the size of the folio. Each revisits Piranesi’s etchings, proposing answers to the inherent questions they raise about the relationship of architecture to ground, following the Biennale’s theme of “Common Ground.”

“The Piranesi Variations” is organized by the Yale School of Architecture, New Haven: in collaboration with Eisenman Architects, New York; DOGMA Architects, Brussels; and Jeffrey Kipnis, Jose Oubrerie, and Stephen Turk of The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture, Columbus. “The Project of Campo Marzio” (Yale School of Architecture) is supported in part by Marshall Ruben and Carolyn Greenspan. “A Field of Diagrams” (Eisenman Architects) is supported in part by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. “The Piranesi Variations” was originally developed by Eisenman Architects as an invited participant in the 13th Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy, 2012. The exhibition at Taubman College is generously supported by The Guido A. Binda Lecture and Exhibition Fund.

Raoul Wallenberg (B.S. Arch ‘35), rescuer of tens of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust, is among the University of Michigan’s most illustrious alumni. On the centenary of his birth, the University of Michigan, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Swedish Consulate General of Detroit are presenting an exhibition that tells the story of a young Swede and U-M alumnus whose choices in life made him an immortal hero. In January 1945 Soviet authorities detained Wallenberg in Budapest; his fate remains unknown.

Created by the Swedish Institute for the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the exhibition tells the story of Wallenberg’s life, including his time in Budapest during the final months of the Holocaust and the years he spent in Ann Arbor and traveling in America. The exhibition has been augmented with additional information about his time on campus in Ann Arbor. During the past year, the exhibition has traveled to Budapest, Berlin, Moscow, Tel Aviv, New York, Washington, DC, Ottawa, and Toronto.

On Thursday, January 30, the exhibition opened with a reception from 4-6 p.m. in the Michigan Union Ballroom. Remarks provided by University of Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman, Swedish ambassador to the U.S. Jonas Hafström, dean of the University of Michigan A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Monica Ponce de Leon, University of Michigan Wallenberg Executive Committee co-founder and Holocaust survivor Irene Butter, and Swedish journalist Ingrid Carlberg, author of the award-winning book There is a Room Waiting for you Here: The Story of Raoul Wallenberg.

Also on January 30, in connection with the opening of the exhibition, Ingrid Carlberg gave the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning’s annual Wallenberg Lecture from 2-3:45 p.m. in Room 100 of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, which is located on the Diag of the University of Michigan’s central campus. Carlberg’s biography of Raoul Wallenberg won the 2012 August Prize for the best Swedish nonfiction book. It is being translated into English for publication in the U.S.

Photos by Peter Smith, Peter Smith Photography