Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where his primary focus is on the development and application of advanced technologies for seismic resistance of structures. His involvement in the Bedford Program began in earnest when he served as the School of Engineering representative on the search committee for the second Bedford Visiting Professor. Subsequently, he participated in his first Bedford Travel-Study Workshop in Spain; that experience serving as the catalyst for this paper. He is now a major proponent of the Bedford Program within the School of Engineering and anticipates future collaborative work with the School of Architecture to develop formal assessment processes for continuous improvement of the program.
Who will lead in the much-needed awakening to the problem of the divide-and-conquer mentality that has strapped the construction industry to vast inefficiencies BOTH in the way buildings are conceived, designed, delivered AND how they perform? And in the barrage of contemporary claims for performance-based design – what is the fate of “Design”? This paper examines these questions with examples of substantial and emerging pedagogical initiatives that are critically founded and practically executed with a view toward a more integrated and better-designed future – of performative built environments and the practices that produce them.
<p>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has been educating civil engineers for almost 200 years and over the last fifteen a unique collaborative program has developed between the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, the School of Architecture and prominent structural engineers. Funded by the Bedford Endowment, the program pairs architecture and structural engineering students over their senior semesters in a range of courses designed to improve mutual understanding, develop awareness of design motivations and aesthetics in the engineers and structural forces and forms in the architects. Led by a leading structural engineer from practice on a three year appointment, the Bedford Professor teaches both a seminar and a studio class and leads a ten day travelling workshop at the end of each academic year that exposes engineering and architecture students to best practice examples of collaboration in the design of the built environment.</p>
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