Outreach
Architecture Research Collaborative
Outreach
This fully online lecture series focused on the ever-growing need for precision and efficiency within the architectural practice. The goal of this event was to inspire a conversation on different understandings and meanings of the word “exactitude” within the context of contemporary and future architectural practice through lectures and discussions with both academics and practitioners within the field of architecture.
In collaboration with Kent Hicks Construction, eight students from the Department of Architecture and the Building Construction and Technology Program are working together on a design-build project, a net-zero energy micro-house.
The 2019 BTES conference explored the role of technology education and curriculum in cultivating these intellectual habits in our students (and ourselves) and in creating the organizational spaces in which the future of practice will be shaped. Sessions presented exemplary proposals of research and pedagogical applications that explore innovative practices and integrative thinking in the academy and profession.
Associate Professor Ray Mann's Spring 2019 Graduate Studio 2 partnered with the Kestrel Land Trust to brainstorm possible renovations strategies for their newly acquired property on Bay Road in south Amherst. Over the course of five weeks, the eight students analyzed the site, measured and modeled the building, and explored ideas about how the building might be retrofitted or altered while also creating a new identity that would not only improve space usage but reflect the organization's values.
