Knowlton School at The Ohio State University

Break starts tomorrow! Knowlton wishes everyone happy holidays and a peaceful break. See you in December! Offices at Knowlton and Ohio State will be closed on Thursday and Friday in observance of Thanksgiving and Indigenous Peoples Day/Columbus Day.

THIS SUNDAY! https://lnkd.in/gdk5hyev DAVIDSON RAFAILIDIS is co-organizing the 2024 Drawing for Food, an online auction to support food security and housing in Toronto. --- An international group of architects has teamed up to support an organization that assists individuals experiencing poverty, food insecurity, or homelessness in downtown Toronto. Using a mutual aid model, Drawing for Food puts drawings contributed by select architects online to solicit donations to Toronto Food Not Bombs food outreach program; Every Sunday for the past several years, Toronto FnB volunteers have been gathering at Toronto’s Allan Gardens Park and serving around 150 to 250 bags of groceries and meals to those affected by poverty, homelessness, or food scarcity. -- Contributors Outpost Office (US) 📷 1 Alvaro Siza (Portugal) 📷 3 Andrew Kovacs (US) Bonell + Doriga (Spain) BUREAU (Switzerland/Portugal) Doris Thut (Germany) French2D (US) Hadi Madwar (Canada) Jean-Benoit Vetillard (France) Kemetic Blue (Egypt/France) 📷 2 Nicholas Tilma (US) Raymond Biesinger (Canada) Ryan Tyler Martinez (US) Studio Abirascid Hemlin (Sweden) Valerie Marshall (Finland/Canada) -- Organizers: Stephanie Davidson & Georg Rafailidis Adrian Phiffer Eira Roberts Toronto Food not Bombs Claudia Draghia (Romania) (designer of the optimistic apple logo) 📷 4

Aniyah Rosales Knowlton Ambassador 2024–2025 Meet Aniyah! Aniyah is from Dayton, Ohio, and majors in architecture. She discussed her experiences as a Knowlton student with us. --- -- What do you enjoy most about being a Knowlton student? I love how Knowlton feels like its own community where I can express myself on a big campus! -- What is your best advice for a new Knowlton student? Take advantage of the creative freedom you have now! Experiment with your ideas and imagination in your design to one day be your own inspiration! And never be afraid to ask others for help. There will always be someone in Knowlton with an answer to your question, whether they're in a different year or major than you. Read more about Aniyah: https://bit.ly/4fQBoEs

It was great to see all the student input and feedback at yesterday's Diversity and Donuts Café! Knowlton's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access Committee solicited input on Knowlton’s director search and the committee's other initiatives.

👏👏👏 Congratulations to DAVIDSON RAFAILIDIS (Assistant Professor of Architecture Stephanie Davidson and Associate Professor of Architecture Georg Rafailidis)—the firm has been awarded the 2025 Prize for Research and Creation in Architecture from the Grantham Foundation for the Arts and the Environment. --- [DAVIDSON RAFAILIDIS] plan to take their time at Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham to observe, firstly, the space of the residency, which is primarily a wooded area—a kind of environment that doesn’t necessarily call for architecture in a conventional sense. With the conviction that space is wild, they will work on architectural expressions that take the location as an invitation to imagine architecture as non-static, responsive, alive, idiosyncratic, temporal: the opposite of the stark duality that is often captured by images of a small hut in a forest. The anticipated outcome is a non-typological spatial gesture that allows for the wildness of architectural space. More https://bit.ly/4fWRhJn

Knowlton Student Organization Highlight: The American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) --- The American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) is a student-run organization that advances leadership, design, and service among architecture students. AIAS promotes excellence in architecture education, providing its members with invaluable experiences that will prepare them for entering the profession and beyond. Through the Freedom by Design™ program and other community outreach, AIAS empowers its members and students to be good citizens on their campuses and communities. Memberships are on sale now for $25 (with a free T-shirt!). Benefits include discounted merch, priority Beaux Arts Ball tickets, priority spots for firm tours, and more! AIAS’s final event for the semester is Portfolio Reviews on November 18th at 6 pm. Next semester includes the Beaux Arts Ball, their Crewneck Competition, firm tours, and other professional development opportunities. Follow @aiasohiostate for information about their meetings and join the GroupMe! To learn more about the organization, visit the link in our bio. Pictured is the AIAS Executive Board.

Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in the City and Regional Planning Section Don Leonard has published “Trump voters said they were angry about the economy – many of them had a point” in The Conversation U.S. --- As a political economist and regional planner, I have sought to understand the causes of this apparent mismatch between economic indicators and the perceptions of everyday Americans. What I learned is that, for at least 20 million U.S. households, there is good cause for disillusionment. The method the federal government uses to calculate real incomes tends to capture the economic realities of higher-income people better than those of working-class and middle-class Americans. --- Read more https://bit.ly/3Cu0qur

Drift Room Marta Nowak Christos Yessios Endowed Professorship in the Architecture Section --- The concept of infinity, symbolized by ∞, originated in Western science when John Wallis introduced it in 1655. While ancient Greek philosophers, like Anaximander and Aristotle, explored infinity, it only gained scientific relevance with the advent of infinitesimal calculus and expanded further with 20th-century discoveries: the universe’s infinite expansion (1927) and Einstein’s quantum theory contributions (1905). Modern pop culture embraced quantum science, though architecture lagged. The Drift Room project draws from quantum superposition, creating a flexible space with motorized furniture that adapts to occupants' needs. By reimagining architectural design, it reflects infinite spatial possibilities and challenges static design conventions.

👏👏👏 Congratulations to Steven Turkes (BSArch ’84, MArch ’89), who was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award for Career Achievement by The Ohio State University College of Engineering at the 2024 College of Engineering Alumni Awards on October 25! --- Turckes is the Global Practice Leader of the K-12 Educational Facilities Group for Perkins&Will, an international architecture firm specializing in the research-based planning and design of innovative and sustainable educational facilities. He is a Principal in Perkins+Will’s Chicago office, where his work has focused on the programming, master planning, and implementation of over 100 K-12 projects totaling more than $3 billion across 17 states, the District of Columbia, China, Japan, Mozambique, India, and Brazil. Turckes is generous, regularly sharing his deep knowledge as a global expert on design, education, and communities. He has collaborated with over 30 local architecture firms, expanding their expertise in innovative school planning and design, and contributing to their professional development for the ultimate benefit of their clients and communities. Turckes’ built projects have won nearly 50 awards and honors from the American Institute of Architects, the American Architectural Foundation, the Association for Learning Environments, the Council of Educational Facility Planners International, the Chicago Architecture Foundation, and Buildings Magazine, among others. --- Read more: https://bit.ly/3Ct8YSc

Mandeville Shed Chris Wall / Architecture G3 Studio Spring 2024 Instructor: Curtis Roth Following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans faced the challenge of rebuilding the urban fabric from blighted and decaying structures. Mandeville Shed is a material archive for the city of New Orleans. It suggests a new civic infrastructure to store and recirculate building materials salvaged from blight demolitions. A new form of civic infrastructure is required to face the challenge of processing, storing, and redistributing salvaged material. The proposed Material Archive becomes a mix of logistical warehouse and Park extension by leveraging existing infrastructure and transportation networks, such as the Mississippi River, train lines, interstate highways, and the Crescent Park trail. In doing so, the Material Archive aims to fulfill the logistical demands of the materials and revitalize the existing urban fabric while informing the public about growing environmental concerns. Read more: https://bit.ly/4eXrDUy