CAED offers a graduate program in architecture & urban design, with a focus on the contemporary European experience.
The program (normally offered in the Fall semester) is available to students enrolled in the following CAED graduate programs: MArch Professional,. MArch Post-Professional, MUD, MArch&MUD, and Certificate in UD. Graduate students enrolled in other programs are also encouraged to apply and admission is granted upon academic qualifications and available positions.
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Besides the regular semester curriculum, the program features a Fall symposium (THE KENT STATE FORUM ON THE CITY), which is a series of dialogs on current transformations underway in contemporary cities. The series aims at disseminating experiences in urban planning & design strategies, urban architecture projects, urban landscape designs, developments, policies in major cities worldwide.
Urbanists, architects, planners and designers will team up with developers, policy makers and politicians to discuss how cities are changing and how they should change. The dialogs are therefore meant to address a broad audience, beyond the “experts circle”, and engage urban communities at large.
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The semester program consists of Graduate Design Studio, seminars on Theories of Architecture (emphasis on contemporary trends) and Historical Studies, a workshop on Representation in Design and a series of at least three field trips (one week each) to major European cities and places of interest (such as Berlin, Barcelona and the Netherlands), with an emphasis on contemporary experiences in architecture, urbanism and urban landscape design. Visiting faculty and critics, field-trips guest-guides, guest speakers and design reviewers expose the students to state-of-the-art design strategies as they are currently practiced in Europe.
Studio visitations are also part of the experience. In Fall 2006, the following firms have been visited by our students:
Hilde Leon in Berlin: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hilde+leon+berlin&btnG=Google+Search
Miralles & Tagliabue in Barcelona: http://www.mirallestagliabue.com/
NL Architects in Amsterdam: http://www.nlarchitects.nl/
For more information:
http://www.caed.kent.edu/Academic/Int/Int-grad/Int-grad-co.html
The Design Studio is taught by Alfonso Femia, partner of "5+1 Agenzia di Architettura " (Genoa & Milan) and Adjunct Professor at the University of Genoa. 5+1 have won numerous design awards and in 2005 have won, with Rudy Ricciotti, a limited international design competition for the New "Palazzo del Cinema" in Venice, from a pool with Rafael Moneo, Peter Eisenman and Bolles+Wilson. http://www.5piu1aa.com
Among the various critics who come for reviews is Francesco Garofalo, Professor at the University of Pescara, partner of "Garofalo Miura Architetti" (Rome), whose portfolio of projects and realizations is highlighted by the renovation of and the addition to the British School in Rome. Garofalo Miura have been recently invited to a limited international design competiton for a new art museum in Cagliari (I), in a pool of ten international firms such as Herzog & deMeuron, Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel and Massimiliano Fuksas. Among Garofalo's publications are monographs on Italian Rationalist Adalberto Libera and Steven Holl. http://www.garofalomiura.it
Architectural Theory is taught by renowned critic and Adjunct Professor at the University of Genoa Sebastiano Brandolini, editor of Casabella (1984-96) and finalist for the 2004 Gold Medal for Architectural Criticism at the Triennale in Milan. His essays have appeared on Architecture, Domus and The Architectural Review. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sebastiano+brandolini
Historical Studies in architecture & urban design, within a broader socio-political framework, are offered by renowned scholar Marcello Fantoni, Director of Palazzo Cerchi. http://dept.kent.edu/cicp/italy/fantoni.htm
The workshop on Representation in Design is offered by award winning architect & Visiting Critic Andrea Ponsi. http://andreaponsi.it
The field trips are led by architect and Adjunct Professor at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia Caterina Frisone. http://www.iuav.it/Facolta/facolt--di2/workshop1/Caterina-F/index.htm
For more information:
- Ms. Sandra Hetzel, Secretary for Study Abroad Programs, Taylor Hall 304, (330) 672.3765 - [shetzel@kent.edu]
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