Isover Competition

Students of Professor Jonathan Knowles presented their Isover-sponsored skyscraper competition projects to the national jury in New York. Santiago Hinojos Reyes (B.Arch ’12) won second place with a monetary award. His work will be submitted for consideration by an international jury in Prague.

RISD Architecture hosted its first Passive House Symposium and Training Seminars April 13-17 and May 5-8, 2011.  

The program’s developer and lead trainer, Katrin Klingenberg, launched the training seminars with a keynote address at RISD’s Chace Auditorium.

Levittown  Project

Adjunct Professors Lauren Crahan and John Hartmann’s office Freecell participated in “Open House” in Levittown NY, a project initiated by Droog and Diller Scofidio + Renfro.  Their installation simulated a suburban farm with a 60-foot-long floating greenhouse.