Passive Architect
Fairmont State University’s Architecture Department will celebrate the milestone achievement of receiving accreditation for the Master of Architecture Program from the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) with a lecture and celebration on October 28th on Fairmont State’s campus. Please join us to celebrate!
Fairmont State University’s Master of Architecture has just received accreditation. The university is the only institution with an architectural program in West Virginia, and students who want to study architecture may now stay within the state to achieve the educational component required to become a licensed architect in the United States.
Congratulations to my colleagues, Robert Kelly, Kirk Morphew, Philip Freeman, and the many other supporters who have worked tirelessly to bring this distinction to our program and university!
As we say when introducing people to architecture at our school: Make Architecture, Make a Difference.
The full report of our accreditation is uploaded on Fairmont State University’s Architecture site here.
I’ve always enjoyed the look of working desks. After years of preparing a book idea, I am in Florence, Italy to research the details.
It started as a question during a Master’s course at Fairmont State University: How might poets and architects meet in Florence, 1865? My Italian inspiration on Instagram is @kelliecolegram.
In this Freshman level course at Fairmont State architecture students are learning to hand render in color. Color terms are reviewed and discussed as they translate into digital terms. After watching Anoka Faruquee’s video students learn about Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute and use the tools of vanishing point and color adjacency rendering to complete the image shown on the screen of the Salk Institute Plaza. Section type drawings are discussed using Kahn’s building example. At the close of the video see how you might setup the drawing to complete the Salk Institute plaza sketch!
Inspired by Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities students are asked to sketch an imaginary city then draft it into Revit. In this Part 1 of 2 video students learn how to create a topography and understand the scale of it by using Google Earth to compare places in Venice and NYC. Students learn to establish a base drawing by setting up Elevations. Complicated tools such as sweeps, reveals, and atypical forms are also covered.
This video explains what is involved in surveying a historic home. Taking exterior dimensions, using a running dimension line, and locating interior walls with a measuring tape are all explained and drawn by the architect.
Learn to draft a Follie from Bernard Tschumi’s Parc de la Villette.
Students are guided in Revit 2022 to choose and draft a Parc Follie of Bernard Tschumi’s Parc de la Villette in Paris, France.
