This current Student Digest as well as past ones are posted on the Architecture web site under Resources on the Current Students home page: http://www.arch.calpoly.edu/current/index.html

Competitions

  1. NEW - American Academy in Rome - Rome Prize 2011
    Deadlines: November 15, 2010
    The Rome Prize is awarded annually to thirty emerging artists and scholars in the early or middle stages of their careers. Prize winners are selected through an open competition that is juried by leading artists and scholars in the fellowship fields. They represent the highest standard of excellence in the arts and humanities. Rome Prize winners are invited to Rome for six months or eleven months to immerse themselves in the Academy community where they will enjoy a once in a lifetime opportunity to expand their own professional, artistic, or scholarly pursuits, drawing on their colleagues' erudition and experience and on the inestimable resources that Italy, Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Academy have to offer. Fellows are encouraged to work collegially within and across disciplines in pursuit of their individual artistic and scholarly goals. Rome Prize recipients are the core of the Academy's residential community, which also includes Residents and Visiting Artists and Scholars. For more information please go to the American Academy in Rome web site.

  2. NEW - Planning and Visual Education Partnership's (PAVE)
    Deadline: October 1, 2010 Student Aid Program application deadline, Entries due: November 3rd
    PAVE’s 2010 Student Design Competition is sponsored by Godiva Chocolatier Inc. This annual competition, now in its 16th year, is geared toward college-level students involved in retail planning, visual merchandising, and branding programs.
    The competition’s design challenges consist of a visual merchandising category and a store design category and provide an excellent opportunity for students to obtain real-life retail design experience. Prizes include grants to students and schools and winning students may even see their designs come to life in a Godiva Chocolatier Inc. environment. For more information and application please go to the PAVE web.
  3. NEW - The US General Services Administration
    Deadline: Registration September 30, 2010. Entries due, October 27, 2010
    The US General Services Administration is sponsoring a month-long (fall
    quarter) student competition to design a shade structure for a 900-foot-long
    pedestrian bridge at the San Ysidro port of entry (our border with Mexico). The competition is open to any student enrolled in a college-level architecture, engineering, design, or landscape program. It seems like a good opportunity for a collaborative or group effort! For more information and application please go to the Seeking Shade web site.
  4. NEW - Digital Fabrication Competition
    Deadlines: October 3, 2010 Sib,ossopms due
    Architecture is defined by connections: the method and the material by which an assembly is developed to create enclosure. This process results in an active performative connection, one that is specific and definitive producing an architecture that can be built through iterative means. REPEAT asks that you look first at the connection and then – through repetition – define the whole. In brief, by evaluating the design process from this perspective, what emerges? REPEAT as an international competition is established to foster the creative spirit in the burgeoning field of digital fabrication. We encourage the generation of cutting edge design proposals for a structure of your design with the only caveats being it be generated and conceived digitally, incorporate repetitive elements, be optimized for relocation and transportation and be produced through fabrication technologies available within Houston, Texas. Within cities with atomized light manufacturing capabilities like Houston, there exists a potential for designers to engage fabrication via direct communication with machines. A culture of making that has its foot in the energy and aerospace industries is ready to be appropriated and applied to architecture. The competition challenges the current exploration of parametric design to engage this latent field of production to explore a meaningful synthesis based on repetition and variation. The evaluation of all the REPEAT proposals will focus on the cohesion of the design concept to digital fabrication techniques and methods of assembly. Factoring in these two foundational requirements for the competition, the entrant is encouraged to propose a solution that is both formally challenging in the mechanics and aesthetics of the connections, but also speak to the issues of use and performance. For more information and application please go to the REPEAT web site.
  5. NEW - 2011 Skyscraper Competition
    Deadline: November 16, 2010 Early Registration & January 18, 2011 Project submissions due
    The annual eVolo Skyscraper Competition is a forum for the discussion, development, and promotion of innovative concepts for vertical density. It examines the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city. The exponential increase of the world’s population and its unprecedented shift from rural to urban areas has prompted hundreds of new developments without adequate urban planning and poor architectural design. The aim of this competition is to redefine what we understand as a skyscraper and initiate a new architectural discourse of economic, environmental, intellectual, and perceptual responsibility that could ultimately modify our cities and improve our way of life. There are no restrictions in regards to site, program or size. The objective is to provide maximum freedom to the participants to engage the project without constraints in the most creative way. What is a skyscraper in the 21st century? What are the historical, contextual, social, urban, and environmental responsibilities of these mega-structures? For more information please go to the 2011 Skyscraper Competition web site.

Job Fairs/Career Services

Cal Poly will offer two job fairs during the 2010 Spring quarter:

  1. Updated - Career Services Opportunities & Events
    Cal Poly Career Services has many new opportunities for students including: working lunches, Interview Skills, Resume Clinics and much more. For more information please see the attached pdf from Career Services 2011 Events & Workshops.
  2. NEW - Career Services Calendar
    Interested in Resume Clinic, Interview Skills Workshops, Sign-ups for On-Campus Interviews? It's never to late to start preparing for your future. For upcoming events provided by Career Services please visit their web site.
  3. NEW - Scheduling Recruiting & Posting Jobs
    If you would like to schedule a recruiting visit through the Construction Management Department, please contact our Program Coordinator, Tana Anastasia, at the 756-6381 or email ganastas@calpoly.edu. Due to the high level of recruitment of CM majors, it is advisable that you contact the department as soon as possible to ensure a slot(s). Typical recruitment begins with an evening Information Session, followed by interviews the following day. For more information please visit the CM Department web site.

Scholarships & Opportunities

  1. NEW - WTS - LA Scholarships 2010
    Deadline: October 4, 2010
    This is to notify you that the Los Angeles Chapter of the Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS) Scholarship is now accepting applications. Scholarships range between $2,000 to $5,000 totaling $23,000. Please feel free to forward this email widely to your students and others who may qualify. Flyers and applications are attached. This information can also be found on our web site at http://www.wtsinternational.org/la.
  2. NEW - Erasmus Mundus - MaMaSELF Scholarships
    MaMaSELF is a two year European Master program in Materials Science, which aims to teach the application of “Large Scale Facilities” for the characterization and development of materials. Modern life and globalization imply new and additional exigencies for scientists and scientific engineers in the field of scientific and industrial competitiveness. This holds specifically for the development of new technologies and new materials which are important key-products and which contribute to the technological and scientific competitiveness of highly industrialized countries. The characterization of these materials and also the optimizing of technologies strongly demand sophisticated methods, some of them uniquely available at “Large Scale Facilities” using neutrons or synchrotron radiation. For more information please visit the MaMaSELF Scholarships web site.
  3. NEW - Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant
    Deadline: November 1, 2010
    The Center for Architecture is pleased to announce the upcoming November 1st deadline of the Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant. This is a great opportunity for young and mid career architects to further their own professional development through travel.
    Award: Single or multiple awards totaling $15,000.
    Purpose    : To further the personal and professional development of an architect in early or mid-career through travel. Travel plans should be centered on a selected topic of interest and meaning to the individual, rather than as part of a larger humanitarian or institutional endeavor. If appropriate, the winner may be asked to present at the Center for Architecture upon return.
    Eligibility: Applicants must be a U.S. Citizen with a degree in architecture as well as a full-time practitioner, either licensed or unlicensed. For more information please go to the CFA Foundation web site.

Off-Campus

  1. Currently No new updates

Events

  1. Fall Design Studios reviews are posted at Studio Reviews
  2. NEW - Sketching Workshops
    Several sketching workshops will be held during fall quarter, these are available to students in the School of Architecture. The FREE workships will be led by faculty and invited guests who are passionate about drawing and sketching as a way to really see, conceptualize and design. These workshops will be relatively information and fun, while covering a variety of quick sketch techniques. Save the Date: Saturday morning, October 9th. Sunday morning, October 24th & November 14th. More details to follow.
     
     

Miscellaneous Information

  1. NEW - Studio Use Policy
    Remember all students are required to submit a studio use policy for Fall Quarter.
    The Studio Use Policy Acknowledgement Form must be received prior to receiving keys for fall quarter design studios. Each quarter every student is required to submit this form prior to receiving their key or having access to Architecture Department Rooms.
  2. Updated - Department Head's Digital Image Collection
    Henri has set up a gallery of pictures organized thematically and topically for the students' perusal. Collection will be updated weekly. Current themes: Awnings, Balustrades, Brackets, Brise Soleil, Bus Shelters, Capitols, Circulation, Columns, Corners, Entrances, Facades, Food, Details, Information Panels, Structures, Telephone Booths, Tree Treatment, and Windows.
    To view the web page go to: http://gallery.me.com/henridehahn
  3. NEW - Congratulations Cindy Wong! Cindy's entry tied for Second Place in Challenge 2 of the Leading Edge Student Design Competition. She will be receiving an award of $2,000.
  4. NEW - OPEN Design Build Course for Fall Quarter
    If you are interested in participating in a unique interdisciplinary design
    build course called the Interdisciplinary Projects Group (IPG) for 1-3
    units. Choose the number of units that fits into your schedule. Group is
    comprised of CAED students (from Arch, Arce, CRP, Larch and CM) for FQ '10,
    send an email of interest to both Thomas Fowler (tfowler@calpoly.edu) and
    Elbert Speidel (espeidel@calpoly.edu). Also, you can stop by the weekly
    Wednesday 12-1 meeting (see below for location).

    This group meets in the New Construction Innovations Center (Bldg 186- Rm
    A203), for one hour on Wednesdays from 12-1, with the remainder of the time
    working on the development of design + build projects.
    Ongoing projects include:
    A selected list of ongoing projects include:
    1. Various projects working with the Housing Authority of San Luis Obispo¹s
    Housing Opportunities through Modular Environments (HASLO HO:ME);
    2. Atascadero Main Street Redesign;
    3. Tensile Structure / Appreciation Wall for ARCE Concrete Yard;
    4. Poly Pod Structures (Site Planning, etc);
    5. CAED Breezeway and Kennedy Library Courtyard Redesign Design + Build
    Projects
    6. Shade Structure Design for Pacheco Elementary School;
    7. Brian¹s Head, Colorado, Ski Resort; and
    8. Range of Additional Projects.
  5. Preparing for Graduation in Spring 2011
    Students Preparing for Spring 2011 Graduation:
    Students who will be graduating Spring 2011 are required to have completed a Graduation Evaluation. You must submit your request FOUR quarters in advance of your completion term. The information regarding this process can be found on the Office of Academic Records web site. Please be sure to read complete instructions.
    Office of Academic Records link to form and instructions: http://www.ess.calpoly.edu/_records/forms/Grad_Eval.pdf
  6. SLO Arch
    Cal Poly Alumni, Hayle Gipe has set up this site that is a great resource for students to ask questions to “recent” alumni: about portfolio, resume building, news about the profession, how to find work, lectures, exhibitions, and many other interesting and informative topics. For more information please visit the SLO Arch web site.
  7. Architecture Department Facebook
    Join the Architecture Departments Facebook to keep up to date with upcoming events. We post important information and news several times a week! Facebook name is: Architecture at Cal Poly.