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NJIT’s College of Architecture and Design (COAD) will host a public forum on the changing status of technology in architectural practice and the emerging potential for the role of architecture in the design of the built environment. The NJ Chapter of the American Institute of Architects will sponsor the free event, open to the public, set for Oct. 28, 2009, 1:15 p.m.-7 p.m.
Closing the Gap: Information Models in Contemporary Design Practice, an edition of Architectural Design by Richard Garber, assistant professor at NJIT’s College of Architecture and Design has been published by John Wiley & Sons. Garber was both editor and contributor to the newest volume in this prestigious ongoing series of the venerable and influential journal.
Leave it to the architects who always want to redesign something. This time, it’s the entire New Jersey School of Architecture at NJIT reinvented with a new name: College of Architecture and Design (CAD). Within the College another new entity will reside – School of Art + Design (SA+D).
2007
Nine teams of architecture students from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) competed earlier in the month in a masonry building competition, with four teams winning nearly $20,000 in prize money.
Building with bricks isn’t the image that comes to mind for an architect. But that is exactly what more than 120 second-year architecture students at NJIT will do April 14-15 as they roll up their sleeves and dip into the cement for the very popular annual masonry competition run by the Masonry Contractors of NJ at NJIT’s New Jersey School of Architecture.
2006
During the Masonry Design Build Competition, students from NJIT’s New Jersey School of Architecture (NJSOA) will spend Saturday and Sunday, April 1-2, working on building projects with the masons.
The NJIT community mourns the loss of Juliet Ashton Gauchat, late wife of Urs Gauchat, dean of the New Jersey School of Architecture. Dr. Gauchat was a clinical social worker and supervisor at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., where she counseled women suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. Dr. Gauchat was active in the Cambridge community, serving as a member of the Cambridge Children and Family Services Board and on the Shady Hill School board of directors. Services for Dr. Gauchat will be held on Thursday, February 23 at 10 a.m. at First Parish Church in Cambridge, Mass.
2005
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT) new architectural curriculum received high praise from Campus Technology magazine. In the magazine’s August issue, NJIT was recognized for allowing freshmen architecture students to work immediately with electronic digital media in their design studio classes.
Urs Gauchat, dean of New Jersey School of Architecture at NJIT, chaired an international conference at the United Nations, "Caring Communities for the 21st Century: Imagining the Possible," on February 11, 2005.
2004
The second of three sessions of the fourth annual New Jersey School of Architecture (SOA) Summer Architecture Career Exploration Program concluded today with an awards ceremony and closing remarks from NJSOA Dean Urs Gauchat. High school juniors and seniors with an interest in architecture participate in this intensive, two-day program. Students attended classes in design, computer graphics and drawing, plus built a learning center using UPS boxes. John J. Nallin, Vice President, United Parcel Service and a member of the NJIT Board of Overseers, donated more than 3,000 UPS boxes.