ILMA Features Aspiring Architect, John Fernandes
Posted: January 21, 2013 Filed under: Architecture, JustArch | Tags: Architect, Arts, illustration, ILMA, Interview, John Fernandes, NJIT, Portfolio, School of Architecture, student Leave a comment »About John Fernandes
I grew up in the Ironbound section of Newark, NJ. Coming from a Portuguese family made it quite easy to live and socialize with people in the area. I’ve gone to Portugal pretty much every summer of my life. Being that I live in the country side of Portugal, I get the two different sides of the spectrum of living. After I graduated the 8 th grade from Ann St. School, I moved to Summit, NJ where I attended high school. I took many different electives that somewhat related to architecture and the construction industry.
My pursuit for a career in Architecture didn’t occur until I started to take architecture classes in my junior year. The pursuit also came from an architect who now happens to be a friend and colleague of mine, Frank Cunha. He designed the house I live in now and every time he came over to talk about his work, you can see he was very happy with his job. So deciding to take up architecture, I enrolled at NJIT, and soon saw why Frank had so much passion for his work. I easily fell in love with the idea of architecture and design. I am now in my last semester at NJIT and will be graduating in May 2013. I have also been working at a firm as an intern since November of 2011 and have worked on residential as well as commercial projects.
Johh at NJIT School of Architecture
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A Tribute to Raimund Abraham
Posted: September 29, 2011 Filed under: Architecture, Art, JustArch | Tags: Architect, Architecture, Art, Artist, Beautiful Renderings, Cooper Union, Education, Hand Drawings, School of Architecture, Teacher, Theorist 4 Comments »
In third year of Architecture studio Abraham was one of the Artist/Architects I emulated. His theoretical works inspired me as a young Architect.
Raimund Johann Abraham was born in Lienz, Tyrol. He studied architecture at the Technical University in Graz and in 1959 established an architectural studio in Vienna, where he soon emerged as a leading avant-gardist. In 1964 he moved to the United States. He taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and, from 1971, at the Cooper Union in Manhattan and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. In 2003 he became a visiting faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
Among his best-known works is the Austrian Cultural Forum Building in New York City.
Abraham was taken from us suddenly when he died in a car accident in downtown Los Angeles in the early morning of March 4, 2010 after the car he was driving was struck by a bus. Abraham had given a lecture titled “The Profanation of Solitude”, at the Southern California Institute of Architecture a few hours before his death. He features prominently in Jonas Mekas‘s film As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, which shows the baptism of his daughter Una.
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Team New Jersey To Make Precast Concrete Solar House Reality
Posted: July 25, 2011 Filed under: Architecture, Green, JustArch | Tags: Architecture, EcoMonday, eFAB, Garber, green, JustArch | Tags: Architects, Local Architecture, Local News, New Jersey, Newark, NJIT, Rutgers, School of Architecture, Senator Menendez, SOA, Solar Decathlon, Sustainable, Team NJ, TeamNJ 1 Comment »
NEWARK, Jul 12 2011 - Construction of ENJOY: A Generation House, the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 entry from Team New Jersey, a collaborative effort of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), begins July 11, 2011 following a ground-breaking at NJIT. Once construction of the house is complete, Team NJ will hold an official topping-off event at NJIT with major sponsors and VIP guests. Work will continue at NJIT throughout the summer with the students performing tests to ensure all systems work properly.
In September, the house will be de-constructed, loaded onto trucks, and shipped to the competition site on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Upon arrival, the team will aim for a two-day reconstruction timeline before adding finishing touches. Once completed, the ENJOY House will be ready to accommodate the thousands of visitors who will be touring the house during public display hours from Sept. 23-Oct. 2, 2011.
The ENJOY House is designed around a central core containing integrated systems. It is the first house in the competition’s history to use precast concrete panels as the primary construction material. ENJOY, a beach-inspired house, will feature an inverted-hip roof design for rainwater collection to support irrigation and grey water systems, an 8.2kW photovoltaic system that will allow the house to be completely powered by the sun, and the application of universal design principles, which will allow the house to be accessible to people of all ages and levels of mobility.
An interdisciplinary project, Team NJ is composed of architecture and industrial design students from NJIT’s College of Architecture and Design and engineering, landscape architecture, planning, and computer science students from Rutgers University. Students regularly attend meetings with professionals in the field and take classes that focus on specific aspects of the design, such as a class on green building at Rutgers University, the NJIT Solar Design Studio and System’s Interface Studio, along with several classes offered in the landscape architecture school and engineering school.
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@RutgersU and @NJIT Compete in 2012 Solar Decathlon
Posted: July 12, 2011 Filed under: Architecture, Green, JustArch | Tags: Architects, Architecture, EcoMonday, eFAB, Garber, Local News, New Jersey, NJIT, Rutgers, School of Architecture, SOA, Solar Decathlon, Solar House, Sustainable, Team NJ, TeamNJ 2 Comments »
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have partnered to compete as “Team New Jersey” in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 competition (led by Richard Garber of GRO Architects, previously featured for his design of a concrete home in Jersey City). Team New Jersey is one of 20 collegiate teams, selected from an international pool of 40 candidates, challenged to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses that are affordable, energy-efficient, and attractive. The winner of the competition is the team that best blends cost-effectiveness, consumer appeal, and design excellence with optimal energy production and maximum efficiency. “The selection of Team New Jersey as a participant in the Solar Decathlon 2011 puts New Jersey squarely on the international ‘green building’ map now,” said Jennifer Senick, Executive Director of the Rutgers Center for Green Building at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University. The Center played a key organizing role in the Solar Decathlon 2011 proposal and will continue this capacity throughout the project. “This is a vote of confidence by the USDOE in New Jersey’s green building activities, and Team New Jersey’s design will showcase innovations that represent the future of green economy.”
For more information about the project or questions regarding fundraising may be directed to Deborah Plotnik at (732) 932-4101 x 626 or dplotnik@rci.rutgers.edu.
Click on the following link to visit the official U.S. Department of Energy site: http://www.solarteamnewjersey.com.
Recording Apparatus
Posted: August 11, 2010 Filed under: More FC3 | Tags: Apparatus, Creative, New York City, NJIT, NYC, Recording, Recording Apparatus, Recording Device, School of Architecture, Studio Project, Unique Leave a comment »
Recording Apparatus
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