Architecture

MSU School of Architecture celebrates 50-year milestone

cem123 — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 20:30:21 +0000

MSU School of Architecture celebrates 50-year milestone cem123 Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 3:30 pm

Mississippi Lumber Manufacturers Association partners with MSU to advance mass timber through endowed professorship

cem123 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:38:11 +0000

Mississippi Lumber Manufacturers Association partners with MSU to advance mass timber through endowed professorship cem123 Thursday, October 24, 2024 - 11:38 am

MSU architecture professor Lopez Barrera honored with national architecture foundation grant

cem123 — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 20:51:10 +0000

MSU architecture professor Lopez Barrera honored with national architecture foundation grant cem123 Friday, October 18, 2024 - 3:51 pm

Abby Williams receives fall 2024 Method Studio Undergraduate Research Fellowship

cem123 — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 15:09:31 +0000

Abby Williams receives fall 2024 Method Studio Undergraduate Research Fellowship cem123 Monday, October 14, 2024 - 10:09 am

Architecture alumnus Scott Archer to manage design team for Pennsylvania Avenue project

cem123 — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 15:48:49 +0000

Architecture alumnus Scott Archer to manage design team for Pennsylvania Avenue project cem123 Friday, October 11, 2024 - 10:48 am

Fifth Anniversary Latinx + Latin American Architecture Exhibition on display in Giles Hall

rmc573 — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:35:22 +0000

Fifth Anniversary Latinx + Latin American Architecture Exhibition on display in Giles Hall rmc573 Monday, October 7, 2024 - 8:35 pm

Exclusionary Infrastructure & Displacement: a Study on Architectural Mobility

cem123 — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:22:39 +0000

Exclusionary Infrastructure & Displacement: a Study on Architectural Mobility cem123 Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 11:22 am

By Elisa Castañeda and Luke Murray

Project Summary

Jackson, Mississippi is a unique place, the capital of the most low-income state in the nation, the Blackest major city in the United �鶹��ýs per capita, and a city whose history is translated through its infrastructure and built landscape. While the implementation of policies and regulation are directly in view as forms of disenfranchisement in marginalized communities, public infrastructure, urban planning, and the built environment are not often recognized as forms of regulation. The placement of highways, railroads, walls, and more, have had profound effects on the organization of different racial demographic groups within the city of Jackson - these patterns are still pervasive today.

The above implicates exclusionary infrastructure, defined here as the placement and construction of built works that hinder accessibility between communities, resulting in systemic disinvestment and social plight.

This proposal aims to examine how these factors – and their historical, social, and political contexts – have resulted in inequity at multiple scales. And furthermore, leverage that research to better understand how architecture can be a form of liberation rather than control in a city and a state that fails to reconcile under the weight of its own history.

What follows is our research and conclusions on how architectural design skills can be used to illustrate how we might begin to break down exclusionary infrastructure and create collective autonomies over spaces that may seem divisive. To argue that physical divides can become points for connection.

Through this analysis we were able to identify what public infrastructure in the built environment had the most negative impacts within the Jackson community. Out of this came the Illinois Central Railroad as the site for a theoretical design intervention. In many instances the track represents a literal earthen wall through the city that separates lower-income black communities from more fluent white-centric communities. The mission of the design intervention is to provide spaces to connect, while also contributing to social mobility along local stakeholders. This brought about a new re-imagining and reinvention of how we perceive train tracks as an occupy-able space. One with broad reach and the ability to adjust to changing needs, both in programming and location.

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Architecture

Jacqueline Enriquez

rmc573 — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:20:17 +0000

Jacqueline Enriquez rmc573 Monday, September 23, 2024 - 5:20 pm Student

A Mississippi �鶹��ý University architecture student will have the opportunity to present her research at the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians annual conference, thanks to a SESAH travel grant.

Jacqueline Enriquez began her academic career at Pearl River Community College in Poplarville and later transferred to MSU, changing her major from nursing to architecture.

“Architecture was a field in which I could be creative and work with my hands to create designs I would be proud of,” she said.

Now as a fourth-year, Enriquez has excelled in her classes, provoking School of Architecture Associate Professor Silvina Lopez Barrera to encourage her to apply for a SESAH grant.

“Throughout the whole process, I had great support from my professor. She was the one to inform and encourage me to apply and submit my research,” she said.

The SESAH conference travel grant consists of a two-stage application process. Enriquez had to create an abstract and write a research paper about an architectural topic. Her research—developed as part of a directed independent study course under the guidance of Lopez Barrera—focuses on the application of Indigenous and vernacular architectural technologies in modern architecture.

"I am really excited and proud of myself,” she said. “I wouldn’t have imagined, coming in first year, the things I have achieved and accomplished through the years. In working on this research, it has encouraged me to step out of my comfort zone, but also want to continue to achieve so much more."

Enriquez will present on the Historical Analysis of Indigenous Technologies Applications in Architecture at the October conference in Marietta, Georgia. Read more about SESAH.

By Rileigh Campbell | Communications Intern Class of 2025

Architecture

Friday Forum: Latinx + Latin American Architecture

cem123 — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:38:32 +0000

Friday Forum: Latinx + Latin American Architecture Architecture cem123 Friday, September 20, 2024 - 8:38 am No2024-09-27T12:00:00-0500 2024-09-27T13:00:00-0500 Charlotte and Richard McNeel Architecture Gallery, Giles Hall/exhibitions/2024/latinx-latin-american-architectur…

Exhibition: Latinx + Latin American Architecture

cem123 — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:37:12 +0000

Exhibition: Latinx + Latin American Architecture Architecture cem123 Friday, September 20, 2024 - 8:37 am Yes2024-09-20T08:37:12-0500 2024-10-15T12:00:00-0500 Charlotte and Richard McNeel Architecture Gallery, Giles Hall/exhibitions/2024/latinx-latin-american-architectur…