Tianjin faculty demonstrate Chinese brush painting

In one hour, TUC faculty-artists painted  "Green Lotus Palm" to give to the FIU community.

Faculty-artists from the School of the Arts at Tianjin University of Commerce visited MMC Feb. 10 to share the art of Chinese brush painting FIU art lovers were schooled in Chinese brush painting Feb. 10. A delegation from the School of the Arts at Tianjin University of Commerce (TUC) in [...]

From homeless to cum laude: A graduate’s journey

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At one point in his life, after he joined the army to escape a girlfriend who broke his heart, after he left his wife for gambling away their money, after he was kicked out of the military for abusing alcohol, Aaron Alvin Sr. lived in Memphis, homeless and addicted to [...]

Students share vision for sustainable building at 2011 Solar Decathlon

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Two years ago, architecture professor Marilys Nepomechie and a group of FIU students conceived a home design perfect for South Florida – one that could get all its energy from the sun. Last fall, they traveled to Washington, D.C., and built that house for a world-renowned competition: the 2011 U.S. [...]

FIU architecture students Walk on Water

WHAT: In an annual rite of passage, College of Architecture + the Arts Professor Jaime Canaves’ students have created shoes that allow them to walk on water. To get an A, students must make it to the other side of a lake in a race aptly named “Walk on Water.” First [...]

Welcome to the neighborhood

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Everyone is all smiles at the official ribbon-cutting ceremony for the College of Architecture + The Arts Miami Beach Urban Studios, FIU’s new facility on South Beach. The space will house graduate design studios for architecture, landscape architecture and interior architecture students, practice rooms for music students, exhibition and graduate studios for [...]

Help the Frost Art Museum win an Inktel Innovations grant

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The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum is in the running for a grant to help fund and expand its current Virtual Frost Project. The project will allow the museum’s exhibitions to be seen over the web in 360-degree views. Currently, the Frost is in third place. With this grant, [...]

The future of sustainable housing is under construction at FIU

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Construction on FIU’s house entry in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon is officially underway. The Solar Decathlon is an international competition that challenges 20 collegiate teams to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses that are cost-effective, energy-efficient and attractive. A team of FIU students and faculty from the [...]

Miami Artist Xavier Cortada joins FIU’s College of Architecture + The Arts at Lincoln Road

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Miami artist Xavier Cortada will serve as founding director of the Office of Engaged Teaching, Scholarship, and Creative Activities (ETSCA) at Florida International University’s College of Architecture + The Arts. ETSCA will be located at FIU’s new space at 420 Lincoln Road, on South Beach and will offer an extraordinary [...]

FIU to graduate thousands May 2-3

Prodigy, Paralympics swimmer, budding researcher among those graduating in recycled gowns A boy genius, a Paralympics swimmer, and a woman determined to honor her mother’s memory though breast cancer research will be among the 3,300 graduates who will attend Florida International University’s spring commencement. For the first time, the graduates [...]

FIYou: Kemal Gekic

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Name: Kemal Gekic Hometown: Miami, Fla. Job Title/Department: Professor (Piano Performance), College of Architecture + the Arts, Music Department Campus: Modesto A. Maidique Campus In a nutshell: I teach piano and piano ensemble, performing, recording and master classes. Number of years at FIU: 11 What do you enjoy most about [...]