Students at CASE To Design Plans for Historic Building in Downtown Albany

January 23, 2024

Recently, Dennis Shelden, director of the Center for Architecture, Science, and Ecology (CASE) and Fleet Hower and Josh Draper, lecturers, accompanied CASE undergraduate students on a trip to the Guild House in Albany. As part of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture Spring 2024 design studio, Hower and the students will be working with the Cathedral of All Saints to create proposed designs for the adaptive reuse of the Guild House. Built around 1904, the Cathedral-owned Guild House was originally used for afterschool and immigrant programs. In the 1970s, it was used as an alternative high school but it has fallen into a state of disrepair. The students and CASE faculty were there for their initial informational meeting and got a tour of the site.

Their visit caught the attention of Spectrum News Albany reporter Corey James. Watch the video here.

The story had previously been covered in the Albany Times Union.