(via AZO Build) A team of students from the University of California Los Angeles Department of Architecture and Urban Design, under the direction of architect and UCLA SUPRASTUDIO lecturer Julia Koerner, won first place in the American Composites Manufacturers Association’s (ACMA) first ever Composites in Architecture Design Challenge. “Undulating Gills,” created by students Anna Kudashkina, […]
(via FastCoDesign) “The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production,” says Neri Oxman, an architect, designer, and director of the Mediated Matter research group within the MIT Media Lab. “Assembly lines have dictated a world of parts and have been framing the imagination of designers and architects who have been trained—like […]
(via Dallas News) — Mark Lamster, the award-winning architecture critic of The Dallas Morning News and a professor in the architecture school at the University of Texas at Arlington, has been awarded a Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Lamster, 46, who came to the News in 2013, has distinguished himself through his writing […]
Just in time for the final days of finals, we remind you of an article written a few weeks ago called Archive Like a Pro! Use these steps to ensure that your hard work is recorded. (via Section|Cut) As discussed in the PREPARE TO MAKE post, we designers create a lot of data.* All those […]
(via new wave) Founded in 2005, the goal of URBANbuild is to address New Orleans’ deteriorating neighborhoods and to provide students the chance to work together on the design, development and construction of affordable housing. The program is run by Tulane’s School of Architecture and by senior professor of practice Byron Mouton and adjunct lecturer Sam Richards. […]
(via KU Today) Dedication set for Audio-Reader’s architecture student-built pavilion A group of University of Kansas students enrolled in the Department of Architecture’s Dirt Works Studio are putting the finishing touches on the Sensory Pavilion, a structure they designed and built in the Audio-Reader Sensory Garden. A dedication ceremony starts at 11:30 a.m. Friday, May […]
(via Fast Company) … An Architect Goes Computer Crazy You might expect the person heading up Microsoft’s chatbot project to have a PhD in AI from MIT, but Cheng’s path to directing FUSE is as circuitous as the path between Tay’s artificial neurons. Born in Nebraska to a Chinese mother and a Japanese father in […]
(via News from Tulane) Tulane Architecture Students Give Local Bookstore New Life When Vera Warren Williams enters her freshly renovated Community Book Center at 2523 Bayou Road in New Orleans, she can scarcely believe it is the same space that she has struggled to maintain since opening the Seventh Ward location in 2003. With its […]
(adapted from Curbed by Patrick Sisson @freqresponse) Auburn University Lions Park Scout Hut designed by Rural Studio participants. Rural Studio The granddaddy of design-build programs, Rural Studio, founded by Samuel Mockbee and D. K. Ruth at Auburn in 1993, recruits architecture students to help a long-standing mission to develop affordable housing and community structures for rural western […]
(via Curbed) Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture School Students Built These ‘Survival Cabins’ by Asad Syrkett @asadsyrkett In collaboration with Tarragona, Spain-based design firmAixopluc (Catalan for “home”), students from the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture built a number of shelters on the school’s Scottsdale, Arizona, campus, Taliesin West (formerly home to Wright’s Arizona residence and […]