(via doggerel) by Zach Mortice On a hot, sunny August morning on Chicago’s West Side, Matt Snoap, an architect with the firm bKL, is putting more than a dozen high school and early college students in place for a groundbreaking photo op on one of the city’s many abandoned freight rail lines. But unlike a traditional […]
(via Archinect) River LA, formerly the Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation, has posted a video interview with Frank Gehry about his work on the LA River revitalization project. The nonprofit organization works to build public support for the project. “I think when I started it I had trepidation,” Gehry begins. “I had the feeling that […]
University of Miami School of Architecture helps to create a new Smart City in the Yucatan Peninsula The project, which is being designed by UM SoA’s Responsive Architecture and Design Lab (RAD-UM Lab), will be built next to the Yucatán Science and Technology Park (YSTP), established by the National Autonomous University of Mexico. RAD-UM Lab […]
Frame by frame, moment by moment, we record the world around us through our senses. We experience the warmth of light through a window, the sound of our footsteps in a hallway, the texture of a handrail, the aroma of something cooking in the kitchen. These senses create the full experience of the spaces we […]
Interested in Urbanism? Want to supplement your degree? Check out these 8 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) on the subject of Urbanism, from urban water to the Global History of Architecture. (via CityLab) Back-to-school season can still induce a thrill, even if you’re not heading to the classroom armed with fresh supplies. If you want […]
This article was originally posted on UB’s News Center. “I’ve been interested in creating work that not only provides habitable conditions for urban wildlife, but also draws attention to them as an important part of our ecosystem.” University at Buffalo architect Joyce Hwang’s latest animal architecture creation is a bird-friendly public art installation that both […]
(via Source WUSTL) Since its launch in 1912, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture(ACSA) has grown from 10 charter members — including Washington University — to become the primary professional organization representing architecture faculty across the United States and Canada. In July, Bruce Lindsey, dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ College […]
Virgil Abloh, fashion designer (Off White) and creative director for Kanye West, was recently featured in GQ in an article called “The Life of (Virgil) Abloh.” This cleverly named article highlights Abloh’s rise to fame from his time studying engineering at U of Wisconsin and architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) to his creative ventures […]
(via UB News Center) Home for All: University of Buffalo Design Students Use Universal Design Principles to Design Habitat for Humanity Home Later this summer, a family will move into their new home on Buffalo’s East Side. Thanks to a pilot project between Habitat for Humanity and the University at Buffalo’s School of Architecture and […]
(via Architects Newspaper) The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) has announced Elizabeth Diller as the recipient of their prestigious 2016 ACADIA Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is given to “exceptional architects and researchers who over the course of their career have made significant and innovative contributions to the fields of architecture and computational […]