DFALD Featured in AA School of Architecture News

Posted on October 25th, 2017 by Lisa LaCharité

Posted under: _Daniels Building, Press, Things We Like

AA School of Architecture news features DFALD and ’87 alumnus Nader Tehrani.

“His design for the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design features an origami-like floating roof creating floodlit studio and social spaces below…”

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Monument, Myth & Meaning

Posted on October 20th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Events, The Cooper Union

On Monday, October 23, a panel discussion Monument, Myth & Meaning will take place in Cooper Union’s Great Hall with Michele H. Bogart, James Grossman, Julian LaVerdiere, Brian Palmer, Mabel O. Wilson, and Mya Dosch. More info can be found from the Cooper Union HERE and from DART HERE.

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Canadian Architect Cover Story: The Daniels Building

Posted on October 19th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: _Daniels Building, Press

The Daniels Building is Canadian Architect’s October cover story!

“respectful and strikingly new, restrained and yet dramatic”

writes Ken Greenberg, Read the full article HERE

cover photo by Nic Lehoux

article photos by John Horner

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Girl Uninterrupted

Posted on October 18th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Press, Things We Like

Juliet Chun and Zhanina Boyadzhieva of Boston-based Girl Uninterrupted interviewed Katie on her views of the design profession and advice to young female designers.

“Of my female friends in my class, there are few that are still conventionally practicing. Some are doing interesting things in other fields. I do not know that you can attribute all of the attrition to the challenges of having a family, but if one did not get a solid few years before having kids, there could be little motivation to come back – long hours, low pay. It is difficult for women, no question.”

Read the full interview HERE.

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The University of Toronto Tops Maclean’s

Posted on October 16th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: _Daniels Building, Awards, Press, Things We Like

Maclean’s has ranked the University of Toronto as Canada’s Top School by Reputation. In their article they site the Daniels Building:

“The most recent addition to U of T facilities is One Spadina, the new home of the John H. Daniels faculty of architecture, landscape and design. Designed by acclaimed architects Nader Tehrani and Katherine Faulkner, the glass-fronted, zigzagging concrete structure has been lauded by the Globe and Mail as “one of the best Canadian buildings of the past decade.”

-Jennifer Goldberg

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Katie giving Keynote Lecture at Body, Object, Enclosure

Posted on October 13th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Lectures

Katie is giving the Keynote lecture tomorrow at Ryerson School of Interior Design’s “Body, Object, Enclosure” event. Tonight fashion designer Noa Raviv gives the keynote.

For more information on the event read Azure’s blog post HERE …or explore bodyobjectenclosure.com

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Nader speaks on research and practice at the Symposium international des Écoles d’Architectures

Posted on October 9th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Events

Nader will represent the Cooper Union at the Frac Centre Friday as part of the first BIENNALE D’ARCHITECTURE D’ORLÉANS. Other architecture schools that will be represented for a discussion entitled “News from utopia : cartographie de la recherche en architecture” are: Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, USA / Università di Camerino, SAAD Ascoli Piceno, Italie / Architectural Theory, University of Innsbruck, Autriche / Institute for Advanced architecture of Catalonia, Barcelone, Espagne / Arquitectura en la Universidad Nacional de La Matanza, Buenos Aires, Argentine / Ecole nationale supérieure d’architecture de Nantes, France.

photo credit: © Nicolas Borel

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Between Industrial Production and Ergonomics

Posted on October 5th, 2017 by Lisa LaCharité

Posted under: construction, NADLAB, Things We Like

Part of our research examines the relationship between architectural conventions and their engagement with the body. The logic of industrial production permeates these conventions. As industrial production pushes for simplification, optimization, and an adherence to ‘machine’ protocols, the body demands accommodation, customization, and a figural adherence. The design of furniture consequently compromises the body more often than succumbing to costly craft. This furniture-scale intervention proposes a mediated balance between industrial production and its connection to the body. We follow an industrial-style logic for massing and detail assembly while leveraging the organic cabinetry details as an opportunity to better fit the hand and to aestheticize the plywood’s method of construction.

The object consists entirely of marine-grade Baltic birch plywood. We coated each piece with water-soluble polyurethane preserve its light color.

Wooden pegs and grooves connect the pieces to each other, allowing disassembly. While we milled pin holes on the faces of each piece, pin holes on the endgrains had to be hand-drilled with a custom jig.