Azure reviews ‘Archaeology of the Digital’ which includes Office dA’s Witte Arts Center. More on Witte here.
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Vote today for the best Northern Ave. Bridge idea!
Posted on May 20th, 2016 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Competitions, Things We Like
The Boston Society of Architects in collaboration with The City of Boston issued an ideas competition last month to gather innovative ideas on the future of the aging Northern Ave. Bridge that links the Financial District to the Seaport District.
The results have been posted here and are open for voting!
Results will be revealed at a party this Wednesday at the BSA at 6pm — register for the event here.
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COME TO THE COOPER UNION OPENING!
Posted on May 18th, 2016 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Events, The Cooper Union
This annual exhibition will showcase work from the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, the School of Art, and the Albert Nerken School of Engineering. The opening reception will be on Monday, May 23, from 5 to 9 p.m. in The Foundation Building, 7 East 7th Street, and 41 Cooper Square. The exhibit will run through June 12 and is free and open to the public during these times: Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 7 p.m.
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The Storm of Creativity by Kyna Leski
Posted on May 18th, 2016 by Nader Tehrani
Posted under: Press
There is perhaps no intellectual who is as in tune with the vulnerability of the creative process and the uncertainty from which innovation emerges as Kyna Leski. On the one hand, her focus on ‘unlearning’ takes us back to our most elemental moments of learning as a child, but also, on the other hand, to our most corrupted ideological predispositions… Find the book through the MIT Press here.
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Nader leading a lecture at MOMA tomorrow evening
Posted on May 17th, 2016 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Lectures
Nader will present a selection from MoMA’s vast collection of modern architecture and design as part of the From the Vault series. The lecture will include a conversation with Martino Stierli, Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, MoMA. To join tomorrow evening at 6:00pm please RSVP to adevents@moma.org.
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WOOD SUMMIT SMÅLAND: Architecture of Necessity
Posted on May 17th, 2016 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Installations + Exhibitions
The MSD has been selected as a case study at the Virserums Art Museum in Sweeden as part of the WOOD SUMMIT SMÅLAND Architecture of Necessity exhibition running June 29-30. The exhibition broaches sustainable topics such as densification, the vivid urban environment, and shrinking cities looking towards year 2100. To see some of the other featured projects see the Architecture of Necessity Facebook page. For information on attending please visit this link.
Photo by Eve Wilson
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CCA Archives: John Hejduk sketches
Posted on May 13th, 2016 by Nader Tehrani
Posted under: Things We Like
On a recent visit to the CCA to take in the Archaeology of the Digital exhibit I took the chance to look through their large archives, a collection which hosts the work of over 140 artists and architects. The collection includes work by Peter Eisenman, Cedric Price, and Aldo Rossi to name a few. I was struck by two of John Hejduk’s sketchbooks….
Some of these works are available in the CCA’s online archive through the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A selection of Hejduk’s work can be viewed full screen here.
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V-Columns at One Spadina
Posted on May 12th, 2016 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Daniels Building, construction
Photo by Peter MacCallum courtesy of the Daniels Faculty
Take a live look at DFALD construction
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Archaeology of the Digital
Posted on May 12th, 2016 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Events, Installations + Exhibitions
In the new exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention, a generation of contemporary work crosses the line to become part of history. The work of Office dA, under Nader Tehrani and Monica Ponce de León, is presented in relation to five conceptual categories: High-Fidelity 3D, Topology and Topography, Photorealism, Data, and Structure and Cladding.
In the third and final installation of a series curated by Greg Lynn, the exhibition unearths a body of work from a wide array of architects in the infancy of digital speculations. With much of the work done on software now long obsolete, the CCA archivists had to undertake a long forensic process of recovering data that would otherwise be inaccessible.
Capped off by the Greg Lynn Show, all architects were interviewed, Letterman-style in front of a live audience. This and an e-publication will be available to the public in the near future.
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Accessible Education: Renovating a 90 year old school
Posted on May 11th, 2016 by achang
Posted under: _BEAVER R+D Center, Academic
The realities of a campus built over the span of 90 years has produced a challenge of accessibility between the multiple buildings at Beaver Country Day School. Across five structures (the main building and auditorium built in 1925, and the Science Wing and Library built in 1967) there was an 8 foot grade difference from adjacent floor levels which will require an extensive ramp at the maximum allowable slope to adjoin the main levels. Additionally two new elevators are being added: the first is a 4 stop, embedded in the mass of the existing building and the other, a six stop, will be in the new addition connecting multiple offset floors.
A three-story connecting “bridge” volume contains part of the ramp, animating the prime circulation route with study carrels, presentation spaces, a lounge, and comfortable bench seating.
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