Thank you to an incredible installation crew: Sze Wan Li (design and fabrication manager), Matt Bain, Josh Gardner, Shawn Lewis, Sergio López-Piñeiro, Nellie Niespodzinski, Mark Nowaczyk, Alex Poklinkowski, Joey Swerdlin, Duane Warren, and Robert Yoos. Thanks also to Lauren Makeyenko and David Spiering of Tifft/Buffalo Museum of Science. BAT CLOUD is part of the UB Humanities Institute’s Fluid Culture Event Series, organized by Colleen Culleton and Justin Read.
Bat Tower is featured in Praxis 13: Ecologics, an issue that “considers how architecture might adopt the logics of ecologies to move beyond received notions of sustainability.” Celebrate the release of Praxis 13 on Friday May 11, 6-8 pm: BSA Space / 290 Congress Street / Boston, MA.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
It is a real pleasure to be working with UB Architecture’s Ecological Practices Research Group in organizing the HIVE CITY Habitat Design Competition. Many, many thanks to our sponsor and collaborator Rick Smith of Rigidized Metals and Silo City, as well as to our advisors: Structural engineer Mark Bajorek, Beekeeper Philip Barr, and Architecture student Alex Poklinkowski. Thanks and congratulations to all student participants on their proposals! Read about HIVE CITY on Animal Architecture (Thanks Ned!). Also see Megan Basnak’s post on the Archinect School Blog.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Bat Tower and Intensified Reflections are included in the book, Art+Scape!, recently published by Dopress Books.
Amsterdam-based blog on urbanism and design, The Pop Up City lists “Top Ten Trends for 2012.” They write: “Reflecting on what we’ve written in 2011 and looking into the new year, we’ve composed a new list of remarkable trends that we consider to be important for our cities in the coming time.” Ants of the Prairie is excited to be mentioned in “Trend 7: Design for Animals.”
Friday, September 23, 2011
Bat Cloud is part of Fluid Culture, the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute’s Lecture, Arts, and Media Series, 2011-12.
Congratulations to the winners of the Animal Architecture Awards! It was a pleasure and an honor to jury such an array of exciting and thought-provoking projects. Thanks also to Michelle Aldredge for the shout-out in her blog Gwarlingo!
Work in-progress! Here are some images from the design development process (top: schematic model, middle: detailed model of one bay, bottom: MacDowell Colony studio).
