Double Happiness (Joyce Hwang + Nerea Feliz) is excited to be part of Matadero Madrid’s Cyborg Garden, a new collective project initiated through the Mutant Institute of Environmental Narratives, and curated/directed by elii architecture office and Matadero. Our proposal — “Hidden in Plain Sight” — is on view with Ecovisionaries / Ecovisionarios from June 13 […]
Joyce Hwang and Prathap Ramamurthy lead a heat-mapping ‘Walk and Talk‘ in Chinatown NYC, with discussions on sustainable building and affordable housing through the lens of the thermal environment. Thanks City as Living Laboratory for inviting us and organizing the event!
Joyce weighs in on #MPRRaccoon in CityLab! Check out the article: “Lessons from the Raccoon That Scaled a Skyscraper,” by Linda Poon.
“Designing a City that Makes Room for Nature” by Robin Kello is published as part of the “Urban Ark Los Angeles” series — an environmental storytelling partnership between KCET and the UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies. We are excited to be included in this piece!
Thursday, November 9, 2017
A sneak peek at LIFE SUPPORT, our latest Habitecture project for Canberra, Australia. Collaborators and consultants include Darren LeRoux (ACT Parks and Recreation Services), Mitchell Whitelaw (ANU School of Art and Design), and John Skurr Structural Engineers.
Friday, September 15, 2017
Joyce’s essay “Toward an Architecture for Urban Wildlife Advocacy” is published in Biophilic Cities Journal, Volume 1, Issue 2. Check out an online copy here!
Our next Habitecture project will be sited in Barrer Hill, an ecological offset zone in Canberra, Australia. More updates soon!
Joyce Hwang is a recipient of the 2017 Urban Edge Award, a biennial prize organized by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Other Urban Edge Award recipients this year include Catie Newell, Olalekan Jeyifous, Fionn Byrne, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, and Aleksandr Mergold. Joyce gave a public talk at UW Milwaukee on February […]
Joyce Hwang presents “Untaming Architectural Typology” at Untaming the Urban, a symposium hosted by the Australian National University Fenner School for Environment and Society. Check out the blog for more on the presentations and discussions!
Though “putting out the welcome mat to other species remains a curiously radical concept,” wrote MacKinnon, it fits a Zeitgeist of enthusiasm for urban ecology and wildlife, of celebrating nature’s possibilities not only in obviously nature-y places but also in our midst. It’s also practical. After all, even when people build without thinking of animals, […]
Saturday, October 15, 2016
Joyce Hwang, Ellen Driscoll, and Mackenzie Younger led a City as Living Laboratory WALK around New York’s Chinatown. Starting from Collect Pond Park and moving through Columbus Park, the WALK focused on how this neighborhood has evolved over time, considering its precious green spaces, the evolution of its landscape, the history and persistent mythologies around […]
We are featured in Curbed! Check out this month’s edition of “The Architect’s City:” “Making Architecture Better for Animals” by Julia Cooke (Thanks Julia!).
FeedBack Lab is a collaboration formed by artists Andrea Frank and Emily Puthoff from SUNY New Paltz, atmospheric sciences researcher Jeff Freedman from SUNY Albany, and architect Joyce Hwang from University at Buffalo SUNY and Ants of the Prairie. We are thrilled to receive a SUNY Arts & Humanities Collaboration grant to work with the […]
Joyce Hwang gives a keynote lecture at “Reinventing the Urban: Workshop on Habitecture for Wildlife,” a conference organized by the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto and the Department of Environmental Studies at York University. Thank you to Susan Ruddick for the invitation to be part of this event!
Performing Parks is a design collective formed by Quilian Riano of DSGN AGNC (Team Lead), Adeola Enigbokan of Archiving the City, Annie Barrett of Annie Barrett Studio, Greg Mihalko of Partner & Partners, Joyce Hwang of ANTS OF THE PRAIRIE and writer and oral history-based artist Sukjong Hong. We are excited to be commissioned by […]