Joyce Hwang and Gabriel Willow will lead a walk to explore possibilities for architecture to support urban species. Join us on Saturday, May 16 at 2 pm in New York City (Meet at Central Park West and 63rd Street). Thanks to Mary Miss/City as Living Laboratory (CaLL) for the invitation! See more details here, and check […]
Friday, February 20, 2015
Read this timely post in The Nature of Cities: “Celebrating the Wilderness Act of 1964 – and Celebrating Wildness in Cities,” by Tim Beatley, the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, at the University of Virginia, and author or co-author of more than 15 books, including Green Urbanism, Native to Nowhere, […]
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Bat Cloud: Rotterdam — designed and installed for the 2014 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam — was adopted by the city’s Pompenburg Park and reinstalled under a pedestrian bridge at the park’s PeaceGarden site. Thanks to IABR and ZUS for the opportunity and support, and Thank You to Awesome Without Borders / The Harnisch Foundation for making this project […]
Image by WWSf Circus for Construction Team It was a pleasure to speak at the Worldwide Storefront Circus for Construction event, “Buffalo’s Radical Re-imaging,” and an honor to be among a group of awesome presenters: Sean Burkholder, Chris Romano + Nick Bruscia, and Sean Wrafter. Thanks to Silo City for hosting a great crowd! And […]
Saturday, November 17, 2012
“Experimental Habitat for New York Rooftops” is a commissioned ‘reenactment’ of the Experimental Greenhouse for the courtyard of U.N. International School in New York by Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), 1970, one of 101 unrealized proposals for New York City included in the Past Futures, Present, Futures exhibition at Storefront, curated by Eva Franch. The exhibition […]
The City of Buffalo is undergoing a massive overhaul of its land use and zoning policies, an effort which will result in the new Buffalo Green Code. Indeed, the city’s current zoning ordinances are ‘outdated’ and in need of revision. But are there latent opportunities that exist within the structure of Buffalo’s Zoning Codes? GENERATIVE […]
The new Spontaneous Interventions website is up, featuring all 124 projects on exhibit in the U.S. Pavilion at la Biennale di Venezia. Check out Bat Cloud here!
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Thanks to DesignNet, The Scientist, Azure, and The Buffalo News for spreading the good word about bats, Bat Cloud, and Animal Architecture! Also check out the August issue of Architect Magazine for coverage on Spontaneous Interventions at the U.S. Pavilion in Venice. Bat Cloud is intervention #12.
We are excited to be included in the U.S. Pavilion at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, organized by the Institute for Urban Design on behalf of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The exhibit, Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good, will feature 124 […]
Read about HIVE CITY in Inhabitat, Phys Org, The Dirt, Architect Magazine, The Globe and the Mail, Rust Belt Chic, … and check out more about the project on the Design Team’s website! Winning project, “Elevator B,” by Courtney Creenan, Kyle Mastalinski, Daniel Nead, Scott Selin, and Lisa Stern. Photos courtesy of Kyle Mastalinski. Project […]
Congratulations to Courtney Creenan, Kyle Mastalinski, Daniel Nead, Scott Selin, and Lisa Stern – winners of the Hive City Competition! Read about the project in the Buffalo News and check out the team’s blog for more info.
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 […]