Friday, September 25, 2015
We are excited to present No Crash Zone, a temporary “renovation” of a window in the Carson, Pirie, Scott Building to make visible the logics of bird-strike prevention while still aspiring toward architecture’s preoccupations with the humanist subject. With a nod to the tiling pattern framing the building’s windows, the project aims to create visual noise through […]
Friday, September 4, 2015
Here are a few photos of our latest installation-in-progress. Habitat Wall is the first of three new works that we are producing for “Outside Design,” an upcoming exhibition at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Sullivan Galleries. More soon!
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 […]
Bat Tower is featured in Arquitectura Viva – AV Proyectos 62, in “Shelters for Animals, Bees, Bats and Birds.”
We are excited to be part of the 2014 International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam – Urban by Nature, opening on May 29 at the Kunsthal.
Check out the feature here. Thanks Designboom!
Saturday, December 7, 2013
We are excited to see Bat Tower re-emerge in the media. Check out the Architect’s Newspaper!
“Living Among Pests – Designing for the Biosynthetic City” is published in Next Nature. “Biosynthetic design is usually discussed at the scale of the individual product. But the city – itself a mixture of synthetic interventions within biological systems – can be considered a more complex piece of biosynthetic design. Conversations in urban planning have moved […]
Thursday, September 5, 2013
We are excited to be awarded an Awesome Without Borders grant to support Bat Cloud: Rotterdam!
Joyce Hwang/Ants of the Prairie is featured in Biohabitats’ Leaf Litter newsletter. Many thanks to Amy Nelson for her interest in our work!
Joyce Hwang is the 2013 Simpson Visiting Critic at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Thanks to Liam Ross for organizing this event. Image credit: Hironori Kaseda, Poster credit: Liam Ross
Joyce Hwang participates in ACSA 101 as a speaker in the paper session “Architecture’s Next Companion Species,” chaired by Mason White. Other presenters in the group include Ned Dodington, Matthew Spremulli, and Ariane Lourie Harrison. ACSA 101 is hosted by California College of the Arts and co-chaired by Ila Berman and Ed Mitchell.