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!
Congratulations to the 9 winners of the 2015 Architect Magazine R+D Awards! It was an honor to have been on this jury with Marc Fornes/TheVeryMany and Steven Rainville/Olson Kundig Architects. Thank you to Wanda Lau for the invitation and for coordinating the process!
Joyce is honored to serve as a panelist for the 2016 NYSCA Independent Project Grants in Architecture + Design!
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 out the spring 2015 events for Broadway: 1000 steps.
Image: Trinity Church, Boston, MA
Excited to be on the jury for Architect Magazine’s Ninth Annual R+D Awards!
Joyce Hwang to lecture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as part of the Mitchell Lecture Series: Thursday, April 2, 2015 — 5.30 pm, Columbus Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Dr., room 203, Chicago. Thanks Jonathan Solomon for the invitation!
Joyce Hwang chairs the “Beyond Patronage” paper session at ACSA 103: The Expanding Periphery and the Migrating Center, March 19-21, 2015. Thanks to session’s excellent speakers: Anna Neimark (SCI-Arc; First Office), Catie Newell (University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Alibi Studio), Erkin Özay (University at Buffalo, School of Architecture and Planning; the Özay Office), and Luis Quirós (University of Maryland, School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Luis Diego Quirós Architecture). And congratulations to Lola Sheppard and David Ruy for putting together an inspiring series of events!
Image by ACSA
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, Ethical Land Use, and Biophilic Cities. We are honored to be referenced in this essay!
Joyce Hwang presents “Living Among Pests” at Drury University, Hammons School of Architecture’s “Locating Design” Lecture Series: Friday, February 6, 2015 — 3 pm, HSA Auditorium. Thanks to Saundra Weddle for the invitation!
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 possible!
Photo by Joseph Swerdlin
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 a very big Thank You and Congratulations to the Circus Team (Ann Lui, Ashley Mendelsohn, Ben Widger, Craig Reschke, Larisa Ovalles, and Buffalo correspondent Trenton Van Epps) for pulling off an amazing feat! Check out photos of their adventures in Buffalo here.
Joyce Hwang, Courtney Creenan-Chorley, Peter Schmidt and Chris Romano presented “Cross-Profession Practices: Mixing-up the Academy with Industry,” a discussion that centered on models of research and practice that have emerged from collaborative work between the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, Rigidized Metals, and Boston Valley Terra Cotta. Joyce also participated as the representative for UB SUNY on the “NYS Schools of Architecture Roundtable,” together with Lance Jay Brown (CCNY), Dennis Andrejko (RIT), Frank Mruk (NYIT), and Mark Mistur (RPI). Congratulations to AIA New York State for putting together an inspiring set of keynotes, seminars, and events in Saratoga Springs!
A great list of summer (and year round) reading! Check out Joyce’s picks, including books by Wu Ming-Yi, Meghan Daum, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, Jeremy Till, and Ernest Hemingway. Thanks, Metropolis, for the invitation to contribute!
Image by Metropolis
Thanks to Emma Wang for featuring our work in the World Journal (世界日報). Also see the online version here!
UB Green’s Q & A with Joyce Hwang is now online! Thank you to Erin Moscati for her interest in our work!