Daniel Ibañez (DDes candidate and co-founder of Margen-Lab) participated in the symposium "Arquitectura Iberica | Reencuentros y Talleres" directed by Eduardo Souto de Moura (2011 Pritzker Prize) and Francisco Mangado (both former GSD visiting professors).
2 GSD Grads win Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture from the Canada Council for the arts.
Gabon, a tiny country with enormous challenges and opportunities, turned to Ben Aranda’s studio when reimagining the future of its capital city. Their solutions for navigating the park-city boundary just might help position Libreville as a model for the 21st Century.
Mark Gilbert, (MArch '90) has been named Architectural Advisor to the City of Vienna's Advisory Council for Public Housing.
The GSD was well represented among the winners of the National Design Awards at a ceremony hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama and the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Mack Scogin (Kajima professor in practice of architecture) and his wife and partner Merrill Elam won the award for architecture. Chris Reed (adjunct associate professor of landscape architecture) and his firm, Stoss Landscape Urbanism, won in the landscape architecture category.
Michael Albert (Master in Landscape Architecture), Victor Perez Amado (Master in Architecture), and Anna Cawrse, (Master of Landscape Architecture) have been chosen to receive an American Society of Landscape Architects National Honor Award in Student Collaboration for their project “Bayou Commons,” a master land use plan for downtown Houston.
Kimberly Garza (MLA II '11), Andrew Tenbrink (MLA II '10) of ATLAS Lab and Forbes Lipschitz (MLA I '11), a landscape designer at dlandstudio, are featured in the 13th International Garden Festival in Quebec.
The Singapore Subordinate Courts have announced the winning design for a new courts complex after an open competition process that started in September last year. The design, by Christopher Lee of London-based Serie Architects, in collaboration with local Singaporean firm Multiply Architects, includes two new towers and the renovation of the existing Octagon courts building.
How does one ensure sammaan, or diginity, when designing toilet facilities for the slums of India? UPD Chair Rahul Mehrotra’s answer made him the Open Innovation Challenge winner.
What happens when art and design engage with the public realm to shape social and aesthetic experience? Sometimes a new sensory experience is born, as in the recent Food Opera: Four Asparagus Compositions, hosted by Jutta Friedrichs (MDesS ‘12), Elizabeth MacWillie (MDesS ‘12) and Sara Hendren (MDesS ‘13).