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).
For the first time this fall, a select group of undergraduates will take classes at the GSD as part of a new architectural studies track.
In the early 20th Century, the founder of the Bata Shoe Company combined American methods of factory management with the European ethic of communalism to realize a vision of more efficient working and living conditions. Victor Sanz (MAUD '11) begins his odyssey to visit the global network of Bata towns with a GSD Druker Traveling Fellowship, and shares notes of his travels with the Canadian journal On Site Review 27 and with us.
Daniel Ibañez (MDesS ‘12, DDesS candidate) and Fadi Masoud (MLA II ' 12) have been accepted to present their paper, Topo-logics in the Mediterranean Basin: Exploring potentials of topography as infrastructure and resource for new urban metabolisms, at the Med.Net.EU conference in Italy.
NPR's Susan Stamberg traveled to France and Washington, D.C., to experience Andy the installations by Andy Cao (LF '11) and Xavier Perrot at Beauvais and Dumbarton Oaks. Listen to her report on Morning Edition or read the transcript.
Dongsei Kim (MDesS '12) in Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology, has won an Honorable Mention in the National Geographic Award in Mapping for "The Demilitarized Zone: Redrawing the 151 mile border between North and South Korea."
Three recent GSD graduates, Anthony Acciavatti (MArch '09), Justin Fowler (MArch '10) and Dan Handel (MArch '10), have won a Graham Foundation grant to develop a new magazine on American architecture and urbanism. Manifest: A Journal of American Architecture and Urbanism seeks to ask questions and initiate discussion about the state of American architecture in both cities and outlying areas.