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2013 International PUARL Conference - BATTLE FOR THE LIFE AND BEAUTY OF THE EARTH

2013-05-13T18:22:12-04:00

We are now accepting proposals and abstracts for consideration for this interdisciplinary and international conference. Papers must address one of the conference themes.

The three main themes that will be emphasized in this conference are:

Inclusive Urbanism & the Ecosystems of Cities
Building Production for a More Beautiful & Resilient World
(Re)Generative and Emergent Processes

More info can be found here: http://puarl.uoregon.edu/images/2013PUARLCallforPapers.pdf

Lecture - Andrew Kovacs

2013-05-10T13:04:00-04:00

Monday, May 20
UCLA, Perloff Hall, decafe, Room 1302
Free

UCLA Teaching Fellow Lecture

Andrew Kovacs
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Teaching Fellow 2012-2013

Andrew Kovacs is the UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Teaching Fellow for 2012-2013. His written work on architecture and urbanism has been published in journals such as PIDGIN and PROJECT. He is the creator and curator of Archive of Affinities – a website dedicated to the architectural B-side.

Perloff Hall is located on the UCLA Campus.
Perloff Hall, M-F, 9am – 5pm
Info: 310.267.4704
Lectures take place at 6:30pm in Perloff Hall, Decafé (unless otherwise indicated) Parking is available in Lot 3 for $11, purchase parking at the Westholme Ave and Hilgard Ave kiosk. Check the website for confirmation of all programs at www.aud.ucla.edu  The campus map is available at maps.ucla.edu/campus

Extreme Intelligence: The Future of Thinking Environments

2013-05-09T18:21:00-04:00

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 7:30pm
Neil Denari, Joseph Kosinski, Greg Lindsay
Creative Artists Agency

UCLA A.UD Professor and Vice Chair, Neil Denari leads a panel on the implications of emerging “intelligent environments” and their corollary in transportation, manufacturing and urbanism. Panelists include Joseph Kosinski, director of Oblivion and Tron: Legacy, and Greg Lindsay, contributing writer to Fast Company and author of Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next.

Moderator Neil Denari is Professor and Vice Chair at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design and principal of NMDA, Neil M. Denari Architects, Inc. He’s the recipient of the 2011 Los Angeles AIA Gold Medal, and in 2010 was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame. His work has been included in many exhibitions, including the solo shows Fast Forward in 2008 at the Museum of the City of New York, Architects’ Work: HL23 in 2009 at Syracuse University, and The Artless Drawing in 2010 at Ace Gallery Los Angeles, curat...

Extreme IDEAS: Runway

2013-05-06T18:36:38-04:00

Friday, June 28, 2013 at 7:00pm
Party
Hercules Campus

This celebration marks the culmination of the Pacific Standard Time Presents initiative's "L.A. Architecture Month." Noted architects, designers and thinkers will share their thoughts on the future through a series of fast paced, back-to-back presentations. The event also includes music, food and installations.

Free and open to the public. Reservations required.
Sign up here to receive an email when event registration opens.
Information: 310.206.6098

Location:
Hercules Campus
5865 S. Campus Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90094
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Extreme Environments: Design for Unfamiliar Terrain

2013-05-06T18:28:12-04:00

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 7:30pm
Greg Lynn and Loretta Hidalgo
Griffith Observatory

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design (A.UD) will carry the narrative of modern architecture in L.A. forward from its influential past to the future with Extreme IDEAS: Architecture at the Intersection, a series of programs that chart a dynamic new future for architecture. The programs will look beyond the field's traditional boundaries and explore topics arising from unexpected quarters in film, automotive, aerospace, and tech industries in order to explore rapidly emerging new technologies, possibilities for interdisciplinary growth, and the role of Los Angeles in the evolution of architecture. Major support for Extreme IDEAS has been provided by the Getty Foundation.

UCLA A.UD Professor Greg Lynn leads a panel discussion to explore new frontiers for architecture in extreme environments from the arctic to the desert to outer space. Panelists include Steve Yahata, Director of Structures Techno...

Extreme Culture: The Intermix of Real and Virtual Realities

2013-05-06T18:24:56-04:00

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 7:30pm
Thomas Krens and Scott Trowbridge
Clark Memorial Library

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design (A.UD) will carry the narrative of modern architecture in L.A. forward from its influential past to the future with Extreme IDEAS: Architecture at the Intersection, a series of programs that chart a dynamic new future for architecture. The programs will look beyond the field's traditional boundaries and explore topics arising from unexpected quarters in film, automotive, aerospace, and tech industries in order to explore rapidly emerging new technologies, possibilities for interdisciplinary growth, and the role of Los Angeles in the evolution of architecture. Major support for Extreme IDEAS has been provided by the Getty Foundation.

Panelists include Scott Trowbridge, VP Creative, Walt Disney Imagineering R&D, and Thomas Krens, founder and CEO of Global Cultural Asset Management and Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation from 1988 to 2008.

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Lecture - Yoshiharu Tsukamoto

2013-05-02T13:03:00-04:00

Wednesday, May 8 | 6:30pm
UCLA, Perloff Hall, decafe, Room 1302

Free

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
Principal, Atelier Bow-Wow, Tokyo; Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Atelier Bow-Wow was established in Tokyo in 1992 by the husband-and-wife team of Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima. Best known for its surprising, idiosyncratic, yet highly usable residential projects in dense urban environments, the firm has developed its practice based on a profound and unprejudiced study of existing cultural, economic, and environmental conditions—a study that led it to propose the term “pet architecture” for the multitude of odd, ungainly, but functional little buildings wedged into tiny sites around Tokyo. Atelier Bow-Wow has also acquired an enthusiastic following through its Micro Public Space projects and its innovative projects at exhibitions such as the 2010 Venice Biennale (as an official representative of Japan) and the São Paulo Bienal, as well as at venues such as t...

Lecture - Monica Ponce De Leon

2013-05-01T13:22:00-04:00

Monday, May 6 | 6:30 pm
UCLA, Perloff Hall, decafe, Room 1302
Free

Monica Ponce De Leon
Dean and Eliel Saarinen Collegiate Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Monica Ponce de Leon was appointed Dean and Eliel Saarinen Collegiate Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning of University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning in September, 2008. In 1991, she co-founded Office dA and has recently launched her own design practice. Dean Ponce de Leon received a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1989 from the University of Miami and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1991. She joined the Harvard Graduate School of Design faculty in 1996, where she was a Professor of Architecture and the Director of the Digital Lab. She has also held teaching appointments at Northeastern University, the Southern California Institut...

DIRTY SOUTH - Pop-Up Reception + Book Release

2013-05-01T10:59:00-04:00

The Dirty South Studio is proud to announce a Book Signing on Monday, May 6th, 2013 at 7:00pm

Top Level Underground Atlanta Parking Garage - 75 Martin Luther King Jr Dr, SW at Central Ave

Please join us for an evening celebrating the release of the greatly anticipated guide to the overlooked conditions of our fair city. The guide uncovers a range of urban conditions, particular to the Dirty South from the subterranean Underground Atlanta and a thirteen-mile long quarantined space, to the artificial landforms of Piedmont Park and Bellwood Quarry.

The event will take place rain or shine - one level below the top if raining.

INTERSECTIONS 2013 : INTEROPERABLE WORKFLOW | INNOVATIVE PRACTICE

2013-04-28T16:37:12-04:00

For updates on speakers go to : http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/fuselab/intersections-2013/

Lecture: Barton Myers Retirement Lecture

2013-04-24T18:06:43-04:00

Barton Myers
 Friday, April 26 | 6:30pm 
Decafe, Perloff Hall, UCLA campus

Best known for his minimal steel-framed houses, Barton Myers, UCLA architecture and urban design professor, will speak at Perloff Hall’s Decafe on Friday, April 26 at 6:30 p.m. Admission to the event is free, and the public is invited to attend.

Myers will discuss the integration of architecture and education, and share his thoughts on how it impacted his work as part of UCLA Architecture and Urban Design’s 2012-2013 lecture series. This will be Myers final lecture as a UCLA faculty member as he is retiring at the end of the academic year.

After his lecture, there will be a reception with students, faculty, alumni and the general public.

Montecito Residence, Montecito, California. (Photographer: Ciro Coelho)

Barton Myers, joined the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture in 1980. During his tenure at the University, he participated in the Urban Innovations Group (UIG), a teaching practice at...

Lecture - Donald L. Bates

2013-04-22T10:31:00-04:00

Monday, April 29 | 6:30 pm
UCLA, Perloff Hall, decafe, Room 1302

Free

Donald L. Bates
Chair, University of Melbourne Architectural Design; Founder/Director, LAB Architecture Studio, Melbourne/London

Professor Donald Bates is the Chair of Architectural Design at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. He is a Founder and Director of LAB Architecture Studio, an architectural and urban design practice based in Melbourne, with offices in Shanghai, London, Delhi and Dubai. Professor Bates is a member of the Victorian Design Review Panel and is a juror at the forthcoming World Architecture Festival in Singapore. He has taught at the Architectural Association in London, the Cooper Union in NYC and lectured in more than 170 schools and institutions across the world.
LAB Architecture Studio are the designers, in association with Bates Smart, of Melbourne’s Federation Square, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. LAB has also...

Future Ruins

2013-04-20T05:58:26-04:00

Future Ruins is an exhibition displaying the work of 12 international artists,
architects and designers in Bergen Arkitektskole (BAS) from May 23rd-26th, 2013.
It will also include evening events: a vernissage sound installation/performance,
presentations by architectural collectives raumlabor (Berlin) and Bellastock (Paris),
a screening of documentary film 'Against the Grain' by Håvard Tveito (set in the
former grain silo at BAS) and some lectures .

Use your design skills to drive community and environmental change: Apply to Archeworks 2013-14 certificate program in Sustainable Urban Design

2013-04-19T15:06:50-04:00

Join Archeworks, Chicago's multidisciplinary postgraduate design school. Work in close collaboration with community partners to develop socially responsible and environmentally resourceful design solutions that address our greatest urban challenges.

We are seeking emerging and mid-career participants with experience in urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, user experience, industrial design, communications/graphic design, wayfinding and other related areas of expertise for our year-long evening program in Sustainable Urban Design. Two design partnerships in the coming year will focus on public transportation and urban agriculture.

Interested candidates are encouraged to submit an application by the priority deadline of June 10 (rolling admissions through August 1). The program starts in late September, 2013. Visit archeworks.org for more information and to download application materials.

ANNOUNCING 2013 SUMMER PROGRAMS IN ARCHITECTURE

2013-04-17T10:57:19-04:00

The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture will offer two 4-week intensive workshops in summer 2013 for college credit in introductory and advanced programs. An introductory program will present students with foundational concepts and practices within the study of architecture while the advanced program will explore the role of digital technologies as a theoretical and formal determinate in contemporary architecture.

Courses offered:

STRANGE CRAFT: Masterclass in Contemporary Digital Architecture
INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURE: Foundation Studies and Portfolio Development

Course dates: JULY 8 - AUGUST, 2013

Apply by JUNE 1, 2013

Learn more ...

PARSONS FESTIVAL 2013

2013-04-15T11:42:46-04:00

Parsons The New School for Design will present its third annual Parsons Festival, which will take place May 5 through 24, 2013, and feature exhibitions, symposia, panel discussions, critiques and special projects that celebrate the next generation of art and design in a range of disciplines.

“The festival is an exciting opportunity for the public to come face to face with the breadth and depth of work of the next generation in art and design,” said Parsons Executive Dean Joel Towers. “This annual event enables us to provide a look at the creative process across a range of media, and present cross-disciplinary, collaborative work that speaks to the high level of innovation, critical thinking, and social engagement at Parsons.”

This year, Parsons Festival is an official event of the first NYCxDESIGN, the inaugural citywide event celebrating New York City’s diverse design scene.

The following are a selection of events featured in the Parsons Festival, including exhibitions of gr...

Lecture - Iñaki Ábalos

2013-04-15T10:14:00-04:00

Monday, April 22 | 6:30 pm
UCLA, Perloff Hall, decafe, Room 1302

Free

Iñaki Ábalos
Director, Ábalos+Sentkiewicz, Madrid
Renata Sentkiewicz
Director, Ábalos+Sentkiewicz, Madrid

Iñaki Ábalos and Renata Sentkiewicz have worked together since 1999, first in Ábalos and Herreros and since 2006 as Ábalos+Sentkiewicz arquitectos. The work they develop stands out for proposing an original synthesis of technical rigor, formal imagination and discipline integration between architecture, environment and landscape, an approach they have named as “A Thermodynamic Beauty.” They have been awarded many international competitions and have been widely published.

Deviant Artifacts: The Work of Radical Craft

2013-04-10T19:33:00-04:00

WEDGE Gallery, Woodbury School of Architecture
April 12–22, 2013
Reception: April 12, 6-8pm

The archaeological artifact is typically understood to embody the desires and intentions of individual creators as well as of entire cultures and historical movements. But recently, the term “artifact” has come to signify a measure of uncertainty in the relationship between intention and object. “Compression artifacts”—errors or aberrations within digital algorithms—distort information, or introduce new, unintended patterns that question the fidelity of virtual media. Deviant Artifacts showcases the dual role of the object within the studio practice of Radical Craft, at times operating in service of focused design trajectories, at others straying from project agendas in order to generate new forms, parameters, or fields of inquiry. Hand-crafted ceramic casts, digitally fabricated plaster molds, and ambiguously scaled “models” each offer material resistance to the idealized desires and...

Figure: Spring Faculty Exhibition

2013-04-10T19:32:00-04:00

Six of One,
Half-Dozen of Another
Faculty Exhibition Series

Figure

April 5–30, 2013*
Third Floor Octagon Gallery
UIC School of Architecture

*Collective installation on view through Friday, May 10

Opening Event
Friday, April 5, 6pm

The UIC School of Architecture is pleased to present Figure, the second in a series of semiannual collaborative faculty exhibitions. Like Field—its conceptual counterpart—in the fall, Figure asks participants to do two things: to reframe an existing project with the term "figure" in mind, creating a cross-section of takes on one concept, and to produce a collective installation that addresses shared interests and begins to lay claim to a group definition of the term.

Six of One, Half-Dozen of Another is an ongoing series of exhibitions that assemble six School of Architecture faculty, individually and collectively, around an architectural idea. For more information, visit www.arch.uic.edu.

Participating Faculty

Julia Capomaggi
Clini...

Archizines

2013-04-10T13:01:00-04:00

Panel Discusion: 6:30 pm - 8pm
Exhibition Opening: 8 - 9 pm

UCLA A.UD is delighted to host the critically acclaimed international exhibition ARCHIZINES in the Perloff Gallery, the 18th stop on the world tour that has taken in cities from Tokyo and Osaka to New York, London, Paris, and Berlin.

ARCHIZINES celebrates the resurgence of alternative and independent architectural publishing around the world. The touring exhibition, curated by Elias Redstone and initiated in collaboration with the Architectural Association, now features 90 architecture magazines, fanzines and journals from over twenty countries that provide an alternative to the established architectural press. Edited by architects, artists and students, these publications provide new platforms for commentary, criticism and research into the spaces we inhabit and the practice of architecture.

The publications, all launched after 2005, vary in their style and approach to editing architecture. However, together they m...

Lecture - David Ruy

2013-04-10T10:00:00-04:00

Monday, April 15 | 6:30 pm
UCLA, Perloff Hall, decafe, Room 1302
Free

David Ruy
Principal, Ruy Klein, New York
Associate Professor, Pratt Institute, New York

David Ruy is an architect and theorist. He received his M.Arch. degree from Columbia University and his BA degree from St. John’s College where he studied philosophy and mathematics. Ruy is currently an associate professor in the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design at the Pratt Institute, where he is also the director of The Network for Emerging Architectural Research (NEAR). David Ruy and Karel Klein are the principals of Ruy Klein in New York. Recognized as one of the leading experimental practices in architecture today, Ruy Klein examines contemporary design problems at the intersection of architecture, nature, and technology.

Perloff Hall is located on the UCLA Campus.
Perloff Hall, M-F, 9am – 5pm
Info: 310.267.4704
Lectures take place at 6:30pm in Perloff Hall, Decafé (unless otherwise indicat...

Lecture: Michael Young, Young & Ayata

2013-04-08T14:31:50-04:00

Last lecture of Woodbury School of Architecture's Spring Series, with a Fix at 6 in the courtyard sponsored by AIAS.

Michael Young, Young & Ayata
Ahmanson Main Space, Woodbury School of Architecture
April 9
6:30 p.m.

Michael Young is an architect and an educator practicing in New York City where he is a founding partner of Young & Ayata. Young & Ayata formed as a partnership between Michael Young & Kutan Ayata in New York in 2008 to explore novel formal and organizational possibilities in architecture and urbanism. The practice is dedicated to the exchange between built commissions and design research. Their work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Michael has taught design studios and seminars at The Cooper Union, Yale University, Columbia University, and Princeton University. He has been a visiting professor at Shih Chien University in Taipei, Taiwan, the Crete Technical University, Crete, Greece and the GSAPP Studio X summer workshop in Thessaloniki, G...

Jordan Geiger: Very Large Organizations

2013-04-03T20:13:00-04:00

WUHO Gallery
Reception: Monday, April 15, 7:00 p.m
April 6–28, 2013

Jordan Geiger: Very Large Organizations tracks a contemporary phenomenon: the convergence of multiple infrastructures and global networks in the built environment. Geiger ascribes the term Very Large Organizations (VLOs) to this confluence of technological, legal, economic, material, and cultural forces. It is through this identification that Geiger makes visible the impact of large-scale systems such as global communications and supranational legal and financial constructs on the construction and inhabitation of space. By identifying these systems, Geiger also finds an embedded field of inquiry rich with opportunities for architectural engagement and action.

VLOs operate on multiple scales from the nano to the human to the extraplanetary. VLOs take the shape of handheld devices, satellite networks, and the built landscapes we inhabit in between. Their planning and infrastructure demand logistics, capital, a...

Ingeborg Rocker Lecture, Recursion: Aesthetics + Logics of Computation

2013-04-01T14:08:42-04:00

Wednesday, April 3, 7pm
W.K. Keck Lecture Hall
Intro by Marcelyn Gow

Ingeborg M. Rocker was appointed Associate Professor of Architecture at Harvard in 2011, after serving as assistant professor there since 2005. She teaches in the core architecture studio sequence, coordinates the 2nd semester M.Arch 1 core studios, and leads the GSDigital workshops. She also gives courses and seminars on contemporary architectural theory and manufacturing techniques.

Rocker’s theoretical work is devoted to questions regarding the impact of media on the perception, production, and thinking of architecture. As a designer and teacher of design, she deploys computer modeling as a tool for giving form to theoretical hypotheses in a didactic way. Rocker’s ongoing research has been widely publicized through numerous international magazines and books.

SCI-Arc is located at 960 E. 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013. More about the lecture at http://www.sciarc.edu/lectures.php?id=2183.

LECTURE: Roberto Rovira

2013-03-28T14:13:49-04:00

Woodbury School of Architecture
Spring 2013 Lecture Series

Roberto Rovira
Ahmanson Main Space
April 2
6:30 p.m.

Roberto Rovira is chair of the landscape architecture department at Florida International University and principal of the interdisciplinary Studio Roberto Rovira. His teaching, research and creative work explore the field of landscape architecture through art and design and often test the concepts of time and transformation, and the potential of landscape architecture to play a pivotal role in envisioning and shaping public space. A registered landscape architect, Roberto has been lead designer in national and international projects in Miami, South America, New York, Dubai and California, and his work ranges from environmental installations and competitions, to public art commissions, exhibits, and landscape architectural projects. He obtained a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1998 and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanic...

School of Architecture Lecture Series: Jon Pack and Gary Hustwit

2013-03-26T23:00:10-04:00

>> The Olympic City

"Since 2008, photographer Jon Pack and filmmaker Gary Hustwit have sought out the successes and failures, remnants and ghosts of the Olympics in cities including Athens, Barcelona, Mexico City, Lake Placid, Los Angeles, Montreal, and Rome. Their photographs document structures, streets, signage, and ephemera as a way of acknowledging and analyzing a complex set of relationships between the past and the present. Pack and Hustwit are creating an archive of imagery which not only illustrates the successes and failures of variations on a legendary sporting event, but their project offers a possible guide to the dos and don’ts of contemporary built environments."

The Olympic City

Curators' Talk: A Confederacy of Heretics, The Architecture Gallery, Venice, 1979

2013-03-26T16:17:00-04:00

EXHIBITION DISCUSSION:
Friday, April 5, 7pm
SCI-Arc Gallery

Join us for an exhibition discussion with curators Todd Gannon, Andrew Zago and Ewan Branda, and SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss.

The first to open in the Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A. series, an initiative of the Getty, this SCI-Arc-hosted exhibition examines the pivotal role played by the temporary gallery held in the home of architect Thom Mayne for several weeks in 1979.

Los Angeles’ first gallery exclusively dedicated to architecture, the Architecture Gallery staged ten weekly exhibitions on both young and established Los Angeles practitioners, featuring the work of Eugene Kupper, Roland Coate Jr., Frederick Fisher, Frank Dimster, Frank Gehry, Peter de Bretteville, Morphosis (Thom Mayne and Michael Rotondi), Studio Works (Craig Hodgetts and Robert Mangurian), and Eric Owen Moss. The exhibitions were covered by weekly lectures at SCI-Arc, introduced by Coy Howard, and in unprecede...

Todd Gannon Lecture: A Prelude to the Confederacy

2013-03-26T16:17:00-04:00

Wed, March 27, 7pm
W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
Intro by Eric Owen Moss

Todd Gannon is co-curator of the exhibition A Confederacy of Heretics: The Architecture Gallery, Venice, 1979, part of Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., an initiative of the Getty. His lecture introduces the exhibition, that opens with a public reception at SCI-Arc Gallery & Library on Friday, March 29, 7pm. More about the Confederacy of Heretics, The Architecture Gallery, Venice, 1979.

Gannon is a registered architect and writer based in Los Angeles. He received Bachelor of Science and Master of Architecture degrees from Ohio State University and earned his Ph.D. from UCLA. He taught at Ohio State, UCLA, and Otis College of Art and Design before joining the faculty at SCI-Arc in 2008, where he is now Cultural Studies coordinator. His research focuses on the history and theory of late 20th-century and contemporary architecture. His published books include The Light Construction Reader (2...

Renovation

2013-03-26T11:20:25-04:00

This one-week course is an introduction to the unique challenges of renovating or adding on to an existing house. Participants will learn the skills and techniques to plan and take on their own home renovation projects. Specific areas covered in this course include structural assessment of wood frame buildings, design strategies to blend or contrast with traditional styles, finding and incorporating appropriate materials, integrating heating and cooling systems in an existing house, and upgrading an old house to meet new energy codes. This course will include hands-on workshops to introduce students to the skills and tools needed to prepare for work on their own home projects. Workshops will include selective demolition; re-framing walls, floors and roofs; hanging doors and windows; cutting and installing wood trim and mouldings; and patching in basic interior and exterior finishes. Students are encouraged to bring their specific interests and projects to the class. Field trips to...

Sustainable Treehouse Design & Construction

2013-03-26T11:17:55-04:00

Building a sustainable tree house is among the most interesting, exhilarating and enlightening projects imaginable. Moreover, it is emblematic of everything we hope to achieve in sustainable architecture. How do we build in a natural setting without despoiling the very nature that supports us? This timeless design problem underlies our entire program. During this one week course students will learn how to design and build a sustainable tree house. In the studio we will talk about tree house design issues such as site, tree physiology and species, sustainable design, tree house structures and, let us not forget, beauty! In the field component of the course, students will learn how to safely construct a tree house design in real trees. While building we will learn construction techniques, suitable materials, tree house detailing and how to build safely. Students will walk away with the confidence and understanding of how to design and build their own tree house.

Competency Level: ...