Join CCA architecture professors Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno this Thursday May 21, 6-8:00pm at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts San Francisco for the PUBLIC OPENING PARTY for two new installations by Future Cities Lab. Details can be found... View full entry
CCA's Urban Works Agency and OpenScope Studio have partnered with the San Francisco Planning Department and SPUR to launch the exhibition Urbanism From Within, opening with what should be a lively party on Friday, February 20th at 6:30 pm (Eventbrite info here). It's free and open to the public... View full entry
The Creative Architecture Machines Colloquium, held at CCA's Timken Hall on November 3rd and hosted by the Digital Craft Lab and arranged by Jason Kelly Johnson of CCA and Future Cities Lab, was a special chance to gather luminaries in the field of robotics and 3D printing in architecture from... View full entry
Last summer a small group of CCA graduate students assisted professor Thom Faulders in assembling a project called The Crystalline World: SUBHEDRAL, a collaboration with CCA professor Lynn Marie Kirby, for theElectronic Pacific exhibition at SOMArts. This provided an opportunity to... View full entry
Making of Faulders Studio's The Crystalline World: SUBHEDRAL
Audi AG's innovation research office in San Francisco has teamed up with CCA for a two week intensive workshop, an interdisciplinary collaboration geared towards exploring the car as a key intersection in a broader network of interconnected devices. Spearheaded on the AIR side by Markus Auerbach... View full entry
Our advanced options studio this semester at CCA has been focused on engineering and constructing Grasshopper/Firefly/Arduino-controlled three-dimensional object producing machines, our own 3D printer prototypes, built from scratch. The final review will be this Saturday, December 7th, and it... View full entry
It's difficult to judge a visiting lecturer's enjoyability potential because they are an unknown quantity, which will NOT be the issue next Monday night, November 4th, as some of the most compelling professors teaching here at CCA will come together to present the graduate architecture offerings... View full entry
If you walked into CCA's nave this week you would have been greeted by what appears to be a primitive laboratory experiment, hard metal rods lightly supporting odd flasks and stoppers. But if you got too close to a particular few of them you would have gotten a face full of rank so heinous it... View full entry
This semester I have the great fortune of being enrolled in Jason Kelly Johnson's (co-founder of Future Cities Lab) Creative Architecture Machines advanced options studio here at CCA. Co-taught with Michael Shiloh, a community manager with Arduino, this studio's focus is on operational... View full entry
The Future Of Architecture Is In Robotic Hands - Polydexter 1.0
Studio is put off for a few days in the first week of every fall for CCA Architecture and Interior Design Department's Warm-Up Design Charette Competition and this year saw all of the bachelors and masters and interior design students get thrown into teams of eight to ten members to essentially... View full entry
The California College of the Arts will host an amazing lecture series this semester, featuring a pretty great panel in mid-October under the topic Test Sites: Experiments in the History of Space, including a return to CCA by Keller Easterling who lectured here last fall. A highlight for me will... View full entry
Architecture is consumed through it’s representation. Some say it’s representation is the only true architecture. Radical Representation was an advanced course, taught by Greg Hurcomb with software tutorials by Flori Kryethi, that explored innovative methods of architectural... View full entry
Jeff Maeshiro Midterm Presentation
Jeff Maeshiro Final Presentation
