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Designing Everything From Buildings To Pulled Plaster Panels, Young Projects Discusses How the Small Studio Accommodates for Variety

2018-05-07T09:00:00-04:00

The work of Young Projects—a New York-based studio founded by Bryan Young in 2010—extends beyond just buildings, with the firm of seven designing everything from materials and prototypes, to furniture and objects. For this week's Small Studio Snapshot, we talk with the studio about the variety of their projects and how they utilize down-time to push those boundaries.

Talking with Assemble – before they won the Turner

2016-02-09T13:10:00-05:00

My first meeting with Assemble was at their studio in London, in a search to find and speak with interesting people who think that building stuff at 1:1 scale sounds pretty normal. I wanted to convince them to host a workshop at Keio University, where I teach, and I succeeded: our run in with Assemble ended with students building a very rough and very temporary Onsen (the Japanese term for bathing facilities near hot springs), and an equally rough kitchen on a construction site at our university campus.

Prototyping: "Architecture in Digital Fashion" makes parametricism personal

2014-08-29T11:18:00-04:00

Fashion design may seem far removed from architecture, but both disciplines have the human scale at their centers. One intimately wraps the body, the other moderates its passage through the world, but both are occasions for self-expression and vital to survival. The organizers behind Parametrica [Digi Fab School]’s “Architecture in Digital Fashion” workshop are encouraging architecture and design students to apply their skillset in these overlaps, to explore how wearable materials and architectural forms can inform one another.

Prototyping: Developing fantastical habitats for the untamed in New-Territories' "DIY-Feral Child Workshop"

2014-05-20T10:33:00-04:00

True to its name, the DIY-Feral Child workshop is devised around an imagined feral child, found deep in the Thai Jungle and now being assimilated into human society. Spanning one summer month in the north-east of Bangkok, along the Kwai River, the workshop is a tri-fold effort of design, material experimentation, and film, where twenty student participants will create a fictionalized movie narrative alongside their architectural designs.

Prototyping: Tiny House Design Workshop

2014-02-27T16:13:00-05:00

Workshops can open up architectural education to those beyond the university community, rolling theory and practice into concentrated and productive sessions. Prototyping, a new feature series on Archinect, will highlight some of the more ambitious and intriguing workshops out there, to show how they're being put together and what they produce.