The 2010 Branner Fellows have each shared a summary of their last year of travels and research.
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The 2010 Branner Fellows have each shared a summary of their last year of travels and research.

Adriana Navarro-Sertich's is entitled Favela Chic. In it she identifies seven common architectural tools based on comparative field studies in South America (Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, and Venezuela): Plug-in Services, Urban Connectors, Icons, Skin+Sign, Dirty Works, Housing/Relocation, and Tectonic Uplift.

In Aging Modernism, Melissa Smith explores Incremental evolution in self-correcting cities and the importance of everyday architectural acts in the continual re-formation of the modern cityscape.

Finally, Drip | Dry : Systems that Seep Eleanor Pries, explores fourteen select water systems around the world. These systems convey, filter, and store rainwater and groundwater. One big aim became to understand how the materials could inform absorptive building systems.

Orhan Ayyüce, Michael Rotond documented the adventures of Homeboy

We discuss the news that TLS/KVA team won the Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition.

Discussion Threads
MixmasterFestus compiles some previous threads on urban design and questions what kind of Stuff "urban designers" should know? and what the workflows and types of analysis involved would be?

shinyapple is looking for precedents of floating stages.

NoNameNum3 wants to find architect/artisan teams in which the architect willingly gives up some measure of control to the fabricator, resulting in something unexpected. Go give some help.

School Blogs
Lian at Harvard's GSD notes that Elizabeth Federic and Laura Harrison's 2008 documentary, Ant Farm, was screened last night in an inflatable 'pavillion' made for the event.



Micah at Kent State University has begun working on his IDC project. The site is located is Washington D.C. On the Anacostia river waterfront within the The Yards currently being developed by Forest City as part of a larger scheme to redevelop the waterfront through the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative.