BUNDLE UP!

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April 3 to May 17, 2026, 5 to 6 p.m.

Location: Goldsmith Hall

Beginning April 3, Andy Bako, 2024-2026 Emerging Scholar in Design, presents BUNDLE UP!

BUNDLE UP!

"BUNDLE UP!" is an exhibition of design research collectively produced by Andy Bako's Spring 2026 Advanced Design-Build Studio, "Wastecoats for the Bodies We Wear". The exhibition explores bundling as an architectural strategy for climate resilience, material reuse, and collective care. Framing architecture as a wearable, mutable ecology, the work rethinks the building envelope as a thickened, layered interface that mediates between bodies and their environments.

Drawing from practices of accumulation, repair, and adaptation, the projects investigate how discarded materials can be reassembled into provisional systems that register exposure, vulnerability, and change over time. BUNDLE UP! presents architecture as an ongoing process—one that anticipates uncertainty through layering, flexibility, and reversibility.

Installed at Goldsmith Hall, the exhibition brings together full-scale constructions, material experiments, and spatial assemblies that foreground collaborative practice rooted in care, material responsibility, and the realities of contemporary environmental pressure.

BUNDLE UP! is on display from April 3 to May 8.

About Andy Bako

Andy Bako is a licensed architect in Ontario, Canada, and the founder of ABAD Co., a multidisciplinary design practice based in Toronto. Before joining the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture (UTSOA), he served as the 2023-2024 Schidlowski Emerging Faculty Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Kent State University, where his design research was showcased in the "TRAIN YOURSELF" exhibition at the Armstrong Gallery.

Andy has also held teaching positions at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto and the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism at Carleton University. Over the course of his career, he has led the production of work for esteemed institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto, the Aga Khan Foundation, and the University of Toronto. He holds a Master of Architecture with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he was awarded the 2019 Digital Design Prize for his thesis project, "Normal House," which explored the intersections of image culture, suburbia, and the limitations of contemporary design software.

Andy has worked for award-winning architectural firms and designers, including Adamson Associates Architects and OMA. In addition, as a computational designer, he has worked with Volkan Alkanoglu Design, LLC. His work has been featured on platforms such as Kooz/Arch and SuckerPUNCHdaily, as well as at the Hot Air Gallery in New York. He has also contributed to international exhibitions, including "Countryside: The Future" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. His recent publications include contributions to Yale Paprika! journal, POOL, and the ASCA 2024 International Conference Proceedings.

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