This series, held roughly every other Friday during the fall and spring semesters, brings faculty, staff, and students together for an informal and inquisitive discussion about ideas relating to architecture and its history, theory, practice, and future.
This two-day symposium will bring together some of the most prominent Mexican names in adaptive reuse projects presenting and discussing the rescue of cultural heritage in Mexico with a contemporary approach. The goal is to open the discussion and generate new questions from different perspectives. The participants will center their questions around how Mexican built heritage can be revitalized addressing the needs of the twenty-first century without losing its integrity and cultural value.
This series, held roughly every other Friday during the fall and spring semesters, brings faculty, staff, and students together for an informal and inquisitive discussion about ideas relating to architecture and its history, theory, practice, and future.
The Material’s Lab continued the ‘Materializing Design’ series with an in-person demonstration from Michael Phalan at the Build Lab to learn basic model building techniques manipulating foam on a hot wire cutter. Located in the Goldsmith basement, the Build Lab has a variety of model-making and fabrication tools at the disposal of UTSOA students.
The Materials Lab hosted a bio-resin casting workshop led by Samantha Panger. Samantha Panger is a MLA candidate, founder of LoFi Recycling Studio, and a [RE]Verse Pitch fellow and grant recipient in 2020. LoFi aims to divert hard to recycle waste streams into new products and encourage communal agency in plastic recycling.
A person experiencing homelessness lacks shelter in its most basic form, but solving homelessness takes much more than buildings, and our contemporary moment reveals few problems that design, on its own, can resolve.
The Materials Lab continued the ‘Materializing Design’ series with an in-person demonstration from Maggie Hansen. Maggie Hansen is an assistant professor at the School of Architecture and a landscape designer whose work investigates how ‘care taking’ (of space, of shared histories, of caretakers) serves to maintain and build community. Her work draws on training in architecture, landscape architecture, theater, and contemporary art.