Gina Reichert and Mitch Cope founded Design 99 in 2007 to investigate new models of contemporary art and architectural practice. Initially occupying a retail storefront space, the design studio situated itself in the public realm offering over-the-counter design consultations and $99 house call specials. Now working from their homebase in Detroit, projects deal primarily with overlooked spaces, underutilized resources, and seemingly negative conditions inverted to become positive assets.
Students in Senior Lecturer Fran Gale’s Lab Methods course explored the 19th century Heidemann - Barrera Ranch Complex, located 30 miles northwest of San Antonio in the Texas Hill Country near Boerne, Texas.
On Friday, February 14, the Center for American Architecture and Design hosted Charles Di Piazza as part of the Friday Lunch Forum series. He presented "Contemporary Architecture in the French Riviera."
FRIDAY LUNCH FORUM
George Galster earned his Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T. with undergraduate degrees from Wittenberg and Case Western Reserve. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed articles, primarily on the topics of metropolitan housing markets, racial discrimination and segregation, neighborhood dynamics, residential reinvestment, community lending and insurance patterns, neighborhood effects and social mixing, and urban poverty.
We visited three laboratories at the Engineering Teaching Center at The University of Texas at Austin that employ additive manufacturing: the Laboratory for Freeform Fabrication, the Product, Process, and Materials Design Lab, and the ReNeu Robotics Lab.
Engineering Teaching Center, UT Austin main campus
Tour guides: Dr. Deshpande, Dr. Bourrell, Dr. Fish, and Dr. Seepersad
This exhibition features full-scale prototypes and documentation from finalists in the Tex-Fab competition “SKIN: Digital Fabrications” as well as full-scale prototypes and documentation of Caret 6. Caret 6 is an installation con-currently exhibited in the Mebane Gallery of Goldsmith Hall and was completed as part of a Design V Studio led by Kory Bieg. The studio used advanced parametric digital software and fabrication technologies for the design of an innovative vaulting structure. Photos courtesy of the VRC.
Tex-Fab competition "SKIN: Digital Fabrications" +
Julie Eizenberg, AIA, is a founding Principal of Koning Eizenberg Architecture, and brings design vision to the firm's wide range of projects. Under her leadership, the firm has earned over 100 awards for design, preservation and sustainability including the World Architecture Festival's Housing Award in 2013 and the 2012 AIA Los Angeles Gold Medal in recognition of a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture. Julie teaches and lectures around the world, is a frequent advisor to the U.S.
Texas Disposal Systems (TDS) was the first totally integrated landfill, recycling, and compost facility in TX, and opened in 1991. Today TDS serves more than 35 counties in central Texas. 100% of the city of Austin's trash and 60% of our recyclables now go to the TDS landfill. We took a tour of TDS' extensive facilities, which include not only the landfill but the single-stream recycling center, composting field, construction debris sorting area, Garden-ville (an organic gardening retailer), artist-in-residence studios, Resale shop, and exotic game ranch.
Tod Williams was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1943. He received his undergraduate degree and Master of Fine Arts and Architecture from Princeton University. Billie Tsien was born in Ithaca, New York in 1949. She received her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from Yale and her Master in Architecture from UCLA.