-archimorph is helping to set up a new front in architectural design and research in the mid-atlantic, the washington dc based mad-lab (mid-atlantic design + research laboratory). This endeavor will help to bridge the gap within the region between professional practice, academia and fabrication whilst researching innovations in architectural design, technology, and process.

Fabrication studies for punched metal screen facade explores variations in hole diameter per dye sizing and the incremental range between punches. The pattern of the punches are sized to suggest shading as light filters through the leaves of a forest canopy.

HKS-dc 2012 Design Fellowship Each year HKS brings together emerging design talent from the local community to promote design and collaboration within the city. This year, HKS-dc hosted their second annual Design Fellowship, hosting students from across the Mid-Atlantic region including three Mid-Atlantic design professionals. This years challenge looked at the up and coming NoMa […]

The 2011 Research Through Making Faculty research grant recipients were announced by Dean Monica Ponce de Leon and awarded to Taubman College architecture faculty on April 1, 2011. Five grants were competitively awarded for the production of a research or creative project that is predicated on MAKING. Research Through Making Presentations: Glass Cast, Catie Newell […]

Archimorph’s Biophilia : Technophilia thesis has been shortlisted for SuckerPUNCH Daily’s Land of Tomorrow Exhibit. You can place your vote here.

Planks + Pixels [Previous Post] was chosen as among the honorable mentions for the anonymous.a(rchitect) competition. Congratulations to the winners and all of the participants. eVolo 2012 skyscraper competition has ended as of the 24th with project winners announced February 27th. Boards in collaboration between Archimorph and HKS, Inc. will be posted at that time.

Planks + Pixels Jon Bailey & Erick Katzenstein Comprised of horizontal serial sections of wood, the AA_02 : Planks + Pixels installation transforms a once socially-deprived voluminous-void into a socially activated replacement. Vacant spaces becomes digitally congealed, eroded and guided over time by a stream of excited energy particulates eroding to expose a striated mass […]

This is less a question to be answered directly, but rather a provocation for a conceptual business model for the continuation of the architectural profession. I believe that this concept is interesting for the professional practice in that practices are interested both in the innovation of the built environment and the longevity of the profession […]

The contemporary city is characterized by highly integrated and interdependent systems. More than ever this complex weave of bits and atoms demands the application of an eco-systemic methodology to architectural and urban analysis, digital design, fabrication and production. In this context, an emerging ecology of digital tools and techniques now allow designers to craft synthetic […]

The qualities of an emergent city The adoption of mass-production processes, or development, in substitution for spontaneous urban growth in the mid-20th century created for the first time a phenomenon of alienation between the inhabitants and their environment. While the physical features of spontaneous cities could be traced to complex histories of families, businesses, and […]