-Michael Young’s thesis and final presentation videos from Sci-Arc in Los Angeles, California.

Towards A Biological Understanding of Architecture and Urbanism: Lessons from Steven Pinker -Nikos Salingaros Architecture is indeed linked to biology. This observation is intuitively true from a structural perspective, since human beings perceive a kinship between the different processes — natural and artificial — that generate form. Nevertheless, the broadness of the claim might appear […]

Rona Pondick 1. Animal and Architecture mouse The question of how architecture becomes animal is entwined, especially today, with how animality (and in fact, animals) become architectural. What Agamben calls the anthropological machine constructs a contingent boundary between human-animal and non-human animal, and a definition of politics in the imagee of what sits on the […]

Fabrication photographs of Zip Ceiling. The photos displayed are the initial beginnings, 1000 zip ties, for a much larger ceiling topology.

–Human interactions within the domestic environment may be reduced to ones interaction with horizontal planar elements and the activities which occur around them within the dwelling. Re-imagining the domestic environment through the flexibility of the “step”, the current trajectory for the project is centered around the domestic dwelling as a series of planar elements where […]

-‘As part of the research for the Princeton Envelope Group, this envelope was developed in pursuit of an envelope as atmosphere. As opposed to con sid er ing the enve lope as a her­metic seal, this facade breaths, conditions, and cleans. This specific prototype is for the American Apparel factory build ing in Los Angeles. […]

the ‘wave pavilion’ by macdowell.tomova acts as both a pragmatic and conceptual testing ground, leveraging scripting and advanced digital fabrication toward the expansion of disciplinary modes of design and construction. the pavilion operates as a piece of landscape furniture, an occupiable space of gathering and leisure. set on the grounds of the university of michigan, […]