The Buoyant Foundation Project research group recently took 3rd place in an international disaster resilience design competition. Their entry consisted of four retrofitted amphibious homes in rural Vietnam. (more…)
An entry by a team consisting of Professor Elizabeth English and students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels has recently been selected as a Finalist for the Architizer A+ Awards for the Plus Categories | Architecture +Self-Initiated Projects: category. ‘PHIBIOUS FARNSWORTH brings Professor English’s floodwater damage mitigation strategies to the Farnsworth House, the famous work by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Mies van der Rohe’s 1951 Farnsworth House, one of the better-known examples of modern...