Tex-Fab Digital Fabrication Alliance The 4 finalists from the Tex Fab SKIN competition will be exhibiting their prototypes at the ACADIA Adaptive Architecture Conference, where the jury will review and announce the winners. Tex Fab was formed by Brad Bell, Kevin Patrick McClellan, and Andrew Vrana in 2009 as an alliance in Texas that aims to foster the collaborative exchange between the academic, technical, and professional communities focusing on the exploration of parametric design and...
Moles are subterranean animals that can be disgusting and don’t often seem to fit in, and it is this which is made manifest in Mole Magazine, an annual student publication, launching in three days, that aspires to talk about design sensibilities through a new, different lens. That is, Mole indulges in the banal, the visceral, and the repetitive to evoke the contemporary sensibilities in design. From their website, “Mole…intends to become a parasite of the...
CITA – The Rise from David Stasiuk on Vimeo. Seeking Volunteers for Installation this Week! As a part of the ACADIA conference “The Rise” from The Royal Danish Academy’s Center for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) is a workshop that will explore the conceptualization, technologies and making of an architecture that is continuously sensing and dynamically adapting to its environment as it grows into form. The workshop is based in a research project into the digital...
Open Eyes Toronto (OYT) is a creative collective that generates dialogue, design and response to current issues and daily life in Toronto. OYT began in 2008 when two local architects were feeling a bit uninspired by the city – so they invited friends and friends of friends to a living room in the Annex to share creative documentation about what’s happening in the city. In recent years OYT has grown to attract several hundreds and...
ABSTRACT by Taehyung Kim Contemporary architectural discourse commonly invokes the term framing. Derivative phrases contrived in education and practice are seemingly inexhaustible: framing the view, framing space, framing an idea, frame of reference, framework, window frame, body frame, space frame. The polymorphic nature of the term is perplexing, and despite its frequent and casual mention, the rich potential of framing in the architectural design process is often overlooked. Framing is a primal phenomenon. It shapes...
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Meeting October.2013 2013.10.01 6:00 – 7:00 PM Ward Room Meeting Minutes In Attendance: Connor, Mark T, Zak, Stephen, Vikkie, Caitlin, Danielle, Saba, Kim, Ali, Farimah, Tahoora NEWS 1 Referendum Proposal for Student Initiatives Fee: Timeline, Requirements & Committees Get word out to have representatives stand out for both cases. SWAG needs to stay neutral Need a yes/ no side A committee will be formed to deal with items pertaining to this topic CO,MT 2 Constitution...
Last weekend the 2A class was able to visit and experience one of the most exhilarating cities in the world: New York, New York (a city so nice, they had to name it twice). Here are a few photos from our travels. Photos by Nikola Miloradovic Photos by Ji Shi Photos by Marisa Musing Photos by Nicole Ratajczak Photos by Symon...
Carol Moukheiber Assist. Professor UofT, Co-Director RADlab Christos Marcopoulos Assist. Prof. UofT, Investigator RADlab 10/03/2013 I Main Lecture Hall I 2:00 – 3:00 PM RAD, Responsive Architecture at Daniels is a research unit housed at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. The research is premised on the notion that every building or landscape component can be equipped with computational power. Projects at RAD develop models for such...
Photo by Hillary Chang, using the WA darkroom. Photo by Hillary Chang, using the WA darkroom. Photo by Patrick Cheung, using the WA darkroom. Photo by Patrick Cheung, using the WA darkroom.
BRIDGE Storefront is making headway! Last Friday’s meeting attracted a group of eager students looking to help out with the initiative. BRIDGE now has more students posting right here on the website, and is gathering a student renovations team ready to help out with whatever they can. Currently the space is encased by a basic lightweight steel stud skeleton. The fire alarm and electrical are partially installed, we are still waiting for the plumbing installation...
