SIFF Film Screening – Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry
This documentary film about Ai WeiWei, the Chinese contemporary artist, social activist and architectural design consultant, will be screened on May 18th and 19th as part of the Seattle International Film Festival. Check out the link for more information.
In a discussion that closely aligns with the ongoing discussion of craft in our region’s architecture, UW faculty member Jeffrey Ochsner discussed his new book Furniture Studio: Material, Craft, and Architecture tonight in Architecture Hall. This book told the wonderful history of the school of architectures’ lauded furniture studio taught until very recently by the renown Andy Vanags.
The studio’s origins were traced to the acquosotiom of a faculty member in the 60′s who came from a naval architecture background and brought many of his technical interests to the program along with some new shop tools that would form the ...
The salon began with an introduction by Rob Corser, AIA, recounting an experience he had while at Arup. A team there was working with a very powerful and advanced 3-D digital software, unlike anything seen in architecture before. The software was Catia and it was the 1990’s. Catia had been developed and used in the aviation industry since the early ‘80’s. Over a decade later, it was just starting to find its way into the realm of architecture, most notably in the work of Frank Gehry, permeating it’s way into the hands of other engineers and architects like Rob.
As ...
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Simple fixes bring marine life back to urban coastlines
In the coming decades, coastal communities will build or reinforce hundreds of miles of seawalls, breakwaters, and other coastal defenses to protect themselves against rising sea levels and increased storms, as well as to accommodate growing populations.
Already, more than half the shoreline in parts of Japan, Europe, the U.S., and Australia is artificial. And that puts the squeeze on intertidal creatures. Seawalls and similar structures truncate the gradual slope of natural intertidal zones and sharply reduce the area available for species that depend ...
