AIA LOUISIANA PRESENTS: THE 16TH ANNUAL CELEBRATE ! ARCHITECTURE ACTIVATEINTEGRATEFABRICATE 242 STATE STREET | LOS ALTOS, CA © BRUCE DAMONTE FRIDAY, MARCH 13TH 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM tom SHAW CENTER FOR THE ARTS MANSHIP THEATRE BATON ROUGE KUNDIG 6 HOURS CONT. OLSON KUNDIG ARCHITECTS SEATTLE ED. HSW CREDIT Vol Walker Hall and Steven L. Anderson Design CenteR | UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS © Tim Hursley MARLON BLACKWELL MARLON BLACKWELL ARCHITECTS FAYETTEVILLE MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT CITY VIEW GARAGE | MIAMI, FL C R A I G L I S A IWAMOTO SCOTTT IWAMOTOSCOTT ARCHITECTURE SAN FRANCISCO ACTIVATE In Tom Kundig’s Art Stable, a seven story mixed-use urban infill CELEBRATE ARCHITECTURE project in Seattle, both the front and back elevations are active and ! ever changing. The alley facing façade features an 80’ tall hinge 2015 topped by a davit crane with five large steel-clad, hand cranked doors, that can be opened to move oversized objects into the units. ACTIVATEINTEGRATEFABRICATE In combination with hinged windows on the front façade these large openings allow the residents to “open the building to the natural world and to the larger cultural landscape.” In their master plan for great building turns our attention away from itself the Little Rock Creative Corridor Marlon Blackwell Architects, in and makes us experience the world around us collaboration with the University of Arkansas Community Design “A Center, proposes to reactivate a neglected four-block segment in the with focused and resensitized senses and sharpened historic downtown through the aggregation of a variety of cultural understanding.” organizations, while creating a vibrant and affordable working and living environment. In order to establish a coherent identify over Juhani Pallasmaa, “The Reality of the Image: The Microcosms the course of its development the design solution focuses on the of Tom Kundig” urbanism of the streetscape – landscape architecture, ecological engineering, frontage options, and public space configurations. Good architecture activates our senses by discovering For their Edgar Street Towers IWAMOTOSCOTT Architecture takes advantage of the prominent site to establish a civic landmark unforeseen potential, while heightening our awareness of and beacon within the larger urban fabric of Manhattan, while the possibilities that are all around us. Meaningful design reestablishing street-level connections active with public amenities. looks for ways to integrate into the larger whole where The towers, providing spaces for living and working, are organized around a central atrium, which is activated by daylight channeled each is enriched by the fresh and intriguing relationships from above via an integrated light-transmitting fiber-optic array. that are established. Emerging technologies and digital INTEGRATE fabrication have vastly expanded the opportunities At his Cabins at Fallingwater in Bull Run, Pennsylvania, Marlon for design innovation, including creative strategies for Blackwell integrates the six cottages into the landscape, reminiscent integrating art, craft, and local materials into the built of the way Frank Lloyd Wright suggested that architecture should be work. of the site, not upon it. “At the edge between forest and meadow the cottages nest lightly and sit low in the landscape, neither invisible nor LISA iwamoto CRAIG scott MARLON BLACKWELL AIA FAIA IWAMOTOSCOTT ARCHITECTURE SAN FRANCISCO CA MARLON BLACKWELL ARCHITECTS FAYETTEVILLE AR IWAMOTOSCOTT’s design process proceeds from the belief that each Working outside the architectural mainstream, Marlon Blackwell’s project can achieve a unique design synthesis. Dedicated to intensive architecture is based in design strategies that draw upon vernaculars design research, the practice engages in projects at multiple scales and and typologies, and the contradictions of place; strategies that seek in a variety of contexts, consisting of full-scale fabrications, museum to transgress conventional boundaries for architecture. Marlon serves installations and exhibitions, theoretical proposals, competitions and as Distinguished Professor and Department Head in the Fay Jones commissioned design and building projects. They are committed School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas. to employing new technologies in the production of architecture, capitalizing on their potential to inform the design process and gear Marlon Blackwell Architects has been the recipient of numerous the evolution of the designs. state and regional awards, as well as three National AIA Honor Awards. The significance of Marlon’s contributions to design is evidenced by In addition to receiving 13 AIA Design Awards, IWAMOTOSCOTT was being named a United States Artists Ford Fellow 2014 and selected recognized by Architectural Record as one of 10 international firms for the 2012 Architecture Prize from the American Academy of Arts among the 2011 Design Vanguard. Their Obscura Digital Headquarters and Letters. Marlon Blackwell Architects was recognized as the Firm was recognized in 2011 by Architizer as the World’s Coolest Office. of the Year by Residential Architect magazine in 2011. A monograph Prior to that, they were recognized by The Architectural League of of his early work entitled “An Architecture of the Ozarks: The Works New York with their selection in 2007 as one of eight firms nationwide of Marlon Blackwell” was published by Princeton Architectural Press. for its “Emerging Voices” Award. Marlon holds an undergraduate degree in Architecture from Auburn Lisa received her Master of Architecture with distinction from Harvard University and a Master of Architecture degree from Syracuse University and is Professor at University of California, Berkeley. Craig University in Florence. At the University of Arkansas, Marlon was received his Master of Architecture with distinction from Harvard named as one of DesignIntelligence magazine’s “30 Most Admired University and is Professor of Architecture at California College of the Educators” for 2015. He was elected to the AIA College of Fellows in Arts in San Francisco. 2009. too intrusive.” For Heavybit Industries Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott developed a collaborative workspace consisting of a series of designed interventions integrated SCHEDULE within the framework of an existing three-story industrial warehouse. The largest of these is a multi-functioning platform at grade level, which houses the reception WELCOME, INTRODUCTIONS, AND OPENING REMARKS desk, a bar-height work counter and lounge seating, a speaker stage facing the 9:00 9:10 DOUG ASHE communal dining and meeting space, as well as the stair to the second floor. The owner’s affection for a stone outcropping on her property inspired Tom Kundig’s OVERVIEW OF MARLON BLACKWELL ARCHITECTS’ WORK design for the Pierre, a weekend retreat on Lopez Island, Washington. The house, 9:10 10:10 MARLON BLACKWELL which is delicately integrated into the rock and surrounding foliage, “follows a OVERVIEW OF OLSON KUNDIG ARCHITECTS’ WORK tradition of building on the least productive part of the site, leaving the best parts free for cultivation.” The retreat -- with its rough materials, encompassing concrete, 10:10 11:10 TOM KUNDIG steel, and a sod roof -- almost disappears into nature. BREAK BREAK BREAK BREAK BREAK FABRICATE 11:10 11:30 OVERVIEW OF IWAMOTOSCOTT ARCHITECTURE’S WORK In a series of site-specific installations IWAMOTOSCOTT Architecture has explored 11:30 12:30 LISA IWAMOTO AND CRAIG SCOTT the potential of digital fabrication and its application in larger scale projects and buildings. For Voussoir Cloud, an installation for the SCIArc Gallery, three lunch lunch lunch lunch lunch dimensional petals formed by folding paper thin wood laminate along curved 12:30 1:40 seams, are assembled to form a system of compression vaults that are experienced OPENING REMARKS both from within as well as from above. Olson Kundig Architects “works with 1:40 1:45 DOUG ASHE craftspeople and artists to design and fabricate specific architectural elements in each project so that the detail of the work relates directly to the larger expression.” SELECTED PROJECT IN DEPTH One such example is the hand-operated Gizmo at Chicken Point Cabin, which 1:45 2:25 LISA IWAMOTO AND CRAIG SCOTT operates a large pivoting window, opening up the house to the landscape and spectacular views of Hayden Lake in northern Idaho. For Marlon Blackwell’s SELECTED PROJECT IN DEPTH Crystal Bridges Museum Store in Bentonville, Arkansas, “a series of parallel cherry 2:25 3:05 TOM KUNDIG plywood ribs, fabricated locally straight from the BIM model, harvested locally in SELECTED PROJECT IN DEPTH the Ozarks, organizes the space and forms the ceiling and millwork on the rear wall.” The undulating surface creates an elegant sectional profile while also serving the 3:05 3:45 MARLON BLACKWELL practical functions of providing shade from the intense western sun and screening CLOSING REMARKS mechanical and lighting systems above. 3:45 3:50 DOUG ASHE Quotes and excerpts are sourced from the guest architects’ websites and other publications. TOM KUNDIG DOUG ASHE FAIA FAIA OLSON KUNDIG ARCHITECTS SEATTLE WA CELEBRATE ARCHITECTURE MODERATOR Tom Kundig is a principal at Olson Kundig Architects, recipient of the 2009 AIA Doug Ashe has served on numerous AIA honor awards Architecture Firm Award, the highest honor the AIA bestows on a collaborative juries over the years, including chairing both the architectural practice. Individually, Tom is known for his poetic, elemental and National AIA Gold