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HATCHGround Breakers in Architecture announced!!! Please scroll down.
HATCHlings are playing! stop by the Asheville Design Center at 8 College Street to see the game evolving and a vision emerging. M, T, W 3:30-4:30 TH 12:00-1:00 Sat. 11:00-1:00! follow us at HATCHlings facebook page.
Vision // Design for Action!!!
To bring together and amplify the presence of leading figures in Architecture and the tremendous innovation going on in our discipline internationally. The theme for HATCH Asheville 2011 Architecture will be “Design for Action” with leading and up and coming figures in architecture that are re-inventing our field with new models of “practice” that are driven by social justice and environmentalism.
Discipline Leader // Doug Hecker
Doug Hecker received his Bachelor of Architecture in Design from the University of Florida and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University where he was the recipient of the William F. Kinne Fellowship. As a professor at Clemson University Doug focuses on mentoring a new generation of design activists that see in the contemporary world a multitude of opportunities for change. His research focuses on the role of advanced technologies (CAD/CAM, digital fabrication) in design in order to empower individuals and communities by inventing “systems” that provide greater access to design through a combination of advanced technology and activism. Hecker founded cusa.dds (Clemson University School of Architecture Digital Design Shop) and ddbNOLA (digital design build New Orleans) to pursue this aim and has led architecture projects/products such as Silhouette House, Dry-In House, and SEED. He is co-founder of fieldoffice, whose work has been recognized in publications such as Discover Magazine, ID Magazine, Metropolis Magazine, Fast Company, Business Week, Architectural Record, Transmaterial, and WordChanging. Honors for Doug’s work include five awards from I.D. Magazine, a Next Generation Award from Metropolis Magazine, receipt of an a People, Prosperity and the Planet Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and inclusion in the 10th Venice Biennale and the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam.
Mentors
Blaine Brownell, Transstudio
Blaine Brownell is an architect, author, educator, and former Fulbright scholar. He earned a B.A. in Architecture with a Certificate in East Asian Studies at Princeton University in 1992, and a Master in Architecture from Rice University in 1998. He worked with Yung-Ho Chang, Mark Wamble, and NBBJ before establishing the design/research practice Transstudio, which focuses on disruptive material applications and emergent environmental building strategies.
Brownell is considered one of the preeminent scholars of advanced materials for architecture and design, having authored the Transmaterial series with Princeton Architectural Press (2006-2010), in addition to an online material catalog that has been likened to “a 21st Century version of The Grammar of Ornament.” Brownell has been published in over forty design, business, and science journals, and has lectured widely in North America, Europe, and Asia.
He was selected for a “40 Under 40” award by Building Design & Construction magazine in 2006, and Transmaterial was nominated for an International Book Award by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2007. Brownell was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Tokyo University of Science as a Fulbright recipient (2006-07), and the Visiting Professor of Sustainable Design at the University of Michigan (2007-08). He is currently an Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Master of Science program in Sustainable Design at the University of Minnesota (2008-present).
His most recent book is entitled Matter in the Floating World (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011), and chronicles conversations with leading material innovators in Japanese architecture and design about the embodiment of substance and ephemerality in their work.
Elite Kedan AIA
Elite Kedan is an architect, artist and educator based in Miami, Florida whose practice explores the possibilities of relational space, common sense, physicality, symbols, startups, strategic thinking, money, transformation, compassion, connection, human potential, military, animals, crossovers, communication, complexity, contradiction, big gestures and small pleasures in architecture.
Elite Kedan was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is a registered architect in the states of New York and Florida, and received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Elite has practiced architecture and design in architecture firms in Boston and New York, as well as in Jerusalem, Israel with Moshe Safdie Architects prior to opening her own practice. She is currently adjunct faculty at Florida International University (FIU), and has taught at Boston Architectural Center, University of Oregon, and Cornell University’s Introduction to Architecture Program. She has lectured at the University of Miami and Miami Dade College and has been a visiting critic at Harvard GSD, RISD, Columbia, Clemson and Pratt.
Elite is the lead editor of the book, “Provisional – Emerging Modes of Architecture Practice USA (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009), and last summer (2010) Elite was selected to develop a curatorial proposal at the Curatorial Intensive of Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York towards a series of participatory and generative architectural events, which she is developing for a Miami venue.
Provisional: Emerging Modes of Architectural Practice USA
Rajeev Kulkarni, Head of Global Engineering and R&D, 3D Systems
Rajeev is passionate about entrepreneurship, visual thinking and products that solve real needs. Currently he leads the Global Engineering and R&D for 3D Systems – a high-tech company that designs and develops 3D printers that print complex 3-D physical objects directly from CAD designs.
As an inventor himself, with several patents and innovation awards, he enjoys pushing the limits of the 3D Printing technology. An innovative engineer with keen business insights, he also led the Market Intelligence and Strategic Marketing initiatives at 3D Systems.
Rajeev is a recipient of the 2009 “40-Under-40” award by the Charlotte Business Journal recognizing him as one of the city’s most promising young business leader for making major strides in the career and impacting the community.
He is involved as an executive board member of the Inception Micro Angel Fund (IMAF) in Charlotte and as the President of Wed3 – a Charlotte based Angel Network – to promote new ventures within NC. He also serves on the Board of UNCC’s William Lee College of Engineering as well as UNCC’s Business Incubator.
In Los Angeles, Rajeev was a founder and CEO of PLANexec – a consulting firm that guided several start-ups to transition from the idea stage and get VC funding. Here he helped raise a cumulative of 20+ million in equity capital for various start ups.
Rajeev holds undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering. He has MS Engineering from University of Florida and an MBA in ‘Entrepreneurship and Marketing’ from the Anderson School of Management at University of California, Los Angeles.
Jorge Raedó ¿What is Architecture?
Jorge Raedó practiced Karate between eleven and twenty-one years old with masters Kozo Mizoguchi and Yoshi Hirota. He studied three courses at the Escola Tècnica Superior d´Arquitectura de Barcelona and at the Università di Architettura La Sapienza of Roma. He graduated in Stage Direction and Playwriting from Institut del Teatre de Barcelona.
He has been a Visiting Professor at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona (second cicle), the Escola Tècnica Superior d´Arquitectura de Barcelona (second and third cicle), Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Zaragoza (first cicle), Istituto Europeo de Design_Barcelona. He is currently artist in residence at La Nau Ivanow_Barcelona developing the association ¿What is Architecture? .
“¿What is Architecture?” makes Architecture accessible to children and awakens their curiosity about their environment in terms of space, tectonics and urban design.
The project revolves round the videos in which architects reply to the question “¿What is Architecture?” The first videos are designed for children aged 5 to 8 years. At this age language is used as a tool to relate with the world and later permits abstraction. The architects have made a special effort to communicate with their young public. Their personal concept of Architecture is at the heart of each proposal.
2011 HATCH Groundbreakers in Architecture
Anca Matyiku
Anca’s architectural explorations are framed by the notion that space is shaped not only by physical tangible form, but also by the ephemeral nuances of its existence through time. She believes that the matter of the world we build in, the matter of architecture, consist of living bodies who change and affect one another in a constant balancing act which drifts in and out of the timescale of human perception. Her “Weather Station” project will be contributing to “Bracket [goes soft]”, a publication investigating the positioning of physical and virtual soft systems within the realm of contemporary space-making.
In the spirit of a perpetual nomad, Anca has lived and practiced architecture in Canada, Europe, and Asia, where she has maintained an interdisciplinary approach in her engagement with the cities she has temporarily called home. She has been involved in theatre and film productions, installations, and exhibitions in Hong Kong, Montreal and Winnipeg. Her 2007 “Invisible Hong Kong” exhibition consisted of a series of collages capturing the city as it persists in the dweller’s memory and imagination.
Anca’s work attempts to embrace flavours of the indeterminate dialogue between the designed environment and the changing nature of its physical materiality. She harbours a slight obsession for how the residual, the accidental and the overlooked distill a sense of place. She is intrigued by personal and collective fictions and the way they materialise in objects, spaces, landscapes and ritual.
Anca Matyiku holds a Bachelors of Architectural Studies degree from University of Waterloo, and a Masters of Architecture from the University of Manitoba, in Canada. She currently lives and works in Montreal.
Robert Ivanov
Robert Ivanov is the Architect Principal of Labscape, working directly with our clients to gain a first-hand understanding of the design intentions, opportunities and works directly with the Design Team to realize this creative vision. Robert has more than 10 years experience leading design teams through the process of conception to realization and has achieved a level of international recognized design excellence.
Labscape is a collaborative practice of Architects, urban designers, landscape architects, Designer, Artists and other multi-media performers around the world, who create vibrant, imaginative, and sustainable projects at many scales. This collective nourishes its evolutionary practice of interaction with other fields and specific contribution of each members and collaborators. LABscape is dedicated to the ideal that design has the ability to improve our lives and we provide the opportunity to formally combine our diverse backgrounds and extensive experience in a multi-disciplinary design forum.
Labscape believes that in every space there is a landscape to create or adapt to give the opportunity to live in symbioses with the environment and ambient. The inspiration for LABscape’s work comes from concepts informed by cultural, technological and social dimensions and the belief that architecture in its contemporary manifestation can create meaningful experiences to a large and diverse audience.
In addition to professional practice Robert Ivanov has been invited to participate on academic juries and guest lecturer at Architectural Association in London, Technical University of Lisbon and at Institut Supérieur d’Architecture Victor Horta in Brussels.
In 2002, he received his bachelor of Architecture from Institute of Architecture Victor Horta in Brussels.
Exhibit
3D Printing for All! At the 5 Walnut Gallery, 5 Walnut St. in downtown Asheville. Opening Friday April 15th at 6:30 PM.
Workshops
HATCHlings workshop - What is Asheville?
photo: by ¿What is Architecture?
Thanks to The Hop Ice Cream Cafe for hosting a fundraising event on April 5th from 5-8 p.m. with a showing of a few films from the Asheville International Children’s Festival. 50% of the sales were be donated to HATCHlings.
About the workshop
How: In teams of two, middle school students from various sections of Asheville will collect data about their neighborhoods and engage in a playful dialogue with peers in other neighborhoods. Using mobile devices, they will text, share videos, audio, photos and GPS data as a way to read, share and map their city. The focus for their inventories will be their own bodies in relationship to Asheville as a living body, understanding the healthy intricacy of this relationship.
The workshop is a HATCH project that pulls on different subjects. With a gaming focus, students will be immersed in a full-scale participatory game that will not only connect them to their city through their bodies but also connect them to their peers in other parts of the city through the interplay of virtual and physical interactions. Using design and architecture, the student’s collective discoveries will be a starting point by which to brainstorm together visions for their city. Their findings will be compiled into an interactive collective journal that dynamically organizes and reorganizes the collected information leading to discussion, reflection, visions and ACTION.
Why: Our youth are the real HATCHlings with fresh outlook and future impact on our environment. We are excited to involve the youngest, the most revealing, honest, visionary and uninhibited mentees in this HATCH workshop and the start of an emerging revelatory map about the city and for the city. While meant to reveal a cross-section of the city, the project will help to diminish the gap between neighborhoods and social groups while developing new relationships and new directions for the health of our city. The cell phone is a great tool for this. Already, as it is a kind of appendage of our bodies – regulating, informing us, connecting us with other places – it will give the participants the opportunity to play with the technology regulating their own experiences while being immersed in the city physically and virtually. The project is the beginning of an evolving, ever transforming record of Asheville to inform the development of the city and to engage our youth into action and participation.
Where: In Asheville at the Asheville Design Center (8 College Street, Downtown Asheville) during the 2011 HATCH event where the work will also be on display while in progress on all HATCH days. Check out the detailed schedule at HATCHlings facebook page.
Who: We are hoping that Asheville’s different neighborhoods will be represented with 2 middle school aged youth from each area. Ideal candidates are:
- Interested in technology
- Willing to dive-in to hands-on projects
- Enjoy having fun!
- Open-minded and willing to learn with others
- Willing to engage their creative side
The project is led by Martha Skinner, M. Architecture and Urban Culture, founder 10^10, professor Clemson University, partner Fieldoffice and HATCH Board of Directors with special guest Jorge Raedó, Stage Director and Playright from ¿What is Architecture? Barcelona.
HATCHlings thanks:
The Asheville Design Center for lending us the space for our gameboard and discussions, UNC Asheville for sharing with us, and downtown Asheville for letting us play, observe and breathe.
HATCHlings Matthew Amos, Gamo Khan, Hariette Reade-Brown, Liza Pierce, Eva Lambert, Marcel Krekelberg, and Ian Nolan-Kilby for playing.
Poet Graham Hatckett, Poetics Program, Poetix Vanguard and Asheville Area Arts Council Program Director and to actress Laura Jensen, NYC theater company Bone Orchard for playing with us.
Volunteers: Sisterj Spirit Voice from The Honeybee Project and Carrie Rains from IRL for also playing with us.
Photography and Video: Micah Mackenzie Photography, HATCHling and Brian Miele fellow 10^10.
Guests: Brett McCall from TEDx asheville, Douglas Hecker from Clemson University, Will Travis from Dentsu North America, Chuck Krekelberg from Samsel Architects, John Montoya architect and Tawny Schlieski from Intel for joining us in the discussion.
Assistance: Ashley Cooper, Scott Shepard, Scott Varn, Kima Moore and all the great people from the community who engaged in conversation with this idea.
For more information. Contact Martha Skinner at skinnermartha@gmail.com.
Schedule
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