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BAT CLOUD: COMING SOON

POP-UP CITY’S TOP TEN TRENDS FOR 2012

Amsterdam-based blog on urbanism and design, The Pop Up City lists “Top Ten Trends for 2012.” They write: “Reflecting on what we’ve written in 2011 and looking into the new year, we’ve composed a new list of remarkable trends that we consider to be important for our cities in the coming time.” Ants of the […]

BAT CLOUD: TESTING PROTOTYPES

HABITAT WALL: IN PROGRESS

FLUID CULTURE

Bat Cloud is part of Fluid Culture, the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute’s Lecture, Arts, and Media Series, 2011-12.

ANIMAL ARCHITECTURE AWARDS ANNOUNCED

Congratulations to the winners of the Animal Architecture Awards! It was a pleasure and an honor to jury such an array of exciting and thought-provoking projects. Thanks also to Michelle Aldredge for the shout-out in her blog Gwarlingo!

HABITAT WALL: PREVIEW

Work in-progress! Here are some images from the design development process (top: schematic model, middle: detailed model of one bay, bottom: MacDowell Colony studio).

gb&d

Bat Tower is featured in the April issue of gb&d (Green Building and Design). Titled “What’s Cooking?”, this issue “feeds the hunger for architecture and artwork with a purpose.”  

INTERVIEW

Animal Architecture interviews Joyce Hwang. Thanks to Ned Dodington for a great conversation: http://www.animalarchitecture.org/interview-with-joyce-hwang/

ANIMAL ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Organized by Animal Architecture. Register by May 15; Submit by June 12, 2011. Joyce Hwang is on the jury, with Neeraj Bhatia, Ned Dodignton, Allison Hunter, Sanford Kwinter, Jon LaRocca, Geoff Manaugh, and Cary Wolfe. See more details here.

MY GREEN CITY

Bat Tower is in My Green City: Back to Nature with Attitude and Style, edited by Robert Klanten, Sven Ehmann, and Kitty Bolhöfer, published by Gestalten (Berlin). Book release in Europe, Asia, and Australia/NZ this month, and in North and South America in early March 2011.

PEST WALL IN THE NEWS

“Pest Wall” is in the Buffalo News and Buffalo Rising. Many thanks to Charlotte Hsu and the UB Media Relations team for this initial news release.

MACDOWELL FELLOWSHIP

Joyce Hwang is awarded a MacDowell Fellowship for the Spring 2011 period. She will be continuing work on “Pest Wall” while in residence at the MacDowell Colony from April 7 to May 12, 2011.

POP-UP CITY

Bat Tower is featured in Pop-Up City, an Amsterdam-based online magazine by Golfstromen.