Digital Fabrication Exhibition: “Simple Materials – Smart Connections” Arch 485 “Digital Craft Workshop”  initial design experiments Installed in UW’s Gould Hall Court 04/29/13 – 05/04/2013 Students in the UW Architecture Department’s Arch 485 “Digital Craft...

Seeing Diagrams & Renderings: HEADLINES 2013  Last Friday, the eighth annual Headlines exhibition officially opened in Gould Court. Architectural professionals and students came out and celebrated current works by architecture offices in Seattle. It was a well attended event with...

“Travelling to see and be influenced by architecture started for me at UW but has now become a life-long passion. As I learned during my experiences in Scandinavia (’07) and at the UW Rome Center (’09), there is nothing better than experiencing architecture and culture first...

At the end of every quarter, it’s hard to imagine having time to tear yourself away from your computer and catch another studio’s review. We often toil till the very last minute and head home to a few short hours of sleep before each review. Attending the furniture studio final...

ARCOSANTI, A PROTOTYPE ARCOLOGY Arcosanti Physical Model On Friday Feb. 16th, I presented a DMG “Outside the Box” talk regarding what I had learnt from working and living in Arcosanti. Arcosanti is an urban laboratory for the concept of Arcology. Arcology (Architecture+Ecology) is Italian...

Mike Pyatok, UW Emeritus Faculty,  has been awarded one of two of the  AIA 2013 Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture. The institute recognized Michael Pyatok, FAIA, of Oakland’s Pyatok Architects, as an architect who has dedicated his career to the theory and practice of public...