14 November 2008 | Announcements, Residential
KieranTimberlake was represented at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona from 22-24 October 2008, as part of the World Architecture Festival awards program. This CNN news piece covers six of the shortlisted projects from the festival with commentary by the architects, including Stephen Kieran describing the experience of living in Loblolly House. (2:44-3:54)
13 November 2008 | Materials, Offsite Fabrication, Research, Residential
Cellophane House was designed for ease of assembly, disassembly and reassembly. With the conclusion of the Home Delivery show at The Museum of Modern Art on October 26, the next phase of our experiment is beginning. Our intention is to disassemble and rebuild the house on a new location, helping to offset the millions of tons of construction and demolition debris generated in the United States each year.
11 November 2008 | Publications
Vision 2020 is an online forum that brings architects, students and leading thinkers from the academy, business and policy into conversation about the collective challenges we will face in the year 2020.
Facilitated by Tony Vanky, Assoc. AIA and Andrew Caruso, Assoc. AIA, the electronic discussion is now online. Stephen Kieran contributed his thoughts on the future architect, the future skill set, and the role of design research necessary for the future of the architectural profession.
Visit the site to read Stephen's comments and see what others have to say.
4 November 2008 | Announcements, Lectures/Conferences
On Nov 6-8, Stephen Kieran will be a panelist at the international symposium, Re-Imagining Cities, Urban Design after the Age of Oil, presented by the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design and the Penn Institute for Urban Research, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation.
This event marks the 50th Anniversary of the 1958 "Conference on Urban Design Criticism" conference, also sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, which laid the groundwork for urban design education during the era of the redevelopment of cities. That conference included Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, Kevin Lynch, I.M. Pei, Ian McHarg and others, many of whom were not widely known at the time, but who went on to educate a generation of urban designers.
The conference aims to focus discussion on urban design and development throughout the world, including the rapidly urbanizing cities of Asia and Africa as well as the more developed world. Many of the leading thinkers about the impacts of global energy shortages and climate change will set the framework for discussion, including Robert Socolow, David Orr, and Saleem Huq.
Urban design educators from around the world will discuss the need to organize education to produce the next generation of designers capable of responding to the challenges. To this end, the conference participants will work to draft a manifesto for urban design education in the next era.
Anyone can follow the conference live online at Next American City, as well as on the sites of all of the participating bloggers:
Lloyd Alter, Treehugger and Planet Green
Ryan Avent, Grist
Nate Berg, Planetizen
Andrew Blum, Wired and Metropolis
Randy Crane, Urban Planning Research
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Architect, Metropolis, and The New York Times Magazine
Diana Lind, Next American City
3 November 2008 | Announcements, Offsite Fabrication, Research, Residential
It was announced last week that Loblolly House is a winner of the second annual Lifecycle Building Challenge 2 (LBC2) competition, sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.