Date: November 9, 2009 - 5:00pm
Location: AME 202
Architects Jason Johnson and Nataly Gattegno initiated Future Cities Lab, an interdisciplinary design and research collaborative bridging architecture and landscape urbanism with material sciences, robotics and engineering, in San Francisco in 2004. Currently the 2009 New York Prize Fellows at the Van Alen Institute in New York City, Johnson and Gattegno recently served as the 2008-09 Oberdick and Muschenheim Architecture Research Fellows at the University of Michigan. They have been exploring the relationship between energy and form through the habitation of extreme environments--the desert and the arctic. Their presentation will be followed by an question-and-answer session. It is free and open to the public.
Johnson and Gattegno graduated from Princeton University. They hold full-time faculty positions at the California College of the Arts and have taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Pennsylvania, leading studios and research seminars in design, ecology, landscape urbanism, and advanced technologies. Their work has been awarded Second Prize in the 2005 Seoul Performing Arts International Competition and has received an Unbuilt Architecture Award from the Boston AIA. In 2008 they were finalists in the History Channel's "City of the Future" competition in Washington, D.C. They have exhibited their work in multiple places, including a recent solo show of their design and interactive work at the Extension Gallery for Architecture in Chicago. Their work will be published in Subnature: Architecture's Other Environmentsby David Gissen and Interactive Architectureby Michael Fox and Miles Kemp..
