Arbor, our project commissioned by the City of Palo Alto, has recently been recognized by AIA New Orleans with an Award of Commendation in their 2025 Design Awards program.

On March 24, Adam Marcus joined co-author Andrew Kudless for an exhibition opening and lecture at Tulane University’s School of Architecture and Built Environment, marking the publication of the book Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation.

The Drawing Codes project, led by Adam Marcus and Andrew Kudless, has been recognized by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture with a Creative Achievement Award as part of the 2025 Architectural Education Awards Program.

On January 27, Adam Marcus joined co-author Andrew Kudless for an exhibition opening and lecture at University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design, marking the publication of the book Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation.

Adam Marcus guest-edited the recent special issue of the International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC), "Ecological Levers: On Degrees of Autonomy and Interdependence."

On November 7, Adam Marcus joined co-author Andrew Kudless for a book launch for Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

Davis Richardson recently reviewed the book Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation (Applied Research and Design) in The Architect’s Newspaper.

Adam Marcus, together with co-author Andrew Kudless, has recently published the new book Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation (Applied Research and Design).

Adam Marcus recently presented the paper and poster “3D Printed Architectural Facades for Climate Adaptation” at the 2024 Earth USA Conference, organized by Adobe in Action in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

On August 13, Adam Marcus joined colleagues Liz Camuti (Tulane School of Architecture) and Tsz Yan Ng (University of Michigan’s Taubman College) to present ongoing research into 3D printed ceramic facades at the 2024 Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop.

On March 21, Adam Marcus lectured at El Paso Museum of Art as part of the spring lecture series for the architecture program at Texas Tech Huckabee College of Architecture in El Paso.

On October 26, Adam Marcus presented the project paper “Earthen Tectonics: Digitally Fabricated Form Liners for Modular Rammed Earth Fabrication” at the 2023 ACADIA conference “Habits of the Anthropocene,” hosted by the University of Colorado, Denver.

On September 19, 2023, Adam Marcus presented at the symposium “Material Variance: Or, the Inherent Variability of Raw Materials in Architecture” at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.

Adam Marcus was recently appointed Associate Professor of Architecture at Tulane University’s School of Architecture in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Adam Marcus joined colleagues Irene Cheng and Neeraj Bhatia to organize the “Climate as Praxis” symposium, marking the launch of the M. Arthur Gensler Jr. Center for Design Excellence at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

On March 9, 2023, Adam Marcus joined colleagues and students from the Architectural Ecologies Lab at California College of the Arts for a pop-up exhibition of ecological research at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

On November 3, 2022, Adam Marcus joined his colleagues Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones to present recent work by the Architectural Ecologies Lab, as part of the fall Architecture Lecture Series at California College of the Arts.

On October 28, 2022, Adam Marcus joined his Futures North collaborators Molly Reichert and John Kim to present the paper “Lines of Flight: Facade Design for Multispecies Migrations” at the 2022 ACADIA conference Hybrids & Haeccities, at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design.

Adam Marcus, together with his Architectural Ecologies Lab co-directors Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones, recently published the essay “Floating With: Buoyant Ecologies of Collaboration and Solidarity” in POOL, the student magazine of the Department of Architecture & Urban Design at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The Ecopoesis Dome, a spatial platform for discourse on climate change, is featured in the exhibition “Tools for a Warming Climate,” part of the larger show “La Irrupció" organized as part of the 2022 International Symposium on Electronic Art in Barcelona, Spain.

This summer, the Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab is featured in the Houses that Can Save the World exhibition at Kunstraum München in Germany.

On April 26, 2022, Adam Marcus presented at the Return to Nature symposium in Tokyo, Japan.

On April 19, 2022, Adam Marcus presented at the Architectural Intelligence Symposium, hosted by AIA Silicon Valley at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

On April 9, 2022, Adam Marcus joined co-chairs Leslie Carol Roberts and Chris Falliers in organizing the 2022 Ecopoesis workshop and gathering, ‘Repairing Time’ at the San Francisco Presidio.

On March 29, 2022, Adam Marcus delivered a lecture “Ecological Tectonics” at Florida International University School of Architecture as part of their spring 2022 public lecture series.

On March 14-18, Adam Marcus joined Assistant Professor Jessica Rossi-Mastracci at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture to lead the week-long “Earthen Tectonics” workshop as part of the annual Architecture As Catalyst program.

On November 3-6, Arbor was exhibited at the 2021 Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) conference “Realignments: Toward Critical Computation.”

On November 3, Adam Marcus presented as an invited speaker at the AIA Minnesota Conference on Architecture.

From October 7 to 9, 2021, Arbor was on view at the Code:ART festival in Palo Alto, CA.

On September 1, the exhibition "Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II" opened at the Hubbell Street Galleries at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

Distributed Proximities, the two-volume proceedings of the 40th annual conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), was recently published.

From June 25 to July 10, 2021, the collaborative artwork How We Hear Now was installed for public view at the San Francisco Ferry Building.

On May 14, 2021, Adam Marcus participated in the Proxy Festival, a unique event organized by the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto and hosted by Simon Frasier University’s School of Communication.

Arbor, a new installation commissioned by the City of Palo Alto, recently debuted at King Plaza adjacent to City Hall.

Adam Marcus recently co-chaired Distributed Proximities, the 40th annual conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA).

Adam Marcus recently delivered two presentations at the 108th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

Nine drawings from our Body Politics series have been selected for inclusion in the exhibition “The Future of _Space,” organized by the A+D Museum in Los Angeles.

Adam Marcus recently contributed a chapter to the new book Sustaining Seas: Oceanic Space and the Politics of Care, published by Rowman & Littlefield, and edited by Elspeth Probyn, Kate Johnston, and Nancy Lee.

Two drawings by Variable Projects, titled Tectonic Contingencies, were recently exhibited in the group show “Drawing Im/Proper,” curated by Kevin Hirth and Anca Matyiku at the University of Colorado, Denver.

On February 3, the exhibition "Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II" opened at the Gould Gallery at the University of Washington College of Built Environments in Seattle, Washington.

On February 7, Adam Marcus presented the Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab project at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, as part of a panel featuring recipients of the 2019-2020 GSAPP Incubator Prize.

The Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab has been recognized by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) with a Faculty Design Award as part of the 2020 Architectural Education Awards program.

Four drawings from our 30 Houses series are featured in the group show “Experimental Diagramming: Between Spatial Figuration and Abstraction” at the Architekturmuseum at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

The Public Sediment team (which includes Variable Projects director Adam Marcus and his colleagues from the Architectural Ecologies Lab) has won a 2019 Honor Award in Analysis and Planning from the American Society of Landscape Architects.

The Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab has been recognized by the Architect’s Newspaper as an Editor’s Choice in the 2019 Best of Design Awards, for the Research category.

On October 24-26, Adam Marcus participated in the 2019 Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) conference “Ubiquity and Autonomy,” hosted by The University of Texas at Austin.

On October 19, 2019, Adam Marcus presented at the 2019 Reynolds Symposium: Education By Design at the University of Oregon in Portland.

A drawing from our 100 Walls series is featured in the group show Drawing Attention: The Digital Culture of Contemporary Architectural Drawings at the Roca Gallery in London.

The Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab, a project designed by Adam Marcus and his Architectural Ecologies Lab partners Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones, has been recognized by the American Institute of Architects with a 2019 Innovation Award.

On September 29 and 30, Adam Marcus and Andrew Kudless (co-curators of the the exhibition "Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II," led a “Scripted Urbanism” workshop with students at the University of Miami School of Architecture.

On September 21, Adam Marcus joined colleagues and leaders from California College of the Arts, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, Port of Oakland representatives, and community members to commemorate the launch of the Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab in Oakland’s Middle Harbor.

The Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab, a project led by Adam Marcus and his CCA Architectural Ecologies Lab co-directors Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones, is featured in an article in Dezeen by Jenna McKnight.

Adam Marcus has been selected as one of six recipients of the 2019-2020 GSAPP Incubator Prize, an initiative by Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation to support projects created by GSAPP alumni that advance environmental concerns in architecture and its related fields.

On September 11, 2019, Adam Marcus will present as part of the Regenerating Good international symposium on advanced design and technology, held at Japan Society in New York City.

On August 9 , the exhibition "Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II" opened at the Korach Gallery at the University of Miami School of Architecture in Coral Gables, Florida. 

The Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab, a project led by Adam Marcus and his CCA Architectural Ecologies Lab co-directors Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones, is featured in an article in Redshift by Zach Mortice.

A drawing from our 30 Houses series is featured in the group show "REJECTED: Architectural Drawings and Their Stories" at the Banvard Gallery at the Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University in Columbus, OH.

The Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab, a project led by Adam Marcus and his CCA Architectural Ecologies Lab co-directors Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones, is featured in an article in The Architect’s Newspaper by Drew Zeiba.

The Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab, a project led by Adam Marcus and his CCA Architectural Ecologies Lab co-directors Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones, is featured in an article in Hyperallergic by Louis Bury.

The Buoyant Ecologies project, led by CCA Architectural Ecologies Lab directors Adam Marcus, Margaret Ikeda, and Evan Jones, was recently awarded a $25,000 Impact Award by the Center for Impact at CCA.

On April 13, the exhibition Floating Cities opened at the WUHO Gallery in Los Angeles. The show features the Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab, a prototype for a floating breakwater designed by Adam Marcus and his partners Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones at the CCA Architectural Ecologies Lab.

On March 23 and 24, Adam Marcus and Andrew Kudless (co-curators of the the exhibition "Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II," joined Melissa Goldman of the University of Virginia School of Architecture’s FabLab to lead a two-day workshop on robotic drawing.

On March 18, the exhibition "Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II" opened at the Elmaleh Gallery at the University of Virginia School of Architecture in Charlottesville, VA. 

The Public Sediment team (which includes Variable Projects director Adam Marcus and his colleagues from the Architectural Ecologies Lab) has won a 2019 Honor Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects, New York Chapter, for the Unlock Alameda Creek proposal.

A drawing from our 100 Walls series is included in the juried exhibition “Drawing for the Design Imaginary,” opening at the College of Fine Arts Great Hall and the Carnegie Museum of Art at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.

On March 21, Adam Marcus and CCA colleague Matt Hutchinson organized a panel discussion at WeWork Civic Center in San Francisco.

On February 8, Adam Marcus moderated the 2019 TECH+ Conference in San Francisco. The conference, organized by The Architect’s Newspaper, featured three panels of designers and practitioners operating at the leading edge of design and fabrication technology.

On January 22, the exhibition "Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II" opened at the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. Gallery at The Cooper Union in New York City. 

On October 18 and 19, Adam Marcus presented two peer-reviewed research papers at the 2018 Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) conference “Recalibration: On Imprecision and Infidelity,” hosted by Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.

On October 17, Adam Marcus presented recent research conducted with the Architectural Ecologies Lab at the Facultad de Arquitectura at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City.

On Friday, October 12, Adam Marcus presented ongoing research into computational drawing at the ACSA Fall Conference "PLAY with the rules" at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

On September 13-14, the Constructing Architectural Ecologies symposium marked the official launch of the Architectural Ecologies Lab at California College of the Arts.

Two drawings from our Repetition and Difference, After William Morris series are featured in the exhibition “1:1 / drawing, design, and communication” at the New York School of Interior Design.

The Public Sediment team (which includes Variable Projects director Adam Marcus and his colleagues from the Architectural Ecologies Lab) has won a 2018 AIA California Merit Award in the Urban Design category, for the Unlock Alameda Creek proposal.

The Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab, a project designed by Adam Marcus and his CCA Architectural Ecologies Lab colleagues Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones, has been selected for a 2018 R+D Award by Architect Magazine.

From May 20 to June 9, Adam Marcus and CCA Architecture colleague Sandra Vivanco (of A+D) led a traveling studio titled "Material Cultures" in Mexico City and Oaxaca. The trip included a 10-day joint workshop with the School of Architecture at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), in which CCA and UNAM students collaborated to produce three large-scale architectural installations.

On May 17, the Public Sediment team presented their final proposal for the Resilient By Design Bay Area Challenge, a year long research and design initiative to develop creative solutions for adapting to climate change and sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The exhibition "Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation" is on display at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from March 7 to March 28, 2018. 

On Wednesday, February 21, Adam Marcus, together with Architectural Ecologies Lab collaborators Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones, will present at the University of California, Davis as part of the panel discussion "Field Dispatches from Resilient By Design." 

Component / Assembly: Prototyping Domestic Space, an exhibition of work by CCA Architecture students in a fall 2017 advanced studio led by Adam Marcus and Matt Hutchinson (PATH), opened at the Hubbell Street Galleries in San Francisco on January 18.

The exhibition "Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation" is on display at the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University in Columbus from January 10 to February 9, 2018. 

On Wednesday January 10, Adam Marcus and Andrew Kudless will lecture as part of the Baumer Lecture Series at the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University in Columbus, OH.

Adam Marcus recently contributed a chapter to the book The Design-Build Studio: Crafting Meaningful Work in Architecture Education, edited by Tolya Stonorov and published by Routledge / Taylor & Francis.

On December 13, Adam Marcus will present the paper "Buoyant Ecologies: Material Logics for Sea Level Rise Adaptation" at the conference Sustaining the Seas: Fish, Oceanic Space, and the Politics of Caring at the University of Sydney in Australia.

On November 15, Public Sediment, one of ten teams selected for the Resilient By Design Bay Area Challenge, presented research and design concepts to a public audience at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.

Signal/Noise, experimental robotic drawing research by Variable Projects, will be presented and exhibited at "Disciplines & Disruption," the 2017 conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), hosted this year by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

On Friday October 27, Adam Marcus will present the Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab research project at the "Designing Material Innovation" symposium at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

On Friday, October 13, Adam Marcus will be presenting at the ACSA Fall Conference "Crossings Between the Proximate and Remote" in Marfa, Texas.

On Monday, October 2, Adam Marcus, Margaret Ikeda, and Evan Jones will present the Buoyant Ecologies research as part of the fall 2017 Architecture Lecture Series at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

Public Sediment, which includes Adam Marcus and his collaborators in the Buoyant Ecologies project, has been chosen as one of ten teams to participate in Resilient By Design’s Bay Area Challenge. 

The Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab will be featured in the exhibition Designing Material Innovation, opening September 28 at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

After a successful run in San Francisco earlier this year, Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation will travel to Los Angeles, opening at the WUHO Gallery on July 8.

Phase Change, a project completed by Adam Marcus and his Futures North partners for the 2016 Northern Spark arts festival in Minneapolis, has been selected for the 2017 Public Art Network Year in Review.

On June 2, 2017, Adam Marcus will present the Buoyant Ecologies research collaboration at the AIA San Francisco NEXT/EVOLUTION Conference at San Francisco Art Institute.

Three robotic drawings from the Signal/Noise series were exhibited at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX from April 13-22, 2017

Architect magazine has published a review by Blaine Brownell of the exhibition Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, curated by Adam Marcus & Andrew Kudless at California College of the Art Hubbell Street Galleries.

New work by Variable Projects is included in Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, opening January 17 at the Hubbell Street Galleries at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. 

Rotated Arcs, Seed 247/38, a robotic drawing from our Signal/Noise series, has been selected for the 4th Annual Juried Art Show at Piedmont Center for the Arts, in Piedmont, CA. 

Variable Projects has received an Honorable Mention for the 2016 Architect's Newspaper Best of Design Award for Young Architects.

A drawing from our Ghosted Figures series has been selected for the group show "REJECTED: architectural drawings and their stories" at Team B in Cincinnati. 

Drawings from our After William Morris series are included in the recently published book Drawing Futures: Speculations in Contemporary Drawing for Art and Architecture, edited by Laura Allen and Luke Caspar Pearson, with Bob Sheil and Frédéric Migayrou.

Glyphs, an experimental drawing project by Variable Projects, is featured in "Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines" — the juried exhibition accompanying the 2016 conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), hosted this year by University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. 

Sphere With Nested Figures, a sculptural object designed and fabricated by Variable Projects, is included in the juried group exhibition "Objects: The Secret Life of Buildings," opening October 17 at the Center for American Architecture and Design at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. 

Glimmer, a new project by Variable Projects, debuted at the Market Street Prototyping Festival in San Francisco on October 6, 2016.

On Friday, September 16, Adam Marcus will present at Resilient Studio / Resilient City, an event hosted by the San Francisco office of WRNS Studio.

Variable Projects has been selected to exhibit as part of the OBJECTS exhibition at the Center for American Architecture and Design at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture in October.

Glimmer, a dynamic public artwork designed by Variable Projects, has been selected for the 2016 Market Street Prototyping Festival. The project will be deployed on San Francisco's Market Street from October 6 - 8. 

Two drawings from Adam Marcus's Figures series have been selected for In_Sight On_Site: Beyond Function, a group show at the AIA San Francisco Gallery running from June 10 to July 28, 2016.

Phase Change, a new dynamic public artwork by Futures North, to debut at Northern Spark 2016, an all-night arts festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

Adam Marcus will present the work of Variable Projects at this year's Architectural Record Innovation Conference on June 8, 2016 at Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. 

On April 28, 2016, Adam Marcus will present the work of Variable Projects and serve as a juror for the 2016 AIA Dallas Unbuilt Design Awards.

Site-specific installation constructed at Rapson Hall, University of Minnesota School of Architecture.