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Adam Marcus Moderates TECH+ Conference in San Francisco

February 15, 2019

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.

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Photo: Lea Bertucci / The Cooper Union

Photo: Lea Bertucci / The Cooper Union

Drawing Codes Volume II Opens at The Cooper Union

February 2, 2019

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. 

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Exhibition and Presentation at ACADIA Conference in Mexico City

November 13, 2018

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.

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Adam Marcus Presents at UNAM in Mexico City

November 12, 2018

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.

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Adam Marcus Presents Drawing Research at ACSA: Play Conference in Milwaukee

November 12, 2018

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.

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Architectural Ecologies Lab Launches at California College of the Arts

September 20, 2018

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

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After William Morris Drawings Featured in New York Exhibition

September 18, 2018

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.

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Public Sediment for Alameda Creek Receives Award from AIA California Council

August 27, 2018

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.

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Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab Wins 2018 R+D Award

August 8, 2018

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.

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Adam Marcus Leads Workshop at UNAM in Mexico City

June 20, 2018

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.

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Public Sediment Presents Final Design Proposal for Alameda Creek

June 1, 2018

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.

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Drawing Codes Opens at Taubman College

March 11, 2018

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. 

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Adam Marcus Presents at UC Davis

February 21, 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." 

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Component / Assembly Opens at Hubbell Street Galleries

January 22, 2018

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.

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Drawing Codes Opens at Knowlton School

January 12, 2018

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. 

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Adam Marcus to Lecture at Knowlton School

January 4, 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.

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Adam Marcus Contributes Chapter to Design Build Studio Book

December 17, 2017

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.

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Adam Marcus to Present Buoyant Ecologies Research in Sydney, Australia

December 5, 2017

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.

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Public Sediment Concept Proposals Launched

December 3, 2017

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.

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Exhibition and Presentation at ACADIA Conference at MIT

October 29, 2017

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. 

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