Future Cities Lab is an interdisciplinary design and research collaborative bridging architecture and landscape urbanism with material sciences, robotics and engineering. FCL was initiated in 2004 by architects Jason Johnson and Nataly Gattegno. Currently the 2009 New York Prize Fellows at the Van Alen Institute in New York City, Johnson and Gattegno recently served as the 2008-2009 Oberdick and Muschenheim Architecture Research Fellows at the University of Michigan. They have been exploring the relationship between energy and form through the inhabitation of extreme environments – the desert and the Arctic.
Both 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 appears in "Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments," by David Gissen and "Interactive Architecture," by Michael Fox and Miles Kemp.
Audience: All, Very Large (501+)
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Room: 202
Beth Weinstein
College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
520-626-6324
bmw99@email.arizona.edu
http://cala.arizona.edu
http://www.future-cities-lab.net
