HouMinn Conversation_Tokyo

Marc presented a lecture on our current work and research to architecture students at the Tokyo University of Science School of Architecture on Thursday, May 30th, 2013. 

Bio-Inspired Systems at Tianjin University

Marc taught a week-long workshop on Bio-Inspired Systems with Blaine Brownell at Tianjin University School of Architecture in Tianjin. 

HouMinn lecture

We are presenting a lecture on our current work and research at the Vancouver Convention Center on Friday, September 28, 2012 at 3 p.m. More information about this lecture can be found here.

HouMinn update

While we have been remiss in updating our website for a while, it doesn't mean we haven't been hard at work. Three recent project galleries have been added to the site: OSWall (version 2.0), Hexwall, and Kinetic Commons (our winning competition entry with VJAA, Diane Willow and VAA Engineering). You can go directly to those project pages by clicking on the names above. We'll have more announcements soon.

Weisman Art Museum Public Plaza design competition win!

The Weisman Art Museum (WAM) at the University of Minnesota announced that VJAA (Jennifer Yoos and Vincent James), working with HouMinn Practice (Marc Swackhamer and Blair Satterfield), and artist Diane Willow, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, is the winner of the design competition recently conducted by the Target Studio for Creative Collaboration. The competition focused on the bridge plaza at the east end of Washington Avenue Bridge. Notable for its magnificent views of the Mississippi River and access to the west bank campus as well as the new Science Teaching Student Services building and WAM, more than 20,000 people pass through this space on a daily basis. (Excerpted from the official announcement, available by clicking on the image above)