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Weisman Art Museum Public Plaza design competition win!

Blair Satterfield — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:16:43 +0000

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)

HouMinn at Parsons

Blair Satterfield — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:57:43 +0000

HouMinn returns to Parsons the New School for Design as part of the Global Issues in Design lecture series. The HouMinn lecture will be held on Tuesday October 11th, 6:00pm at the Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street in Manhattan. Thanks to Susan Yelavich for the invitation!

HouMinn contribution to Matter

Marc Swackhamer — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:49:21 +0000

An essay by Marc and Blair appears in the recently published book Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production, edited by Gail Peter Borden and Michael Meredith. The essay, titled "Built to Change: A Case for Disintegration and Obsolescence," positions HouMinn's prototype work in relationship to conventional stick frame construction and makes a case for an architecture that is organically rebuilt many times over in its lifetime (think human skin). You can order the book here.

Mississippi River Bridge Plaza Competition Finalists

Marc Swackhamer — Thu, 26 May 2011 18:38:21 +0000

HouMinn has teamed up with VJAA, Diane Willow, and Mark Mielke of VAA Engineering to form a team that has been selected by The Target Studio for Creative Collaboration at the Weisman Art Museum to submit a proposal for the redesign of the Mississippi River Bridge Plaza on The University of Minnesota's Twin Cities Campus. Our team was one of four interdisciplinary teams chosen, all of whom will have their work on display at the opening of the Target Studio on October 2, 2011.

We are thrilled to be a part of this dynamic, exceptional team of artists, architects, and engineers and look forward to sharing the work at the conclusion of the competition.

HouMinn Interest Sites

Blair Satterfield — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:25:11 +0000

The internet offers lots of things to love. In the spirit of St. Valentines Day, HouMinn is offering some of its favorite links for your surfing enjoyment. Some are random finds and some are linked to friends. All are of HouMinn Interest.

Oooh-Wee! What's up with DAAP? What's up with DAAP?

Blair Satterfield — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 02:14:08 +0000

"I do, you do, hairdo, voodoo"...HouMinn is pleased to be presenting at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. The talk will be part of the winter 2011 Lecture Series and will be held at 4:30pm on February 16, 2011 in room 3420, Aronoff Center for Design and Art.

TEX-FAB REPEAT Winner Selected

Blair Satterfield — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:07:04 +0000

TEX-FAB recently announced the winners of the TEX-FAB REPEAT Digital Fabrication Competition. The competition received a total of 73 entries from across the globe representing 18 countries on 5 continents. The jury consisting of Patrik Schumacher, Marc Fornes, Lisa Iwamoto, Chris Lasch and Blair Satterfield, who conferred and selected the winning project. "Minimal Complexity" by Vlad Tenu will be built for the TEX-FAB Event in Houston in February 2011. The competition was strong but at the end of the day Tenu's project stood out. From the entries the Jury selected 1 Winner, 4 Runners-Up and 7 Honorable Mentions which will be exhibited along side the winner. View more about the REPEAT competition and TEX-FAB by clicking any of the links.

HouMinn to speak at Parsons

Blair Satterfield — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 04:47:22 +0000

HouMinn is pleased to be presenting at Parsons the New School for Design as part of the Global Issues in Design lecture series. The lecture will be Tuesday October 26th, 6:00pm at the Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street in Manhattan.

OSWall on display at the Muscarelle

Blair Satterfield — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 01:05:27 +0000

OSWall (Open Source Wall) is on display at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary as part of the exhibition titled "Envelop{e}s: Architect's Unfinished Experiments with Building 'Skins'". The show opened on September 18th and will run through October 31st. This collection of full-scale, experimental constructs and material assemblies was curated by Christopher Hight, Associate Professor at Rice University, and originally appeared at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery.

Making Modern Plans

Blair Satterfield — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:33:00 +0000

Here is another blog to add to your Google Reader account. "Making Modern Plans" is the new blog site for Hometta. The folks at Hometta have enlisted the help of their ever growing stable of designers to provide fresh and interesting content. Make time to check out Making Modern Plans. Hometta blogs about OSWall here.