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IWAMOTOSCOTT’s design process proceeds from the belief that each project can achieve a unique design synthesis. Dedicated to intensive design research, the practice engages in projects at multiple scales and in a variety of contexts, consisting of full-scale fabrications, museum installations and exhibitions, theoretical proposals, competitions and commissioned design and building projects. They are committed to employing new technologies in the production of architecture, capitalizing on their potential to inform the design process and gear the evolution of the designs.

In addition to receiving 13 AIA Design Awards, IWAMOTOSCOTT was recognized by Architectural Record as one of 10 international firms among the 2011 Design Vanguard. Their Obscura Digital Headquarters was recognized in 2011 by Architizer as the World’s Coolest Office. Prior to that, they were recognized by The Architectural League of New York with their selection in 2007 as one of eight firms nationwide for its “Emerging Voices” Award.

Lisa received her Master of Architecture with distinction from Harvard University and is Professor at University of California, Berkeley. Craig received his Master of Architecture with distinction from Harvard University and is Professor of Architecture at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

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Working outside the architectural mainstream, Marlon Blackwell’s architecture is based in design strategies that draw upon vernaculars and typologies, and the contradictions of place; strategies that seek to transgress conventional boundaries for architecture. Marlon serves as Distinguished Professor and Department Head in the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas.

Marlon Blackwell Architects has been the recipient of numerous state and regional awards, as well as three National AIA Honor Awards. The significance of Marlon’s contributions to design is evidenced by being named a United States Artists Ford Fellow 2014 and selected for the 2012 Architecture Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Marlon Blackwell Architects was recognized as the Firm of the Year by Residential Architect magazine in 2011. A monograph of his early work entitled “An Architecture of the Ozarks: The Works of Marlon Blackwell” was published by Princeton Architectural Press. Marlon holds an undergraduate degree in Architecture from Auburn University and a Master of Architecture degree from Syracuse University in Florence. At the University of Arkansas, Marlon was named as one of DesignIntelligence magazine’s “30 Most Admired Educators” for 2015. He was elected to the AIA College of Fellows in 2009.

great building turns our attention away from itself and makes us experience the world around us

with focused and resensitized senses and sharpened understanding.” Juhani Pallasmaa, “The Reality of the Image: The Microcosms of Tom Kundig”

Good architecture activates our senses by discovering unforeseen potential, while heightening our awareness of the possibilities that are all around us. Meaningful design looks for ways to integrate into the larger whole where each is enriched by the fresh and intriguing relationships that are established. Emerging technologies and digital fabrication have vastly expanded the opportunities for design innovation, including creative strategies for integrating art, craft, and local materials into the built work.

ACTIVATEIn Tom Kundig’s Art Stable, a seven story mixed-use urban infill project in Seattle, both the front and back elevations are active and ever changing. The alley facing façade features an 80’ tall hinge topped by a davit crane with five large steel-clad, hand cranked doors, that can be opened to move oversized objects into the units. In combination with hinged windows on the front façade these large openings allow the residents to “open the building to the natural world and to the larger cultural landscape.” In their master plan for the Little Rock Creative Corridor Marlon Blackwell Architects, in collaboration with the University of Arkansas Community Design Center, proposes to reactivate a neglected four-block segment in the historic downtown through the aggregation of a variety of cultural organizations, while creating a vibrant and affordable working and living environment. In order to establish a coherent identify over the course of its development the design solution focuses on the urbanism of the streetscape – landscape architecture, ecological engineering, frontage options, and public space configurations. For their Edgar Street Towers IWAMOTOSCOTT Architecture takes advantage of the prominent site to establish a civic landmark and beacon within the larger urban fabric of Manhattan, while reestablishing street-level connections active with public amenities. The towers, providing spaces for living and working, are organized around a central atrium, which is activated by daylight channeled from above via an integrated light-transmitting fiber-optic array.

INTEGRATE At his Cabins at Fallingwater in Bull Run, Pennsylvania, Marlon Blackwell integrates the six cottages into the landscape, reminiscent of the way Frank Lloyd Wright suggested that architecture should be of the site, not upon it. “At the edge between forest and meadow the cottages nest lightly and sit low in the landscape, neither invisible nor

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Doug Ashe has served on numerous AIA honor awards juries over the years, including chairing both the National AIA Gold Medal/Architecture Firm Award Jury and the AIA/AIA National Library Honor Awards Jury. Ashe Broussard Weinzettle Architects has received over 20 AIA honor awards for design excellence at the regional, state and local levels.

Doug Ashe received his Master of Architecture from Columbia University and his Bachelor of Architecture, with honors, from Georgia Tech. This is Doug’s 16th year serving as coordinator and moderator for Celebrate Architecture.

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too intrusive.” For Heavybit Industries Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott developed a collaborative workspace consisting of a series of designed interventions integrated within the framework of an existing three-story industrial warehouse. The largest of these is a multi-functioning platform at grade level, which houses the reception desk, a bar-height work counter and lounge seating, a speaker stage facing the communal dining and meeting space, as well as the stair to the second floor. The owner’s affection for a stone outcropping on her property inspired Tom Kundig’s design for the Pierre, a weekend retreat on Lopez Island, Washington. The house, which is delicately integrated into the rock and surrounding foliage, “follows a tradition of building on the least productive part of the site, leaving the best parts free for cultivation.” The retreat -- with its rough materials, encompassing concrete, steel, and a sod roof -- almost disappears into nature.

FABRICATE In a series of site-specific installations IWAMOTOSCOTT Architecture has explored the potential of digital fabrication and its application in larger scale projects and buildings. For Voussoir Cloud, an installation for the SCIArc Gallery, three dimensional petals formed by folding paper thin wood laminate along curved seams, are assembled to form a system of compression vaults that are experienced both from within as well as from above. Olson Kundig Architects “works with craftspeople and artists to design and fabricate specific architectural elements in each project so that the detail of the work relates directly to the larger expression.” One such example is the hand-operated Gizmo at Chicken Point Cabin, which operates a large pivoting window, opening up the house to the landscape and spectacular views of Hayden Lake in northern Idaho. For Marlon Blackwell’s Crystal Bridges Museum Store in Bentonville, Arkansas, “a series of parallel cherry plywood ribs, fabricated locally straight from the BIM model, harvested locally in the Ozarks, organizes the space and forms the ceiling and millwork on the rear wall.” The undulating surface creates an elegant sectional profile while also serving the practical functions of providing shade from the intense western sun and screening mechanical and lighting systems above.

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Tom Kundig is a principal at Olson Kundig Architects, recipient of the 2009 AIA Architecture Firm Award, the highest honor the AIA bestows on a collaborative architectural practice. Individually, Tom is known for his poetic, elemental and intuitive designs that reveal his reverence for materials, art, craft and the experience of built space and our relationship to landscape. His current and past work can be found on five continents, including a World Heritage site in Dachstein, Austria.

Over the past three decades, Tom has received some of the world’s highest design honors, from a National Design Award from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum to an Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2014, Kundig was included in Architectural Digest’s AD100 and in 2012, he was inducted into Interior Design magazine’s Hall of Fame.

Guided by Tom’s design and leadership Olson Kundig Architects has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards for design excellence including 10 National AIA Awards. His work has appeared in hundreds of publications worldwide including The New York Times, Architectural Record, Financial Times, Architectural Digest and The Wall Street Journal, and was named to The Wallpaper* 150 as a key individual who influences and inspires the way we live, work and travel.

Tom received his undergraduate and Master of Architecture degrees from the University of Washington.

Quotes and excerpts are sourced from the guest architects’ websites and other publications.

The Shaw Center for the Arts

Manship Theatre100 Lafayette Street

Baton Rouge, LA 70801225.346.5001

or 1.800.488.2968

For additional information about The Shaw Center, visit their web site: www.shawcenter.org, or The Manship Theatre website: www.manshiptheatre.org

Convenient parking can be found at the Third Street Parking Garage (across from The Shaw Center), which is located on the corner of Third Street and Convention Street (enter from Convention Street).

RESERVATIONS

HOTEL

Several hotel options are listed below. The Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center, Hotel Indigo, and the Sheraton Baton Rouge are within walking distance of the Shaw Center:

• Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center - 225.344.5866 201 Lafayette Street hilton.com/Baton_Rouge

• Hotel Indigo - Baton Rouge 1.877.270.1392 200 Convention St. hotelindigo.com

• Sheraton Baton Rouge Convention Center & Hotel 225-242-2600 or 1.800.565.7654 sheraton.com/batonrouge

• Baton Rouge Marriott – 225.924.5000 marriott.com

• Best Western Richmond Suites – 225.924.6500• Chase Suites by Woodfin – 225.927.5630

www.woodfinsuitehotels.com

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