http://lateraloffice.com LATERAL OFFICE Mason White + Lola Sheppard Mon, 13 May 2013 15:12:01 +0000 http://lateraloffice.com en http://lateraloffice.com/KNOWLEDGE-CLOUDS-2013 http://lateraloffice.com/following/lateraloffice.com/KNOWLEDGE-CLOUDS-2013 Mon, 13 May 2013 15:12:01 +0000 LATERAL OFFICE Mason White + Lola Sheppard 5371791 Deep Freeze Exhibition Habourfront Centre for Arts Toronto, ON /// 2013 January 26 - June 9, 2013 This project was commissioned by the Harbourfront Centre for a site-specific and theme-specific installation in the Architecture Gallery. The exhibition was titled Deep Freeze and "presents projects of new architecture being built in the North by firms allied to the North. It also presents current creative research and advanced inventive insights that respond to dilemmas faced by Arctic development." <img src="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/Network Map_web_1000.jpg" width="1000" height="444" width_o="1200" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/Network Map_web_o.jpg" data-mid="29324676" border="0" align="left"/> An itinerant territorial campus, the proposed aerial movement patterns of classrooms and labs. <img src="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/KC_model_pic_series_1000.jpg" width="1000" height="220" width_o="1000" height_o="220" src_o="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/KC_model_pic_series_o.jpg" data-mid="29868940" border="0" align="left"/> Exhibition photos of dynamic animated network map (see video below). The Canadian Arctic is a rapidly-changing frontier of knowledge and education. Expertise is plentiful, and yet, a locked-up resource in the Arctic. There exist two highly knowledgeable groups: the Inuit, whose intimate experience of the land surpasses most physical records, and the scientific community, who are intensely monitoring and recording changes in lifestyle, habitat and environment due to climate change. Both are struggling to communicate their knowledge of the Arctic, to each other, and to the rest of the world. While there exist several northern colleges that teach practical skills and trades, there are few opportunities that facilitate an inclusive common ground for learning and sharing traditional and scientific knowledge. Canada is currently the only country that does not have a degree-granting institution north of the Arctic Circle. <img src="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/SkyHook_history_set2_1000.jpg" width="1000" height="413" width_o="1000" height_o="413" src_o="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/SkyHook_history_set2_o.jpg" data-mid="30305575" border="0" align="left"/> Northern airship development and innovation, Boeing's SkyHook (left), Amundsen's Norge airship in 1926 (top right). <img src="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/Inuit_Knowledge_set_1000.jpg" width="1000" height="187" width_o="1200" height_o="225" src_o="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/Inuit_Knowledge_set_o.jpg" data-mid="29325052" border="0" align="left"/> Stills from Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change (2010, Isuma) by Z. Kunuk and I. Mauro. <img src="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/Panorama Render_crop_web_1000.jpg" width="1000" height="435" width_o="1200" height_o="522" src_o="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/Panorama Render_crop_web_o.jpg" data-mid="29325079" border="0" align="left"/> Delivery and use of knowledge labs forms temporal campus clusters. <img src="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/Night Render_alt_small_1000.jpg" width="1000" height="371" width_o="1200" height_o="446" src_o="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/Night Render_alt_small_o.jpg" data-mid="29325094" border="0" align="left"/> The outer shell of labs is independent of the elevated space-frame platforms, and forms a partially enclosed entry. <img src="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/Install_overall_01_1000.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/Install_overall_01_o.jpg" data-mid="30306508" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/KC_exhibition_02_web_1000.jpg" width="1000" height="672" width_o="1000" height_o="672" src_o="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/KC_exhibition_02_web_o.jpg" data-mid="29870426" border="0" align="left"/> Installation of animated model at Harbourfront Centre. Knowledge Clouds examines how architecture can engage the scale of geography, and tests the possibility of an incremental, expandable, mobile system of education that can serve as seeds of knowledge exchange and production in the North. A pan-arctic university is imagined as Knowledge Clouds: classroom units are able respond, deploy and aggregate, to suit changing local needs and learning calendars. Embracing the arctic airship technology predicted to supply logistical mobility with a 40-ton capacity, the labs consist of a series of lightweight units that can be shipped by air and remain on sites for varying periods of time. The form and materials are designed to respond to wind and weather when they are anchored on the land, forming new knowledge sites across the Canadian North. <img src="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/Classroom Components_web_1000.jpg" width="1000" height="436" width_o="1000" height_o="436" src_o="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/Classroom Components_web_o.jpg" data-mid="29868739" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/Use Diagram_web_1000.jpg" width="1000" height="237" width_o="1000" height_o="237" src_o="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/Use Diagram_web_o.jpg" data-mid="29868756" border="0" align="left"/> Assembly diagrams: an in pneumatic 3-layer aircell structure is deployed onto a rigid space-frame. The space-frame offers other uses when labs are re-deployed. <img src="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/KC_exhibition_04_web_1000.jpg" width="1000" height="331" width_o="1000" height_o="331" src_o="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/KC_exhibition_04_web_o.jpg" data-mid="29870394" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/KC_exhibition_03_web_1000.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload153.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5371791/KC_exhibition_03_web_o.jpg" data-mid="29870401" border="0" align="left"/> Installation of animated models at Harbourfront Centre showing the 1:200 and 1:75 models. Territorial Campus: Context & Conditions from Lateral Office on Vimeo. Territorial Campus: Program & Pathways from Lateral Office on Vimeo. Classrooms: Clusters & Environments from Lateral Office on Vimeo. Classrooms: Technology & Performance from Lateral Office on Vimeo. Project Team: Lateral Office Mason White, Lola Sheppard, Matthew Spremulli, Mathias Kempton, Fionn Byrne Deep Freeze Exhibition Habourfront Centre for Arts Toronto, ON /// 2013 January 26 - June 9, 2013 This project was commissioned by the Harbourfront Centre for a... http://lateraloffice.com/ALASKA-DESIGN-FORUM-2013 http://lateraloffice.com/following/lateraloffice.com/ALASKA-DESIGN-FORUM-2013 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 22:47:33 +0000 LATERAL OFFICE Mason White + Lola Sheppard 5499434 Here: From Global to Hyper Local Alaska Design Forum Lectures April 22-24, 2013 <img src="http://payload159.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5499434/ADF_here_1000.jpg" width="1000" height="447" width_o="1000" height_o="447" src_o="http://payload159.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5499434/ADF_here_o.jpg" data-mid="29615744" border="0" align="left"/> Mason White delivered three lectures as part of Alaska Design Forum's 2012-13 lecture series Here: From Global to Hyper Local. April 22, 2013, 7pm – Anchorage – Anchorage Museum April 23, 2013, 6pm – Fairbanks – The Blue Loon April 24, 2013, 6pm – Juneau – The Gold Town Nickelodeon Here: From Global to Hyper Local Alaska Design Forum Lectures April 22-24, 2013 Mason White delivered three lectures as part of Alaska Design Forum's 2012-13... http://lateraloffice.com/VENICE-BIENNALE-SELECTION-2013 http://lateraloffice.com/following/lateraloffice.com/VENICE-BIENNALE-SELECTION-2013 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:34:35 +0000 LATERAL OFFICE Mason White + Lola Sheppard 5299594 Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15 has been selected through a national juried competition to represent Canada at the 2014 Venice Biennale in Architecture, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada announced March 26, 2013. The exhibition will be organized and curated by Lateral Office of Toronto. As Nunavut celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2014, Arctic Adaptations will present innovative architecture proposals rooted in Nunavut’s distinct land, climate and culture, reflecting local traditions of migration, mobility and seasonality. It will also explore how, in light of dramatic environmental, social and economic forces that are transforming the Arctic today, architecture might help nurture robust, prosperous and vibrant Northern communities. The Venice Biennale in Architecture takes place in Venice, Italy from June 7 to November 23, 2014, and will receive more than 350,000 visitors. Follow the project website arcticadaptations.ca or on facebook/arcticadaptations or twitter @arcticadapt Press: "Off to Venice, by way of Nunavut," The Globe & Mail, March 26, 2013. [ PDF ] <img src="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5299594/Render_Aerial-w-Background_Small_1000.jpg" width="1000" height="652" width_o="2000" height_o="1304" src_o="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5299594/Render_Aerial-w-Background_Small_o.jpg" data-mid="28510015" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5299594/Map_Team_Large_1000.png" width="1000" height="840" width_o="2025" height_o="1702" src_o="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5299594/Map_Team_Large_o.png" data-mid="28510002" border="0" align="left"/> Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15 has been selected through a national juried competition to represent Canada at the 2014 Venice Biennale in Architecture, the... http://lateraloffice.com/P-A-AWARD-2013 http://lateraloffice.com/following/lateraloffice.com/P-A-AWARD-2013 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:43:10 +0000 LATERAL OFFICE Mason White + Lola Sheppard 5010067 We are excited and honored that the Arctic Food Network project has been selected for a prestigious 2013 Progressive Architecture Award, or P/A Award. This is the 60th edition of this award, which "recognizes unbuilt projects that demonstrate overall design excellence and innovation." The 2013 jury included Reed Kroloff, Steven Ehrlich, Kimberly Holden, John Frane, and Joan Soranno. Matthew Spremulli, Associate, was at the MoMA in New York February 21, 2013 to receive the award on behalf of the entire project team. Additionally, the award-winning project has been featured on the cover of this month's Architect, the magazine of the American Institute of Architects. The magazine includes the 10 awarded projects. <img src="http://payload135.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5010067/Architect_Feb2013_coverspread_1000.jpg" width="1000" height="462" width_o="1700" height_o="787" src_o="http://payload135.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5010067/Architect_Feb2013_coverspread_o.jpg" data-mid="27186073" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload135.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5010067/Architect_Feb2013_interior_1000.jpg" width="1000" height="644" width_o="2000" height_o="1289" src_o="http://payload135.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/5010067/Architect_Feb2013_interior_o.jpg" data-mid="27469854" border="0" align="left"/> We are excited and honored that the Arctic Food Network project has been selected for a prestigious 2013 Progressive Architecture Award, or P/A Award. This is the... http://lateraloffice.com/BRACKET-2-2013 http://lateraloffice.com/following/lateraloffice.com/BRACKET-2-2013 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:19:41 +0000 LATERAL OFFICE Mason White + Lola Sheppard 4981700 Bracket 2: Goes Soft architecture, environment, digital culture Neeraj Bhatia, Lola Sheppard, editors ACTAR 2013 order Includes "From Site to Territory" by Lola Sheppard. <img src="http://payload134.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/4981700/Bracket2_coverspread_1000.jpg" width="1000" height="455" width_o="1700" height_o="775" src_o="http://payload134.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/4981700/Bracket2_coverspread_o.jpg" data-mid="27166400" border="0" align="left"/> Click here for PDF Bracket 2: Goes Soft architecture, environment, digital culture Neeraj Bhatia, Lola Sheppard, editors ACTAR 2013 order Includes "From Site to Territory" by Lola... http://lateraloffice.com/CONTAINERIZATION-2013 http://lateraloffice.com/following/lateraloffice.com/CONTAINERIZATION-2013 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:40:36 +0000 LATERAL OFFICE Mason White + Lola Sheppard 4910843 Containerization Design Week 2013 - Workshop Louisiana State University January 15-18, 2013 Rob Holmes [mammoth] and Mason White collaborated on a design project brief called Containerization for the annual Design Week at the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University. <img src="http://payload130.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/4910843/DesignWeek_Containerization_1000.jpg" width="1000" height="833" width_o="1000" height_o="833" src_o="http://payload130.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/4910843/DesignWeek_Containerization_o.jpg" data-mid="26270578" border="0" align="left"/> More on the Design Week schedule / events. ABSTRACT: Containerization—the standardization of cargo containers for multimodal transport on ships, trains, and trucks—has produced, since its advent in the mid-twentieth century, a set of repeating, globally-standardized landscape formats: warehouses, distribution centers, yards, and, most crucially, container ports. Similarly configured from Durban to St. Petersburg and Antwerp to Busan, container ports are perhaps the most intensive spatial manifestation of the most globally significant economic trend of the past several decades—globalization—and yet relatively unstudied as an opportunity for landscape architectural intervention. The aim of this exercise is to rapidly prototype alternative futures for a set of container ports in wildly diverse geographic contexts. Containerization Design Week 2013 - Workshop Louisiana State University January 15-18, 2013 Rob Holmes [mammoth] and Mason White collaborated on a design project... http://lateraloffice.com/ARCHITECTURE-ENERGY-2013 http://lateraloffice.com/following/lateraloffice.com/ARCHITECTURE-ENERGY-2013 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 21:37:19 +0000 LATERAL OFFICE Mason White + Lola Sheppard 4540017 Architecture & Energy: Climate and Region University of Pensylvania Philadelphia, PA, USA January 25, 2013 link Mason White presents recent work on energy-resourceful architecture, with a concentration on the emergence of new publics. Architecture and Energy: Climate and Region is the result of a collaboration between Penn Design and Penn State University; and is organized by Dan Willis, Daniels Barber, and William Braham. Participants include: Dan Hoffman, Hadas Steiner, Rania Ghosn, Iñaki Abalos, Stephen Kieran, Vivian Loftness, Richard Weller, and more. <img src="http://payload112.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/4540017/archenergy_upenn.png" width="600" height="338" width_o="600" height_o="338" src_o="http://payload112.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/4540017/archenergy_upenn_o.png" data-mid="26254373" border="0" align="left"/> Architecture & Energy: Climate and Region University of Pensylvania Philadelphia, PA, USA January 25, 2013 link Mason White presents recent work on... http://lateraloffice.com/FRIEDMAN-PROFESSORSHIP-2013 http://lateraloffice.com/following/lateraloffice.com/FRIEDMAN-PROFESSORSHIP-2013 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 21:37:16 +0000 LATERAL OFFICE Mason White + Lola Sheppard 4908416 Friedman Visiting Professorship UC Berkeley, College of Environmental Design Spring 2013 link Mason White has been selected for the 2013 Howard A. Friedman Visiting Professorship in the Practice of Architecture at Berkeley College of Environmental Design. He will co-teach a studio with Nicholas de Monchaux on relocation and adaptation of coastal villages in Alaska. We will be working with the Alaska Design Forum and the Cold-Climate Housing Research Center in Fairbanks. Howard A. Friedman, FAIA, graduated from UC Berkeley in 1949 (A.B. Architecture). He joined the architecture department in 1966 as a lecturer after building a distinguished private architectural practice in the Bay Area. In 1979 he became a full-time member of the CED faculty while continuing his private practice, and served as chair of the architecture department from 1986 until his death in 1988. Friedman Visiting Professorship UC Berkeley, College of Environmental Design Spring 2013 link Mason White has been selected for the 2013 Howard A. Friedman... http://lateraloffice.com/ARCTIC-INSPIRATION-PRIZE-2012 http://lateraloffice.com/following/lateraloffice.com/ARCTIC-INSPIRATION-PRIZE-2012 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:52:19 +0000 LATERAL OFFICE Mason White + Lola Sheppard 4408808 Arctic Inspiration Prize S. and A. Inspiration Foundation / ArcticNet 2012 Laureate December 13, 2012 The Arctic Food Network project team, led by Lateral Office, is the recipient of the inaugural Arctic Inspiration Prize (AIP) for 2012. The AIP is conceived of by The S. and A. Inspiration Foundation - founded by Ms. Sima Sharifi and Mr. Arnold Witzig in 2008 as a not-for-profit corporation. The AIP is maintained by ArcticNet and celebrated at the annual ArcticNet meeting, which this year took place on December 13, 2012 in Vancouver, BC. The team consists of: Lateral Office, Nunavut Tunngavik Inc, Arctic College, Rankin Inlet HTO, Sanikiluaq HTO, and James Ford (McGill University). The Arctic Inspiration Prize is intended for multidisciplinary teams who have made a substantial, demonstrated and distinguished contribution to the gathering of Arctic knowledge and who have provided a concrete plan and commitment to implement their knowledge into real world application for the benefit of the Canadian Arctic, its Peoples and therefore Canada as a whole. The Arctic Food Network team was one of four laureates to receive the Prize. <img src="http://payload105.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/4408808/pic-10_1000.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload105.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/4408808/pic-10_o.jpg" data-mid="24659561" border="0" align="left"/> Arctic Inspiration Prize Ceremony, Vancouver, BC, December 13, 2012. <img src="http://payload105.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/4408808/pic-8_1000.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload105.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/4408808/pic-8_o.jpg" data-mid="24659557" border="0" align="left"/> Martin Fortier (ArcticNet), Morgan Ip, Matthew Spremulli, Mason White, Lola Sheppard, Sima Sharifi, and Arnold Witzig (S and A Inspiration Foundation). <img src="http://payload105.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/4408808/pic-4_1000.jpg" width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="http://payload105.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/4408808/pic-4_o.jpg" data-mid="24659551" border="0" align="left"/> Martin Fortier, Sima Sharifi, and Arnold Witzig. Arctic Inspiration Prize S. and A. Inspiration Foundation / ArcticNet 2012 Laureate December 13, 2012 The Arctic Food Network project team, led by Lateral Office,... http://lateraloffice.com/OZ-JOURNAL-34-2012 http://lateraloffice.com/following/lateraloffice.com/OZ-JOURNAL-34-2012 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:25:20 +0000 LATERAL OFFICE Mason White + Lola Sheppard 4509286 Oz Journal: Infrastructure vol. 34 Annie Robinson & Bo Steadman, editors Kansas State University 2012 order Includes the text "Disciplinary Thievery" by Mason White, and two recent projects from Lateral Office: Arctic Food Network and From Place to Plant, p.4-13. Here is a link to the complete volume #34 content. <img src="http://payload110.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/4509286/2012_Oz34_cover_1000.jpg" width="1000" height="468" width_o="1700" height_o="796" src_o="http://payload110.cargocollective.com/1/7/254933/4509286/2012_Oz34_cover_o.jpg" data-mid="23945342" border="0" align="left"/> Click here for a PDF Oz Journal: Infrastructure vol. 34 Annie Robinson & Bo Steadman, editors Kansas State University 2012 order Includes the text "Disciplinary Thievery" by Mason...