In-depth inquiries of fabrication practices outside of architecture are worth closer examination by architects and designers. By scaling down, architects can engage in specific material experiments, spatial discoveries, and form-finding processes, unbound by the scale and cost of more typical architectural materials. Fabric manipulation is at once graphic and formal, two-dimensional and three-dimensional, structural and...
Wisconsin Native, Adam Stockhausen was born in Wauwatosa, WI. He is a graduate of Marquette University and the Yale School of Drama. As a pre-eminent Production Designer, Adam has created the film settings and its architecture for: West Side Story, Ready Player One, and Bridge of Spies for Director Steven Spielberg; French Dispatch, Isle of...
Cantilevered from the side of a limestone cliff in Door County is a four-sided, mostly glass structure designed by Harry Weese in 1969. The building had fallen into disuse and needed major repairs when an impassioned crew set off in 2012 to restore history with the future in mind. In my experience, it is not...
Here’s an AIA Wisconsin ghost story to kick off your Halloween month. 👻 Did you know The Stoner House, the organization’s headquarters in downtown Madison is reportedly haunted by a grieving, one-armed ghost? The Wisconsin Architect’s Foundation (WAF) received the Joseph J. Stoner house in 1983. A Madison landmark and named to the National Register of...
A Wisconsin architecture student breaks ground on 3-D printed classrooms in Madagascar in a bold response to staggering illiteracy rates. Defining Humanity is a nonprofit organization that believes in architecture’s power to positively influence real lives across the world. In collaboration with Thinking Huts, we are using 3D printing technology to build 100 classrooms worldwide...
