MAKERS IN THE MAKING EXHIBITION
DATENOVEMBER 14, 2013
GLD's ongoing experiments in alternative processes of cast concrete furniture is included in a current exhibition, Makers in the Making at the NADAAA Gallery. The show incorporates current projects and new material practices taken on by MIT's faculty. GLD's piece, titled "Two Means, One End," displays the two casting methods we've been developing: a flexible sewn Tyvek formwork with a plaster "death mask" of its failed prototype, and a self-structured bent aluminum formwork with its finished cast product.
Makers in the Making had its soft opening to the MIT community on November 14, 2013. Official opening date is December 14, 2013, and it will run until February 7, 2014.
MATERIAL TESTS
DATEJUNE 19, 2013
A few thermoforming tests with Corian for an upcoming project.
JOEL LAMERE CURATES MIT LECTURE SERIES
DATEFEBRUARY 01, 2013
Joel Lamere co-curated the Spring 2013 Architecture Lecture Series at MIT with department head Nader Tehrani. The series, titled 'Instituting Technology,' focuses on accomplished practitioner/designers, whose built work manifests each a real commitment to advanced technologies, and broader concerns informed by project materialization. Featured speakers include Wolfgang Lorch, Matthias Kohler, Benedetta Tagliabue, Patricia Patkau, Cameron Wu, Jimenez Lai and Sarah Oppenheimer, among others.
EINHEIT MUQARNAS AND EINHEIT MIHRAB
DATEJULY 01, 2012
Einheit Muqarnas (in collaboration with Azra Aksamija) and Einheit Mihrab, both designed as part of the exhibition “Interior View SOUTHEAST: Investigations of Backyard Mosques,” have been completed and will be on show at the Architecture Forum Upper in Linz, Austria, from June 30 through October 27.
OVERLINER DECOMMISSIONED
DATEJUNE 16, 2012
Overliner has been decommissioned due to campus building maintenance. Originally intended to last for only three month, Overliner was one of two installations from MIT’s 150th anniversary festival to remain up throughout the following year. We’re proud that it was chosen to stay up as long as it did.
JOEL LAMERE AT MIT
DATEJUNE 01, 2012
Joel Lamere is now an assistant professor at MIT’s Department of Architecture.
CYNTHIA GUNADI AIA
DATEMARCH 22, 2012
Cynthia Gunadi is now a licensed architect in the state of Massachusetts.
GLD WINS THIRD PLACE IN KITCHEN DESIGN COMPETITION
DATEDECEMBER 07, 2011
GLD wins third place in The Kitchen Re-Imagined, a kitchen design competition sponsored by Interior Design Magazine and Electrolux, with their entry, Line Kitchen.
MIT 150 FAST LIGHT CELEBRATION
DATEMARCH 07, 2011
GLD is happy to participate in the MIT 150 FAST Light Celebration tonight and tomorrow night, during which the MIT community and public at large are invited to explore the school and see over 20 installations by faculty and students, installed throughout the campus. GLD’s piece, Overliner, is located in the lobby of the Whitaker Building (E25).
MIT 150 FAST Light Celebration
JOEL LAMERE DELIVERS LECTURE AT CAMBRIDGE SCIENCE FESTIVAL
DATEMARCH 06, 2011
Joel Lamere delivered his lecture, “Shapely Sheets: Curved Folding at an [Almost] Architectural Scale” at Nerd Nite, a lecture series that combines nerdery with beer. This Nerd Nite was held at the MIT museum as part of the Cambridge Science Festival. More about Nerd Nite here.