IN PROGRESS: CONCRETE TABLE
DATEAPRIL 17, 2014
A full scale prototype of one of our concrete tables has been completed, and is on view in the lobby of Building 9 at MIT! The tables are part of an in-progress renovation of the lobby, as well as an ongoing investigation into alternative formwork methods.
'CHAMBER' ON VIEW AT UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
DATEFEBRUARY 05, 2014
Chamber, a spherical anechoic capsule designed and built in collaboration with WOJR, is now open in the University of Maryland's Architecture Building atrium. It is on view from February 3 to March 7.
An accompanying lecture given by both Joel Lamere and William O'Brien Jr., entitled Primitives, will be held at the closing on March 7. See the University of Maryland's website for more details.
Click here for article in University of Maryland's The Diamondback
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.