ARCHIPRIX MIT 2011

Archiprix International 2011 at MIT, Cambridge, MA.

Great News! I’m off to the Archiprix Inter­na­tional work­shop at MIT in June this year! Archiprix is an invi­ta­tional com­pe­ti­tion which recog­nises the world’s best archi­tec­tural grad­u­at­ing projects. This year the work­shop will be held in Boston, fol­lowed by the awards cer­e­mony at the Guggen­heim in New York. Its going to fantastic!

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Recently I was asked, with my OH.NO.SUMO. col­leagues, to be part of the inter­na­tional tour­ing exhi­bi­tion, FAX. The exhi­bi­tion calls for par­tic­i­pants to fax a work to the gallery that dis­cusses the posi­tion of the fax machine within soci­ety and as a draw­ing too. Our sub­mis­sion spec­u­lates on the pop cul­ture aes­thetic of obso­les­cence while engag­ing with the idea of machines as more than sta­tic, sin­gu­lar mode devices.

GOING NOMAD

Ste­fan Stag­meis­ter, that leg­endary and polemic fig­ure of graphic design, is said to take reg­u­lar breaks from prac­tice. When I say reg­u­lar, I mean a few years on, a few years off. For the whole office. Doesn’t that sound amaz­ing? Surely the work of a (finan­cially secure) genius, right?

OH.NO.SUMO WINS CAVALIER BREMWORTH AWARD

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Oh.No.Sumo has been awarded joint win­ner of the Open Sec­tion in the recent Cav­a­lier Brem­worth Archi­tec­ture Awards organ­ised by the Auck­land Archi­tec­ture Asso­ci­a­tion­for our project the Cup­cake Pavil­ion. The awards were judged by Camilla Block,Aaron Pat­ter­son and Simon Twose. The other joint win­ners were Archi­tects Pat­ter­son for their project on the Auck­land Har­bour Bridge.

WAYD PAPER

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Way back in 2006, together with the able WAYD crew, I curated an exhi­bi­tion aimed at show­ing the beau­ti­ful things being made in/on/with paper at the Uni­ver­sity of Auck­land. Every­thing from screen prints to ren­ders to paper cloth­ing were shown. The