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Adam Marcus Co-Edits Issue of International Journal of Architectural Computing

January 9, 2025

Adam Marcus guest-edited the recent special issue of the International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC), "Ecological Levers: On Degrees of Autonomy and Interdependence."

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Publication of Essay on Buoyant Ecologies Project in POOL

September 6, 2022

Adam Marcus, together with his Architectural Ecologies Lab co-directors Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones, recently published the essay “Floating With: Buoyant Ecologies of Collaboration and Solidarity” in POOL, the student magazine of the Department of Architecture & Urban Design at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Marcus Co-Edits Two-Volume "Distributed Proximities" Proceedings

August 30, 2021

Distributed Proximities, the two-volume proceedings of the 40th annual conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), was recently published.

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Adam Marcus Publishes Chapter in 'Sustaining Seas' Book

May 9, 2020

Adam Marcus recently contributed a chapter to the new book Sustaining Seas: Oceanic Space and the Politics of Care, published by Rowman & Littlefield, and edited by Elspeth Probyn, Kate Johnston, and Nancy Lee.

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Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab Featured in Dezeen

October 1, 2019

The Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab, a project led by Adam Marcus and his CCA Architectural Ecologies Lab co-directors Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones, is featured in an article in Dezeen by Jenna McKnight.

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Redshift Feature on Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab

August 29, 2019

The Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab, a project led by Adam Marcus and his CCA Architectural Ecologies Lab co-directors Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones, is featured in an article in Redshift by Zach Mortice.

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Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab Featured in The Architect's Newspaper

July 16, 2019

The Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab, a project led by Adam Marcus and his CCA Architectural Ecologies Lab co-directors Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones, is featured in an article in The Architect’s Newspaper by Drew Zeiba.

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Hyperallergic Features Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab

July 15, 2019

The Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab, a project led by Adam Marcus and his CCA Architectural Ecologies Lab co-directors Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones, is featured in an article in Hyperallergic by Louis Bury.

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Adam Marcus Contributes Chapter to Design Build Studio Book

December 17, 2017

Adam Marcus recently contributed a chapter to the book The Design-Build Studio: Crafting Meaningful Work in Architecture Education, edited by Tolya Stonorov and published by Routledge / Taylor & Francis.

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Architect Magazine Reviews 'Drawing Codes'

January 27, 2017

Architect magazine has published a review by Blaine Brownell of the exhibition Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, curated by Adam Marcus & Andrew Kudless at California College of the Art Hubbell Street Galleries.

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After William Morris Drawings Published in Drawing Futures Book

December 18, 2016

Drawings from our After William Morris series are included in the recently published book Drawing Futures: Speculations in Contemporary Drawing for Art and Architecture, edited by Laura Allen and Luke Caspar Pearson, with Bob Sheil and Frédéric Migayrou.

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Variable Projects Featured in Architectural Record

January 13, 2016

Architectural Record's January 2016 issue features Variable Projects as a "firm to watch" in an article by Anna Fixsen: "OK Computer: Bay Area firm Variable Projects leverages the digital to design for the human scale"

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Variable Projects Featured in Line//Shape//Space

July 29, 2015

 

The online design and business site Line//Shape//Space recently published a feature on the work of Variable Projects, highlighting our approach to data-driven design.

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Centennial Chromagraph Published in Architecture Minnesota Awards Issue

April 1, 2014

Our AIA Honor Award-winning project is published in the March/April issue of Architecture Minnesota.

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Centennial Chromagraph Published in Brazil's Arquitetura e Urbanismo

February 12, 2014

Variable Projects and Centennial Chromagraph featured in notable Brazilian architecture magazine.

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Centennial Chromagraph In The News

November 26, 2013

Sculptural installation fabricated from 8,080 pencils goes viral.

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Centennial Chromagraph Featured in Design Milk

November 22, 2013

Popular design blog features work by Variable Projects.

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Centennial Chromagraph Featured in UMN 'Emerging' Magazine

September 23, 2013

Variable Projects work featured in University of Minnesota publication.

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Modular Variations Book Published

September 3, 2013

Publication of research by Adam Marcus's UMN design studio.

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Centennial Chromagraph Featured on Rhino3d Website

August 29, 2013

Variable Projects featured on website of popular 3D modeling software.

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