Spotlight on Design: Emerging Voices March 11, 2008

StossLU and Onion Flats

Held at The Catholic University of America
Edward M. Crough Center for Architectural Studies, Koubek Auditorium
Just north of the intersection of Michigan Avenue and 7th Street, NE, Washington, DC
Presented in partnership with the Architectural League of New York, Emerging Voices turns the spotlight on architecture firms just beginning to achieve prominence in the profession.
Formed in 1997 in Philadelphia by brothers Tim McDonald and Pat McDonald and later joined by Johnny McDonald and Howard Steinberg, Onion Flats is a collective combining the roles of developer, architect, and builder. The firm’s mission is to bring architecture not only “beyond the drawing board and into the building process,” creating a dialogue between the often disparate worlds of architecture and building, but also to integrate buildings with communities and culture.
Stoss Landscape Urbanism (StossLU) is a Boston-based landscape architecture, planning, and urbanism studio led by Chris Reed. StossLU seeks to “thicken” the landscape in its design and planning ideas and strategies known as landscape urbanism. StossLU asks how landscapes work: “how they function urbanistically, socially, hydrologically, environmentally; how they reinforce existing city frameworks and how they invent new ones; and how they may support a range of complementary and sometimes contradictory civic programs and uses.”

Free

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