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Living City Live. If buildings could talk to one another, what would they say? Living City involves a prototype building facade that monitors local air quality, exchanges information with other buildings, and opens gills to control air flow and to make visible the invisible effects of changing air. Now living at the exhibits Feedback (Eyebeam, New York) and Vapor (Southern Exposure, San Francisco).

 

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NEWS

FLASH RESEARCH PROJECTS

 

 


2008.04 Lecture. David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang present Life Now as part of the UCBerkeley Architecture Lecture Series, April 23, 7:00pm.

2008.01 Book. River Glow is featured in Transmaterial 2: Materials that Redefine our Physical Environment (Princeton Architectureal Press, 2008).

2008.01 Book. Living Glass is featured in Situated Technologies Pamphlets 1: Urban Computing and its Discontents, by Adam Greenfield and Mark Shepard.

2007.12 Exhibit. The Living presents Living City: A Public Interface to Air Quality in New York, in conjunction with In Coversation: DeeDee Gordon and Mark Hansen, at the Van Alen Institute on Tuesday, December 11, 6:30pm -8:30pm.

2007.07 Press. World Changing features "Living Glass and River Glow: Developing Responsive Architecture" by Sarah Rich.

2007.06 Press. Living City is featured in "Van Alen Names Inaugural New York Prize Fellows" in Architect Magazine.

2007.06 Press. "Keeping Up with The Living" by Daniela Morell appears in Metropolis Magazine.

2007.06 Press. Living Glass is featured on NPR's CalTech Loh Down on Science.

2007.06 Grant. The Living recieves a New York Prize Fellowship from the Van Alen Institute for the project, "Living City: A Public Interface to Air Quality in New York.

2007.06.01 Lecture. David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang lecture at the Storefront for Art and Architecture for Postopolis! The lecture is covered on City of Sound and Inhabitat.

2007.05 Project. The Living designs an exhibition titled Source Code: A 10-year Retrospective of Programming, Eyebeam Style (May 31 - August 11, 2007 at Eyebeam, 540 West 21 Street, NYC).

2007.04.09 Event. David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang participate in a panel discussion for Adam Greenfield's lecture titled The City Is Here For You To Use at the Great Hall of the Cooper Union on April 9 at 6:00pm.

2007.03.23 Event. David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang participate in a panel discussion for Natalie Jeremijenko's lecture titled Model Urban Development and Modeling Urban Development at Columbia University on March 23 at 12:30pm.

2007.03 Publication. The Living is featured in the book Young Architects 8: Instability.

2007.02 Project. The Living designs an exhibition titled OPEN CITY: Tools For Public Action for Eyebeam.

2007.02.01 Lecture. The Living gives a short talk at NYU ITP's Urban Computing class, taught by Adam Greenfield and Kevin Slavin.

2007.01.26 Lecture. The Living presents recent work as a part of an event on Interactive Architecture at Eyebeam.

2007.01 Publication. The Living publishes the article "Make Visible The Invisible" in issue 01.07 of This Century's Review.

2007.01 Publication. David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang publish Life Size and Life Size. This two-part book is an open-source non-monograph that begins with student research and grows to include both open-ended instructions for future experiments, and an open-ended manifesto with essays by dozens of non-architects.

2006.11 Exhibition. The Living is featured in Innovation Lab's Nordic Exceptional Trendshop in Copenhagen. David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang present live demonstrations of Living Glass and River Glow.

2006.10 Publication. An interview of Soo-in Yang by Jungwoo Ji, "Another Scale Of Architecture Around The World 03: Yang Soo-in," is published in the October issue of GunChukMoonHwa (Architecture and Culture).

2006.10 Exhibition. Two functioning prototypes of Living Glass are on display at Pop!Tech 2006: Dangerous Ideas.

2006.09 Exhibition. The Living exhibits "Plug In Bottle For City" at Postmasters Gallery in New York City as a part of the exhibit,
OOZ, Inc. (... for the birds)
by Natalie Jeremijenko. The exhibit is reviewed by we-make-money-not-art, flavorpill, and the Times.

2006.09 Interview. David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang are interviewed by the Architectural League.

2006.09. Exhibition. Projects from the class "Living Architecture: Responsive Kinetic Systems Lab" are featured in the Columbia and Pratt exhibits of "Emerging Talents, Emerging Technologies" at the Architecture Biennial Beijing 2006.

2006.08 Press. "The Mother of Invention," an article about The Living and the method of Flash Resarch, is published in the August 2006 issue of Metropolis Magazine.

2006.07.10 Lecture. Irene Cheng, Soo-in Yang, and David Benjamin alter the traditional format of an architecture lecture with "This Is Architecture?!" at Columbia University. In a silent discussion, people in the audience individually rate a series of images on one screen and watch the collective results in real time on another screen .

2006.07 Project. The Living is invited to design a prototype bird house for Natalie Jeremijenko's Model Urban Development... for the Birds project.

2006.06 Project. The Living begins work on a night club and karoake bar in Los Angeles.

2006.06 Grant. The Graham Foundation awards a grant to the project "Living Room: A New Responsive Kinetic Structure with Material Actuators by the Living Architecture Lab."

2006.04-09 Exhibition. The Living exhibits a new prototype of Living Glass at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago as a part of the exhibit, Leonardo Da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius.

2006.05.11 Lecture. The Living lectures as part of the series, Young Architects: Instability, at The Urban Center in New York City on May 11, 2006 at 6:30 PM.

2006.04 Project. The Living designs a facade for a retail building in Busan, South Korea with WEga Architects, Seoul, Korea.

2006.04 Project. The Living begins work on the conversion of an historic warehouse into a retail/office space in New Jersey with the firm, Architecture Work, New York City.

2006.04 Award. The Living is selected for the Architectural League's Young Architects Forum 2006.

2006.04 Patent. Living Glass is U.S. Patent Pending.

2006.03 Project. The Living enters the JeonGok Prehistory Museum Competition with atstudio, Seoul, Korea and Atelier Namoo, Seoul, Korea.

2006.03 Project. The Living begins work with developers in New Jersey on a 12-story mixed-use development.

2006.03 Award. The Living receives two Finalist prizes for two different projects in the Metropolis Magazine Next Generation Competition 2006.

2006.03.16 Lecture. The Living presents the lecture "SilMulKuGi" at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

2006.03 Press. Living Glass is featured in "Living Skins: Architecture as Interface" in Adobe's Think Tank publication.

2006.02 Press. The Living is featured in "The Revolution in Building Materials" in Businessweek Online.

2006.02 Project. The Living designs a retail display in conjunction with a large design firm for a flagship store in Soho, New York.

2006.01 Research. Soo-in Yang and David Benjamin begin teaching a hands-on workshop class called "Living Architecture: Responsive Kinetic Systems Lab" at Columbia University GSAPP and Pratt Institute.

2006.01 Press. The Living is featured in "Living, Breathing Buildings" in Metropolis Magazine.

2006.01 Publication. Living Glass is published in Transmaterial (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006).

2005.09 Project. The Living is creating a 1000 square foot rooftop addition to an existing building in Manhattan.

2005.09 Patent. Better, Cheaper, Faster is U.S. Patent Pending.

2005.09 Exhibition. Better, Cheaper, Faster is featured in the exhibition, 9 Architecture Schools Expo(sed), at the Center for Architecture, New York City.

2005.07.25 Lecture. The Living presents the lecture, Life Size, at Columbia University in New York.

2005.06.22 Press. The Living is featured in "Kids These Days" in The Architect's Newspaper.

2005.06 Award. Living Glass receives a Finalist prize in the Metropolis Magazine Next Generation Competition 2005.

Better, Cheaper, Faster
What if "good" architecture and bottom-line development were the same thing?

River Glow
What if architecture produced its own energy?

Living Glass
What if architecture responded to you?