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UPCOMING EVENTS:

mfa — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:55:42 +0000

Scott Marble will be participating in the following events:

5/14: AIA Technology Lecture Series, 6-8 pm at the Center for Architecture.

5/19: DesignX digital fabrication weekend workshop. Scott Marble will be signing copies of his new book, Digital Workflows in Architecture: Design—Assembly—Industry. Details and tickets here.

5/20: AEC Technology Symposium. Details and tickets here and here.

5/30: Microsol Resources: BIM Perspectives: Digital Workflows Panel.

DIGITAL WORKFLOWS IN ARCHITECTURE: DESIGN — ASSEMBLY — INDUSTRY

mfa — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:31:16 +0000

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Marble Fairbanks is pleased to announce the release of Digital Workflows in Architecture: Design—Assembly—Industry edited by Scott Marble. The book is a series of edited essays and case studies that illustrate detailed, behind-the-scenes workflows of twenty contemporary projects including The Toni Stabile Student Center. The book is published by Birkhäuser and designed by Thumb.

Available here, here, here and at bookstores around the world.

Glen Oaks Branch Library in the news

mfa — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:04:24 +0000

Glen Oaks Branch Library construction is nearing completion and has been in the news in two recent articles. “It will be the newest and the brightest” in Queens, said Queens Library President Thomas Galante. See full NY Daily News article here.

“It is going to be a beautiful, very unique-looking library,” Mark Weprin said. “We’ll have an architecturally acclaimed building with a lot of services that will benefit our community.” See full Times Ledger article here.

Scott Marble receives Outstanding Alumni Award

mfa — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:26:49 +0000

Scott Marble has received an Outstanding Alumni Award from the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University for excellence in professional leadership. The award, which recognizes less than one percent of the college’s 14,000 plus former students, is the highest honor bestowed by the college to its alumni.

Publication: Transforming the Architecture Studio with C-BIP

mfa — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:54:13 +0000

Scott Marble speaks with John Hill of World-Architects.com about his role as director of the Columbia Builiding Information Project and the pilot program’s initiative to transform the architecture studio through collaboration and technology. Read the full article here.

Symposium: Digital Provocations at University of Minnesota

mfa — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:26:49 +0000

Scott Marble will be participating in the Digital Provocations symposium organized by the School of Architecture at University of Minnesota College of Design. Digital Provocations is scheduled for April 12-14, 2012 and seeks to explore innovative responses by both practice and academia to how the use of digital technology has evolved in design, collaboration, fabrication and construction processes. Scott will be on the Information & Industry and Ecology & Integrated Design panels, and will be a participant in the Concluding Discussion of the symposium.

openstudios

mfa — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:15:07 +0000

On February 25th, Marble Fairbanks opened their new office in DUMBO for the new Open House New York series, openstudios. Over 150 visitors and colleagues toured the studios for this kickoff event.

openstudios DUMBO

mfa — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:08:54 +0000

Marble Fairbanks will be one of twenty-five participating architecture firms that will be opening their offices to the public on Saturday, February 25th 2012 as part of Open House New York’s new series, openstudios. The event will last from 1-5pm, and there will be a closing reception at 6.30pm. See OHNY for more information.

Presentation: Total Enthusiasm 02: Inside Pre-Fab, Storefront for Art and Architecture

mfa — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:50:34 +0000

Karen Fairbanks will be presenting Flatform at the Total Enthusiasm 02: Inside Pre-Fab event hosted by the Storefront for Art and Architecture on February 3, 2012. This is a book launch for the release of Inside Prefab: The Ready-made Interior and will last from 7-9pm. The event will explore the evolution of prefabricated interiors from a production of ‘standardized serialism’ to that of ‘endless variations’.

See Total Enthusiasm 02: Inside Pre-Fab for more details.

New York New Work

mfa — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:44:35 +0000

The New York New Work exhibition is up in the West 4th Street subway station, featuring the Glen Oaks Branch Library. The exhibit is sponsored by the AIA New York City and the Center for Architecture and is part of Archtober, the month-long celebration of architecture in New York City. See www.archtober.org for more details.