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Centennial Chromagraph

2013
Ralph Rapson Hall, University of Minnesota School of Architecture
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Small Project Award, AIA National
Honor Award, AIA Minnesota
Honorable Mention, Architect's Newspaper Best of Design Awards

Meander

2015
Saint Paul, Minnesota
In Collaboration with Futures North

Project, 2015
Austin, Texas
collaboration with VIF Studio and LOWDO

The Mobile Craft Modules, a project designed by California College of the Arts students in a design-build studio led by Adam Marcus, debuted at the Market Street Prototyping Festival in San Francisco on April 9-11. CCA is one of the Festival's five Design Captains, and the project anchored CCA's presence in the city's Financial District. The project, located on Market Street between 1st and 2nd Streets, consists of a pair of twin modules that were reconfigured in a variety of ways throughout the weekend to exhibit student work and host a series of pop-up events sponsored by CCA Digital Craft Lab. The modules, designed and built by Marcus and his students in eight weeks, consist of welded steel frames clad with custom-routed cedar boards. The interior features a flexible shelving system that accommodates a range of customizable and reconfigurable "plug-ins" that function as storage containers, work surfaces, and display surfaces. After the Festival, the modules will return to CCA's Back Lot outdoor making space to function as mobile workstations that support future design-build efforts by students and faculty.

Credit: CCA DCL

Contributed by:

Michael Friebele
Assoc. AIA

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Unbuilt Design Awards Welcomes Adam Marcus as Juror

12 April 2016

The AIA Dallas Design Awards Committee is pleased to announce Adam Marcus, director of Variable Porjects in Oakland, as a juror for the 2016 Unbuilt Design Awards.

Adam Marcus is an architect and educator whose work has been recognized, published, and exhibited internationally. Adam directs Variable Projects, an award-winning design and research studio in Oakland, California that operates at the intersection of architecture, computation, and fabrication. He is also a partner in Futures North, a public art collaborative dedicated to exploring the aesthetics of data. A graduate of Brown University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Adam previously practiced with Marble Fairbanks in New York City, where he served as project architect for a number of award-winning educational and public projects.

Cloud Nine Project, 2015, San Francisco, California; collaboration with Matt Hutchinson / PATH

Adam is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at California College of the Arts, where he coordinates the Integrated Building Design curriculum, teaches design studios in computational design and digital fabrication, and collaborates with CCA's Digital Craft Lab. He has previously taught at the undergraduate Department of Architecture at Barnard & Columbia Colleges, the University of Minnesota, and the Architectural Association's Visiting School Los Angeles. Adam currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA).