PROJECTS AND PROCESSES
This is a brief, in-progress portfolio of design and research collaborations from the Project Studio of Ed Wall >>>
JAE: Review of Design With Nature Now
Ed was asked to review Design with Nature Now by Frederick Steiner, Richard Weller, Karen M’Closkey, and Billy Fleming (Eds) for the Journal of Architectural Education. You can read the review here.
Graham Foundation Grant Award
Ed’s research into Expanding Architectural Operations has been selected for a Graham Foundation 2020 Grant to Individuals (Research and Development). The proposal to explore specific forms of global architectural practice was selected to be funded from over 600 submissions from around the world. The research was enthusiastically supported by Michael Sorkin, Ed’s teacher and mentor of over 15 years, before he passed away in March 2020. >>>
Manifesto for future relations of landscapes
Ed has written an article for the journal of the Landscape Institute, Landscape.
The Landscapists | AD | 01:2020 | No.263
Who designs the landscapes around us? What practices are employed as contemporary landscapes are produced? This issue of Architectural Design, that was published by Wiley in January 2020 and has been guest-edited by Ed Wall, sets out that landscapes are made and remade through interrelations between >>>
Advanced Urban research
Ed has been working with theorist Maria Korolkova and researcher Emma Colthurst to develop Advanced Urban, a centre for interdisciplinary urban research that intersects new materiality, media and space. >>>
Generation Next
Ed is to join Generation Next on 9th July. The international seminar features a candid chats with industry leaders. >>>
High Streets, Low Lands
In June Ed presented a webinar, High Streets, Low Lands, for the London Architecture Festival. His presentation explored the importance of landscape thinking to the future of high streets.
Seminar at the GSD
In April Ed was invited to present at a seminar with Chris Reed and Alyssa Battistoni at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The studio led by Jill Desimini and Rosalea Monacella is focused on design for the near-future city.
Covid thoughts: Reopening public green places
Ed wrote an article for the Landscape Research Group exploring opportunities to expand public space in the UK as the country eases out of the Covid-19 lock-down. >>>