Projects
MADWORKSHOP supports cutting edge academic partnerships and emerging designers. We collaborate with the top design and architecture programs around the globe, sponsoring dynamic and ambitious projects with real world application and community value. In addition to our expanding educational curriculum, the Foundation awards individual grants and mentorship opportunities to the next generation of designers. During the course of their fellowship, each grantee takes an idea out of their portfolio and brings it into existence. All MADWORKSHOP projects push the boundaries of design innovation, fabrication, and collaboration.
Spolia
With examples almost everywhere, the ubiquity of repurposed architectural elements: ancient columns being used in Renaissance palazzos; statuary from conquered places installed in monuments and temples; and fragments of older buildings, found during construction of newer ones atop them, as decorative elements. I learned the term for these: Spolia....
Rome Mobility Study
“More happens in one hour at a piazza in Rome than in one month at any intersection in Los Angeles.”...
Arroyo Bridge Carbon Model and Section Exhibit in Venice, Italy
A contextual scale model of a pedestrian bridge exhibited alongside Arroyo Bridge Section...
American Academy in Rome Affiliated Fellowships
MADWORKSHOP Sponsors Affiliated Fellowships at the American Academy in Rome...
Arroyo Bridge Section Exhibit in Venice, Italy
A sculpture representing a full-scale portion of a pedestrian bridge...
SCI-Arc + Ball-Nogues + Huntington Gardens
MADWORKSHOP has been working on a two-semester collaborative studio project with SCI-Arc, Ball Nogues, and the Huntington Gardens....
LAUSD Artwork for MacArthur Floating School
MADWORKSHOP had spent the past long year working on a very exciting collaborative project called the MacArthur Floating School. Unfortunately, due to the crisis of COVID-19, we were forced to ultimately cancel the project until further notice....
Témenos
Témenos, a site specific sound installation, occupied the deconsecrated church of San Giovanni in northern Italy during October 2019. ...
Jason Wu Masterclass
Renowned American designer Jason Wu teams up with MADWORKSHOP to mentor 15 students at Otis College of Art and Design. ...
Succulent Walls with UCLA Architecture and Urban Design
Scalable, easy-to-install and green responses to Southern California’s water crisis...
Plane Jane
The mission for Plane Jane is plain and simple: to create a living room in any home or apartment....
Twist and Shout
The Twist and Shout chair and table set derive from an initial cube. We turn the cube and it twists us. ...
Tessel
Tessel resurrects the domestic privacy screen and offers a fresh 21st century take on the classic furniture staple. ...
Pratt Creative Xchange
Pratt Creative Xchange (PCX) engages and energizes a community through design education. ...
Riccardo Blumer Workshop with Claudia Scholz and Guido Desigis
Sentire l'aria (Feel the Air) culminates a four day long site specific workshop at the MADWORKSHOP Foundation....
Automatic Architecture
MADWORKSHOP unveiled two new installations with Riccardo Blumer at the Arsenale of the 2018 International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia....
Give Me Shelter
Give Me Shelter documents the work of the MADWORKSHOP Homeless Studio at the USC School of Architecture and their solutions for tackling the Los Angeles homeless crisis through design, compassion, and humanity....
Light Theaters
Riccardo Blumer teams up with MADWORKSHOP, students from the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio and Fondo Ambiente Italiano (FAI) in new exhibition...
Shelter Squared
Shelter Squared addresses the lack of design that currently exists for post-disaster shelters and introduces a new dimension of design value that ensures a flexible living environment to support people in times of great distress....
Hyper Chair
Abstract, light, and comfortable, The Hyper Chair finds balance between abstract form and ergonomic comfort....
Origami Chair
An ongoing foundation exploration, this minimal lightweight foldable chair engages origami principles to create a surprising and inventive seating solution....
Sanke
Sanke, is a new form of communal table that encourages human interaction while dining. ...
Public Furniture
Seminar
MADWORKSHOP sponsored a studio at the ArtCenter College of Design entitled Re-Defining Public Furniture & Fixtures Design. ...
MOCA Studio
The USC School of Architecture partnered with MADWORKSHOP and ArtCenter College of Design Fall 2017 semester to reimagine and animate the street level plaza and entrance of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles’s downtown Grand Avenue location. ...
Homeless Studio
MADWORKSHOP has collaborated with the University of Southern California School of Architecture (USC) to establish the MADWORKSHOP Homeless Studio. The coursework explores the architect’s role in helping to solve the Los Angeles homeless crisis....
Light and Matter Studio
Riccardo Blumer on his latest research project that will capture ephemeral light at six Italian chapels and materialize them in 3D printed installations....
Homes for Hope
Martin Architecture and Design Workshop (MADWORKSHOP) sponsored The Homeless Studio at the USC School of Architecture for the Fall 2016 semester. ...
