Board member spotlight: Karen Hofmann

Our board is comprised of experts in their field, who generously lend their time and aptitude to MADWORKSHOP. Karen Hofmann, a board member since 2017, was recently named Provost of ArtCenter College of Design — the first woman to hold the position. We couldn’t be more proud of her. Here Karen shares some of the…

What they did next: Oli Carillo

MADWORKSHOP recently teamed up with one of fashion’s most prodigious designers, Jason Wu, to lead a studio at Otis College of Art and Design. In the run-up to NY Fashion Week, Jason offered one particularly standout student, Oli Carillo, an internship. We caught up with them to see how working with Wu has influenced their…

Get to know: Q&A with Ball-Nogues Studio

With the new academic year comes a whole host of brand-new MADWORKSHOP studios. We’re thrilled to be supporting these cutting-edge design programs — one of which is led by the ever-fascinating Ball-Nogues Studio. Working at the intersection of architecture, art and industrial design, founders Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues will be bringing their unique creative…

Succulent Walls Featured in Archinect

Succulent Walls: Unpacking Southern California’s Fickle Relationship to Water and Disaster Preparedness with UCLA’s Heather Roberge Source: Archinect Image © Buddy Bleckley courtesy of MADWORKSHOP Southern California’s climate is a combination of dry and semi-arid with seasonal rainfall. Particularly for the Los Angeles metropolitan area, this condition results in precarious management of water, especially in…

Succulent Walls Featured in World Architecture Community

UCLA Graduate Students And MADWORKSHOP Developed “Succulent Walls” To Ease Water Crisis Source Image: © Buddy Bleckley, courtesy of MADWORKSHOP PLANE-SITE has released a new video, exploring how scalable, easy-to-install rainwater storage could ease Southern California’s water crisis. With its precarious relationship to water and lack of disaster preparedness, Southern California is in need of innovative…

Kingston Creative Exchange Featured in Architect’s Newspaper

Kingston Creative Exchange in Upstate New York links Pratt students with locals Source: The Architect’s Newspaper By WILLIAM MENKING • July 8, 2019 Kingston, New York, is a charming town on the Hudson River 90 miles north of New York City. It was the first capital of the state before being burned to the ground in 1777 by the British…

Jason Wu Featured in Haute Living

Why Jason Wu Decided To Play Fashion Mentor For LA College Students Source: Haute Living For its Centennial Year, Los Angeles’ Otis College of Art and Design—which has one of the top fashion design programs in the nation (and has produced designers Claire Pettibone, Rick Owens, Red Carter, Chris Chang and Rod Beattie)—went big for its annual fashion show,…

Succulent Walls Featured in Arch Daily

Source: Arch Daily Succulent Walls tackle how architecture can respond to Southern California’s precarious relationship to water and lack of disaster preparedness. The work of a Master of Architecture (M.Arch.I) Research Studio taught by Heather Roberge, this collaboration between Mary and David Martin’s MADWORKSHOP and UCLA Architecture and Urban Design prototypes a series of residential water catchment systems. By…