Feb12017

Karen Hoffman Joins the MADWORKSHOP Family as a Board Member!

As Chair of Product Design and Director of the Color, Materials and Trends Exploration Laboratory (CMTEL) at ArtCenter College of Design, Karen is instrumental in introducing new design research processes, curriculum and vision-casting projects with numerous sponsors including Microsoft, HTC, Nike, Vodafone, HP and Nestle. She created the strategy for CMTEL in partnership with the former…

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Dec152016

Homeless Studio on USC’s front page!

Architecture students design houses for L.A.’s homeless Trojans apply their skills to social ills, designing prototypes for temporary shelters that could work in the real world By: Joanna Clay | Categorized: Social Impact When architecture student Jayson Champlain set out to build his first house, he didn’t go to vendors or Home Depot. He went…

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Nov252016

Homeless Studio Featured on Archinet!

At USC’s ‘Homeless Studio’, Students Work Towards Real Solutions to the City’s Homeless Crisis By: Nicholas Korody Just a few miles from the University of Southern California campus, Skid Row contains a significant portion of the homeless population of Los Angeles, a city in the midst of a declared state of emergency with nearly 47,000 people in…

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Nov152016

Homeless Studio Featured in Azure Magazine!

Architecture Students Imagine Housing Solutions for L.A.’s Homeless Tasked with devising shelters for those living on the street, University of Southern California students ask themselves: what is the architect’s role in solving homelessness? When Los Angeles voters cast their ballots on November 8 (predominantly for Clinton), they also ticked off their support for a local measure: to put…

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Nov82016

Behnaz Farahi Receives 2016 Innovation Award for Caress of the Gaze!

The inaugural winner of the Fast Company 2016 Innovation By Design Linda Tischler Award is Behnaz Farahi, whose 3D-printed garment reacts to the human gaze with actuator-driven movements based on data about the person looking at it. Part garment and part interface, it reacts to its surroundings as if it were a living part of…

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Nov32016

WIRED | Strikingly Imaginative Structures for Housing LA’s Homeless

Wired.com | By: Sam Lubell IF YOU’VE RECENTLY driven the streets of Los Angeles, you’ve probably noticed a striking uptick in the city’s already huge homeless population. Encampments are still centered in downtown’s Skid Row, but many more tents, shopping carts, and makeshift shelters are popping up on sidewalks, in parks, near overpasses, and under…

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Oct142016

MADWORKSHOP NYC Press Conference

On October 12th the MADWORKSHOP team flew to NYC in preparation for our Press Conference at The Storefront for Art and Architecture. MADWORKSHOP NYC press conference introduces the foundation to the east coast and has now become a partner with The Storefront for Art and Architecture. Our team at the press conference and from left to…

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Oct122016

METROPOLIS MAGAZINE

The LA Incubator Inspiring A New Generation of Maker-Designers Founded in 2015, MADWorkshop inspires young designers to just “make things”—be it homeless shelters or modular furniture—and make a difference. By: Avinash Rajagopal Museum hoppers in downtown Los Angeles can now find a bit of a respite in the public courtyard of the Museum of Contemporary Art…

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Oct62016

Sofia Borges Appointed New Acting Director of MADWORKSHOP

Sofia Borges is a practicing writer, architect, designer, curator, and trend consultant. She is a faculty member at the USC School of Architecture, a regular contributor to Mark Magazine, and a contributing curator at viction:ary. Sofia has an extensive background in architecture, urbanism, and the arts. She studied photography at the California Institute of the…

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Oct12016

Joy Ride By David Martin

Foundation Project, 2016

Joy Ride: An Architect’s Journey to Mexico’s Ancient and Colonial Places is a journal of travels through Mexico that uses a series of sketches, photographs, and observations recorded and gathered over an extensive sojourn across the country. David Martin, architect, as a native Californian and itinerant traveler through Mexico, had a fundamental sense of the country’s history, terrain, and culture. It wasn’t until this pivotal trip, with a bit of time and a sketchbook in hand, that David had an epiphany. (continued below)

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Jan62016

Mary Klaus Martin New MOCA Board Member

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles has elected four new trustees to its board, including entrepreneur and philanthropist Mary Klaus Martin, who served as a charter founder of the museum in the late 1970’s.

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Oct272015

Joint Venture: MADWORKSHOP & MOCA

Founder and Board Member of MADWORKSHOP, David Martin, FAIA (left) met with a select group from the Art Center College of Design and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) to discuss a joint venture. The Director of MOCA, Phillipe Vergne (right), welcomed the collaboration and looks forward to making a formal announcement shortly.

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Sep42015

MADWORKSHOP has been officially granted 501(c)(3) status

We are delighted to announce that MADWORKSHOP has been officially granted 501(c)(3) status. The Foundation is now a nonprofit organization registered with the U.S. Department of the Treasury. This milestone allows us to further expand upon our mission of inspiring craftsmanship, technology, and the making of things. All contributions made are fully tax-deductible retroactive to…

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Mar312015

MADWORKSHOP grant recipient, Behnaz Farahi featured speaker.

Behnaz Farahi featured speaker at Mindshare LA’s Fashiontech: The Intersection of Style and Software. MADWORKSHOP is delighted that Behnaz Farahi, a MADWORKSHOP grant recipient, was a featured speaker at Mindshare LA’s Fashiontech: The Intersection of Style and Software. On March 27, 2015 in Santa Monica, Farahi spoke about the ever-changing world of art, fashion and technology, highlighting…

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