The Joan Oates Institute (JOI) for Partners in the Arts prepares individual or teams of PreK-12 teachers of all subject areas to develop lesson and unit plans for integrating the arts into their classrooms.

For twenty-two years PIA has held a summer institute for regional educators. In 2011, the institute was endowed by founder Joan...

The MET Breuer today officially opens to the public today and as part of a general rethink of the furniture for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in its various locations, three new automated ticket kiosks have been designed for the iconic lobby on Madison Avenue.

For more details on Met Breuer, follow this link

Hot off the press images for our Elysian Park remodel. Stay tuned for more details. We're hoping to move this forward with Passive House also, for a new wave of energy efficient homes in the Echo Park area. More images within the post. This site has one of the best views in Los Angeles - ocean, Hollywood Hills, Downtown and Elysian Park.

To celebrate Richmond's Storefront for Community Design's 5th year anniversary, a series of inaugural good neighbor awards have been developed.

The awards will be presented at Storefront on Saturday February 13th, at 4pm.

For more information on the awards and Storefront For Community Design, click here.

Our developing project for Stuart and Gretchen Jacobson is on course to be one of the first ever accredited Passive House projects in Los Angeles county.

The remodel of a 1920's home takes the approach of reducing vertical wall glazing and maximizing geometrically beneficial sky lights that shade from summer sun but welcome winter warming...

For more images and details about the project, click here

It's not just an idea anymore, it's a real plan that could actually be considered, implemented, and enjoyed. Is it Richmond's time to High Line?... to read more follow this link to Susan Howson's full article.

Follow this link to our BridgePark project page.

For the following week, What if? will conjure the imagination of visitors to 1708 and ask for their visions in a fully immersive environment of videos images and the large scale model.

To read more about 1708's 10x10 exhibition follow this link

For more about the BridgePark project follow this link

Actiasdeathpalace III by Dorian Wood

As part of the Institute at WUHO's summer `Open Laboratories' program, Dorian Wood will perform `Actiasdeathpalace III' on Friday 31st July from 8-11pm.

Peter Culley and Rossen Ventzislavov are curating the event which is billed as follows:

Struck by the presence of three deceased Lunar Moths at the...