Architecture for Humanity Chicago facilitated a charette and competition in May to design a school to replace one that had collapsed during the earthquake in Petit Goâve, Haiti. École Saint Joseph was a not-for-profit school that provided free education to all. Team members of this winning entry include the talents of Marissa Brown, Marlon Giron, Steven Pantazis and Dena Wangberg.

Steven Pantazis Architecture is collaborating as a facilitator in a series of cost-effective design workshops organized by UrbanBuddy [workshops] for students and other interested parties held in Chicago this year. Participants in UrbanFAB [workshop] 2010 will travel to either, Barcelona, Chicago, or New York City to simultaneously research and explore the unique definition of urban fabrication in each host city.

UrbanFAB [workshop] will engage in a close-up examination of the existing urban factors that drive new models of digital design and fabrication. These factors include physical, social and climatic influences (among others), but most importantly, participants will be observing what makes your city unique in global systematic design, both natural and human produced. The urbanFAB [workshop] is a unique look at the interface between the built form infrastructures and the physical & social systems of our urban environment.

The participants will ultimately investigate the question: Our urban sys­tems are being rede­fined by new dig­i­tal design and fab­ri­ca­tion tools; how do our cities, and their dynamic and infor­mal char­ac­ter, inform these new mod­els of design? The findings will be presented in both a publication and exhibit.

Partners include:
IaaC – Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Indica
Live Architecture Network
Suny-ESF
Wanda Barcelona

It is hoped this unique research project will result in an important contribution to the greater architectural discourse at both the local level as well as globally. It also has the potential to lay the groundwork for future investigations in this continually evolving field.

Welcome to the new website of Steven Pantazis Architecture. The decision to use an open source platform was a deliberate one. This will enable users to not only follow the work of the firm, but engage with it as well. Happy surfing.