Icaade2019

We are happy to announce that one of our plenary speakers will be Margaret Ikeda!
She is an Associate Professor of Architecture at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, California. She is Integrated Studio Coordinator and has developed the Buoyant Ecologies Studio curriculum which has received numerous national student awards. She is co-founder and co-director of the CCA Architectural Ecologies Lab that serves as a platform for collaborative research between designers, scientists, and manufacturers. The lab merges spatial practice with innovative techniques of material production and ecological research. Over the past five years the lab has produced multiple deployments of digitally fabricated substrates to explore ecological marine habitats.
The most recent project called the Float Lab, is currently moored in the Port of Oakland and designed to test a new type of resilient floating breakwater. The Float Lab works with biological fouling to attenuate waves and create ecological habitats. The project received a 2018 Architect Magazine R+D award and was recently awarded a national 2019 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Innovation Award.