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Future Cities Lab is an interdisciplinary design and research collaborative bridging architecture and landscape urbanism with material sciences, robotics and engineering. FCL was initiated in 2004 by architects Jason Johnson and Nataly Gattegno. They are currently the 2009 New York Prize Fellows at the Van Alen Institute in New York City. Additionally, Johnson and Gattegno will serve as the 2008-9 Oberdick and Muschenheim Architecture Research Fellows at the University of Michigan.

They have held full-time faculty positions at the University of Virginia and UPenn, leading studios and research seminars in design, ecology, landscape urbanism, and advanced technologies. Their work was awarded Second Prize in the 2005 Seoul Performing Arts International Competition and received an Unbuilt Architecture Award from the Boston AIA. In the winter of 2008 the Extension Gallery for Architecture in Chicago mounted a solo-exhibition of their design and interactive work. In 2008 they were finalists in the History Channel’s “City of the Future” competition in Washington D.C. For more info see: “Architects Defy Convention With Experimental Designs”.

Recent News:
[7/01/09] FCL featured in a forthcoming book by David Gissen called SUBNATURE: Architecture’s Other Environments published by Princeton Architectural Press [preorder] ; [6/05/09] Johnson + Gattegno begin NY Prize Residence at the Van Alen Institute NY - their interactive installations Aurora, Terra Incognita and the Glaciarium will open in mid-August 2009 ; [6/01/09] FCL featured in a forthcoming book by Fox/Kemp called INTERACTIVE ARCHITECTURE published by PAP [preorder] ; [4/09/09] Johnson + Gattegno XEROMAX Fellows Show Opens at UMichigan TCAUP Architecture Gallery; [3/30/09] FCL featured in new book Middle_Out edited by Jason Young; [2/11/09] FCL will participate and lecture at ecoweek in Athens, Greece and its Young Architects Forum + link; [2/01/09] FCL receives a TCAUP “Research Through Making” grant for AURORA; [9/9/08] Upcoming installation and lecture at ACADIA 08 in Minneapolis; [9/8/08] Johnson Studio and TCAUP to host a Generative Components workshop [9/1/08] Johnson + Gattegno receive research/teaching fellowships from the UMich TCAUP; [8/20/0] FCL advances to the next stage of the NY Arch League’s Situated Technologies competition; [7/1/08] FCL featured in Architecture Record magazine for Aurora; [7/1/08] Johnson and Gattegno begin work on the Metatropic Housing Colony and Xeroscape House; [6/15/08] Johnson receives Graham Foundation grant supporting his “Robotic Ecologies” project; [6/1/08] Johnson + Gattegno awarded the Van Alen Institute New York Prize for 2008-09.

XEROMAX Exhibition Opening images (below) from the 4/09/09 UMich TCAUP Fellow’s Show with Britt Eversole’s installation This Time is out of Joint.