Lucas Epp

On March 26 and 27, Facades+ returns to New York City to deliver an outstanding program for the largest event of the year. Materiality is the theme of the first day’s symposium, which will feature a day of roundtables with co-chair BIG, StructureCraft, TYLin, Terreform ONE, Wildflower LTD, and others. A day of interactive workshops on March 27 will provide the opportunity to learn about material selection and custom software in facade development, among other topics. Click here to find more information and register. Kai-Uwe Bergmann, partner at BIG; and AN’s editor-in-chief Jack Murphy, will kick off Facades+ New York City’s day-long program. Bergmann and Murphy will begin the day’s thematic focus by weighing the virtues of materials past, present, and future and considering how they appear to us today. …Peter MacKeith, Lucas Epp, Amy Harrington, and Jason Wu, four leaders in mass timber design and engineering, will discuss strategies for the material’s widespread implementation.