The project was a collaboration with University of Buffalo faculty Joyce Hwang and Nick Rajkovich, UB staff Wade Georgy, Silo City’s Josh Smith, Rick Smith of Rigidized Metals, and UB students Elizabeth Gilman and Mitchel Messi, among others. She taught one of a series of studios that resulted in the installation Silo City Trellis in Buffalo, which will need 25 years to fully grow into its ecology. She encourages students in her design courses to engage with the flow and cycles of water, earth, and air to create habitat that can be a resource to multiple communities. Laura also connects buildings to their ecology – networks of plants, animals, materials, and social conditions. This work was driven by responsiveness to environmental factors and the advantages of deployment of ultralight structures. Her early work used fiber and composites to explore an architectural material so light it had to be tethered down, instead of held up, resulting in a fluid system. (Minimum 100 m2) 2 OTOMOBL FYATLA elik silo satlk ikinci el tahl. She is co-author of the Bioclimatic Ceramic Assemblies series. DENZ DUBASI - BARCH Yk Gemisi Yeni Sac-elik 1 TL Ara markalarnn fabrika. Her research explores biophilic and bioclimatic applications of ceramic systems tied to the resilience, up-cycleable nature, thermodynamic qualities, and inherent formal and material plasticity of the material. Her Terracotta Grotto installation commingles inside with outside and presents geometry without repetition. Mokena offers high-quality design and strategic insight, innovative design solutions and mentorship across various disciplines.Associate Professor Laura Garófalo focuses on the flow of materials and ecology in architecture. Again, the construction expertise was imported h m Montreals rival port city, as the Buffdo. He led the international award winning architectural and urban planning firm Makeka DesignLab/Works. steel silos were the most efficient and suitable rnode. He also served on the national committee for arts and culture for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He has also served as an advisor to the South African Minister of Human settlements. Mokena has served as a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council for Design. He has led and worked on various and complex construction projects, and advised and worked on projects in Lesotho, Madagascar, Tanzania, South Africa and China, including the Cape Town station project 2007-2016, Cape Town International Convention Center 2017, Silo district VA & Waterfront 2017, as well curated international exhibits, the most recent being the exhibit at the Africa Center on Fifth Avenue, New York.Īmongst various architecture and urban design awards and recognition in design competitions, career highlights include being selected as one of the Ordos 100 architects by Hertzog & De Meuron and Ai Wei Wei. He is particularly concerned about the positive role that stations and rail can play in economic justice. He is committed to social transformation and cities of spatial and ecological justice. He is at the forefront of thinking on contemporary inclusive African Cities, and is focused on ecological and socio-economic justice. He is an Aspen Fellow in leadership 2020. He is a Young Global leader at the World Economic Forum 2015 and is a member of the WCS Young leaders in urbanism. He is currently the Azrieli Visiting Critic of 2020, Carleton University School of architecture and urbanism- Canada, Adjunct Professor Cooper Union- New York, and is a Board member of the South African Green Building Council and is a board member of the Cape Town Central City Improvement district. Hons, ( Magna Cum Laude) University of Cape Town (UCT), and various executive leadership qualifications, from the Harvard Kennedy School, Oxford University and others. He is a South African raised in Maseru, Lesotho and New York, USA and is an accomplished architect, artist, creative, curator, global leader, scholar, speaker, urbanist. Mokena Makeka is a Principal in Dalberg Advisors.
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