As part of a $35 million public project in the heart of Quincy, Massachusetts, Radlab’s Tidal Fountain was dedicated on the morning of September 8, 2018. The fountain was designed using a range of animated algorithms, taking cues from naturally occurring tidal pools. The final composition was created with custom contoured granite pavers, incorporating over 200 jets of various sizes. Keynote speakers for the opening ceremony included Governor Charles D. Baker, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian David McCullough, and Mayor Thomas P. Koch. This was a great honor and a highlight moment for our office that we will not soon forget.

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Check out additional coverage of the opening by The Patriot Ledger, The Boston Globe, Boston.com, WHDH, WCBV, The Metro.

Matt Trimble was invited to be a featured speaker at the annual AIA Arkansas Conference in Hot Springs, organized around the theme of Scalable Practice.  The topic of his lecture was “Integrating Experimental Fabrication”, using Radlab projects and former Radlab offices as a platform for discussing current ideas and best practices for designing maker spaces, innovation hubs, and digital fabrication labs.  Thanks to Justin Hershberger, Kyle Cook, and many others for their efforts in organizing the conference.

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As part of the “Minding Making Project” at Harvard University, led by Jennifer Roberts, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities, and Ethan Lasser, Curator and Head of the Division of European and American Art for the Harvard Art Museums, Matt Trimble was invited to lead a talk on ‘technologies of cutting’ at Radlab’s Clefs Moire project in Chelsea, MA.

‘Technologies of Cutting’ Film

Matt Trimble was interviewed, and some of Radlab’s work is featured in Caryn Brause’s forthcoming book The Designer’s Field Guide to Collaboration, published by Routledge.

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Radlab was glad to continue our relationship with Youth Build Boston and see the great work that the students are producing.  This session, student teams are working to develop an outdoor deck space for United South End Settlements as well as a lounging device for Timilty Middle School library.

Ian Carney of Radlab participated as a jury member in the annual QUAD competition hosted by WHAT’S IN. After the review of several strong entries from around the world, the jury selected Kiki Archi’s proposal for a lightweight folded paper lattice structure.

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Radlab exhibited “Screen Walls | deep variation as a platform for constructed speciation” at the ACADIA 2016 Conference, Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines, at The University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.  The work is also included in the Projects Catalog of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture.

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Matt Trimble was invited as a guest lecturer to the Dalhousie University School of Architecture, and critic for James Forren’s, and guest instructor Naryn Davar’s Material & Computation Seminar.

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Matt Trimble is a recipient of the Design Build Initiative Grant for 2016-2017 at the American University of Sharjah College of Architecture, Art and Design. His research will investigate the use of bi-directional assembly as it relates to reconfigurability and compositional customization.

Radlab was invited to participate in the Boston Society of Architect’s Emerging Professional Event, ‘Finding your path in “architecture”: Alternate Paths/ Related Disciplines.’  There was a great turnout at BSASPACE and it was wonderful to hear about all of the different directions that people are taking with their Architecture degrees. Panelists included Rosie Weinberg (NuVu), Ed Adelman AIA (MSCBA), Stephen Chung AIA (host of Cool Space! The Best New Architecture), Ian Carney (RADLAB), and Rich Peake (Suffolk).

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Radlab’s work on the One Main project has been featured in an article by Architect Magazine’s Blaine Brownell, entitled

Putting Place Before Products in Office Design

“An undulating plywood canopy upends the typical corporate workspace for one Boston financial firm, evidencing a returned focus to the architecture of office interiors.”  Matt Trimble and Mark Goulthorpe (principal of dECOi and Associate Professor of Architecture at MIT) were interviewed for the article.

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Matt Trimble was invited as a keynote speaker for the 2015 AIA Colorado Practice and Design Conference, lecturing on the role of ornament in contemporary architecture, at the Keystone Resort and Conference Center.

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Matt Trimble was invited as a guest lecturer for Harvard University’s Career Discovery Program at the Graduate School of Design.

We’re very excited to announce that the ‘One Main’ project has been selected as a Popular Choice Winner in the Architizer A+ Awards for the Plus Category | Architecture +Materials.

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For one of the feature events for Boston Design Week, Matt Trimble was invited as a guest panelist at the Lanoue Gallery for a discussion on the topic of “Harnessing the Power of Art”.

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As part of an effort to garner public funding for our “Playscape Initiative”, Radlab was invited to present our grant proposal to the Browne Fund at Boston City Hall.

Selected from over 2,000 nominations, then narrowed to 150 finalists, Radlab is very proud to have been named one of this year’s 50 on Fire by BostInno!  Congratulations to all the nominees, and to our fellow winners in the Design category: Sasaki Associates, Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Formlabs, and Open Style Lab.

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Phase 2 of the GLX Integrated Art Program for the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority received over 70 submissions. Those were narrowed to 12 semi-finalists, and Radlab has been named 1 of 5 finalists chosen to work on the green line extension.

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The October issue of Architectural Record features Radlab’s Beaver Works Pod and Lounge Pendant Lights for MIT, in collaboration with Merge Architects.
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Radlab recently worked with Warner Bros on the set of The Judge. We worked with the Art Director, David Swayze, to create the window leading patterns for the courtroom scenes: 3 windows, 3 window transoms, and 1 rose window. The film opens in theaters next month.

Photo credit: Claire Folger/Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures.

Matt Trimble has been asked to serve as a jury member for a national design competition in the Ukraine.

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Architizer and Arkitera, a renowned independent architectural center in Turkey, have featured Radlab’s Clefs Moiré project.

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Architizer is featuring Radlab’s Gradient Wall project.

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This year the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts has invited Matt Trimble to be a guest speaker at its annual summer conference from July 6-10. The theme of the conference is Craft Thinking: Ideas on Making, Materials, and Creative Process. Matt will be speaking on the topic of Performance Tuning within the context of design.

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Sample modules and video from the Screen Walls workshop will be exhibited in the Boston Architectural College’s McCormick Gallery from April 21, 2014 – May 8, 2014.

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Matt Trimble/Radlab was selected as a semi-finalist (top 10 out of 88) in an open call for proposals to develop integrated public art for 3 new train stations in Cambridge and Somerville.

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Matt Trimble will be lecturing on the topic of ‘making’. This month, CreativeMornings revolves around Making. What is Making? What does Making mean to designers, teachers, universities and studios? December’s CreativeMornings is hosted by Massachusetts College of Art and Design, a long time supporter of Design Museum Boston. We asked the CreativeMornings team a few questions about the impact of Making in their environments…

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Inhabitat writer Jon Dioffa published an article on Radlab’s Fort Point Channel Bench, entitled “Radlab Inc.’s Beautiful Bench Takes Inspiration from Earth’s Natural Processes”.

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New England’s largest building industry event, the Architecture Boston Expo at the Boston Convention and Exhibition center, will take place November 19-21. Radlab is sponoring an installation called QUAD, which focuses on emerging urban living environments.

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Matt Trimble will be teaching a workshop entitled Material Bias at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala City. The workshop will explore the notion of allowing form, and to some degree function, to become subservient to an understanding of how materials can inform and regulate design.

Matt Trimble will be teaching a workshop entitled Material Bias at the Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala City. The workshop will explore the notion of allowing form, and to some degree function, to become subservient to an understanding of how materials can inform and regulate design.

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As an introduction to the Material Bias workshop, Matt Trimble has been invited to give a lecture to the school of architecture at the Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala City.

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Radlab’s entry for the Street Seats international design competition was a semi-finalist. The bench has been built and can be visited from April to October, 2013.

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Matt Trimble was a guest panelist for Convergence: Research as Practice. Convergence is an annual spring symposium sponsored by the Doctor of Design Program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, dedicated to the exploration of interdisciplinary topics that engage issues of design research and practice.

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Two of Radlab’s videos were featured at the Robots in Architecture Conference, December 17-18, 2012, in Vienna.

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Radlab featured in A film about MIT Architecture, exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris during the Advances in Architectural Geometry Conference.

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Radlab was chosen as an honorable mention for the 2012 Core77 Design Awards for our Bilateral Hand Rehabilitation Apparatus, designed for Novokinetics.

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As a partner in working and thinking through novel applications in thermoforming, coupling digital and traditional fabrication methods, Radlab is excited to be working with Formech.

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Screen Walls is the result of an eight-week workshop through the Boston Architectural College, centered around the design, fabrication, and assembly of a reconfigurable architectural screen wall. Using Radlab’s robotic arm for production, the class focused on the relationship between the unit and the group, and its effect on the perception of continuity.

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For the 27^th edition of its annual conference, Build Boston will take place at the Seaport World Trade Center.  Matt Trimble is an invited speaker on a panel entitled “Digital innovations in art, architecture and industrial design“ with Ted Acworth of Artaic, Holly Compton Alderman of Holly Alderman Studio, and Kevin Ruttan of NU Graphics and printDNA.

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Matt Trimble is presenting a PechaKucha talk (20 images x 20 seconds) on Radlab’s work at Oberon in Harvard Square.  Thanks to Brett Stilwell, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Tiffany Chu, and Zenovia Toloudi for organizing the event.

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The Soft Rockers, built in collaboration with Sheila Kennedy and students from MIT, are currently installed in Killian Court (April 25 – May 8, 2011) as part of the MIT150 Festival of Art, Science, and Technology (FAST).

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Matt Trimble has been invited as a guest lecturer to the Computation Group at the MIT School of Architecture.  His talk, entitled Degrees of Freedom, reflects Radlab’s ongoing interest in probing the limits and possibilities of automation while developing new strategies for aligning design intentions with appropriate digital and machinic processes.

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Matt Trimble will teach a workshop through the Boston Architectural College geared toward research in alternative techniques for building continuously differentiated assemblies as architectural screen walls.  Many thanks to the BAC for continued support of Radlab’s research and work.

After more than two years of hard work, relentless patience, and taking on a wealth of challenges that were consistently met with fearlessness and integrity, Ms. Hwang has decided to explore new territory.  As she establishes new roots in China, Radlab wishes her all the best and reflects with much thankfulness and for her time, energy, and dedication.

By using the six-axis KUKA robotic arm as a “drawing tool,” Radlab is designing through the drawn line- the surface milling toolpath, varying surface geometry definitions and toolpath parameters to ellicit an array of surface ornamentation that innately portray the fabrication process within each pattern and texture.

By using the six-axis KUKA robotic arm as a “drawing tool,” Radlab is designing through the drawn line- the surface milling toolpath, varying surface geometry definitions and toolpath parameters to ellicit an array of surface ornamentation that innately portray the fabrication process within each pattern and texture.

Radlab partners with In-House Solutions (CAD/CAM Software for CNC and Robotics) and Technical Education Solutions for robotic arm programming.

This significant partnership will enable Radlab to continue research and fabrication aimed to better understand the efficacy of robotic arm machining for prototyping and design work, in addition to manufacturing.

In collaboration with Peter Schmitt, Radlab is a recipient of the 2010 Boston Architectural College Education Committee Grant Competition. Through in-house research and technology-based design courses we’ll offer at the BAC, Radlab will use the robotic arm to explore the fabrication of emergent design solutions and discrete unit-based systems.

Radlab recently presented at Pecha Kucha Worcester Night, held at the Worcester Art Museum. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of “chit chat”, Pecha Kucha lecture events follow a simple presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds.

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Radlab was recently featured on Architect.com as part of “Working Outside of the Box,” a “series of features presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths.”