2012.02.05 // The third issue of SOILED, entitled Platescrapers, is now available: order a printed copy from Lulu or download the free electronic version as a PDF! Contributors to this issue include Stewart Hicks, Allison Newmeyer, Joseph Altshuler, Annie Lambla, Thomas Hillier, Greg Corso, Kyle Andrew Sturgeon, Eylül Kethüda Wintermeyer, Francesco Vedovato, and Katherine Darnstadt.
2011.09.23 // Fin's Labyrinth wins the suckerPUNCH competition for a center for urban farming in Brooklyn, NY!!
2011.09.06 // Joseph Altshuler co-emcees PechaKucha Night Chicago, Volume #19 at Martyrs'.
2011.08.23 // SOILED Skinscrapers is featured on Street Anatomy. Enjoy the bodily blogosphere.
2011.08.12 // The second issue of SOILED, entitled Skinscrapers, is now available: order a printed copy from Lulu or download the free electronic version as a PDF! Contributors to this issue include Revital Cohen, Sarah Ross, Matthew Harlan, Maegan Magathan, Stephanie DeGooyer, Gabriel Gerlinger, Jimenez Lai, Kate Hadley Williams, James Toftness, and Ania Jaworska.
2011.07.18 // Joseph Altshuler will presenting at the AIA Young Architect's Forum RAW Humor event, this Tuesday night at 7pm @ Rodan in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood!
2011.06.21 // Joseph Altshuler is featured on Steppenwolf Theatre Company's blog, bridging the gap between theatre and architecture.
2011.06.18 // Joseph Altshuler presents the design and process for Whittier School's LaCasita Field House Renovation, on behalf of Architecture for Humanity Chicago at The Air We Breathe symposium, hosted by Design Makes Change in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.
2011.06.14 // Joseph Altshuler presents recent work at the Guerrilla Truck Show PechaKucha at the Chicago Artists' Coalition (217 N. Carpenter).
2011.04.29 // SOILED UN/EARTHED is featured on NOTCOT. That's some honey!
2011.04.09 // SOILED UN/EARTHED celebrates the release of SOILED and re-mediates the work of Groundscrapers. Festivities took place at the In the Table Gallery (7510 N. Wolcott) in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood.
2011.04.02 // SOILED Groundscrapers is featured on ArchDaily.
2011.03.11 // SOILED is included on ARCHI-ZINES, a new showcase of fanzines, journals and magazines from around the world that provide an alternative discourse to the established architectural press! Special thanks to Elias Redstone.
2011.03.08 // SOILED is interviewed by The Pop-Up City. Special thanks to Brendan Cormier.
2011.02.02 // SOILED is a semiannual journal that employs narratives, manifestoes, mappings, ephemera, and live events to mediate its architectural discourse to the broader public. The inaugural issue, entitled Groundscrapers, is now available: order a printed copy from Lulu or download the free electronic version as a PDF! Contributors to this issue include the Department of Unusual Certainties, Stewart Hicks + Allison Newmeyer, Rael San Fratello Architects, John Szot Studio, Dan Weissman, and Katherine Darnstadt.
2010.10.22 // PARK(ing) Day photo gallery uploaded!
2010.10.22 // CARTOGRAM site is re-booted.
2010.09.17 // CARTOGRAM designed the signage for a PARK(ing) Day installation in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood at 2338 N. Milwaukee Avenue, in concert with Architecture for Humanity Chicago. The installation featured street furniture modules designed by MAS Studio. As a day-long celebration of public space, several events took place at the installation including a yoga demonstration, script readings, lawn games, and an evening film screening.
2010.08.22 // REAR WINDOW: stories in architectural section! is re-released for purchase on Lulu. Experience the suspense for only $9!
2010.08.07 // Joseph Altshuler presents recent work at Division|Collective's First Saturday Salon at the Rumble Arts Center, 3413 W. North Avenue, in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood.
2010.06.30 // FIT BUS [Farm In Transit], in concert with Architecture for Humanity Chicago, moves into Design Development phase! Images coming soon.
2010.06.21 // CARTOGRAM Beta Site goes live!
2010.06.21 // de[FENCING] published in MAS Context, Issue 6 | AMUSEMENT.
2010.03.16 // Joseph Altshuler, Eylül Kethüda, and Juliann Elliott's IMPROMPTU VENDOR: what a neighborhood could taste like is a finalist in Architecture for Humanity Chicago's Street Furniture Competition.
2010.03.02 // Joseph Altshuler presents CHIRP! at PechaKucha Night Chicago, Volume #13.
2009.09.02 // REAR WINDOW: stories in architectural section! published in thawed, Volume 1, Number 1, in "Field Correspondence."