Benjamin Ball will be speaking at Cal Poly Pomona’s Department of Architecture Friday October 24, 2014 at noon.

http://www.csupomona.edu/~arc/images/front-images/CPP_2014_FALL_LECTURE_…

Edward Cella Art & Architecture announces an exhibition looking back at 6018 Wilshire

September 20 – November 22, 2014

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 20, 2014, beginning at 6pm

The Ball-Nogues piece, Come to Mama, 2014 will be included.

http://www.edwardcella.com/exhibition/89

https://artsy.net/artwork/ball-nogues-studio-come-to-mama

Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Design invited Ball-Nogues to participlate in shoptalk, as part of their 2014 “On the Map” series.

This year’s “On the Map” series turns a spotlight not on the end products of finished buildings, but on the processes by which design is achieved. The shoptalk events invite designers to reveal the methods of their architectural making and building, spanning a continuum from the high-tech digital on one end, to the analog and hand-crafted on the other. Exposing this range of activities, shoptalk invites you to tour the facilities where the magic happens and engage in the discussion about what it is that architects do.

August 28, 2014 7pm

Ball-Nogues Studio, 3533 E. Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90023

For tickets and more information: http://laforum.org/content/series/otm-2014-shoptalk

The point has been added to our Not Whole Fence installation, making it complete. Designed and built for the Southwest University Park in El Paso, TX, the commissioned piece is reminescent of wooden outfield fences. The fence was partially unveiled at the El Paso Chiahauhaus opening game on April 28th.

Small Firms Workshop #2: Alternative Models for Small-Scale Professional Architectural Practices

Date: Friday, June 13, 2014
Time: 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Credits: provides 4.0 CEU’s
Location: John A. Martin & Associates, Inc., 950 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90015

Today’s economic, technological and legal climate has forced Sole Proprietors and Small Firm Architects to adapt and consider new modes of producing creative work and delivering their services. Sometimes the best opportunities are right in front of us. Whether starting one’s own studio or evolving an already established practice, this Workshop explores innovative models for leveraging knowledge and talent and producing excellent design through a diversity of services and by means of collaborative, virtual office or refashioned co-working environments.

Small Firms Series Program Organizer – Ric Abramson, AIA

Speakers:

• Benjamin Ball, Assoc. AIA – Principal, Ball-Nogues Studio
  
• Todd Erlandson, AIA – Partner + Sherry Hoffman – Marketing Partner, (M)Arch. Branded Architectures
  
• Alvin Huang, AIA – Design Principal, Synthesis Design & Architecture
  
• Jason Kerwin, AIA – Principal, OKB Architecture + Construction
  
• Lisa Little AIA – Principal, Vertebrae
  
• Rebecca Rudolph + Catherine Johnson, AIA, Design Bitches

Introductions and Program Assistance by Michael Poloukhine AIA NCARB LEED AP, ReSquare Architecture and Construction

I.   Introduction: The 2014 Small Firm Workshop Series (Ric Abramson, AIA)
II.  Strategies for Innovative Practice (Moderator: Michael Poloukhine AIA)
a.     Introduction of Guest Participants
III. Architecture PLUS: New Modes of Project Delivery
a.     AIA’a Expanded Services Initiative
a.     Design-Develop
b.     Design-Build
c.     Design + Building Commissioning
d.     Design w/ LEED/Sustainable Design
e.     Design + Project Management
b.     Architectural Design + (Aligning & Merging Disciplines: Urban Design, Landscape, Engineering, Construction, Furniture Design, Product Design, Digital Fabrication, etc.

Q + A

BREAK I
 
IV.  New Environments for Project Production  (Panel Presentations)
a.     Collaborative Strategies (Panelist 1)
b.     Virtual Offices (Panelist II)
c.     Co-Working Environments  (Panelist III)

Q + A
 
V.  Sharing Practice Tips & Stories:  Biggest Issues & Lessons Learned
            a. Re-Defined Employee and Consultant Relationships
            b. Fees, Compensation and Billing Alternatives
            c. Roles & Responsibilities:  Authorship of the Work & Liability
 
VI. Wrap-up

Register: http://www.aialosangeles.org/calendar/small-firms-workshop-2-2014#.U3Ve7…

Ball-Nogues Studio was invited to apply to the Americas Prize for Emerging Architecture with the piece Maximilian’s Schell. The work was selected for shortlist of finalists. Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues will be attending the awards ceremony May 20, 2014 in Chicago, where the winner will be announced.

http://www.mchap.org/

MCHAP for Emerging Architecture

The Americas Prize for Emerging Architecture is awarded to an outstanding built work in the Americas by an emerging practice completed within the preceding two years. The authors of the winning project receive an award of $25,000 USD and the MCHAP Research Professorship at Illinois Institute of Technology for the following academic year, where they will lead a studio related to ‘rethinking metropolis’. The Americas Prize for Emerging Architecture is announced at the Benefit Ceremony in the spring of the award year.

In addition to being featured in the MCHAP Book, the Americas Prize for Emerging Architecture Winner will receive a monograph focusing on their award-winning work.

http://www.archdaily.com/502099/four-emerging-architects-shortlisted-for…
 

Ball-Nogues Studio was selected for a large commission with Sound Transit at the Bellevue Station.

http://www.soundtransit.org/Projects-and-Plans/East-Link-Extension/Belle…

Our second project, Corner Glory, for Essex Monarch Group in West Hollywood is complete. It wraps the corner of the Dylan building at Santa Monica and La Brea streets.

Ball-Nogues was awarded a project through Washington State Arts Commission to create a piece for a new science building at Centrral Washington University in Ellensburg. The design will develop over the next eight months in coordination with the building design.

Benjamin Ball will be traveling to Juneau, Fairbanks and Anchorage in March 2014 to participate in the “BLING” lecture series.

BLING

The 2013-2014 lecture season

This season the Alaska Design Forum presents BLING, a lecture series exploring the role of ornamentation in contemporary design. Is it “less is more” or “less is a bore?” Many of the world’s current leading designers manipulate materials and the laws of physics to bring beauty to an object or building. Perhaps it is the materiality of the thing itself – it’s expression and articulation – that signifies culture and meaning.

BLING Lecturers

Please note: unlike recent seasons, the format for BLING lectures will be Juneau on Tuesday, Fairbanks on Wednesday, and Anchorage on Thursday.

• January 21-23 Steinnun Sigurd  Fashion Designer / Reykjavik
• February 25-27 Fuhrimann Hächler  Architect / Zurich
• March 4-6 Ball-Nogues Studio  Integrated Design / Los Angeles
• March 18-20 Will Alsop  Architect / London
• April 8-10 Supermachine  Designers / Bangkok, Thailand
• April 15-17 Solid Objectives  Architect / New York 
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BLING Art Installation

• May 2014 Oliver Hess  Artist / Los Angeles