Variable Projects

Honored to have two drawings published in @kevinhirth ’s beautiful book Drawing Proper/Drawing Improper, a terrific reflection on the many roles of architectural drawing and its sometimes dutiful and sometimes mischievous capacities. #architecture #drawing #variableprojects #dutiful #mischievous

Dirty Drawings no.5: Chimeric Practices – Drawing in the Analogue-Digital Threshold • designed and curated by Abdullah Mallah @abdullah.s.mallah x Bilge Bal @ballbii • November 2025 -March 2026 #08 Adam Marcus / Variable Projects + Andrew Kudless / Matsys 04 March 2026, Wednesday 7 PM (GMT+3, Istanbul) / 10 AM (GMT-6, Louisiana + Houston) Online Talk via zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87951818755 Meeting ID: 879 5181 8755 * Hatchwork: An Archaeology of Generative Drawing This talk by Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus will present an archive of procedural drawings and architectural ideations developed over fifteen years of experimentation with generative methods of design and graphic representation. The talk will discuss their book and curatorial research project Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation (Applied Research + Design, 2024), their pedagogical approach to architectural representation and computational design, and how this has informed a recently launched exhibition project, “Hatchwork: An Archaeology of Generative Drawing,” a compendium of 1000 experimental drawings. * Adam Marcus is a New Orleans–based architect and director of Variable Projects @variableprojects . He is Favrot Associate Professor at Tulane University and Research Director of its Center on Climate Change and Urbanism. He co-authored Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation with Andrew Kudless. Andrew Kudless directs Matsys @matsysdesign , a trans-disciplinary design studio. His work has received national AIA awards and is held in major museum collections. He co-authored Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation and Flux: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape.

Opening tomorrow: “HATCHWORK: An Archaeology of Generative Drawing,” an exhibition by Adam Marcus @radadam and Andrew Kudless @matsysdesign at Penn State’s Stuckeman School @stuckeman_views . The exhibition draws from an archive of procedural drawings and architectural ideations developed by Marcus and Kudless over fifteen years of experimentation with generative methods of design and graphic representation. The show’s 1000 drawings include computational sketches and prototypes that explore techniques for leveraging computational design tools to produce novel architectural diagrams, drawings, and modes of representation. Sixteen new drawings—eight plans by Kudless and eight sections by Marcus—adapt and repurpose algorithms, scripts, diagrammatic strategies, and formal typologies from the archive across scales and mediums. #hatchwork #drawing #architecture #architecturaldrawing #drawingcodes

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Honored to receive a 2025 Award of Commendation from @aia_nola for “Arbor,” a public artwork completed for @publicartpa in Palo Alto, CA. The project is a data spatialization of Palo Alto’s urban forest. The sculptural installation consists of 120 ribs arranged radially within King Plaza at Palo Alto City Hall. It uses the database of over 45,000 public trees in the city’s Open Data Portal as the basis for a collective, three-dimensional map of one aspect of the city’s ecology: all trees in the public realm. #arbor #variableprojects #paloalto #california #aianola #designawards

Islands, Seed 36 #islands #procedural #drawing #variableprojects #36

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