Mari Fujita's blog

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Mari's work along with the work of 11 other alumni of the Barnard and Columbia College Architecture Program was selected for the inaugural alumni exhibition 12 ALUMNI: ARCHITECTURE CHANGE GLOBALITY. Participants were asked to reflect on the following questions:

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Book Launch: Vancouver Matters

Saturday, February 14, 2009
Charles H. Scott Gallery
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
1399 Johnston Street, Vancouver
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Vancouver, January 30: Mari and Matthew were invited to present and discuss EcoMetropolitanism on Shaw TV's daily talk show Urban Rush. Other guests on the show included the Anti-Benjamin Button Club, Ve Neill an oscar-award winning make-up artist, and the first Vancouverite to bear the Olympic torch on 2010.

http://thetyee.ca/Photo/2009/01/19/EcoMet/

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Two BC architects want to transform cities into literal urban jungles.
By Adele Weder
Published: January 19, 2009

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What is EcoMet?
If Vancouverism is the model of density and diversity within a livable framework, EcoMet(ropolitanism) is an accelerated version. EcoMet increases density and livability while amplifying and exploiting the relationship to the natural environment by synthesizing the production of metropolitan culture with that of ecologically designed architectural environments. From these tenets, the EcoMetropolis emerges: the hyper dense, super diverse, and radically optimized city.  

Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 8pm
Juan A. Gaitán (curator)
Brian Jungen (artist)
Lee Henderson (author)

Friday, March 28, 2008 at 8pm
John Atkin (historian)
Mari Fujita (architect)
Meredith Quartermain (poet)