Mari Fujita

Bio

Mari Fujita is a designer and educator. Mari's research currently includes an examination of contemporary material processes, and the shifting role of the architect in the present cultural, economic, political, and technological climate. Her design studios and seminars explore notions of territory and emergent forms of urbanism with a focus on Vancouver and other cities experiencing rapid growth.

Mari Fujita’s design practice FUJITAWORK pursues a diverse range of projects. Work to date includes projects that range from material studies to small-scale gallery installations, building designs, and urban proposals.

Mari received a B.A. from Columbia University in Architecture and Art History, an M.Arch. from Princeton University, and has worked in both New York and Berlin. She is the recipient of numerous design awards including the Susan Kolarik Underwood Prize for Excellence in Design from Princeton University. Her work has been most recently published in Praxis and Arcade Journal.


Blog

12 ALUMNI: ARCHITECTURE CHANGE GLOBALITY

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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"Hybridity in Urban Form : Representing the AndAnd"

excerpt from paper abstract to be presented at Aga Khan Award for Architecture Knowledge Construction Workshop in Vancouver, 27-28 February 2009:

Vancouver Matters Book Launch

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.
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Mari Fujita and Matthew Soules interviewed for Urban Rush

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.

"Is Your City Boring? Make It Wild" EcoMetropolitanism Article in Tyee

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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"7 Points for EcoMetropolitanism" published in PRAXIS 10: URBAN MATTTERS

excerpt:

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.  

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Speakeasy: Frontierism

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)

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