Evan Jones
As a founding principal of ASSEMBLY, Evan has worked on many scales of projects from furniture and museum installations to landscape planning and multi-story housing projects as principal design architect. Originally from Brooklyn New York, He brings an understanding of the Urban context into the partnership. Evan coordinates all BIM modelling and has recently begun digital fabrication (CNC, 3D printing and parametric fabricaton) and integrating it into the capabilities of ASSEMBLY. Evan is an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at California College of Arts (CCA) and practicing architect. Within CCA, he has specialized in integrated design studios focusing on novel design strategies for coastal resilience under the Buoyant Ecologies studio curriculum. This speculative design work has led to the formation of the Architectural Ecologies Lab at CCA (along with fellow professors Margaret Ikeda and Adam Marcus) and the fabrication and deployment of the Float lab in 2019. The Float Lab works with biological fouling to attenuate waves and create ecological habitats. The project received a 2018 Architect Magazine R+D award, a national 2019 AIA Innovation Award, and recently awarded a 2020 ASCA Faculty Design Award.
Margaret Ikeda
Margaret is an Associate Professor of Architecture at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, California. She is the Integrated Studio Coordinator and has developed the Buoyant Ecologies Studio curriculum which since 2015 has received five national AIA COTE Top Ten Student Awards for sustainability. Margaret is also a co-founder and co-director of the CCA Architectural Ecologies Lab that serves as a platform for collaborative research between designers, scientists, and manufacturers. The lab merges spatial practice with innovative techniques of material production and ecological research.The most recent project called the Float Lab, is currently moored in the Port of Oakland and designed to test a new type of resilient floating breakwater. In conjunction with the launch of the Float Lab, the Port awarded her with a Community Investment Grant to create an educational book called, A Guide to Field Identification, Marine Animals Coloring Book of the San Francisco Bay.
Installations
Housing
Coastal Architecture