ACAW 2024, Prototype by Team Arup on left and prototype by Team Make Architects on right

The Architect’s Newspaper Reports on ACAW 2024

This year's workshop showcased prototypes that explore terra cotta’s applications in water management, evaporative cooling, coastal resiliency, and as modular seating.
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SKINS Newsletter: Exploring Innovation in Architectural Ceramics at ACAW

While we are working to release this year’s presentation recordings, you can learn a lot more about ACAW through the podcasts and video presentations included in Facade Tectonics' SKINS Newsletter: ACAW Special Edition.

ACAW 2024 Team Innovations in High-Performance Terra Cotta Façades

The ACAW 2024 teams have finalized their designs after a three-month design process. Throughout this process, teams have analyzed their proposals and how to fabricate their concepts in terra cotta, resulting in some changes and shifts in focus.

Boston Valley Terra Cotta Announces 2023 Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop

The eighth annual Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop (ACAW)…
A closer look reveals the rich yellow glaze and ridged texture of Pelli Clarke's ceramic seating

ACAW 2022 in the Friends of Terra Cotta Newsletter

In their fall newsletter, the Friends of Terra Cotta published an article on the 2022 ACAWorkshop, discussing the importance of solar performance in façade design.
A rendering of what the Buro Happold / COOKFOX facade prototype applied to a building

Designboom and Dezeen cover the details of a living façade collaboration

The modular system aims to provide wildlife – including bees, birds and plants – with space to thrive on the façades of buildings in urban environments.

Watch the ACAW 2022 Opening Keynote, “Orange County Art Museum, From ACAW to Reality”

The 2022 ACAWorkshop kicked off on Monday, August 15th with a live-only opening keynote from Stan Su (Technical Director – RIOS) and Erik Verboon (Principal | Director of Enclosure Engineering – Walter P Moore).
ARO, Terra cotta curtain, ACAW 2021

2021 ACAW Team Receives Recognition for Collaborative Project, V-Soleil

Architecture Research Office collaborated with Heintges Consulting and fabricator TriPyramid Structures during ACAW 2021 to explore the limits of terra cotta and they developed V-Soleil, a curtain-like brise soleil inspired by organic forms.

Eight teams will present architectural prototypes at ACAWorkshop 2022

The Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop returns for its seventh year, bringing more teams together at Boston Valley Terra Cotta to explore the possibilities of using terra cotta for large-scale assemblies.
The biophilic facade design created at ACAWorkshop 2021 consists of separate modules for bird, bee, and plant habitats.

Buro Happold and COOKFOX explore biophilic façades at ACAW 2021

The Architect's Newspaper recaps the collaboration, where the team reimagined exterior façades as much-needed habitat space for birds, bees, and plants in the urban environment.
University of Arizona, Health and Sciences Innovation Builidng, CO Architects, Kovach, Boston Valley Terra Cotta, TerraClad® Sunshade, Tuscon Arizona

Green Building & Design interviews John Krouse about the impact ACAW has on modern architecture

The possibilities, limitations, and design flexibility of architectural terra-cotta in response to the changing needs of new buildings.

Explorations in Terra Cotta: Designing a Sustainable Green Wall

KPF Recaps their ACAW 2020 project - Explorations in Terra Cotta: Designing a Sustainable Green Wall

BOSTON VALLEY TERRA COTTA RECAPS FIFTH ANNUAL ARCHITECTURAL CERAMIC ASSEMBLIES WORKSHOP

For a fifth year, Architects, Façade Engineers, Ceramic Artists, Designers, and Students gathered via webinar for the Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop (ACAW) held Wednesday, August 12 and Thursday, August 13.
Participants from SHoP Architects at the 2019 Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop, photo credit: Michele Taberski

Boston Valley Terra Cotta featured in an article published by Metropolis Magazine

In a recent article published by Metropolis Magazine, terra cotta is lauded as a favorable material for contemporary buildings.
The prototype for SHoP Architects at the 2019 Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop, hosted by Boston Valley Terra Cotta and University at Buffalo

Video Highlights the 2019 Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop

The 2019 ACAWorkshop video highlights the process of the teams throughout the weeklong event. Group leaders and participants discuss the core of their work in the video and how they came to focus on the concepts that they worked on in the workshop.