Julian Street Library, a renovated library in a 1960s modernist building at Princeton University, is in the Lighting feature of Architectural Record this month. Working with lighting consultant George Sexton Associates, JSA brought the circular motif of the lobby into the main reading room where disk-shaped fixtures brighten up the lounging zone and fluorescent bands illuminate the quiet studying area of this wired, multimedia learning environment. To read more, click here.

Education Commons, a wired, multi-media learning environment at the University of Pennsylvania, was featured in the May issue of Interior Design. JSA revitalized this formerly underutilized space beneath the bleachers of Franklin Field Stadium with an undulating white canopy that simultaneously cancels overhead noise and visually unifies the 300-foot-long space. To read the article, click here.

Joel Sanders will be at Milstein Hall at Cornell University on Wednesday, April 17, 2012 at 5:15pm to discuss the book Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture. Written in collaboration with Diana Balmori of Balmori Associates, Groundwork is an appeal to designers to pursue a new approach that overcomes the false dichotomy between landscape and architecture. For event info, click here. 

Joel Sanders was featured in AN News, a publication based in Korea that caters to the Architecture, Design, and Construction community. The full two-page article profiles Sanders, as well as seven JSA projects and his recent book, Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture. 

Throughout China and Korea, Joel Sanders will be delivering lectures about his book, Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture, cowritten with Diana Balmori. Groundwork is an appeal to designers to pursue a new approach that overcomes the false dichotomy between landscape and architecture. See below for lecture details.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 3/14 at 6:30pm

Tsinghua University, Beijing, 3/19 at 10:00am

Seoul National University, 3/21 at 6:00pm

Joel Sanders was recently featured in the South China Morning Post, preceding his lecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Sanders discusses the ideas from his recent book, Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture, and explores the integration of nature and buildings in the Chinese built landscape. To read the article, click here.

Joel Sanders will be traveling to Hong Kong as the academic advisor for the 2012-2013 Yale University-New Asia College (YUNA) Undergraduate Exchange. The program is a unique six-month themed education program at Yale University and at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where eight participants from each school gain the opportunity to study and live in a different cultural setting. For more info, click here.

In addition to accompanying YUNA Exchange, Sanders will travel to Beijing and Seoul, Korea to deliver lectures about his book Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture.

Education Commons at the University of Pennsylvania, a project that transforms the shell space beneath the bleachers of Franklin Field Stadium into a wired, flexible learning environment, was featured in bob magazine this month. Print pages courtesy of bob magazine.

Julian Street Library, a wired multimedia environment at Princeton University, and Bedford Residence, a renovation of a mid-century home that weaves interior and exterior, were announced 2012 Interior Design Best of Year Honorees. Julian Street Library was recognized in the Institutional: Library category and Bedford Residence in the Residence: Pool House / Outdoor category. For more info, click here.

The University of Virginia Sound Lounge is mentioned in this month's issue of Dwell. Students can sit beneath large lamplike cones that are wired for sound and share playlists as they study, activating a descending sphere of enveloping sound, which is also a casual social unit. The article discusses the rising prominence of sound in architecture and aural architects. To read more, click here.

Joel Sanders will be at the Yale School of Architecture on Friday-Saturday, November 9-10, 2012 as part of "George Nelson: Designs for Living, American Mid-Century Design and Its Legacy Today." Sanders will moderate "Context and Collaboration" at 9:30am on November 10. The symposium brings together an international group of historians, critics and designers who will examine the work of the designer George Nelson in the context of its time, and the legacy of mid-century modern design today. For more info, click here. 

House on Mount Merino was recently selected as the architectural setting for a Vogue photo shoot by renowned editor Tonne Goodman and acclaimed photographer Craig McDean. Featuring Brazilian model Caroline Trentini, the shoot moves through a sequence of carefully framed views organized along a continuous circulation route that leads viewers from the pool area sheltered by a dramatic canopy to an outdoor dining terrace that reveals breathtaking views of the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains.

Joel Sanders will be at the Fay Jones School of Architecture at The University of Arkansas on Monday, October 22, 2012 at 5:30pm to discuss the book Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture. Groundwork, written in collaboration with Diana Balmori of Balmori Associates, Inc., is an appeal to designers to pursue a new approach that overcomes the false dichotomy between landscape and architecture. For event info, click here. 

Joel Sanders will be at the Yale School of Architecture on Friday, October 5 at 2:00 pm as part of Sound of Architecture, a symposium that explores the interplay between sound and space. Furthering the ideas he presented at Audio Architecture in Australia, Sanders investigates the ways in which new media alters the soundscape of our social lives and how that in turn introduces new frontiers for our perception and the design of social space. For more info, click here.

Joel Sanders and Diana Balmori will be at the Yale School of Architecture on Thursday, September 20 at 6:30pm to discuss their collaboration, Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture. Groundwork is an appeal to designers to pursue a new approach that overcomes the false dichotomy between landscape and architecture. It encourages them to pursue a new integrated design approach dedicated to the creation of formally inventive sustainable environments. Sanders and Balmori bring together a collection of twenty-five groundbreaking works by an international roster of architects and landscape architects that dissolve the boundaries between landscape and architecture. For more info, click here. 

Joel Sanders discusses the ideas behind Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture in an interview with Timothy Moore, editor of Architecture Australia. Sanders elaborates on how historical trends have impacted design approach to landscape today, stemming from the man-made duality that views nature as an entity to be protected from the "predatory interests of humans." To read more, click here.