MoMA adds Hoberman Sphere to its Collection
The Hoberman Sphere, created in 1991, and in production as a toy since 1995, is considered by many to be an icon of contemporary product design. The ‘design classic’ title is now official; The Museum of Modern Art has added the Hoberman Sphere to its collection...

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Adaptive curtain wall design by Hoberman and partners wins CFA award
In response to the Center for Architecture’s competition 'Open Call: Innovative Curtain Wall Design,' Hoberman’s joint-venture with Buro Happold, Adaptive Building Initiative (ABI), teamed up with Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, and The Permasteelisa Group to create the HelioTrace façade system...

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Fast Company, Chuck Hoberman's Buildings Adapt to the Environment
April 1, 2010
Tim McKeough
Fast Company Magazine's Issue 144 includes a profile of the Hoberman and Buro-Happold co-venture, Adaptive Building Initiative (ABI), highlighting three architectural projects incorporating ABI technologies.

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Architecture and Urbanism, Chuck Hoberman
Issue 2010: 02
Japanese architecture magazine A+U profiles Hoberman's Expanding Video Screen for U2 360, as well as some of our adaptive shading technologies.

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Architectural Record, Hoberman’s "Transformable Design" Gaining Momentum
January 4, 2010
Joann Gonchar, AIA

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POLA hosts Hoberman retrospective: Living Form
The POLA Museum Annex is hosting an exhibition of Hoberman work. Titled 'Living Form. The Transformable Work of Chuck Hoberman', the show is a retrospective of some of the designs created by Hoberman in the past 20 years.

Images and video of the exhibition can be viewed here.

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Hoberman technologies included in Transmaterial 3: A Catalog of Materials that Redefine our Physical Environment
Blaine Brownell’s Transmaterial book series and companion website is a designer’s resource for new materials and innovative applications of materials and technologies. Transmaterial 3, published in February 2010, includes several Hoberman technologies and projects, including:
Hoberman Arch
Adaptive Fritting
Iris Dome
Linear Shading System (Exhibited in Emergent Surface)
Grid Shading System (Exhibited in Aldar Central Market)
Angulated Scissor Linkage (Exhibited in Helicoid and other expanding structures)

Hoberman’s Adaptive Fritting is featured on the companion site, transmaterial.net, and mentioned on Brownell's blog for Architect Magazine.

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Epanding Video Screen for U2 360 wins LDI 2009 Award
Chuck Hoberman and Frederic Oposmer won the Live Design International 2009 Award for Excellence in Video Design and Technology for the Expanding Video Screen, created for the U2 360 Tour. The winners were selected on site at the 2009 Live Design International tradeshow and conference by a panel of industry experts, working in conjunction with the editors of Live Design, with an eye toward the latest in technology.

View the award listings at ldishow.com

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Shinkenchiku 2009: POLA Ginza Building
Publication of the POLA Ginza Building in Japanese architectural periodical Shinkenchiku.

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Innovative Hoberman façade transforms POLA's new Tokyo headquarters
October 2009 marked the opening of Japanese cosmetics manufacturer POLA's new headquarters in the Ginza district. Hoberman Associates collaborated with architects Yasuda Atelier and Nikken Sekkei to develop an adaptive shading system for the building's façade.

Learn more and view images of the project in Hoberman's portfolio.

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Chuck Hoberman talks about POLA Ginza and U2360 in an interview for Boards Magazine
As part of his presentation at the Boards Summit on experiential design, Chuck Hoberman spoke with Kevin Ritchie of Boards Magazine about the opening of the POLA building and the Expanding Screen for U2360.

Read the interview in its entirety at Boards Mag online.

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Lighting & Sound America: No Line on the Horizon
October 2009
Steve Moles
Is U2's 360 the most abmitious tour ever? Lighting & Sound America says the tour 'lays down a gauntlet for the industry' in this comprehensive article.

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Hoberman's Rapidly Deployable Shelter (RDS) is included in a compendium of product design that improves life.
Design Revolution: 100 Products that Empower People was authored by Project H Design founder Emily Pilloton and includes a foreword by Core77's Allan Chochinov. The book challenges designers to be activists over aestheticians, and highlights over 100 products in 8 categories that show product design's ability to enable individuals, communities, and economies in the developing world and in our own back yards alike.

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ID Magazine, Spheres of Influence: Chuck Hoberman’s Expanding Video Screen for U2 ups the ante for transformable design.
September 14, 2009
Lisa Delgado

For it's September/October 2009 issue focusing on design and play, ID Magazine included a profile on Hoberman Associates. In it, Chuck discusses the arc of Hoberman transformable designs: from toys, to the Expanding Video Screen for U2, to upcoming architectural projects.

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Live Design: Sphere of Influence
August/September 2009
The U2 360° Tour in photos.

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Hoberman and Buro Happold Join Forces to Create the Adaptive Building Initiative
Hoberman Associates and international engineering firm Buro Happold have joined forces to found a new venture, the Adaptive Building Initiative LLC. The company draws together a team of mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, environmental analysts, architects, software engineers, building information modelers and industrial designers: a team dedicated to designing a new generation of buildings that respond in real time to environmental changes.

Explore ABI’s offering of adaptive systems and services, and experiment with their adaptive interactives at www.adaptivebuildings.com.

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Gizmodo, Inside U2's Behemoth 74-Ton 360° LED Concert Screen
July 26, 2009
Gizmodo's post of the Expanding Video Screen on its gadget blog.

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LiveDesign, The U2 360° Video Screen, Part 1: The Concept and Design
July 20, 2009
Chuck Hoberman and Matthew Davis interviewed by Live Design magazine about the concept, design, and technical execution of the U2 Expanding Video Screen.

Photo © Stufish

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LiveDesign, The U2 360° Video Screen, Part 2: How Does It Work?
July 22, 2009
Part 2 of the Live Design interview. Matthew Davis goes into detail about how the expanding video screen works.

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Core 77, Hoberman's Transformable Screen for the U2 360 Tour.
July 1, 2009
Core 77's post of the Expanding Video Screen on its Technology blog.

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De Standaard, In U2's Grasp: Irish rock band tours the world using revolutionary stage.
June 27, 2009
Peter Vantyghem
Chuck Hoberman, Frederic Opsomer, Willie Williams, and Mark Fisher talk about the development of the U2 Screen.

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U2 360º tour debuts in Barcelona, Spain.
June 30, 2009

Watch a sneak preview of the tour on Wired.com

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Hoberman Brings to Life Barco’s Ground-Breaking Expanding Video Screen for the U2 360° Tour
Hoberman, Innovative Designs, and its parent company Barco, have created the centerpiece for the U2 360º tour – the Expanding Video Screen.

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Watch Barco's video, "The Making of a Transformable LED Screen"

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MATTER, Shrink Wrap: On the endless appeal of transformable design
Volume 6, Issue 1
Jill Singer

Jill Singer chronicles transformable design with both classic and recent products, framed around the ongoing work of Chuck Hoberman, in this article for Material Connexion's quarterly, MATTER.

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Hoberman unveils new technology at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard.
On display: March 30 – May 15, 2009

Hoberman’s Adaptive Fritting installation demonstrates a new technology for variable transparency surfaces, allowing dynamic control over shading, thermal gain and privacy. The installation is part of Harvard’s Ecological Urbanism exhibition in Gund Hall Gallery.

A parallel conference, Ecological Urbanism: Alternative and Sustainable Cities of the Future ran from April 3 - 5, and included Chuck Hoberman as a guest speaker.

Read Harvard's synopsis of the exhibition.

Read the Harvard Gazette's article on the conference.

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Axis Magazine, From Transformable Design to Adaptive Design
April 2009
Kazutoshi Otani

An interview with Chuck Hoberman.

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Hoberman Lecturing at Harvard Graduate School of Design: Wednesday, March 4, 2009 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Chuck Hoberman visited Harvard's Graduate School of Design to speak about "Transformable Strategies for Adaptive Building Performance."

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Hoberman Exhibiting at The Center for Architecture:
January 22 — April 25, 2009

Hoberman's adaptive shading technology will be on display at the AIA, New York's Center for Architecture exhibition, MAKE IT WORK. Engineering Possibilities.

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Naval Research Laboratory to send Hoberman Sphere into Earth's orbit.

The Naval Research Laboratory has contracted Hoberman Associates to design an expanding sphere suitable for space. The Precision Expanding Calibration Satellite (PERCS) will serve as a callibration device for radar arrays, and will be launched into orbit around the Earth for a period of a few years.

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Listen to Chuck Hoberman and NRL Scientist, Paul Bernhardt talk about how this partnership arose

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Surface Magazine, A Changed Man

Surface Magazine interviewed Chuck Hoberman following our receipt of two IDEA awards and participation in MoMA's Design for the Elastic Mind Exhibition.

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Hoberman honored by IDSA + Business Week with two IDEA® awards.

Hoberman's Rapidly Deployable Shelter (RDS) for Johnson Outdoors and its Expanding Helicoid for Discovery World have both been recognized by the Industrial Design Society of America's IDEA awards.

After reviewing 1517 entries from around the globe a jury of 20 design experts awarded 205 IDEA awards. The Expanding Helicoid took home a Silver IDEA for Environments, while the RDS was awarded a Bronze IDEA for excellence in Commercial Products.

View the Rapidly Deployable Shelter on the IDEA website.
View the Expanding Helicoid on the IDEA website.

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Adaptive Structures: Building for Performance and Sustainability.

In the context of their partnership, Adaptive Building Initiative, Chuck Hoberman and Buro Happold North America regional director Craig Schwitter discuss the potential for adaptive façades to realize sustainable buildings as commonplace.

Design Intelligence published the essay.

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Paola Antonelli, senior curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art speaks with Charlie Rose about her exhibit, "Design and the Elastic Mind.".

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Design and the Elastic Mind reviewed by Josie Glausiusz in Nature Magazine.

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Core 77 Broadcasts Live from the opening of Design and the Elastic Mind at MoMA.

Chuck Hoberman was interviewed about our piece, Emergent Surface.

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Hoberman participates in the MoMA exhibition 'Design and the Elastic Mind' [February 24-May12, 2008] with its sculpture, Emergent Surface.

Organized by Paola Antonelli, Curator, and Patricia Juncosa Vecchierini, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, the exhibition is a survey of the latest developments in the design field. It focuses on designers' ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and social mores, changes that will demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior, and convert them into objects and systems that people understand and use.

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Architectural Record, Chuck Hoberman Wants Buildings to Change.
December 2007
Nina Rappaport

In her piece, Chuck Hoberman Wants Buildings to Change, Nina Rappaport profiles Hoberman Associates and its recent collaborations with Foster + Partners for Architectural Record.

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Architectural Record, The ArchRecord Interview: Chuck Hoberman
October 2007
Jenna M. McKnight

Chuck Hoberman is interviewed by Jenna M. McKnight of Architectural Record in advance of his lecture at the 2007 Innovation Conference.

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View the conference agenda

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NPR, Studio 360
August 2007

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Treehugger, Chuck Hoberman wows Japan
July 2007

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PingMag, Transformable Architecture
July 2007
Verena

While in Tokyo for an opening at the Kitakyusha Innovation Gallery, Chuck Hoberman was interviewed for the Tokyo-based design magazine, PingMag.

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Seed Magazine, Chuck Hoberman + Lisa Randall: The inventor and the physicist meet up to talk about shape.
June 2007
Edit Staff

Chuck Hoberman + Lisa Randall (noted theoretical physicist) talk about shape in the July, 2007 issue of Seed Magazine.

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Hoberman Associates' Rapidly Deployable Shelter – designed for Johnson Outdoors, Eureka brand – is selected as part of the Cooper Hewitt's 2006 National Design Triennial.

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DesignBoom, Chuck Hoberman: Interview with the designer and engineer of transformable objects.
May 2007

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Columbia Magazine, The Future Tents
Spring 2006
David J. Craig

Chuck Hoberman talks about the development of the Rapidly Deployable Shelter for Johnson Outdoors in Columbia Magazine.

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MCAD, Transformation Engineering
March 2006
Interview by Martyn Day

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