Atelier Z

12/09/2015

Nike 360° Pavilion Pods

11/30/2014

http://www.houzz.com/pro/fredrick-zal/atelier-z

Atelier Z. "Fredrick H. Zal’s passion is to help people envision their design dreams in Architecture, Furniture, and the Arts. He takes great joy in crafting...

10/04/2014

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc2hrLbvXMg

06/02/2014

Hand Crank + Brake for liqueur security cabinet door counterbalance mechanism

05/05/2014

Philips Microbial Home

http://www.design.philips.com/shared/assets/design_assets/pdf/news/Annex_Microbial_Home_concepts.pdf

04/15/2014

Back when I was first inventing / naming Atelier Z in 2000... an.architecture and industrial design studio...

http://www.fhzal.com/theoros

Fredrick H. Zal, Atelier Z: Commercial

10/01/2013

http://onepercentfortheplanet.org/membersearches/memberDetails/1/?ID=001F000000o1OncIAE

09/03/2013

Fredrick H. Zal’s passion is to help people envision their design dreams. He takes great joy in crafting beautifully with his hands, envisioning with his mind, and pride in his responsibility to contribute to the world both artistically and environmentally. Working with vintage, salvaged, natural, and recycled materials, Fredrick is able to harvest shared cultural memories, and re-craft these narratives with new purpose and invigorated charisma. By discussing the qualities of touch, sight, scent, taste, and sound with you, our patron, he creates works of art that resonate with you beyond the simple functionality of the object, space, or building. Fredrick loves hearing the stories that compose your memories, and then helping you to create new ones that may be shared with family and friends for years to come. It is his intent that these newly crafted heirlooms will spark pleasure today, and will be cherished by you, your friends and family for generations.

Fredrick lectures on both the theory and practical application of empathy, morphology and material narrative in his architecture, furniture, and art around the United States, where the work is regularly published and exhibited. As a guest professor at a number of Institutions, Fredrick educates fine and applied art students about the impetus of their design pedagogy through speculation upon fundamental concepts of light, statics and kinetics, material science, land|form, and bodily proprioception by investigating their correlation to the spaces we form into our urban environments.

Fredrick takes great pleasure in contact improv dance, yoga, both performing and patroning the arts, hiking and camping with his Siberian Husky pup, and cooking food with his close friends.

Through these actions, Atelier Z has been making the world a better place for you, us, and future generations since 2000 and why Fredrick will continue to advocate for dialogue in the fine + applied arts.

www.fhzal.com

Fredrick H. Zal, Atelier Z

08/28/2013

My urban research drawing of Giambattista Nolli's Map [c.1784], Rome, Italy has been published in this new art monograph:
"Art Quilt Maps" by Valerie S. Goodwin

Drawing on p.18, and inspired art works on p.84-85.

http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781607056829-0

Art Quilt Maps by Valerie S. Goodwin: "Goodwin, an architect who teaches architectural design at Florida A&M, lives in a visual world that speaks'the language of lines, shapes, and colors.' Maps, both metaphorical and geographical, matter to her, and so does sewing, which she learned at her grandmot...

05/22/2013

Current research by one of the most intelligent and inquisitive people I have ever had the pleasure to collaborate with and learn from, Dale Clifford:
http://biologicarchitecture.com

05/20/2013

I received very kind words today from a former student of a Advanced Structures class that I collaboratively taught with Dale Clifford at the University of Oregon.

"I was a student of your's at the University of Oregon for the Struct 407 class in 1997.
I still remember that class fondly, as it was one of the greatest things had the opportunity to be involved in at U of O. The course was less structured, and it was a valuable experience to have the opportunity to take what we were interested in as a collective and let it evolve, organically. I'm very proud of the outcome, and it was a great achievement."
- Reema Farhat

This is some of the work from that class:
http://www.fhzal.com/works/961116

It is really nice to receive this compliment, knowing that my intentions and collaborative work with Dale Clifford were appreciated, and that it still resonates with others.

It was one of my favorite classes to have taught over the years. I loved that it was raw, without a specific agenda, and fully open to possibilities and exploration. Professor Don Peting was very kind to give us such support and latitude.

Tensile Fabric Rain Catcher
Eugene, Oregon

http://www.fhzal.com/works/961116

05/17/2013

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU is pleased to announce “Out of the Blue”, a series of casual, private dinner events hosted by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU in their los angeles studio. share a special meal and conversations with friends and like- minded people. dinners will be prepared by local and international guest chefs.

in los angeles since 1988, COOP HIMMELB(L)AU’s presence in the city now spans 25 continuous years in which they participate in and benefit from the special artistic dialogue that has lived between the cities of vienna and los Angeles for the past 100 years. the dinners create a platform that the studio offers in return with discussions and presentations that aim to contribute to that cultural dialogue. the range of topics spans from the critical to the personal, from the tangible to the opaque.

organized by Karolin Schmidbaur, Ghazaleh Khezri + Victoria Coaloa

http://himmelblau-la.com/outoftheblue
http://himmelblau-la.com/outoftheblue/about