/ October 2020
ACADIA - Distributed Proximities
op.AL published two Peer Reviewed Projects in ACADIA 2021 Conference Distributed Proximities. The projects featured, The Collective Perspective + Live L’oeil Featured can be viewed on the ACADIA website.
/ June 2020
Cultural Artifacts and Intervention Panel
op.AL presents A Game of Lawns, as a part of a panel discussion at the ACSA’s 108th Annual Virtual Conference, along with Courtney Coffman, Joseph Altshuler of Could be Architecture, and Jonathan Louie and Nicole McIntosh of Architecture Office.
/ June 2020
The Curriculum for Climate Agency
The ACSA announces its the 2020 Teacher’s conference, Co-chaired by co-director Jonathan A. Scelsa, with a Call for images and Scholarship tracks.
/ May 2020
Virtual Learning in Cornell Chronicle
Co-Director, Jennifer Birkeland’s virtual Site studio was featured in the Cornell Chronicle as a response to Co-VID 19 teaching of site studios in academia.
/ May 2020
Pratt Institute Promotion
As a part of his third year renewal, Co-Director Jonathan Scelsa was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Architecture at Pratt Institute School of Architecture.
/ April 2020
Public Space Objects Exhibition - POSTPONED
op.AL will present a new work entitled, The Landscape of De-Fenestration, at the Rhode Island School of Design’s Bayard Ewing Building, as a part of the group exhibition - Public Space Objects, curated by Johanna Barthmaier-Payne.
/ March 2020
Lecture - OstiaFest, Pratt Institute
op.AL co-director, Jonathan A. Scelsa, lectures on Projecting Color, in the Ostia Wall Painting Conference hosted by the Math and Science Department at Pratt Institute.
/ January 2020
Journal of Architectural Education - H20
op.AL publishes an article on Fuel Cell Futurisms in the volume 74 of Journal of Architectural Education with a special focus on Water.
/ October 2019
Kent State University Lecture
Co-Director, Jennifer Birkeland, lectures at Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collective as a part of the Stepping Out, Stepping in Series, and attends reviews in the new Landscape program.
/ December 2019
AIA Seattle, Center for Architecture and Design
op.AL is proud to display the drawings of Fuel Cell Futurism at Center for Architecture and Design, AIA Seattle as a part the travel exhibition "Balancing Act: Urbanism + Emerging Technologies" curated by Sae Hyun Kim of CBT. Architects.
/ November 2019
‘Post Natural Practices’ - Symposium at Ithaca College
op.AL presents work and discussion in a symposium on the Post - Natural at Ithaca College as a part of the Ambiguous Territories Exhibition.
/ September 2019
Action at Stanford University
op.AL presents work and stage a Thermal Egg Hunt on Thermographic Imaging of the Urban Landscape as a part of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s 2019 Fall Conference, Less Talk More Action.
/ July 2019
Lecture - AIA Boston
op.AL presents work and discussion in a symposium on the Three Cities, Three Imaginations as a part of the exhibition "Balancing Act: Urbanism + Emerging Technologies" at the BSA Space Boston.
/ August 2019
Lion’s Landing Breaks Ground
op.AL obtains DOB and LPOE approval and Contractors break ground on op.AL’s design for Brooklyn Brownstone project, Lion’s Landing. We are excited to reveal progress soon.
/ June 2019
Exhibition - Deep Space Gallery
op.AL exhibits model for An Anamorphic Hut in Jersey City’s Deep Space Galleries' exhibition ‘Love Triangle, For the love of Geometry’ curated by Debbie Manville.
/ May 2019
Exhibition - BSA Space Boston
op.AL is proud to display the drawings of Fuel Cell Futurism at Boston Society of Architect’s BSA Space as a part the travel exhibition "Balancing Act: Urbanism + Emerging Technologies" curated by Sae Hyun Kim of CBT Architects.
/ June 2020
Cornell University
Co-Director, Jennifer has been appointed Assistant Professors of Landscape Architecture in the Department of Architecture, of the Cornell School of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
/ June 2018
Open Studios - The American Academy in Rome
op.AL is proud to display a central illusion of Through the Looking Ceiling as a part the annual exhibition of Fellows work at the American Academy in Rome.
/ May 2018
Lecture - The Knowlton School, Rome
Jonathan and Jennifer present a lecture, Cross Disciplinary Practice, to Knowlton School of Architecture students abroad in Rome.
/ February 2018
Cinque Mostre - The American Academy in Rome
op.AL installs new work, Flat Farms / the Mosaic Figuration of Roman Courtyard Agriculture, as a part of the American Academy in Rome's annual winter exhibition, Cinque Mostre, curated by Ilaria Gianni.
/ April 2017
Mark Hampton Rome Prize in Design
op.AL’s directors, Jonathan Scelsa and Jennifer Birkeland, have been awarded the 2017 - 2018 Mark Hampton Rome Prize In Design by the American Academy in Rome.
/ November 2015
Pavilion Build - Austin Arts Festival
op.AL constructs Duck Blind in Plain Site, the winning entry to the Field Constructs Design Competition, as a part of Austin East November Arts Festival at the Circle Acres Nature Preserve in collaboration with local organizations including CookShop, The Thinkery, and Ecology Action.
/ August 2015
Plastic Flowers featured on Design Boom
op.AL’s pavilion Plastic Flowers built in conjunction with students from the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York, for Parks and Recreation Department is published on Design Boom.
/ April 2015
op.AL wins Field Constructs Design Competition
op.AL is selected along with Studio Roland Snooks, Brad Cantrell, and OTA+ as the winners of the international competition Field Constructs. . The proposed pavilion, Duck Blind in Plain Site, will be built in November for the Autumn Festival at Circle Acres Nature Preserve.