Research Portfolio

Research portfolio Robert Barnstone Selected Publications International:

Barnstone, R.V. “Wood Materials Annex Building” Pure Plastics: New Materials for Today's Architecture (Architecture and Materials) Verlaghaus-Braun (April 25 2008).

Barnstone, R. V. and D.A. Barnstone, “Ascher/ Barnstone,” features recent work, 1000 x Architecture of the Americas, Verlaghaus-Braun (November 25, 2008).

Barnstone, R.V. “Navy Demonstration Project and Studio/Workshop in British Columbia,” The Green Braid. (Routledge: 2007) The first book to be published by Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) features selected articles from the last two decades of ACSA conferences, concentrating on the environmental movement and design.

Meyer, Ulf. “Holz-Plastik im Praxistest,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 17 April, 2007, Nr. 89, p. T5.

Barnstone, R. V. “Architectural Products in Cardboard,” Wessex proceedings of Sustainable Development and Planning IV – Vol 1 and 2, 544pp and 560pp (Print ISBNs: 1-84564-424-6 and 1-84564-422-1; Online ISBNs 978-1-84564-425-3 and 978-1-84564-423-9 (2007).

Miyasaka, Taiji. “Navy Demonstration Project,” in “From Design Practice to Education,” Ken Chikubunka, Issue #670, April 2004.

Barnstone, R. V. and D. A. Barnstone. Special issue editor for OnSite review #8 on “Architecture and Sewing,” December 2002.

Barnstone, R. V. Article on my design work and one student piece from my architecture studio in A.D. Architectural Design, St Martin’s Press, Great Britain: “Architecture and Furniture,” Volume 72, # 4, July 2002.

Barnstone, R. V. “Explorations in Woven Form,” Journal of Architectural Education, peer reviewed article, February 2002.

Barnstone, R. V. and D. A. Barnstone. “Embodied Movement,” ON/Site review Issue 5, the Canadian journal for built architectural works, December 2001.

Barnstone, R. V. “A Blend of Art and Community,” Sculpture, a review of my sculpture installation at the Socrates Sculpture Park in the only international journal devoted exclusively to sculpture, April 2001. Review by Jonathan Goodman.

Barnstone, R. V. Azure, the Canadian magazine for architecture and interior design featured a review of my piece in the University of British Columbia Exhibition, May/June 1999.

Material research and product development

Plastic wood composite:

Plywood cladding, tongue and grove Luann veneered cladding sheets were custom manufactured in 40 foot lengths using a continuous press this was done together with a profiled plywood window and door system: Jonathan Levi Architects Progressive Architecture City of Wood 2/1994

Plywood Box Beam structure:

Cardboard: Plasticized cardboard emergency housing, wall system, floor system, block wall system, resin coated cardboard matrix cladding forms.

Three-dimensional MDF/ oriented strand, engineered timber. The lessons learned about core structures in the cardboard research led to an interest in developing core structures in wood and reed products.

Magnesium Phosphate Cements Ceramic Cements:

Emergency Housing: One-year post-doc in the Building Technology Department at the Technical University, Delft, the Netherlands. I collaborated with Mic Eckhout and Fons Verheijen to develop new building applications for recycled cardboard. The project shown here was developed for the International Red Cross. 2006-2007.

Container Buildings: Over the past ten years, I have experimented with a series of designs utilizing recycled shipping containers. Directly below is Thrive which was a design for a vocational training school for Kip Karn Estates in Eldoret, Kenya. Below that is a project for artists’ housing and workshop space at the Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota. Beneath, are photographs of the Washington State University Sailing Club building designed and constructed in my Design/Build Studio, 2010.

Selected International Peer Reviewed Exhibitions

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, “ Once Removed” my piece was selected to be shown from a pool of 600 entries. It features cast glass feet on the rocks at Marks Point. October 2013.

Architecture Tomorrow Today! Curated by D. A. Barnstone and R. V. Barnstone. Centennial Hall, Wroclaw, Poland. Permanent exhibition on innovative contemporary architecture around the world. August-December 2011.

Text and Context Conference at the University of Paris, June 2003. I installed a site specific sculpture as a permanent feature at the Cité Universitaire (the university campus ) Summer 2003.

Roger Williams Park “The Narrative Forest”, Providence RI. Fall 2002.

Socrates Sculpture Park “Prone: The Space Around the Architect”, Long Island City, New York. September 2000.