Spotlight on Design: Jennifer Bonner

Jennifer Bonner, a Principal Architect at MALL, will present a lecture titled “Candy, Dollhouses, & Blanks Everywhere!” In this talk, she will discuss how her experimental work challenges conventional construction methods through the use of materials like mass timber and precast concrete. Bonner will highlight projects such as Haus Gables on the Atlanta Beltline, Best Sandwiches, Office Stack, and Blank House. She will also present her projects featured in the National Building Museum’s Building Stories exhibition, along with insights from her recently published book, Blank: Speculations on CLT, co-edited with London-based structural engineer Hanif Kara, OBE of AKT II, which examines the potential of cross-laminated timber (CLT) in architecture.

Museum members are invited to a meet and greet with Jennifer Bonner in Building Stories from 5:30 to 6:30 pm.

About Jennifer Bonner

Born in Alabama, Jennifer Bonner received a Bachelor of Architecture from Auburn University and a Master of Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Bonner is a Principal at MALL as well as at B-arn-S Architects, a design collective that was commissioned to re-purpose a former KKK building from a monument of hate into a beacon of truth-telling, reparative justice, and liberation in Fort Worth, Texas. Bonner is a recipient of the 2021 United States Artist Fellowship, Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers, AIA’s Emerging Voices Award, and a Progressive Architecture (P/A) Award.

This program is eligible for 2 CE LUs (AIA self-reporting).

Program Schedule:

Doors open at 5:30 pm
Member meet and greet with Jennifer Bonner in Building Stories: 5:30 to 6:30 pm
Program Starts at 6:30 pm
Reception and Building Stories open: 7:30 to 8:30 pm

Image courtesy MALL, photo by Dina Avila.

Spotlight on Design is generously supported by KCCT and the Anthony & Keiko Greenberg Foundation.