ARCHITECTURE

ReDensification

Affordable Housing Valle Dorado San Juan Del Rio Querétaro México The existing, single story detached houses in Valle Dorado have failed. A lack of community amongst the residents has deprived them of the support structures that contribute to the quality

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ReDensification

Affordable Housing Valle Dorado San Juan Del Rio Querétaro México The existing, single story detached houses in Valle Dorado have failed. A lack of community amongst the residents has deprived them of the support structures that contribute to the quality

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APAN

Social Housing Querétaro, México Social housing is again one of the most urgent issues of our time for our communities, for our governments and for architecture. Perhaps not since post-war Europe has the need for social housing been so urgent.

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APAN

Social Housing Querétaro, México Social housing is again one of the most urgent issues of our time for our communities, for our governments and for architecture. Perhaps not since post-war Europe has the need for social housing been so urgent.

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Saitama Residence

Private Residence Saitama, Japan The forms and organizations of the urban single-family house (along with a variety of other building types) have been driven toward extreme versions of efficiency by an ever-increasing metropolitan density. In a city like Tokyo, increasing

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Saitama Residence

Private Residence Saitama, Japan The forms and organizations of the urban single-family house (along with a variety of other building types) have been driven toward extreme versions of efficiency by an ever-increasing metropolitan density. In a city like Tokyo, increasing

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West Los Angeles College

Student Service Annex West Los Angeles College, California West Los Angeles College is a medium-sized community college located adjacent to Culver City on the west side of Los Angeles. The institution is currently undergoing an expansion and rennovation of it

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West Los Angeles College

Student Service Annex West Los Angeles College, California West Los Angeles College is a medium-sized community college located adjacent to Culver City on the west side of Los Angeles. The institution is currently undergoing an expansion and rennovation of it

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Brix Restaurant

Brix Restaurant Los Angeles, California 1992 The site of the Brix restaurant in Venice, California can be characterized as a cacophony of visual and sonic interference. The primary design response was to insert a ‘pause’ into this hyperactive strip landscape

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Brix Restaurant

Brix Restaurant Los Angeles, California 1992 The site of the Brix restaurant in Venice, California can be characterized as a cacophony of visual and sonic interference. The primary design response was to insert a ‘pause’ into this hyperactive strip landscape

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Brentwood Residence

  Brentwood Residence Los Angeles, California An existing single-family residence located in Brentwood just below the Getty Center in Los Angeles underwent major remodeling. The owner wanted the house to be open, light filled and strongly connected to the pool

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Brentwood Residence

  Brentwood Residence Los Angeles, California An existing single-family residence located in Brentwood just below the Getty Center in Los Angeles underwent major remodeling. The owner wanted the house to be open, light filled and strongly connected to the pool

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Newfield Residence

Private Residence Newfield, New York Located on fourteen undeveloped acres of dense forest in upstate New York, a small house for a couple is carefully positioned in the landscape to take advantage of extensive views, sunlight and nature. The owner

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Newfield Residence

Private Residence Newfield, New York Located on fourteen undeveloped acres of dense forest in upstate New York, a small house for a couple is carefully positioned in the landscape to take advantage of extensive views, sunlight and nature. The owner

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Los Angeles Philharmonic Association

Los Angeles Philharmonic Donor Recognition Signage Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California We worked with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association to design a number of site-specific installations in both the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Los Angeles Philharmonic

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Los Angeles Philharmonic Association

Los Angeles Philharmonic Donor Recognition Signage Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California We worked with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association to design a number of site-specific installations in both the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Los Angeles Philharmonic

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Bauhaus Museum

Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Germany At the center of Dessau, blocks away from the original Gropius building, the Bauhaus Museum proposes to house the collections of its namesake institute in a muted memorial. It is not an homage, and not indiscriminately

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Bauhaus Museum

Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Germany At the center of Dessau, blocks away from the original Gropius building, the Bauhaus Museum proposes to house the collections of its namesake institute in a muted memorial. It is not an homage, and not indiscriminately

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Guggenheim Museum Helsinki

The Guggenheim Museum Helsinki, Finland The cultural and architectural ambitions of the Guggenheim Foundation have become synonymous. The Global Art Initiative reflects a desire to make the institution not only global in scope but at the forefront of art and

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Guggenheim Museum Helsinki

The Guggenheim Museum Helsinki, Finland The cultural and architectural ambitions of the Guggenheim Foundation have become synonymous. The Global Art Initiative reflects a desire to make the institution not only global in scope but at the forefront of art and

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Pasadena Residence

Private Residence Pasadena, California A new three-bedroom house was built on an empty lot in an existing, older neighborhood in Pasadena. Located at the crown of a ridge, the front edge of the lot was seven feet above the street,

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Pasadena Residence

Private Residence Pasadena, California A new three-bedroom house was built on an empty lot in an existing, older neighborhood in Pasadena. Located at the crown of a ridge, the front edge of the lot was seven feet above the street,

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Elysian Park Residence

Private Residence and Guesthouse Los Angeles, California The Elysian Park residence is located at the top of the hills adjacent to the park and Dodger Stadium.  Situated at the border between the vast open space of the park and the surrounding

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Elysian Park Residence

Private Residence and Guesthouse Los Angeles, California The Elysian Park residence is located at the top of the hills adjacent to the park and Dodger Stadium.  Situated at the border between the vast open space of the park and the surrounding

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Sukkah City

    The Maintenance of Fragility  Our Sukkah is conceived as one of many; the many already realized, the many yet to exist. Disciplined by Rabbinical Law, Diasporic Judaism has produced a universe of Sukkahs, an incomplete, wandering community of

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Sukkah City

    The Maintenance of Fragility  Our Sukkah is conceived as one of many; the many already realized, the many yet to exist. Disciplined by Rabbinical Law, Diasporic Judaism has produced a universe of Sukkahs, an incomplete, wandering community of

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Encino Residence

Private Residence Encino, California The clients had two requests: make an addition to their existing 800 square foot house that approximated an aircraft hanger, and kill the sun but not the light. Located in a post-war housing tract in the San

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Encino Residence

Private Residence Encino, California The clients had two requests: make an addition to their existing 800 square foot house that approximated an aircraft hanger, and kill the sun but not the light. Located in a post-war housing tract in the San

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West Hollywood Residence

  Guest House West Hollywood, California The first phase of a new residential ensemble, the guest house and pool established a strategy for dealing with an unconventionally large, oasis like site situated along a busy thoroughfare in West Hollywood. The guest house defines the

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West Hollywood Residence

  Guest House West Hollywood, California The first phase of a new residential ensemble, the guest house and pool established a strategy for dealing with an unconventionally large, oasis like site situated along a busy thoroughfare in West Hollywood. The guest house defines the

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La Opinion Offices

La Opinion Offices and Printing Facility Los Angeles Sparked by a strong interest in the dynamic urbanism of Los Angeles, the La Opinion Headquarters examines the Broadway corridor as a site in the downtown core. This linear slot of Manhattan-like urbanism

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La Opinion Offices

La Opinion Offices and Printing Facility Los Angeles Sparked by a strong interest in the dynamic urbanism of Los Angeles, the La Opinion Headquarters examines the Broadway corridor as a site in the downtown core. This linear slot of Manhattan-like urbanism

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Mackey Apartments

Renovation of the Mackey Apartments Los Angeles Rather than statically preserving this historic building as a singular memory of its past life, our intention for the renovation of the Mackey Apartments (R.M. Schindler, 1939) embraces the concept of preservation through

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Mackey Apartments

Renovation of the Mackey Apartments Los Angeles Rather than statically preserving this historic building as a singular memory of its past life, our intention for the renovation of the Mackey Apartments (R.M. Schindler, 1939) embraces the concept of preservation through

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A Room for London

A Room for London: Olympic Year 2012 It is said that the weather in London leaves something to be desired, but this seems unimaginative. Upon close inspection all manner of nuanced weathers pass over the rooftops of the city, especially

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A Room for London

A Room for London: Olympic Year 2012 It is said that the weather in London leaves something to be desired, but this seems unimaginative. Upon close inspection all manner of nuanced weathers pass over the rooftops of the city, especially

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Dwell Home

Dwell Home Invitational North Carolina Throughout the history of modern architecture, mass production, mass customization, and prefabrication have been explored as answers to the problem of affordable housing. As a closed system of logic, the result was either an end

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Dwell Home

Dwell Home Invitational North Carolina Throughout the history of modern architecture, mass production, mass customization, and prefabrication have been explored as answers to the problem of affordable housing. As a closed system of logic, the result was either an end

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New Queens Museum of Art

New Queens Museum of Art Queens, New York As contributors to the contents of culture, how can a museum be both a conservator and an innovator? The conceptual approach to the New Queens Museum of Art constructs a set of

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New Queens Museum of Art

New Queens Museum of Art Queens, New York As contributors to the contents of culture, how can a museum be both a conservator and an innovator? The conceptual approach to the New Queens Museum of Art constructs a set of

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Recombinant Images in Los Angeles

The Collapse of Experience The historical precedent for recombinance is found in the twentieth century avant-garde. For the avant-garde, the metropolis served as the raw material and specific site where instantaneous and radiating events set up the possibility for a

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Recombinant Images in Los Angeles

The Collapse of Experience The historical precedent for recombinance is found in the twentieth century avant-garde. For the avant-garde, the metropolis served as the raw material and specific site where instantaneous and radiating events set up the possibility for a

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