City as Verb
City as Verb takes the familiar nouns used to describe our urban environments and simply changes them into verbs. This seemingly simple conceptual shift has deep consequences: For instance, instead using the word ‘street,’ we change it to ‘moving’…
City As Verb Wednesday Seminars
The ‘City as Verb’ seminars hosted by the City of Seoul will be an important bridge between the 2019 and 2021 Seoul Biennales.. In partnership with the French, Netherlands, and Swiss embassies, this series of public presentations will launch on 15 July…
SFS Elementary School Library
SFS Elementary School Library wins a 2019 AIA International Region Award and is featured in SPACE Magazine: The design for this International elementary school library blends flexibility with specificity, addressing the scales of growing children…
Preservation, Pluralism, and Adaptive Reuse
Preservation as a movement, usually understood as a conservative force that works to strengthen the idea of a linear, univocal, ‘American’ history, originally emerges in the 1960’s to put forth a more radical proposition: That preserving a structure by instilling it with a new…
John Hong to Teach Masterclass, ‘Devious Topographies’ at UTS:
Design at the scale between urban planning and architecture is rapidly gaining relevance as cities increasingly grapple with cultural, ecological, and economic viability. However, the limited tools of the architect that lead to ineffectively conceptualizing…
Utopian Palimpsest: Chambord
Like reconstructing More’s Utopia in reverse, our proposal for Chambord’s future is a simultaneous overlay of the past and present. Extending the diverse programming that marked the important shift of the château from private to public control…