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Merge Architects, Boston

A nimble firm builds projects on a budget by immersing itself in the nitty-gritty details of fabrication and construction.
Laura Mirviss
December 16, 2014
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Elizabeth Whittaker, the principal of Merge Architects, doesn't take rejection personally. Working in Boston—a city that has historically lacked an appetite for contemporary architecture


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Aranda\Lasch, NYC/Tucson

Two architectural designers, inspired by fractal geometry, scale up their designs—and their practice.
Suzanne-Stephens
Suzanne Stephens
December 16, 2014
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Most young architects start off with small projects (kitchen, baths) or art installations before getting meatier commissions. Aranda\Lasch’s methods for scaling up are a little different.
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ESKYIU, Hong Kong

Expanding the definition of architectural work, a husband-and-wife team engages the public in projects ranging from installations to events.
Aric Chen
December 16, 2014
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Hosting a dinner for 2,000 senior citizens or teaching 200 children to plant a garden is not most people’s idea of what constitutes architecture.
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Andr's Jaque/Office for Political Innovation, Madrid/NYC

This enfant terrible upends conventional definitions of architectural practice.
Anna Fixsen
December 16, 2014
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Andr's Jaque is a polymath. He spent two years investigating the banal contents of the basement of Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion for an exhibition and book.


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S-AR

Living off the fat of the land: four designers tap into the abundance of local materials and labor.
Beth Broome
December 16, 2013
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Exploiting the bounty of local building products as well as a regional tradition of craft, Monterrey, Mexico'based S-AR is amassing a rugged, though subtly refined, body of work that reflects the city around them.
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William O’Brien, Jr.

A teacher and practitioner challenges accepted notions of balance, reality, and narration as he establishes his small firm.
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Clifford A. Pearson
December 16, 2013
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Cerebral and fluent in the language of ideas, William O'Brien, Jr. has moved skillfully within academia and the art scene while slowly establishing a practice that will allow him to build too.


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Para-Project

A firm obscures views and distorts perspectives to challenge the familiar and produce the unexpected.
Laura Mirviss
December 16, 2013
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Jon Lott, the principal of New York'based Para-Project, says he wants the firm's work to allure while raising questions. “Ambiguity, distortion, and estrangement are essential tools for me,” says the architect, who cofounded the practice months after graduating with his M.Arch. from Harvard's Graduate School of Design in 2005.
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Rural Urban Framework

A nonprofit firm tackles the needs of China's forgotten countryside, designing projects that help communities come together.
Aric Chen
December 16, 2013
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Often lost among the headlines about China's astonishing development—not least those covering its government's latest proposal to urbanize an additional 400 million people over the next decade—has been a growing interest in the corresponding transformation of the Chinese countryside.
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Marc Fornes/TheVeryMany

A small studio deploys computational design and digital fabrication to make inventive structures that define space.
Joann Gonchar
Joann Gonchar, FAIA
December 16, 2013
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At first glance, the work of Marc Fornes, founder of Brooklyn-based Marc Fornes/TheVeryMany, seems more like sculpture than architecture.
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Oyler Wu Collaborative

After learning the ropes with a series of installations, a husband-and-wife team is building up to larger and more permanent projects.
Deborah Snoonian Glenn
December 16, 2013
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Many architects make names for themselves by experimenting with building materials. But Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu, the married couple who ditched budding careers in New York to form Oyler Wu Collaborative in Los Angeles nearly 10 years ago
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