After receiving masters of architecture degrees from Princeton University in 2010, Julian Rose and Garrett Ricciardi formed a partnership with a name—Formlessfinder—that reflects their shared theoretical bent.

Photo © Steve Hill Elizabeth Diller, founding principal of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, discussed the low- and high-tech aspects of the firm's projects during her keynote. At the start of a day devoted to the connections between architecture and new technology, Elizabeth Diller, of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, urged architects to continue to use “the whole repertoire of old-fashioned tools that are not really getting replaced, just supplemented.” She described the firm’s best-known project, the High Line, as low-tech, and said the popularity of Blur—its first building “for a mass audience”—could be explained by the structure’s simplicity. She conceded that one

A rendering—the only one released so far—of Foster + Partners' 19-story luxury condominium tower overlooking the Hudson River. Norman Foster hasn’t had great luck in Manhattan—his public library plan seems to have gone off the rails, in part due to the lackluster renderings his firm released last year.

When they founded Work Architecture Company (WORKac), in an apartment facing a brick wall in 2003, Dan Wood and Amale Andraos had two jobs lined up: a bathroom renovation and a doghouse.