Snarkitecture

Snarkitecture Returns to the National Building Museum with Fun House

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 09:00:00 -0400

A playful take on the recognizable form of a house, complete with a back yard swimming pool, becomes a gallery celebrating the firm’s decade of production.

Round Two for Snarkitecture at the National Building Museum’s 2018 Summer Block Party

Thu, 22 Mar 2018 17:02:00 -0400

Three years after designing a temporary installation for the museum, the firm will stage a retrospective of their greatest projects.

Balls to the Walls: Snarkitecture Creates Gigantic Ball Pit in National Building Museum

Tue, 07 Jul 2015 12:00:00 -0400

New Yorkers can take the subway to Coney Island and Angelenos can cool off in Venice or Santa Monica, but Washingtonians are out of luck if they want to hit the beach—the shore is a three-hour drive away. Alex Mustonen and Daniel Arsham, partners of the New York design studio Snarkitecture, thought that Washington, D.C. could use a beach of its own. So they created one inside the National Building Museum, filling a giant pit with almost a million plastic balls that visitors can float on or swim through. The pit, which opened on the Fourth of July, is fronted

Snarkitecture

Sat, 16 Aug 2014 12:00:00 -0400

Snarkitecture, the name that artist Daniel Arsham and designer Alex Mustonen have given their nearly 10-year-old design collaboration, cuts two ways. On the one hand, it references the fictional creature in Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem “The Hunting of the Snark”; on the other, it invokes the arch tone of Internet writing.