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Design Vanguard 2014

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Studio Ma, Phoenix

A sustainability-focused firm draws from the desert environment for its economical, innovative designs.
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Laura Raskin
December 16, 2014
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Kindred spirits” is how the four partners at Studio Ma describe themselves, and their affinities can be broadly divided into two camps: their respect for and love of the American Southwest, where they are based, and the drive to produce good design on tight budgets.
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UID,Fukuyama City (Hiroshima Prefecture), Japan

An emerging architect mines his roots to explore the universal relationships of architecture and experience.
Naomi Pollock, FAIA
December 16, 2014
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An acronym for Universal Innovative Design, UID is an unlikely title for a firm founded by a non-English speaker and located in Fukuyama, a regional city in the hinterlands of Hiroshima Prefecture.
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Vector Architects,Beijing

After studying and working in the U.S., an architect returns to China and stays out of the mainstream.
Clare Jacobson
December 16, 2014
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In the big, big world of Chinese architecture—big projects, big sites, big firms, big country—Vector Architects is keeping it small.
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NAMELESS Architecture, NYC/Seoul

A working couple performs a delicate balancing act that spans far-flung continents and disciplines.
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Clifford A. Pearson
December 16, 2014
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In much of their work, Unchung Na, 36, and Sorae Yoo, 32, the husband and wife who founded NAMELESS Architecture in 2010, challenge themselves to express contradictions in architecture: take heavy stones and stack them so they appear almost weightless; design a building that seems both closed and open, at once strong and weak.
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Design Vanguard 2014: Barozzi / Veiga

Barcelona
David Cohn
December 16, 2014
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A quiet strength pervades the work of this Barcelona-based team, along with a finely tuned sense of detail and context.


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Go Hasegawa and Associates

Finding inspiration in quirky, leftover urban sites, an architect makes the job of fitting in a defiant act of design.
Naomi Pollock, FAIA
December 16, 2014
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Tokyo may be among the world’s largest cities, but it has some of the smallest buildings. At critical nodes such as Roppongi and Shinjuku, the city has plenty of skyscrapers and hulking commercial complexes, yet its character is mostly defined by dense, low-scale neighborhoods where the majority of buildings are no more than five stories high.


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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.
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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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