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Lesley Chang is an American architect and designer who co-founded the architecture firm StudioKCA alongside Jason Klimoski.
Chang received her Bachelor of Arts degree in architecture from Columbia University. She completed her Master’s Degree in architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. [1] As a student, Chang participated in several design projects working under the German architect James Ingo Freed and his firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners,[ citation needed ] as well as Marpillero Pollak Architects. [2]
Chang has been affiliated with Steven Holl and Gensler, involved with the design of the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Denmark; [3] and HBO Headquarters in New York City.[ citation needed ]
The public architecture installation Head in the Clouds... was completed for the 2013 edition of FIGMENT in Governor's Island Park, New York. It was one of the winners of the American Institute of Architects's Small Projects Awards. [4] The structure is created using 53,780 recycled bottles. StudioKCA was able to collect the bottles and construct the space with over 200 volunteers.Sand, water jugs, and aluminium provide seating for around 50 people within the pavilion. [5] This design won multiple awards, including: 2013 Interior Design Best of Year Award; [6] 2014 Architizer A+ Award Finalist; [7] and the 2016 Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award. [8]
The NASA Orbit Pavilion was located first in New York City for the 2015 World Science Festival before being moved to the Huntington Library, Art Collection, and Botanical Gardens in 2016. [9] The aluminum structure and surround sound speakers, designed by Shane Myrbeck from Arup SoundLab, relay the noises of NASA satellites in space.
Working with the nonprofit group Friends of Governors Island in 2017, StudioKCA designed mobile information units to try to bring solar powered, wireless connection to the public in Governors Island as information stations. [10]
The Skyscraper project, otherwise known as The Bruges Whale, was completed in 2018 by StudioKCA with the help of sponsor Triennale Brugge. The 38-foot-tall blue whale is composed of over 5 tons of plastic collected from the Pacific Ocean and picked from Hawaiian beaches by StudioKCA, the Hawaii Wildlife Fund, and the Surfrider Foundation Kaui Chapter. [11] [12]
Steven Holl is a New York–based American architect and watercolorist.
Cobe is a Copenhagen-based architectural firm owned and managed by architect Dan Stubbergaard. As of 2020, the office has 150 employees and is involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe and North America within urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture and interior design.
Tom Kundig is an American architect and principal in the Seattle-based firm Olson Kundig Architects. He has won numerous professional honors.
DLR Group is an employee-owned integrated design firm providing architecture, engineering, planning, and interior design. Their brand promise is to elevate the human experience through design. A self-described advocate for sustainable design, the firm was an early adopter of the Architecture 2030 Challenge, and an initial signatory to the AIA 2030 Commitment and the China Accord.
Studio Gang is an American architecture and urban design practice with offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Paris. Founded and led by architect Jeanne Gang, the Studio is known for its material research and experimentation, collaboration across a wide range of disciplines, and focus on sustainability. The firm's works range in scale and typology from the 82-story mixed-use Aqua Tower to the 10,000-square-foot Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College to the 14-acre Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo. Studio Gang has won numerous awards for design excellence, including the 2016 Architizer A+ Firm of the Year Award and the 2013 National Design Award for Architecture from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, as well as various awards from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and AIA Chicago.
Henning Larsen Architects is an international architectural firm based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1959 by Henning Larsen, it has around 750 employees.
REX is an architecture and design firm based in New York City. The firm's name is intended to symbolize reappraisal ("RE") of architecture ("X"). Notable projects headed by its founder include the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas, Texas; the Vakko Fashion Center in Istanbul, Turkey; and the Seattle Central Library. The work of REX has been recognized with accolades including two American Institute of Architects' National Honor Awards in 2005 and 2011, a U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology National Honor Award, an American Library Association National Building Award, and two American Council of Engineering Companies' National Gold Awards.
Archimania is a collective of architects and designers in the South Main Historic Arts District of downtown Memphis, Tennessee. The collective was founded in 1995 and is led by Todd Walker, FAIA, and Barry Alan Yoakum, FAIA.
Zaha Hadid Architects is a British architecture and design firm founded by Zaha Hadid (1950–2016), with its main office situated in Clerkenwell, London. After the death of "starchitect" Hadid, Patrik Schumacher became head of the firm, yet had to pay for use of the former business partners name at the time with a staff of 400, mostly free labour of interns sourced from teaching positions occupied by senior staff, with 36 projects across 21 countries.
L'Observatoire International is a lighting design firm established by Hervé Descottes in 1993 in New York City. The firm works within a range of different spatial expressions including architecture, landscape, urban, and fine art projects.
Odile Decq is a French architect, urban planner and academic. She is the founder of the Paris firm, Studio Odile Decq and the architecture school, Confluence Institute. Decq is known for her self-described goth appearance and style.
TenBerke is a New York City, based architecture and interior design firm founded and led by Deborah Berke, who concurrently serves as Dean of the Yale School of Architecture.
Guy Nordenson is a structural engineer and professor of structural engineering and architecture at Princeton University School of Architecture. Guy has two children, Pierre and Sebastien Nordenson. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering in 1977, followed by a Masters of Science in Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978. After graduating from UC Berkeley he worked at Forell/Elsesser Engineers in San Francisco (1978-1982) and Weidlinger Associates in New York City (1982–1987), before establishing the New York office of Ove Arup & Partners in 1987 where he was a director until leaving in 1997 to begin his own structural engineering practice, Guy Nordenson and Associates.
Toshiko Mori is a Japanese architect and the founder and principal of New York–based Toshiko Mori Architect, PLLC and Vision Arc. She is also the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In 1995, she became the first female faculty member to receive tenure at the GSD.
Louise Braverman is a New York City-based architect known for a design philosophy that aims to combine aesthetic design and social conscience. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA).
Amale Andraos is a New York-based architect. She was dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (2014-2021) and serves as advisor to the Columbia Climate School. She is the co-founder of the New York City architecture firm WORKac with her husband, Dan Wood. Her impact on architectural practice around the world was recognized when she was named Honorary Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 2021.
Ballinger is an interdisciplinary design firm, one of the first in the United States to merge the disciplines of architecture and engineering into a professional practice. The firm's single office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, houses a staff of over 250 people. Ballinger is one of the largest architectural firms in the Philadelphia region and known for its work in academic, healthcare, corporate, and research planning and design.
Pablo Castro is an Argentinean-born architect and co-founder of the award-winning architectural design firm Obra Architects in New York City, Beijing, and Seoul.
Oppenheim Architecture is an architecture, planning, and interior practice based in Miami, New York, and Basel founded in 1999 by Chad Oppenheim. The firm has received multiple distinctions, including over 45 AIA Awards. Projects range between hospitality, commercial mixed-use, retail, and residential buildings in over 25 countries. The firm is notable for designing L.A. Villa, film director Michael Bay's residence. In 2018, the practice received the National Design Award for Interior Design by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
PARTISANS is an internationally-recognized architecture firm known for its future-forward approach to design and technology, civic advocacy, and cultural engagement. Based in Toronto, Canada, the firm was founded in 2012 and operates under the leadership of Alex Josephson. Stemming from a philosophy rooted in defying conventional norms, PARTISANS designs architecture, cities, concepts, and even ideas, with projects that range from furniture, houses, skyscrapers, to masterplans. PARTISANS operates as a diverse group of architects, thinkers, storytellers, and cultural enthusiasts united by a shared mission to revolutionize the boundaries of architecture. The firm's portfolio includes versatile projects for varied clientele, including renowned restauranteurs, real estate trusts, and Fortune 500 companies. The name PARTISANS represent the firm's interest in collective action and architecture as a political force for social and cultural good.
