10 Architecture Studios Led by women [IX]
08/03/2022.
International Working Women's Day 2022
metalocus, PAULA ARIAS
metalocus, PAULA ARIAS
Today is International Working Women's Day, and METALOCUS has selected one more year (there are already 9 editions, with a total of 90 published architects) ten international architecture studios founded and directed by women with an extraordinary career.
We firmly believe that we should emphasize the women’s work in architecture and therefore we have selected ten leading architecture firms to continue with the series that we began eight years ago.
We firmly believe that we should emphasize the women’s work in architecture and therefore we have selected ten leading architecture firms to continue with the series that we began eight years ago.
Tierra Patagonia Hotel by Estudio Cazú Zegers. Courtesy of Estudio Cazú Zegers
Llu House by Estudio Cazú Zegers. Courtesy of Estudio Cazú Zegers
Ye House by Estudio Cazú Zegers. Courtesy of Estudio Cazú Zegers
Olympia 66 by Aedas. Courtesy of Aedas
Longfor Hongqiao Mixed-use Project by Aedas. Courtesy of Aedas
Heartland 66 by Aedas. Courtesy of Aedas
The Ghost chair of 1987, made for FIAM, was designed out of a single 12mm thick glass sheet.
Cini Boeri, Serpentone sofa for Arflex, 1971. (Courtesy Arflex)
Villa Rotunda by Cini Boeri, 1967. Photograph by Jacopo Faggioni
Hide & Seek by Dream The Combine for The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Program 2018, on view at MoMA PS1 from June 28 to September 3, 2018. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photograph by Pablo Enriquez
Hide & Seek by Dream The Combine for The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Program 2018, on view at MoMA PS1 from June 28 to September 3, 2018. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photograph by Pablo Enriquez
LURE by Dream the Combine. Courtesy of Dream the Combine
Casa Número Cero by DJarquitectura. Photograph by Jesús Granada
Revolution in the patio by DJarquitectura. Photograph by Jesus Granada
Port pavilion in Motril by Elisa Valero and DJarquitectura. Photograph by Fernando Alda
Hamad International Airport Passenger Terminal Complex by HOK Chicago. Courtesy of HOK
Kentucky International Convention Center by HOK Chicago. Courtesy of HOK
Consumers Credit Union Headquarters by HOK Chicago. Courtesy of HOK
Plasencia Auditorium and Congress Center by SelgasCano. Photograph by Iwan Baan
Interior corridor. Images courtesy by SelgasCano. Photography © Iwan Baan.
2015 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by SelgasCano. Photograph © Iwan Baan. Image courtesy of Serpentine Galleries.
Mado Building by Atelier Bow-Wow. Courtesy of Atelier Bow-Wow
BMW Guggenheim lab in Mumbai by Atelier Bow-Wow. Courtesy of Atelier Bow-Wow
Casa Y Atelier Section by Atelier Bow-Wow. Courtesy of Atelier Bow-Wow
Mirror band and red band by Wise Architecture. Courtesy of Wise Architecture
SUAN Coffee Company by Wise Architecture. Courtesy of Wise Architecture
MUEM Office Building by Wise Architecture. Courtesy of Wise Architecture
Yasmeen Lari outside a women’s centre built with traditional materials and techniques and on stilts to survive floods in the Sindh region. Image © Al Jazeera.
"I often tell my colleagues, 'let us not treat disaster-affected households as destitute, needing handouts. Rather let us give them due respect and treat them as we would a corporate-sector client," says Lari. Image © Al Jazeera.
Lari says: "When we train as architects, we're taught that architecture is like God because you create things. As a result, your ego is inflated. You think no one else can do what you're doing." Image © Al Jazeera.
In this edition of 2022, we want to pay tribute to these studies led by architects. They all have relevant projects, although not all are well known enough.
These are the studies selected this year.- Cazú Zegers - Cazú Zegers Arquitectura. Christine Lam - Aedas. Cini Boeri - Boeri Architetti. Jennifer Newsom - Dream the Combine. Juana Sánchez Gómez - DJ architecture. Kimberly Dowdell - HOK Chicago. Lucía Cano - SelgasCano. Momoyo Kaijima - Atelier Bow-Wow. Sook-Hee Chun - Wise Architecture. Yasmeen Lari - Lari Associates.
These are the studies selected this year.- Cazú Zegers - Cazú Zegers Arquitectura. Christine Lam - Aedas. Cini Boeri - Boeri Architetti. Jennifer Newsom - Dream the Combine. Juana Sánchez Gómez - DJ architecture. Kimberly Dowdell - HOK Chicago. Lucía Cano - SelgasCano. Momoyo Kaijima - Atelier Bow-Wow. Sook-Hee Chun - Wise Architecture. Yasmeen Lari - Lari Associates.
- Cazú Zegers Estudio Cazú Zegers
Cazú Zegers is a Chilean architect, founder, and director of the architecture firm, Estudio Cazú Zegers, created in 1991, and founder of the +1000 Foundation.
Her professional development is very diverse, working on all kinds of projects and scales, going through the design of furniture and single-family homes, to urban and territorial planning. In her projects, the search for new forms based on the most sensitive relationship between architecture and her environment stands out.
Zegers graduated in architecture from the Catholic University of Valparaíso in 1984, developing a special sensitivity for the Latin American territory, marked mainly by her travels through Chilean Patagonia, in which she was able to merge with the native culture and learn from it.
She finishes her studies at The Parsons School of Design in New York, where she will work until 1988, the year she returns to Chile to found her own architecture studio.
Her poetic vision of her territory, seeking new ways of crossing and observing the American region, has led her to obtain outstanding international recognition. She develops the research work from the +1000 Foundation, and the elaboration of her projects from the Cazu Zegers Arquitectura studio, seeking that her works merge with the territory.
In 1993 she obtained the Latin American Architecture Prize at the Buenos Aires Biennial for the Cala house project. In addition, some of the most relevant works of her where she explores her sensitivity to the landscape and the materials of the environment are Hotel Tierra Patagonia, the Casa Taller Cubo, or the Casa Cáscara.
"It seems to me that, in general, male thinking is rather a vector. It goes from one idea to another, abstracting in a linear way. Women, on the other hand, are undulating. We are always like in a cloud of concepts and it is in that line I am interested in the subject of dynamic architecture. I am not interested in static, gravitational architecture. I am attracted to speed, lightness."
Cazú Zegers.
The reflections you will collect from her throughout her career have been enunciated in numerous conferences and publications, in addition to attending as a visiting professor at universities such as the School of Architecture of the University of Talca or the School of Architecture of Yale University.
- Christine Lam Aedas
Christine Lam is Global Design Director at Aedas, an internationally recognized architecture office. Lam is a resourceful architect with 18 years of design experience. She has worked on a wide variety of building scales and typologies, focusing her projects on the Asian continent.
Dedicated especially to the construction of mixed buildings, she was the lead architect on The Landmark Redevelopment for Hongkong Land and Lee Gardens 2 Renovation. As design director, she has completed the construction of Center 66 in Wuxi for Hang Lung, and the Olympia 66 shopping center in Dalian. She is now in the process of completing Heartland 66, a mixed-use project in Wuhan.
Christine Lam has received honors for contests and completed design work, including her honorable mention for her West Kowloon Recovery Concept Plan Contest. Her contribution to her architecture has earned him the 40 under 40 awards.
Christine is also a speaker at conferences locally and internationally on her mixed-use building project development capabilities.
- Cini Boeri Boeri Architetti
María Cristina Mariani Damero, better known as Cini Boeri after taking her husband's surname, was an Italian architect and designer, managing to be one of the few female references of the most important period for design in Italy.
Cini was born in 1924, in the city of Milan. Once World War II was over, she enrolled in architecture, a career reserved exclusively for men. She obtained a degree from the Milan Polytechnic in 1951.
She began her professional work in Gio Ponti's studio, where she later transferred to Marco Zanuso's studio until 1963, the year she decided to open her own office, Boeri Architetti.
Among her works, we find an interesting production of furniture and single-family homes, following the ideals of form follows function, she managed to develop a distinguished and skillful job. She sought in her works balances between the rigid and the organic, relationships between interior and exterior.
Following these ideas, Cini developed revolutionary pieces of furniture for the time, based on the need for adaptation, flexibility, and change, such as the Serpentone sofa, which was sold by the meter, or the Prada extendable bag. Her architecture was also endowed with flexible quality, with sliding walls that allowed to change the area of the rooms. She believed that in the future, homes would hybridize to become our workspace, hence the importance of creating a changing and adaptive architecture.
Boeri was a member of the Board of Directors at the XVI Triennale di Milano in 1981, a professor at the Polytechnic of Milano, she has been part of the jury in different competitions and has given lectures at academic institutions around the world. She received many awards throughout her extensive professional career before saying goodbye to us in 2020.
- Jennifer Newsom Dream the Combine
Jennifer Newsom is an architect, artist, and director of the Minneapolis-based office of architecture and design Dream the Combine. Newsom earned her bachelor's degree from Yale University, and she is currently a professor at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture.
She founded in 2013, together with her partner Tom Carruthers, Dream the Combine, a studio that has produced numerous installations in different places in the US and Canada, through which they explore the limits between real perceptions and daydreams. They are winners of the 2018 Young Architects Program at MoMA PS1 for their Hide & Seek installation, and were recently named winners of the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Award 2020-2021.
Dream the Combine's work mixes the real with the imaginary to create perceptual uncertainties, casting doubt on our supposed "real" view of the world. They use techniques such as duplication (mirrors), juxtaposition (collage), or superposition (projection), transmitting different points of view at the same time, creating new spatial possibilities that move away from the usual architectural spaces.
Dream the Combine has exhibited at MoMA and MoMA PS1 in New York and Seattle WA, East Haddam CT, Vancouver BC, Rome Italy, Minneapolis MN, and St. Paul MN. Her work has been published widely, including Metropolis magazine, Architect, Log, Architectural Record, The Architects Newspaper, and Dezeen. They are currently working on the upcoming facilities in Cincinnati OH, Wilkinsburg PA, and Columbus IN. They spoke extensively on issues related to race and architecture, searching their installations for anti-racist designs.
- Juana Sánchez Gómez DJ arquitectura
Juana Sánchez comes from Baza, a city in the province of Granada, Spain. From her youth, she was attracted to art, a hobby that took her years later to begin her studies in architecture at the Higher Technical School of Architecture in Granada. She completes her studies at the Institut für Landschaftsarchitektur of the Technical University of Berlin.
She begins her independent activity after collaborating with several Granada studios, founding her together with Diego Jiménez López, with whom she had coincided during her student years. Together they founded the architecture office DJ arquitectura, in the Granada city of Motril.
DJ architecture links her professional work with research, linked to her teaching occupation. They have carried out projects of very diverse scales ranging from landscaping to product design.
It is interesting to highlight their ideas regarding collective housing, in which they have obtained recognition in successive Europan competitions, reflecting on these ideas in different locations. Among her projects are the award-winning work Public Swimming Pool in an Artificial Valley, built-in 2009 in Granada, her sculptural project at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Malaga, or the urban project in the Port of Motril.
Juana Sánchez is linked to teaching, teaching at the Escuela Técnica Superiore de Arquitectura in Malaga in the area of Urban Planning and Spatial Planning, relating this matter to her professional work and the subject of her doctoral thesis. Juana is a master's teacher, has been invited as a speaker at various national and international architecture schools, and has been part of the jury in competitions such as Europan.
In addition to her work in the studio, Juana has developed artistic, illustration, and design projects, such as a children's clothing brand and murals for the decoration of the children's oncology area of the Sonespaces hospital in Mallorca.
- Kimberly Dowdell HOK Chicago
Kimberly Dowdell is an architect and lecturer on questions of the future of architecture. She is currently the director of the Chicago HOK studio, as well as the former national president of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), where she has worked to facilitate the access of women and people of color to the profession. Dowdell is a co-founder of the Economic Social Environmental Design Network (SEED), a network that seeks to promote design justice and inclusivity.
Kimberly Dowdell was born and raised in Detroit. She graduated from Cornell University with a BA in Architecture in 2006, completing her graduate studies at Harvard University in 2015.
After completing her studies at Cornell, Kimberly began working in HOK's New York office in 2008. After completing her graduate studies at Harvard, Dowdell worked at various institutions focused on revitalizing the vacant spaces of the city of Detroit. During this time, Kimberly combined her professional work with teaching at the University of Michigan, in the urban planning department.
She is the director and principal architect of the HOK office in Chicago, where she has been part of large constructions, such as the Hamad airport passenger terminal. She was also elected president of the NOMA, with a two-year term in which Dowdell has focused her efforts on increasing equity and diversity in the profession.
Kimberly, despite her short professional work, has been awarded several times, one of the most important is the AIA Young Architects Award, in 2020. It is important to highlight her involvement in breaking down racial and gender barriers.
- Lucía Cano SelgasCano
Lucía Cano is a Spanish architect, founder of the Madrid office Selgascano, whose work stands out mainly for its polychromy, the search for new materials, and the relationship between the landscape and its architecture.
Lucía Cano herself obtained her architecture degree in 1992 at the Madrid Higher Technical School of Architecture, beginning her professional career at the Cano Lasso Studio, collaborating on works such as the ‘Sace’ Laboratories on the Murcia university campus. In 2003 she founded the Selgascano studio together with the architect José García Selgas, achieving international recognition with the projects carried out.
The most outstanding projects of her within the wide range of works carried out, we highlight her own office, the Study between the trees, built-in Madrid, the Factory Mérida, or the congress centers of Plasencia and the congress center of Cartagena. In all her works, the use of polychrome stands out, in addition to the ability of the architects to understand the environment where the architectural work is inserted.
In 2015, they became the first Spanish architecture studio to be chosen to carry out the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London. Selgascano proposes an ephemeral project built based on polymers and plastics, achieving a pavilion that stands out, especially for its organic shapes and the polish of its materials.
Throughout their career, they have received international recognition such as the Kunstpreis prize awarded in 2013 by the Berlin Academy of Arts, or the declaration as "Architects of the Year" by the German Council of Design in Munich in the same year.
SelgasCano's work has been presented at the MoMa and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Venice Biennale, the GA Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, the Design Museum in London, the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin, at The Sheds Gallery in Sydney and MIT in Boston.
- Momoyo Kaijima Atelier Bow-Wow
Momoyo Kaijima is a Japanese architect who co-founded the Atelier Bow-Wow, a studio that has excelled in the world of architecture since it was founded in 1992 with Yoshiharu Tsukamoto. The firm has been recognized for its drastic approach to designing domestic spaces, in addition to its research exploring the urban conditions of microarchitecture.
Momoyo was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1969. She trained as an architect at the Faculty of Sciences of the Japan Women's University in 1991. A year later, together with her partner Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, she founded the architecture office Atelier Bow-Wow, based in the Japanese city of Tokyo. Since then they have worked uninterruptedly in the creation of projects, currently being the authors of more than 70 built projects.
In her projects, wood stands out as the main and experimental material, also frequently using steel and concrete. The study seeks the constant experimentation of the elements to generate different environmental spaces by integrating into their light, air, water ... incorporating the environment into the project.
Among the recognitions obtained for her architectural work, the international RIBA award stands out. Some of her most outstanding projects are the BMW Guggenheim Lab, the Tower Machiya project with a masterful architectural solution for a building between party walls in Tokyo, the Split Machiya house also located in Tokyo ... among others.
Kaijima and Tsukamoto have developed architectural theories on pet architecture, behaviorology, micro public space, "Da-me Architecture" or bad architecture, generational typology, or empty metabolism. In addition, they have published texts with very relevant content, highlighting the book Anatomía Gráfica, where they show their spectacular plans of the design process of some of their projects.
- Sook-Hee Chun Wise Architecture
Sook-Hee Chun is an architect with a degree in Architecture from Ewha Women's College in Korea. She is doing her Master's studies at the prestigious Princeton University, in California, Berkeley.
She is an architect who has been able to collaborate with important design firms such as Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, in New York City or Iroje Architects and Planners, in Seoul, in her native country.
Sook-Hee Chun is co-founder together with Young Jang of the Wise Architecture studio, formed in 2008. They began projecting smaller-scale works in the city of Seoul, until developing large-scale buildings, such as the MUEm Office Building, the building of the ABC offices, or "Dialogue in the Dark" in Seoul.
They have been commemorated with the Seoul City Architecture Award with the "Museum of War and Women's Human Rights" in 2012 and 2011 the 4th Korea Young Architects Awards.
- Yasmeen Lari Lari Associates
Yasmeen Lari became the first licensed female architect in Pakistan in 1963. Since then, she has designed large-scale buildings such as the financial and commercial center of Karachi or large hotels, to housing projects for refugees after natural disasters.
Yasmeen was born in Pakistan, moving as a young woman to London to study architecture at Oxford University, earning her degree in 1963. A few years later, she returned to Pakistan where she co-founded her professional architecture studio, Lari Associates. She constantly had to demonstrate her ability as a professional in front of the men in the sector who questioned her.
During her career she has developed very varied projects, from brutalist houses to shopping centers and large hotels such as the Taj Mahal in 1981, going through a final stage where she develops projects with a low budget, resorting to traditional construction techniques.
After a long professional career, Lari left her work as an architect in 2000, focusing on the association founded by her husband, "Heritage Foundation of Pakistan", carrying out research work and enhancement of the historical heritage of Pakistan.
Between 2010 and 2014, Lari was involved in the construction of more than 36,000 houses for those affected by floods and earthquakes, using local construction techniques, lifting them off the ground to prevent them from being destroyed again.
Yasmeen Lari has received recognition from the United Nations for promoting culture and peace. In 2011, she was named "Outstanding Woman of the Year", an award to recognize the achievements of the "Most Inspiring Women" of Pakistan. Also, Lari was recently awarded the 2020 Jane Drew Award for her career and her work in paving the way for women in architecture.
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Cazú Zegers. Estudio Cazú Zegers
Cazú Zegers proposes a different angle of approach towards architecture, in an expressive search, intimately related to Chile, its territory, landscape, and traditions. From here arises a task "in progress" that involves a poetic reflection on the way we inhabit the territory.
The thesis that inspires his work is "living light and precarious", referring to a low-tech architecture but with a high experiential impact; understanding that the greatest value of Chile and Latin America is in his territory. He develops an architecture that does not seek to impose itself but to be a kind addition to Nature.
Latin America has something to say to the world, it is a way of doing and thinking with what is at hand, it is a low-tech stance that learns from local processes and their ancestral techniques, which allows living almost without leave a mark on the territory.
This same form of approach to the architectural problem and the question about Chile, led her to found in 2006 together with Miguel Laborde and a group of collaborators the Foundation and Center for Geopoetic Studies, "El Observatorio de Lastarria", a place to look at Chile. A large number of reflections on Chile and its Country identity were developed. The last management of the Lastarria Observatory was the last Act of Commemoration of the Bicentennial of Chile with the Poetic Act and support to receive the Bells of the Church of La Compañía de Jesus. These were donated by the people of Wales to the people of Chile as an act of solidarity for the earthquake and today they are located in the gardens of the Congress of Santiago. In 2014 Cazú Zegers re-founded the Observatory as Fundación + 1000, after giving a talk in Paris in the context of the annual meeting of the Institut de Geopetic Internacional, founded by Keneth White. The foundation belongs to this Institute since 2011, focusing on the virtual space through texts and weekly publications by Miguel Laborde.
The thesis that inspires his work is "living light and precarious", referring to a low-tech architecture but with a high experiential impact; understanding that the greatest value of Chile and Latin America is in his territory. He develops an architecture that does not seek to impose itself but to be a kind addition to Nature.
Latin America has something to say to the world, it is a way of doing and thinking with what is at hand, it is a low-tech stance that learns from local processes and their ancestral techniques, which allows living almost without leave a mark on the territory.
This same form of approach to the architectural problem and the question about Chile, led her to found in 2006 together with Miguel Laborde and a group of collaborators the Foundation and Center for Geopoetic Studies, "El Observatorio de Lastarria", a place to look at Chile. A large number of reflections on Chile and its Country identity were developed. The last management of the Lastarria Observatory was the last Act of Commemoration of the Bicentennial of Chile with the Poetic Act and support to receive the Bells of the Church of La Compañía de Jesus. These were donated by the people of Wales to the people of Chile as an act of solidarity for the earthquake and today they are located in the gardens of the Congress of Santiago. In 2014 Cazú Zegers re-founded the Observatory as Fundación + 1000, after giving a talk in Paris in the context of the annual meeting of the Institut de Geopetic Internacional, founded by Keneth White. The foundation belongs to this Institute since 2011, focusing on the virtual space through texts and weekly publications by Miguel Laborde.
Christine Lam
Christine Lam joined Aedas in 1998 and become a Global Design Principal in 2016. Christine is a talented design architect with 18 years of design experience. She has worked upon a wide spectrum of building types and completed a number of high-profile developments across PRC and Asia.
Christine's design expertise in retail and mixed-use design. She was the Lead Architect for the retail re-planning and design of The Landmark Redevelopment for Hongkong Land and Lee Gardens 2 Renovation for Hysan. As a Design Director, she completed the 250,000sq.m Center 66 in Wuxi for Hang Lung. Christine was then commissioned by Hang Lung to complete the 220,000sq.m, 6 storey retail mall Olympia 66 in Dalian. She is now completing Heartland 66, a 460,000 sq m mixed-use development in Wuhan for the same client.
Christine received an honourable mention for her West Kowloon Reclamation Concept Plan Competition out of 161 open entries. Her design works have also won commendations from MIPIM ASIA, CITYSCAPE, APPA, IPA as well as HKIA, and her talented contribution to architecture has won her a 40 under 40 Award. Christine’s design ability is highly recognised by the Client and always exceeds their expectations.
Christine is also a regular speaker at major international and local conferences on the new trends in retail and mixed commercial developments.
Christine's design expertise in retail and mixed-use design. She was the Lead Architect for the retail re-planning and design of The Landmark Redevelopment for Hongkong Land and Lee Gardens 2 Renovation for Hysan. As a Design Director, she completed the 250,000sq.m Center 66 in Wuxi for Hang Lung. Christine was then commissioned by Hang Lung to complete the 220,000sq.m, 6 storey retail mall Olympia 66 in Dalian. She is now completing Heartland 66, a 460,000 sq m mixed-use development in Wuhan for the same client.
Christine received an honourable mention for her West Kowloon Reclamation Concept Plan Competition out of 161 open entries. Her design works have also won commendations from MIPIM ASIA, CITYSCAPE, APPA, IPA as well as HKIA, and her talented contribution to architecture has won her a 40 under 40 Award. Christine’s design ability is highly recognised by the Client and always exceeds their expectations.
Christine is also a regular speaker at major international and local conferences on the new trends in retail and mixed commercial developments.
Cini Boeri
Cini Boeri. (Milan, 1924 - September 9 2020). Graduated from the Milan Polytechnic in 1951, after a short internship in Giò Ponti's studio, she began a long collaboration with Marco Zanuso. She began her professional activity in 1963, dealing with civil architecture and industrial design.
She has designed single-family homes, apartments, museum installations, offices, shops in Italy and abroad, dedicating great attention to the study of the functionality of space and the psychological relationships between man and the environment. In the field of industrial design she has been particularly involved in the design of elements for furniture and building components. Several of his creations are present in museums and international exhibitions.
She has held conferences and lectures at various universities and institutions in Italy and abroad, in Berkeley, Barcelona, at the Nucleo del Deseno Industrial in Sao Paulo, at the College of Architects in Rio de Janeiro, at the Cranbrook School in Detroit, at the Southern California Institute. of Architecture by Vico Marcote (CH), at the Pacific Design Center and UCLA in Los Angeles, at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, University of Italian Switzerland.
In the years '81 -'83 she carried out courses in "architectural design" and "industrial design and furniture" at the Faculty of Architecture of the Politecnico di Milano. Member of the Board of Directors of the XVI Triennale di Milano. She participated in numerous juries of international competitions and received numerous international awards. Appointed ADI Honorary Member, 2012.
Selected bibliography:
Cini Boeri, Le dimensioni umane dell'abitazione, Franco Angeli, Milan 1980.
Saggio, La dimensione del domestico, in, M. Bertoldini (a cura di), La casa tra tecniche e sogno, Franco Angeli, Milan 1988.
Saggio, Progettista e committente, in Struttura e percorsi dell'atto progettuale, Città Studi ed., Milan 1991.
Cecilia Avogadro (a cura di), Cini Boeri, architetto e designer, Silvana Editoriale, Milan 2004.
She has designed single-family homes, apartments, museum installations, offices, shops in Italy and abroad, dedicating great attention to the study of the functionality of space and the psychological relationships between man and the environment. In the field of industrial design she has been particularly involved in the design of elements for furniture and building components. Several of his creations are present in museums and international exhibitions.
She has held conferences and lectures at various universities and institutions in Italy and abroad, in Berkeley, Barcelona, at the Nucleo del Deseno Industrial in Sao Paulo, at the College of Architects in Rio de Janeiro, at the Cranbrook School in Detroit, at the Southern California Institute. of Architecture by Vico Marcote (CH), at the Pacific Design Center and UCLA in Los Angeles, at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, University of Italian Switzerland.
In the years '81 -'83 she carried out courses in "architectural design" and "industrial design and furniture" at the Faculty of Architecture of the Politecnico di Milano. Member of the Board of Directors of the XVI Triennale di Milano. She participated in numerous juries of international competitions and received numerous international awards. Appointed ADI Honorary Member, 2012.
Selected bibliography:
Cini Boeri, Le dimensioni umane dell'abitazione, Franco Angeli, Milan 1980.
Saggio, La dimensione del domestico, in, M. Bertoldini (a cura di), La casa tra tecniche e sogno, Franco Angeli, Milan 1988.
Saggio, Progettista e committente, in Struttura e percorsi dell'atto progettuale, Città Studi ed., Milan 1991.
Cecilia Avogadro (a cura di), Cini Boeri, architetto e designer, Silvana Editoriale, Milan 2004.
Jennifer Newsom
Jennifer Newsom received her Bachelor of Arts from Yale College and her Master of Architecture from Yale University, where she also received the Fermin Ennis Memorial Fellowship and the Anne C.K. Garland award for academic achievement. While at Yale, she organized the two-day symposium Black Boxes: Enigmas of Space and Race held at Yale School of Architecture.
Recently appointed an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture, she teaches undergraduate and graduate architectural design studios. She is also a past instructor at Juxtaposition Arts, a youth empowerment and apprenticeship program in North Minneapolis.
Jennifer's research probes the conceptual space between real bodies made of flesh, steel, concrete, glass, etc, and the recognition of these bodies through images. Using race as a provocative impetus for her work, she is concerned with surface perceptions and the structures that support those readings. She has worked with firms as diverse as Adjaye Associates, Deborah Berke Partners, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, and Cooper Robertson.
Her writing has been featured in Metropolis Magazine, Architect Magazine, and Africana: The Encyclopedia of African and African-American Experience.
Recently appointed an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture, she teaches undergraduate and graduate architectural design studios. She is also a past instructor at Juxtaposition Arts, a youth empowerment and apprenticeship program in North Minneapolis.
Jennifer's research probes the conceptual space between real bodies made of flesh, steel, concrete, glass, etc, and the recognition of these bodies through images. Using race as a provocative impetus for her work, she is concerned with surface perceptions and the structures that support those readings. She has worked with firms as diverse as Adjaye Associates, Deborah Berke Partners, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, and Cooper Robertson.
Her writing has been featured in Metropolis Magazine, Architect Magazine, and Africana: The Encyclopedia of African and African-American Experience.
Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers. Dream The Combine
Dream The Combine is the creative practice of artists and architects Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers, based in Minneapolis, MN. Working with engineer Clayton Binkley and a trusted group of fabricators, Dream The Combine investigate the conceptual overlaps in art, architecture, and cultural theory through structures that disrupt assumed dichotomies and
manipulate the boundary between real and illusory space.
manipulate the boundary between real and illusory space.
Jennifer Newsom received her Bachelor of Arts from Yale College and her Master of Architecture from Yale University, where she also received the Fermin Ennis Memorial Fellowship and the Anne C.K. Garland award for academic achievement. While at Yale, she organized the two-day symposium Black Boxes: Enigmas of Space and Race held at Yale School of Architecture. Recently appointed an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture, she teaches undergraduate and graduate architectural design studios. Using race as a provocative impetus for her work, she is concerned with surface perceptions and the structures that support those readings. She has worked with firms as diverse as Adjaye Associates, Deborah Berke Partners, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, and Cooper Robertson. Her writing has been featured in Metropolis magazine and Africana: The Encyclopedia of African and African - American Experience.
Tom Carruthers received his Bachelor of Arts in drawing and sculpture from Brown University and his Master of Architecture from Yale University. His early work consists of site- specific sculptures that explore landscape as metaphor and image as space. For four years, he was lead assistant for artist Ursula von Rydingsvard, helping with the construction of over 20 large scale sculptural works. As a licensed architect, he worked alongside the late Charles Gwathmey and at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, developing early concept proposals with formal strategies that integrate context, complex geometry, and material construction. In addition to his creative practice, Tom is co-owner of Jacobsson Carruthers, a metal fabrication shop in Minneapolis.
Tom Carruthers received his Bachelor of Arts in drawing and sculpture from Brown University and his Master of Architecture from Yale University. His early work consists of site- specific sculptures that explore landscape as metaphor and image as space. For four years, he was lead assistant for artist Ursula von Rydingsvard, helping with the construction of over 20 large scale sculptural works. As a licensed architect, he worked alongside the late Charles Gwathmey and at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, developing early concept proposals with formal strategies that integrate context, complex geometry, and material construction. In addition to his creative practice, Tom is co-owner of Jacobsson Carruthers, a metal fabrication shop in Minneapolis.
Juana Sánchez Gómez
Juana Sánchez comes from Baza, a city in the province of Granada, Spain. From her youth, she was attracted to art, a hobby that took her years later to begin her studies in architecture at the Higher Technical School of Architecture in Granada. She completes her studies at the Institut für Landschaftsarchitektur of the Technical University of Berlin.
She begins her independent activity after collaborating with several Granada studios, founding her together with Diego Jiménez López, with whom she had coincided during her student years. Together they founded the architecture office DJ arquitectura, in the Granada city of Motril.
Juana Sánchez is linked to teaching, teaching at the Escuela Técnica Superiore de Arquitectura in Malaga in the area of Urban Planning and Spatial Planning, relating this matter to her professional work and the subject of her doctoral thesis. Juana is a master's teacher, has been invited as a speaker at various national and international architecture schools, and has been part of the jury in competitions such as Europan.
She begins her independent activity after collaborating with several Granada studios, founding her together with Diego Jiménez López, with whom she had coincided during her student years. Together they founded the architecture office DJ arquitectura, in the Granada city of Motril.
Juana Sánchez is linked to teaching, teaching at the Escuela Técnica Superiore de Arquitectura in Malaga in the area of Urban Planning and Spatial Planning, relating this matter to her professional work and the subject of her doctoral thesis. Juana is a master's teacher, has been invited as a speaker at various national and international architecture schools, and has been part of the jury in competitions such as Europan.
Juana Sánchez, Diego Jiménez. DJarquitectura
DJarquitectura began in 2001 and is formed by the Architects Juana Sánchez and Diego Jiménez, the office is located on the coast of Granada and from there they develop their work individually or in association. DJarquitectura maintains a commitment to research and teaching, both are professors at the eAM´.
Kimberly Dowdell
Kimberly Dowdell collaborates with other members of the leadership team in HOK’s Chicago studio on strategic business development and marketing initiatives. In addition to cultivating and maintaining relationships with clients and partners, she is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and events and a mentor to HOK’s emerging leaders.
In 2021, Kimberly joined the board of directors of the Architects Foundation, the philanthropic partner of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). She also joined the board of the Chicago Area Central Committee (CCAC), which works to shape the city’s growth, equity and quality of place. She has been a board member of Ingenuity Chicago, which increases arts education access, equity and quality, since 2019.
Kimberly is the immediate past president (2019-2020) of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) and a 2020 AIA Young Architects Award recipient. She was recognized for her activism efforts by Architectural Record’s 2020 Women in Architecture Awards program.
Kimberly is a member of the Urban Land Institute. She initiated the concept behind Social Economic Environmental Design, an organization that she cofounded in 2005, and was a “40 Under 40” honoree in both Crain’s Chicago Business and Crain’s Detroit Business. In 2019, Kimberly delivered the 19th Annual Dunlop Lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
In 2021, Kimberly joined the board of directors of the Architects Foundation, the philanthropic partner of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). She also joined the board of the Chicago Area Central Committee (CCAC), which works to shape the city’s growth, equity and quality of place. She has been a board member of Ingenuity Chicago, which increases arts education access, equity and quality, since 2019.
Kimberly is the immediate past president (2019-2020) of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) and a 2020 AIA Young Architects Award recipient. She was recognized for her activism efforts by Architectural Record’s 2020 Women in Architecture Awards program.
Kimberly is a member of the Urban Land Institute. She initiated the concept behind Social Economic Environmental Design, an organization that she cofounded in 2005, and was a “40 Under 40” honoree in both Crain’s Chicago Business and Crain’s Detroit Business. In 2019, Kimberly delivered the 19th Annual Dunlop Lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Lucía Cano
Lucía Cano is a Spanish architect, founder of the Madrid office Selgascano, whose work stands out mainly for its polychromy, the search for new materials, and the relationship between the landscape and its architecture.
Lucía herself obtained her architecture degree in 1992 at the Madrid Higher Technical School of Architecture, beginning her professional career at the Cano Lasso Studio, collaborating on works such as the ‘Sace’ Laboratories on the Murcia university campus. In 2003 she founded the Selgascano studio together with the architect José García Selgas, achieving international recognition with the projects carried out.n
Throughout their career, they have received international recognition such as the Kunstpreis prize awarded in 2013 by the Berlin Academy of Arts, or the declaration as "Architects of the Year" by the German Council of Design in Munich in the same year.
Lucía herself obtained her architecture degree in 1992 at the Madrid Higher Technical School of Architecture, beginning her professional career at the Cano Lasso Studio, collaborating on works such as the ‘Sace’ Laboratories on the Murcia university campus. In 2003 she founded the Selgascano studio together with the architect José García Selgas, achieving international recognition with the projects carried out.n
Throughout their career, they have received international recognition such as the Kunstpreis prize awarded in 2013 by the Berlin Academy of Arts, or the declaration as "Architects of the Year" by the German Council of Design in Munich in the same year.
Arquitectos. SelgasCano
SelgasCano is a Madrid-based practice leads by Jose Selgas (Madrid, 1965) and Lucia Cano (Madrid, 1965). José Selgas. Graduated Architect from ETSA Madrid 1992. Worked with Francesco Venecia on Naples in 1994-95. Rome Prize on the Spain Academy of Fine Arts in Rome 1997-98. Lucía Cano. Graduated Architect from ETSA Madrid 1992. Worked with Julio Cano Lasso until 1996. Member of Cano Lasso Studio since 1997 until 2003.
Prizes. 1st Prize on Compettion of Alternative on Social Housing, Madrid, 1993. 1st Prize on Compettion. 67 Social Dwellings in Las Rosas, Madrid, 1996. 1st Prize on Compettion, Congress Center and Auditorium, Badajoz, 1999-2006. 1st Prize on Compettion, Auditorium and Congress Center, Cartagena, 2001-2011. 1st Prize on Compettion, Congress Center and Auditorium, Plasencia, 2005 (on construction) . Prize VII BIAU Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, 2010. Prize AD Architectural Digest 2011. Selected Mies Van Der Rohe Award, 2011. Madrid City Architecture Award, 2002 + 2007. Madrid Region Architecture Award, 2003. 2nd Prize on Compettion, Madrid Main Court. Madrid, 2008.
Exhibitions: Exhibition at MoMA New York: On-Site: New Architecture in Spain, 2006. Biennale di Venezia, 2006. Shortlisted Saloni Prize 2007 - 2009. Shortlisted IX Spanish Architecture Biennial Exhibition, 2007. Exhibition GA International, 2008-2009-2010 (GA Gallery), Tokyo 2008-2009-2010. Exhibition Guggenheim New York, Contenplating The Void, 2010. Biennale di Venezia, 2010: People meet in Architecture International Pavillion + What architects desire, German Pavillion. Tokyo Art Meeting (II). A new relationship between architecture, art and people, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2011.
In 2012 the architects exhibited in the Spanish Pavilion at the 13th International Architecture Biennale, Venice, as part of SPAINLab. In 2013 they won the Kunstpreis (Art prize) awarded by the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin and were pronounced 'Architects of the Year' by the German Design Council in Munich.
Momoyo Kaijima
Momoyo Kaijima (b.1961, Tokyo) graduated from the Faculty of Domestic Science at Japan Women’s University in 1991. She founded Atelier Bow-Wow with Yoshiharu Tsukamoto in 1992. In 1994 she received her post-graduate degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. During 1996-1997 she was a guest student with scholarship from Switzerland at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ).
In 2000 she completed her post-graduate program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. She served as an assistant professor at the Art and Design School of the University of Tsukuba during 2000-2009, and continued to teach there as an associate professor. In 2012 she received the RIBA International Fellowship.
From 2017 she has been serving as a Professor of Architectural Behaviorology at ETHZ. Taught as a visiting professor at the Department of Architecture at Harvard GSD (2003, 2016), guest professor at ETHZ (2005-07), as well as at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2011-12), Rice University (2014 -15), Delft University of Technology (2015 -16), and Columbia University (2017). While engaging in design projects for houses, public buildings and station plazas, she has conducted numerous investigations of the city through architecture such as Made in Tokyo and Pet Architecture.
In 2000 she completed her post-graduate program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. She served as an assistant professor at the Art and Design School of the University of Tsukuba during 2000-2009, and continued to teach there as an associate professor. In 2012 she received the RIBA International Fellowship.
From 2017 she has been serving as a Professor of Architectural Behaviorology at ETHZ. Taught as a visiting professor at the Department of Architecture at Harvard GSD (2003, 2016), guest professor at ETHZ (2005-07), as well as at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2011-12), Rice University (2014 -15), Delft University of Technology (2015 -16), and Columbia University (2017). While engaging in design projects for houses, public buildings and station plazas, she has conducted numerous investigations of the city through architecture such as Made in Tokyo and Pet Architecture.
ATELIER BOW-WOW
Atelier Bow-Wow was established in 1992 by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima in Tokyo. Best known for its projects in dense urban environments, the firm has developed its practice based on a profound study of existing cultural, economic, and environmental conditions—a study that led it to propose the term “pet architecture” for the multitude of odd, and functional little buildings wedged into tiny sites around Tokyo. Atelier Bow-Wow has also acquired an enthusiastic following through its Micro Public Space projects, as well as innovative projects for exhibitions such as the 2010 Venice Biennale (as an official representative of Japan) and the São Paulo Bienal, and at venues such as the Hayward Gallery in London, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, The Gallery at REDCAT in Los Angeles, the Japan Society in New York, and the OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich in Linz, Austria.
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
1965 Born in Kanagawa, Japan
1987 Graduate from Tokyo Institute of Technology
1987-88 Guest Student of L'ecole d'architecture, Paris, Bellville (U.P.8)
1994 Graduate from Post-graduate school of Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dr.Eng.
2000- Associate Professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology
2003, 2007 Visiting Faculty of Harvard GSD
2007, 2008 Visiting Associate Professor of UCLA
Momoyo Kaijima
1969 Born in Tokyo, Japan
1991 Graduate from Japan Women's University
1994 Graduate from Graduate school of Tokyo Institute of Technology, M.Eng.
1996-97 Guest student of E.T.H
1999 Graduate from Post-graduate school of Tokyo Institute of Technology
2000- Assistant professor of University of Tsukuba
2003 Visiting Faculty of Harvard GSD
2005-07 ETHZ Guest Professor
2009- Associate professor of University of Tsukuba
Sook Hee Chun
Sook Hee Chun received her Master of Architecture from Princeton University after receiving a Bachelor of Architecture from Ewha Woman's University in Korea.
She worked at Iroje Architects and Planners, Seoul, Korea, and Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, New York.
After establishing WISE Architecture with Young Cheol Jang in 2008, the two completed several small but significant projects that focus on the materiality of everyday life in Seoul.
They have also participated in many cross-architecture activities such as planning and executing the 'Hong Ti public art project' in Busan in collaboration with other artists.
Recently completed "Dialogue in the Dark" Bukchon, Seoul. They won the Seoul City Architecture Award with the "Women's War and Human Rights Museum" in 2012 and 2011 the 4th Korea Young Architects Awards.
She worked at Iroje Architects and Planners, Seoul, Korea, and Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, New York.
After establishing WISE Architecture with Young Cheol Jang in 2008, the two completed several small but significant projects that focus on the materiality of everyday life in Seoul.
They have also participated in many cross-architecture activities such as planning and executing the 'Hong Ti public art project' in Busan in collaboration with other artists.
Recently completed "Dialogue in the Dark" Bukchon, Seoul. They won the Seoul City Architecture Award with the "Women's War and Human Rights Museum" in 2012 and 2011 the 4th Korea Young Architects Awards.
Yasmeen Lari
Yasmeen Lari. Born in Dera Ghazi Khan in Pakistan, Yasmeen Lari spent some years in Lahore before moving to London with her family at the age of 15. She studied at Oxford Brookes School of Architecture, graduating in 1964 and moving back to Pakistan to open her practice in Karachi. She designed the Anguri Bagh housing project in Lahore in 1973 and Lines Area Resettlement in 1980, a complex of self-built, incremental housing for the residents of the largest informal settlement spread over more than 200 acres in Karachi.
Lari made her name in the 1980s with landmark buildings in Karachi, including the Finance and Trade Centre (1983-89), developed in consultation with the Canadian architect Eva Vecsei, and Pakistan State Oil House (1985-91). She formally retired in 2000, becoming UNESCO’s national adviser for World Heritage Lahore Fort in 2003, but when an earthquake hit the Northern Areas of Pakistan in 2005, Lari turned to strategies of rehabilitation, instituting self-financing models that helped survivors rebuild without government assistance.
Lari started working in bamboo in 2007, providing community kitchens to refugees of the conflict in Swat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, continuing in 2010 when floods hit the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces, to build community centres on stilts that allowed flood waters to flow underneath. ‘Barefoot architecture’ – architecture that treads lightly upon the planet – is the basis of this work, aiming to provide environmentally sustainable and participative solutions to lift up marginalised communities.
Lari made her name in the 1980s with landmark buildings in Karachi, including the Finance and Trade Centre (1983-89), developed in consultation with the Canadian architect Eva Vecsei, and Pakistan State Oil House (1985-91). She formally retired in 2000, becoming UNESCO’s national adviser for World Heritage Lahore Fort in 2003, but when an earthquake hit the Northern Areas of Pakistan in 2005, Lari turned to strategies of rehabilitation, instituting self-financing models that helped survivors rebuild without government assistance.
Lari started working in bamboo in 2007, providing community kitchens to refugees of the conflict in Swat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, continuing in 2010 when floods hit the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces, to build community centres on stilts that allowed flood waters to flow underneath. ‘Barefoot architecture’ – architecture that treads lightly upon the planet – is the basis of this work, aiming to provide environmentally sustainable and participative solutions to lift up marginalised communities.
