What does architecture mean now? Like, right now? According to Arch Is_, a new award given by the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects, architecture means bold, gravity-defying forms, experimental materials, and patterns and behaviors inspired by nature. Aia/La recently named two firms that master these concepts--Oyler Wu Collaborative and Emergent--as its 2010 Arch Is_ winners, effectively declaring them the two firms to watch in Los Angeles this year.
Oyler Wu Collaborative, headed by Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu, bend simple lines into jungle-gym quality configurations like the Materials & Applications installation Density Fields (top left), a massive cantilevered structure made from aluminum tubing and polypropeleyne rope. The same material found a home in another competition-winning idea: Live Wire (above) was a staircase-like element that joined two floors of the gallery at the Southern California Instititute of Architecture (Sci-Arc).
Oyler Wu's Tapei Tower uses stainless steel screens to...
Oyler Wu Collaborative, headed by Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu, bend simple lines into jungle-gym quality configurations like the Materials & Applications installation Density Fields (top left), a massive cantilevered structure made from aluminum tubing and polypropeleyne rope. The same material found a home in another competition-winning idea: Live Wire (above) was a staircase-like element that joined two floors of the gallery at the Southern California Instititute of Architecture (Sci-Arc).
Oyler Wu's Tapei Tower uses stainless steel screens to...
- 2/23/2010
- by Alissa Walker
- Fast Company
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