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Kengo Kuma & Associates
“Fair Exchange,” page 116
principal: Kengo Kuma. office site: Tokyo. office size: 230 architects and administrators. current projects: Waseda International House of Literature (The Haruki Murakami Library) in Tokyo; Ishigaki City city hall in Okinawa, Japan; SaintDenis Pleyel Emblematic Train Station in Paris. honors: John D. Rockefeller 3rd Award; Architecture Institute of Japan Education Award; Global Award for Sustainable Architecture. role model: Frank Lloyd Wright for trying to realize an integration between nature and architecture. away: Kuma has satellite offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Paris. home: Since the COVID19 crisis has begun, he’s been staying local in Tokyo, exploring his area, discovering interesting shops and restaurants, calling the experience “quite inspiring.” kkaa.co.jp
“Master Class,” page 134 founding principal: Peter Q. Bohlin,
FAIA. office site: San Francisco. office size: 30 architects and designers. current projects: Residences in
Waverly, Pennsylvania, and Southampton, New York; railway district mixeduse project in Jerusalem. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Award honoree; AIA Pennsylvania
Honor Award.
role model: Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz, who started as a classicist and became a modernist, doing work that was personal and intuitive. in the ground: Bohlin enjoys spelunking, the recreational exploration of caves. on the surface: He is also a gardener. bcj.com firm site: Los Angeles.
Design Award. Interior Design
“Books, Boats, and Philosophy,” page 126 founder, chief architect: Ting Yu. firm site: Shanghai. firm size: 20 architects and designers. current projects: Bookstores in Shanghai and Sanya, China; a food court in Shanghai. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Commune Design Design Awards. “Fair Exchange,” page 116 role model: Kurt Gödel, the logician co-founder, principal: Roman Alonso. whose incompleteness theorems firm size: 15 architects and designers. current projects: Hotels in Seattle,
Honolulu, and Poughkeepsie, New York. honors: CooperHewitt National
role model: For Ace Kyoto, Charlotte
Perriand and her work in 1940’s
Japan because she immersed herself in the culture and recognized its incredible level of craftsmanship. disintegrated the classical view and fashion forward: Before starting ushered in an open and diverse one. Commune with Steven Johanknecht, present: Yu earned his master’s and Alonso worked for Isaac Mizrahi as PhD in architecture from Tsinghua VP and image director. University and the East China printed matter: He is a co-founder Architecture and Design Institute. of Greybull Press, an art book pubpast: He’s inspired by the works of lishing company. Ni Zan, a Chinese painter who lived communedesign.com during the Yuan Dynasty.
The Wiseman Group Awards; Prix Versailles; International wutopialab.com
“Master Class,” page 134 founder, president: Paul Wiseman. design director: James Hunter. firm site: San Francisco. firm size: 38 architects and designers. current projects: A residence in Silicon Valley, California; a wine cave in Sonoma; Salesforce Towers in Tokyo, Dublin, and Sydney. honors: California Home and Design Award; Julia Morgan Award; SFDC Designers of Distinction Award. in the kitchen: Wiseman is an avid home chef. on the stage: Hunter is board president of the nonprofit Epiphany Dance Theater. wisemangroup.com
Laboratory for Visionary Architecture
“Learning Is All Around,” page 108 co-founder, director: Chris Bosse. office site: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. office size: 20 architects. current projects: Detech headquarters in Hanoi, Vietnam; German Pavilion Expo 2021 in Dubai, UAE; KACST headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. honors: AIA International Chapter Architecture Award commendation;
Sydney Design Awards. role model: The Institute for Lightweight
Structures founder Frei Otto for his experiments with naturally evolving systems to create new building typologies. then: Bosse is originally from Stuttgart, Germany. now: Based in Sydney, where he’s also adjunct professor at the University of Technology, he just opened a LAVA office in Honduras. l-a-v-a.net
Gensler
“Special Effects,” page 150 principal, global director of design:
Jordan Goldstein, FAIA, FIIDA. current projects: Marriott International World Headquarters in
Washington; Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia; CP Towers in Beijing. principal, design director:
John McKinney. current projects: Volkswagen of America headquarters in Reston and
Oxford Finance in Arlington, both in Virginia; Walker & Dunlop headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland. office site: Washington. office size: 350 architects and designers. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Award; NAIOP Northern Virginia Award of Excellence; IIDA MidAtlantic
Merit Award. role model: On the MPA project, movie director Alfred Hitchcock for his mastery at building suspense. school of rock: Goldstein plays electric and acoustic guitar, which he learned from his neighbor, a renowned player. history lesson: McKinney is busy restoring his 1895 house back to its full Victorian glory. gensler.com
