Morphosis Architects, USA : Architecture Information

MORPHOSIS ARCHITECTS Morphosis is a collective practice committed to rigorous design and research that yields innovative buildings and urban environments. With permanent offices in Los Angeles and New York City, site offices in Paris and Shanghai, and projects worldwide, the firm’s work encompasses a wide range of project types and scales including residential, institutional, cultural and civic buildings as well as large urban planning projects. The firm engages contemporary society and culture through architectural design and education. We begin every project by asking broad questions; guided by the project itself, we query a wide range of cultural, urban, political, and ecological knowledge to discover ideas that stimulate the relevance and creativity of our designs. Resolution emerges as our understanding of the project allows us to synthesize increasingly complex inputs, ideas, and challenges. We seek design choices that optimize the use of natural resources, human comfort, energy conservation, and sustainability to yield high performance buildings and urban environments. Finally, we arrive at a work that is multivalent, layered, and integrative. Since its founding, Morphosis has received 25 Progressive Architecture awards, over 90 American Institute of Architects (AIA) awards and numerous other honors in recognition of the firm’s innovative work. Morphosis has been the subject of group and solo exhibitions around the world, including, Continuities of the Incomplete, an exhibition of Morphosis’s work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France in 2006. Drawings, functional objects, furniture and models produced by Morphosis are in the permanent collections of institutions including MoMA, New York; SF MoMA, San Francisco; the MAK, Vienna; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; and FRAC Centre, France. Morphosis buildings and projects are published extensively in prominent architectural publications internationally. In collaboration with academic institutions worldwide, the studio has conducted extensive research on contemporary urban issues and has produced a series of publications including LA Now, Volumes One through Four. Morphosis has also been the subject of over 20 monographs, including a 2003 monograph from Phaidon, and 5 volumes published by Rizzoli International that span the complete works of the firm. Morphosis Architects - Buildings, alphabetical: 6th Street Residence, Santa Monica, California, USA 1988 41 Cooper Square, New York, USA 2009- 41 Cooper Square Blades Residence, Santa Barbara, California, USA 1995 Caltrans District 7 Headquarters, Los Angeles, California, USA 2004 Cedar Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, USA 1988 Cooper Union Architecture School, East Village, New York, USA 2006 Crawford Residence, Montecito, California, USA 1990 Diamond Ranch High School, Pomona, California, USA 1999 Hypo Alpe Adria Bank Headquarters, Udine, Italy 2007 Hypo Alpe Adria Bank Headquarters, Zagreb, Croatia - Hypo Alpe Adria Bank Headquarters, Klagenfurt, Austria 2002 Kate Mantilini, Beverly Hills, California, USA 1986 Los Angeles Center, Emerson College, Hollywood, California, USA 2008- Los Angeles Center Perot Museum of Nature & Science, Dallas, USA 2009- Perot Museum of Nature & Science The Phare, Paris, France 2007-12 rendering Unibail-Morphosis Phare Tower Paris Recreation Centre - University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 2006 Salick Healthcare Office Building, Los Angeles, California, USA 1991 San Francisco Federal Courthouse, San Francisco, USA 2006 Science Center School, Los Angeles, California, USA 2004 Sun Tower, Seoul, South Korea 1997 United States Federal Building, San Francisco, USA 2006 US Federal building University of Toronto Graduate housing, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2000 Wayne L. Morse United States Courthouse, Eugene, Oregon, USA 2006 More projects online soon Morphosis Architects : main page Practice Information Morphosis Architects studio location: Santa Monica, California, USA Thom Mayne co-founded Morphosis photo : Richard Schulman American Architects New Morphosis Book + Website, 4 Mar 2009 Thom Mayne : Pritzker Prize winner 2005 Morphosis Architects exhibition - Pompidou Centre Paris