Life
Attention is all we need
What our brains can learn from our buildings? “Attention is the thing we offer, that we owe most to the world we live in… I do find it the regulatory ideal.
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Life
Introduction to CAZA
“Cooking is the language through which society unconsciously reveals its structure” -Claude Levi-Strauss Our stance on authenticity stems from a love affair with the primitive forms found in the dustbins of Euclidean…
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Life
Failure
How do we make sense of failure? Most of our projects will be stymied or interrupted. Near bankruptcy seems endemic to a new architecture practice.
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Life
Looseness
1 looseness. Relaxaxtion 2 pull back fast after contact 3 constant rhythm 4 move right when you want to hit left. 5 protect but open.
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Life
Making The Shot While Falling: On Iversonian Beauty
“Something beautiful fills the mind yet invites the search for something beyond itself, something larger or something of the same scale with which it needs to be brought into relation.
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Life
On Innovation
We have started to doubt the innovation narrative. What if our thirst for the cutting edge is misguided? What if all this running does not bring us to the front?
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Life
Slip Left then Punch Right: Anticipating Volatility
“To gaze in on another may be an inadequate path to understanding, but in the case of boxing, it might be the only one” -Christopher Bedford Boxing is probably our earliest form of civilized combat.
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Life
Overlay
Our first job is to stack one thing on top of another without seeking alignment. This doesn’t block or cancel the previous layer—it multiplies the original through a deliberately crooked repetition.
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Life
On Practice
We have worked for the last 5 years on projects in the Philippines—an archipelago located 5,000 miles away from our studio in Brooklyn.
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Thoughts
Eco-Industrialization
Our communities have always been mixed-use. Environmental volatility requires more from our settlements. They need to be both diverse and compact.
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Thoughts
Regenerative Health
We are living longer. Scientific breakthroughs are coming faster. The prospect of actively aging communities with unique needs is a challenge we have not faced.
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Thoughts
Parametric Design
Architects have always been modular builders. We operate in a finite world with limited resources. The economics of time privileges efficiency.
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