Life
Overlay
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
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.
Life
On Practice
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
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.
Thoughts
Eco-Industrialization
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
Our communities have always been mixed-use. Environmental volatility requires more from our settlements. They need to be both diverse and compact.
Thoughts
Regenerative Health
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
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.
Thoughts
Parametric Design
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
Architects have always been modular builders. We operate in a finite world with limited resources. The economics of time privileges efficiency.
Thoughts
Metabolic Architecture
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
Architecture transforms nature. Every building takes away and gives back to the earth. Construction, at its most elemental, is the process of extracting raw materials to remake them into structures we can use every day.