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— A New Talent Exhibit. x Location: The Merchandise Mart, Chicago Year: 2017 Team: Stewart Hicks, Allison Newmeyer, Valerie Wong Images by Jessica...

Independence Branch Library

— A Library Stair with Housing Atop. We teamed up with Landon Bone Baker architects for a co-located branch library and forty-five units...

— A dollhouse with no interior. A dollhouse is a device for exploring and narrativizing the interior. As typically configured, a dollhouse presents a deep section...

— An exhibition design for New Talents. Metropolis Magazine commissioned us to design a booth to display “New Talent” at the NeoCon 2016 furniture show. We pro...

— A Neighborhood Farm, Horticultural Urban Growth. Hedge HUG is a fictional exploration of a rural urbanism, where the city is brought into and around the farm....

Institute for Gateway Preservation

— A Brick x Brick Exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. “Play as a gateway to building great things.” In response to the LEGO Design Challenge, we are pr...

— The fortification for and of books. Fiction fort is a playful and welcoming fortification for and of books. The rectangular ring of walls are fashioned from...

— The Skewered Column at "Designed to Eat". Design With Company and Jason Hammel constructed a “food column,” composed of five types of skewered bites, each rep...

Belong.Here.Now.

— The Agora for Airbnb at Design Miami. Inspired by Airbnb’s narrative, Belong.Here.Now. is an outdoor forum at Design Miami 2015, inviting visitors to come in a...

Late Entries to the Chicago Public Library Competition

— A BOLD Exhibit at the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial. This Late Entry to the Chicago Public Library Competition uses the parameters of the 1987...

— A Ragdale Ring temporary outdoor theater. For the project and residency, we are proposing to study the buildings of Howard Van Doren Shaw, the architect of...

— A temporary plaza for Robson Robson Street in downtown Vancouver, BC . The porch is the architectural element that connects people and buildings to the city. It...

Misguided Tactics for Propriety Calibration

— A Treatise. Our pamphlet examines the concept of character in architecture by looking closely at constructions in the Midwest which self-consciously construct...

Culture Sampler

— A statistically average mile of the Midwestern United States. The Midwestern Culture sample was constructed for an exhibit at the Graham Foundation in Chicago...

Pavilion MMM...

— The Miami Many-a-chair Monument. This pavilion is a playful temporary addition to Philip Johnson’s Museum Plaza in downtown Miami, FL. The name of the structure ...

— The backyard for The BlueBarn Theater in Omaha, NE. The Pasture is both an accompaniment to the BLUEBARN Theater as well as an activity scaffold that operates...

House of Humours

— A Transformation. The four temperaments is a proto-psychological theory that suggests that there are four fundamental personality types, sanguine...

A Zinery and Ziggurats

— The Archizines for Chicago. This installation at “This Public Works Gallery” is the Chicago leg of the traveling exhibition Archizines. The exhibition features 1...

MacDowell Fellowship

— A Month in New Hampshire.

Tree Tops Garden

— An Urban Vase to Hug or Punch. The Tree Top project introduces a new form of plant ornamentalism to the city, utilizing forest species prized as timber, pulp,...

Collider Activity Center

— A Campus for Climbing and Characters. This project was our entry to a competition for a climbing company in Sophia Bulgaria. Collider Activity Center is a...

Simply Impassible

— A Moulded Folly. SUMMARY Simply Impassible literally translates the definition of a folly into a design process by redeploying forms typically associated with...

— The dogs like parks. The Dog House Pavilion is playful new addition to our beloved Bark District in Southwest Champaign. The pavilion is part of a larger...

The Monument to Bruce

— A Wrecking Ball to Save. A story about an icon whose cultural death came before its material death. This response to the situation of the Prentice Women’s H...

The Second Second City

— A mountain on McCormick Center. This proposal contends with the competing and overlaid desires for the site by creating a new tourist destination and...

Character Buildings

— A Deskasaur and his Stamps. Character Buildings are a series of material and figural investigations for the Independent Media Center (IMC) in Urbana, Illinois....

Bric-a-Brac Shack

— A warming hut. BRIC--BRAC is a French term, first used during the Victorian era, that refers to ornamental objects typically displayed in cabinets full of other...

— A pavilion of stuff. “Stuff, things that have material lives, is not a secondary addition to the architectural situation, or merely an instrument of p...

Fin's Labyrinth

— A place to play with your food. Fin’s Labyrinth is an architecture and urban strategy that encourages you to play with your food. Both a working fish farm and a ...