After the recent re-design of our website, Jonathan Jackson / WSDIA is now finalizing the design of our next book "Strange Objects, New Solids, and Massive Forms", published by ACTAR Spain, and edited by Julia van den Hout / Original Copy.
Save the date for the opening of our exhibit STRANGE OBJECTS, accompanied by the launch of our new book, at the Venice Architecture Biennale at Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy, on May 21st 2021!
Find WSDIA's website HERE
NYCxDESIGN asks challenging questions via The Mic podcast. In March 2021: "How can we advance health and wellness through design? In what ways do built environments, interior spaces, and well-designed experiences foster individual growth and wellbeing?"
Find a duo of fantastic conversations between host Debbie Millman, and guests Winka and Elliot March, touching on the role of health and well-being in our work; from the very beginning to its transformative role in our design process today. Links below.
We were delighted to see our full page featured in SURFACE magazine's Fall 2019 issue. As designed by WSDIA, the layout highlights our commitment to innovation, identity, and clients, with a trio of images enclosed in an eye-catching yellow overlay.
Guest-edited by Yael Reisner, Beauty Matters: Human Judgement and the Pursuit of New Beauties in Post-Digital Architecture posits that "after 80 years of aggressive suppression of engagement with aesthetics, the temporarily dormant preoccupation with beauty is back ... Digital design continues to influence architectural discourse, not only due to changes in manufacturing but also through establishing meaning. The very term ‘post-digital’ was introduced by computational designers and artists, who accept that digital gains in architectural design are augmented by human judgement and cognitive intuition.
The issue takes an interdisciplinary approach to this re-emerging interest in beauty across neuroscience, neuroaesthetics, mathematics, philosophy and architecture, while discussing the work of the international architects, in both practice and academe, who are generating new aesthetics."
Happy International Women's Day!
To highlight the day this year, Dezeen asked 22 of the most influential women in design to nominate a woman who should be better known for their work. We are proud that Winka was highlighted on this list! Find the full article link below.
"The future of architecture is female," write the Architizer Editors, and we can't say it much better ourselves! We are proud to have our founder and principal recognized alongside these leading voices, delivering some of the best architecture around the globe. Read the full article here, and check out our Architizer Popular Choice Winner, the Asian Games 2021 Masterplan and Stadiums on our site at the link below.
"Dubbeldam Diagrid", writes Katie Angen of our Asian Games 2022 Table Tennis Stadium on archpaper.com. Read more from her analysis HERE.
We're proud to announce that our Asian Games 2022 Master Plan and Stadiums has been awarded First Prize in the 9th "Longtu Cup" National BIM Contest by the China Graphics Society!
Out of over 1,500 entries, ours was awarded as the first to coordinate master plan, infrastructure, landscape, and building technologies together across several Building Information Modeling softwares. We'd like to thank and congratulate our collaborators in this submission, ZheJiang Xinsheng Group and China Huadong Engineering Co., LTD.
Feel free to view the victory announcement below the credits of the Master Plan, Table Tennis Stadium, Valley Village, and Field Hockey Stadium projects in English and in Mandarin!
We at Archi-Tectonics sincerely hope everybody had a happy and healthy holiday. Winka had a quick trip to Italy, and joined Floornature's podcast for a full-length episode.
Find the link HERE.
Archi-Tectonics' visionary work and leadership in healthy, sustainable and innovative design is featured in the November edition of American Way, the in-flight magazine of American Airlines, distributed across the globe.
We're sending a big thank-you to Dwell Magazine for featuring the sculptural fence from our North Salem Residence and Landscape in their November and December issue.
In the meantime, you can check out the article on Dwell.com, with a free trial to Dwell+.
We're very excited to share these impressive videos from the construction site of the Hangzhou Asian Games Master Plan and Stadiums: click play on the image to the right to watch! Recorded in October, these clips not only celebrate the buildings and site's progress, but they also thank the fearless on-site workers for their continual efforts, on track for substantial completion in 2021!
Really great news to see the zero-earth strategy of the Master Plan's beginning to take shape, the Table Tennis Stadium's roof enclosed, the Valley Village's road and river successfully crossing over, and the spectacular Field Hockey Stadium's wing structure at scale!
Please join us for a live lecture on Friday, Nov. 6th at 7AM EST, delivered with India's Tiscon eDiscovery Program, aiming to connect young professionals from the architecture, engineering, and construction industries with leaders in the field.
The subject of the webinar and discussion will be the "Future of Home in the New Normal", as described below. Find the web link HERE.
"Post-COVID, architects from all over the world will have the mandate of defining the world’s ‘New Normal’. We firmly believe that the solutions to housing, healthcare, communities, you name it; are to be delivered post-COVID, but first have to be reimagined and not merely fixed by designers."
Please join us in attending The PLAN Award 2020's virtual awards ceremony this Tuesday, October 13th, at 12:00 pm EDT. Free registration is available here. There will be an introductory speech by Martha Thorne, followed by the announcements of the winners of the completed and future projects, and finally the announcement of The PLAN Award, as decided by jurors Winka and others.
We are pleased to announce that our Inscape Meditation Concept has led us to be selected as the winner of 2020 Design Studio of the Year[US] by the Travel & Hospitality Awards! We are very proud and excited to have been selected from over 1000 nominations, and would like to thank the THA Jury and their team for reaching out to us!
From the author: "THA global awards honor the firms and individuals which have displayed excellence in their fields throughout the year, singling out the most active and influential individuals in the travel and hospoitality industry, such as spa & wellness facilities, restaurants, and technology and innovation companies.
Please join us for Winka's online lecture at the University of Melbourne School of Design, titled "Strange Objects", this Tuesday 8/25 at 10 p.m. EST!
Register for the presentation and Q&A HERE.
We are excited to be a part of The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)'s annual event, this year titled Distributed Proximities. Entirely virtual due to the pandemic, the conference will focus on projects "that demonstrate the resilience and ingenuity of the computational design community in the face of crisis,” according to the conference’s website.
Winka will join 22 keynote speakers from across the US and Britain, for the week-long event beginning October 24th. Registration is available here, is open for the general public, and is free for students!
We're excited to announce that, thanks to your support, our Asian Games Park & Stadiums has WON the Popular Choice Award in its category!
We'd like to thank everybody who voted, spread the word, and shared online, for your help!
Click HERE to see the full post.
Watch the full discussion recording HERE.
From Design Pavilion:
"Innovation and beauty are not dependent on money, but require a state of mind that encapsulates concept, innovation, and intent. Social responsibility is part of being a citizen in this world. Every crisis is also a paradigm shift. And that in this shift, sharing knowledge and creativity, even pro-bono, is hugely beneficial for both an architectural practice and people who need it most. The agency of the architect is both in design and in the creation of cross connections, to make the impossible possible.
Probe a fascinating case study of an inventive solution developed in 2008 for a school in crisis in Liberia, that led to a successful application to a recently-completed sustainable passive solar townhouse in New York City."
Find Wallpaper's brand new article on our recently completed 512 GW Townhouse below.
The newest brand statement by forward-thinking fashion, architecture, furniture, homeware, and graphic design studio Siki Im features our joint pavilion, featured at "AMBER", the Arnhem Fashion Biennale, 2011. Find the 'related project' below, as well as Siki Im's website.
Every week, CEO, top-selling agent and entrepreneur Shaun Osher speaks with famous developers, architects and the creators behind some of the most iconic real estate in the world. In this week's ON SITE Podcast, Shaun interviews Winka about her inspirations, philosophy and experiences as an accomplished architect and academic.
You can download the podcast at the link below:
Feel free to join us for Winka's lecture on Thursday, April 30th, at 7:00 p.m. EST, free and open to the public, and will include a live Q&A discussion afterward. Click HERE to register for the ZOOM Link.
Happy Easter everybody! Our great friend Ellen Von Unwerth snapped this photo of her recently completed apartment! Look how the light comes in!
Photo by @ellenvonunwerth via Instagram, February 12th.
From The PLAN: "THE PLAN AWARD is an award created and promoted by THE PLAN to disseminate knowledge of and improve the quality of the work done by designers, academics, critics and students in the architecture, design and city planning fields, thereby promoting debate on topical design and planning themes." Archi-Tectonics has a wonderful relationship with The PLAN, and Winka is excited to join this esteemed jury.
For more information, and to submit your work, visit HERE.
Archinect's Deans List is an interview series with the leaders of architecture schools, worldwide. The series profiles the school’s programs, pedagogical approaches, and academic goals, as defined by the dean–giving an invaluable perspective into the institution’s unique curriculum, faculty, and academic environment.
For their latest installment, Architect spoke with Winka Dubbeldam, Miller Professor and Chair of Architecture of the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.
In the conversation, Winka, who is also a founding principal at Archi-Tectonics, highlights some of the latest research and academic endeavors at the Weitzman School, including the school's new advanced research and innovation lab, innovations in design deliverables, and how the school hopes to integrate recent technological leaps into the design and fabrication process.
Dear Clients, Colleagues and Friends,
As mandated by NYS order to stem the spread of the Coronavirus, our office will be operating remotely until further notice.
We have used the last 2 weeks to make sure we have the necessary infrastructure in place to maintain the professionalism, responsiveness and quality of work you expect from Archi-Tectonics. We are committed to our clients throughout this difficult time, and will continue to service projects and job sites as needed to ensure uninterrupted work progress. We have implemented the following steps to maintain business continuity during isolation:
- All staff has taken their workstations home and has full access to all projects and email
- We have scheduled several daily online office meetings, and are in constant contact
- All non-essential local and out of town travel is canceled
- We arrange client and job meeting per video or phone conference in lieu of in-person meetings
- We have put site visits on a limited, as needed schedule, conducted through FaceTime
- All work and completion schedules are currently being maintained
We will continue to make the safety and welfare of our employees, clients and of our community our utmost priority. We appreciate your support and understanding.
Take care and be safe!!
The AT Team
We'd like to thank Barbara Noordermeer for her great feature in FD, excerpts translated below:
"[NYC] is the place where Dutch architect Winka Dubbeldam settled in 1990 after finishing Architecture in Rotterdam. "I felt like a bird in a cage. Here I could spread my wings. In a country this large, there is more possible. And Americans are always happy for you if you are successful. "
Dubbeldam takes place in the industrially furnished office of Archi-Tectonics behind three large computer screens. Her team also includes Dutch people, but the working language is English. After the progress of projects have been discussed, Dubbeldam leaves for Philadelphia. There she heads the Architecture Department at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the best universities in America. "I love that combination. At University I discuss the future developments in architecture; on the construction site I am able to arrange practical things. To be able to make it in America according to Dubbeldam you have to work especially hard. "I had a clear goal in mind but you also need to be flexible, she says. "It doesn't happen by itself"
Image credits to FD Studio and iStock
We’re pleased to share that our recently completed project 512 GW Townhouse has been
recognized by the 2020 Rethinking The Future Global Architecture and Design Awards.
512 GW Townhouse project added a large extension to a converted former 4-story industrial
building to create a comfortable, 8-story one family residence wrapped in a smart "climate skin,"
an openable trellis volume that generates generous outdoor balconies & terraces, moderates
the climate, and creates privacy for its inhabitants.
Please join us in ringing in Tel Aviv University's Spring semester's first public lecture, as Winka lectures on our "Flatlands and Massive Things" philosophy. Sunday, March 8th, at 7:00 pm in the Fastlict Auditorium, Mexico Building. Read more at the link below.
Presented by CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE and AIANY Women in Architecture, Winka will participate in the Leadership Breakfast series this Friday, February 2nd, at 8 am. She will give a short lecture entitled "Strange Objects", which will be followed by an open conversation. Find the full video transcript at the article link below.
Please join us at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY 10012.
Submitting an article about our Waterfront New Rochelle project, we join Terreform ONE in their long anticipated publication.
Purchase the book HERE!
We've just received some great news! Our Inscape Meditation Center has been nominated by the jury of the Frame Awards 2020 for Health Club of the Year! Click here to vote! Public voting for the People's Choice Award is open until February 15!
Excited to announce that our Hangzhou Asian Games Sports Park won Honorable Mention in the Sports + Leisure category of the Plan Award 2020! Many thanks to the Jury! Check out the detailed article on Plan's website HERE.
Join in tomorrow, Nov. 14, at 12 PM ET for a Live Lecture by Penn faculty regarding a New Normal in future urbanism! To register, click HERE. From the Alumni Association and Weitzman School of Design:
"... New platforms, a New Normal…. is to be found in the post-digital, the non-human and the extra-social. Intelligence is found in a highly subjective platform where digital design and robotic production is the norm, and digital craft and integral design are the future ... This talk answers that question and provides innovative architectural examples from Manhattan and Hangzhou, China, among others."
Quote and images by Alumni Association and Weitzman School of Design.
On November 11th, Winka spoke on the panel for the launch of Women [Re]Build: Stories, Polemics, Futures at the Department of Architecture at the Weitzman School of Design. She is also a major contributor for the book of the same name, with an article titled “The Future is always Now".
From the author: the brand new book is "... exemplary in its mission to combine in one resource reflections on the renewal of feminist thought in architecture (Framing Stories), challenges to practice made possible by activism (Shaping Polemics), and portrayals of inspiring practitioners who pave the way for future women architects (Building Futures).
Follow the link below to shop the book, and read directly from architecture's female leadership.
We are pleased to announce that the brand new book ANCB Edition #6: Regions on the Rise. Culture and Architecture as Drivers for Rural Development is completed, and is soon to be released. Detailing Winka's and others' contributions to the international conference held in Sonyang in 2018, this publication by Aedes Network Campus Berlin is a continuation of a decades-long relationship between Aedes and China.
We're very pleased to announce our continuing collaboration with Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University (UAD), local architects on our Asian Games buildings. We've now opened up a new office: AT - UAD, and are excited to bring new work to the built landscape of the beautiful country! Big thanks to the UAD for the very nice ceremony!
For contact, please find:
Address:
Xixi Campus, Zhejiang University, 148 Tianmushan Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Postal Code: 310028
Tel: (0571) 85891036
Fax: (0571) 85891080
Website: here
Grateful for our recent lecture at the Green Campus Symposium, and the construction progress on our Asian Games site, both in Hangzhou, China! Stay tuned for more!
We are very pleased to announce that our From Hardware to Softforms work will be on display at MoMA's newly reinstalled collection galleries. Originally exhibited at the Frederieke Taylor Gallery in NYC as a holographic installation, these generative models and drawings come directly from our Gipsy Trail Residence and the transformative qualities between object and environment in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab.
We hope you will have a chance to visit the galleries either at the Opening Party on October 18th at 7:00 p.m., or 21st, when the new expansion opens to the public!
Grateful to all those who came out to the Aedes Berlin Exhibition. Didn't have a chance to make it? Read about it below!
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The second season of the Netflix Original Series, 'The Mind Explained' has prominently featured our Inscape Meditation Studio in their trailer and Mindfulness episode! Click the image to watch the trailer!
Check out the great series below.
Photo and Video by Vox/Netflix
For years, Piers Fawkes has been helping companies like Apple, Facebook, Google, and Nike with cutting-edge research. Now he's turned his eye to architecture and city-living, citing our 512 GW Townhouse as a prime example of "Parasitic Living" for the future of architecture. Full article link below.
Curated by Anna Butele, this exhibition tracks contributions to the field of architecture that have been driving forces in her creative design process. Opening August 17th at Aedes Berlin, our Inscape Meditation Studio will be featured within 100 "experiments", as "drawings, graphics, photographs, and models by renowned architects from 28 countries form a chain—each contribution is a reaction inspired by the previous work".
We're very excited to announce that construction is officially underway in China! Earth has been moved and foundations poured for the mile long park and two stadiums!
NEWSWIREFM will be featuring Winka as part of the new Life Cycles series coming Fall 2019. Get to know both her, and host Frederique van der Wal through background, tours, and conversation about Winka's work and life in NYC, as NEWSWIREFM continues to bring uncut, authentic content to connect its viewers to high-profile names across all fields of inquiry.
PennDesign Women in Architecture (PWIA) recently hosted a public conversation with Miller Professor and Chair of Architecture Winka Dubbeldam and Julia Gamolina, creator of online publication Madame Architect.
In front of an audience of students and faculty, Winka shared stories about how her interest in architecture developed, thoughts about studying and living in the Netherlands and New York, working for Peter Eisenman, and inspirational advice regarding design, practice, and theory.
Their conversation was live streamed in collaboration with Madame Architect and video will soon be available.
Launched in May 2018, Madame Architect is a digital platform for women to share their experiences working in architecture.
Claus Käpplinger of de Architect writes of our approach to hybridity, use of new technologies, daring attitude, and "passion for precision, prototyping, and prefabrication" in our Hangzhou Asian Games Park, Soho Tower, 512 GW Townhouse, Inscape Meditation Studio, Unknot Tower, and more.
Winka was invited to present her newest lecture "Protocities, Protobuilding, Prototypes" at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on April 15th, in addition to displaying some panels from her exhibition "Downtown Bogota // My Ideal City" previously on display at the Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin. The lecture spoke to A-T's studies into the scalability of architectural prototypes, not only working models, but finished products that become the template by which other forms are developed.
In one such Protocity: Downtown Bogota, A-T investigated Bottom-Up scenarios by which all people in Bogota may crowd-fund their own initiatives via an online platform. This allows for the people to dictate the pace and method by which their cities grow, and if successful, could be implemented around the world.
Daniella on Design: Winka was interviewed by Daniella in her Spring dialogues series on March 25th. She states: “Winka Dubbeldam, the leading and influential force in Architectural research and sustainability and founder of the international architecture firm Archi-Tectonics, is the subject of a new exhibition at Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin. Here are some great moment in the process of filming this series. Stay tuned.”
“Flat Lands and Massive Things – From NL to NYC & Beyond” opened March 15th at Aedes Berlin. The exhibit was hosted by Kristin Feireiss and Hans-Jurgen Commerell from Aedes, and generously sponsored by Abet Laminati, ArchiGlaze, Rieder Austria, Zumtobel, the Consulate of the Netherlands, and Plan Magazine. Before the opening the gallery hosted
a panel discussion named “Don’t Tell me it Can’t Be Done”, which was widely attended. Warmest thanks go out to the panel members: Alessandro Pelsino (Abet Laminati), Fulvio Serra (Archiglaze), Bostjan Vuga (Sadar Vuga), David Zampini (Cemex) for their contributions and Almut Gruntuch-Ernst for the moderating of the panel.
"Flatlands & MassiveThings–From NL to NYC", an exhibition that explores the philosophy, methodology and creative thinking of Archi-Tectonics, will be on view at Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin from March 16 - April 25, 2019. There will be a lecture and discussion at 5:00pm on March 15, followed by the opening reception at 6:30 pm. On display will be six recent projects of Archi-Tectonics, including the Hangzhou Asian Games 2022 Sports Park & Stadiums, and several projects currently under development and presented here for the first time.
Opening: Friday, 15 March 2019, 6:30 pm
Exhibition: 16 March - 25 April 2019
Location: AEDES Architecture Forum, Christinenstr. 18-19, 10119 Berlin
Hours: Tue-Fri 11-6:30 pm, Sun-Mon 1-5 pm
Special hours: Saturday, 16 March 2019, 1-5 pm
Sponsors: Abet Laminati, ArchiGlaze, Rieder, Zumtobel, The Netherlands, and The Plan Magazine
Three of our projects are prominently features in INTERNI Magazine 7th Edition 2018 "Architecture Work in progress Worldwide / Progetti 2018-2022: Asian Games Park & Stadiums / Hangzhou, 512GW townhouse NYC, and Blaak Tower / Rotterdam.
In this time of ever-growing income inequality, Sharing has gained a new urgency. Originally an idea that emerged during the sixties, as a political and ethical principle in the quest for sexual liberation and freedom from tradition, gained through mind-expanding experiments and communal living, it has now re-emerged in a new, pragmatic form. The notion of Sharing had long been discarded as an outdated and politically biased phenomenon of hippie culture, while individualism and personal growth became the new paradigm. So how did it become relevant again? To mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the New York City’s zoning code, we propose the next dimension of Urban zoning, a 4-dimensional Hypercube that un-crams [unpacks] Manhattan’s 2nd and 3rd dimensional congestion into a four-dimensional model of Sharing [space]. By projecting the grid’s coordinates into a large Hypercube [the 4th dimension in mathematics], we developed a typology that falls between the scale of a neighborhood and a building. A city in a city. Located at the East river’s waterfront, this becomes a new terminal, a domestic /commercial hybrid that takes the notion of Sharing to a new level.
The Architects Series - LECTURE
Winka Dubbeldam di Archi-Tectonics a SpazioFMG
Curated by The Plan
"On the 14th of June 2018, the Iris Ceramica Group of Milan, opened its doors to the innovative approach of the famous New York based studio Archi-Tectonics, founded in 1994 by the Dutch-born architect Winka Dubbeldam.
The lecture was followed by an interview with Winka Dubbeldam, on the design strategy of Archi-Tectonics, paying particular attention to the concept 'New Solids'."
Click play to watch the full documentary on Archi-Tectonics: The Architects Series Ep. 3 - A documentary on: Archi-Tectonics
Interview with Winka Dubbeldam, by Lainey Sidell with SURFACE , about inspiration, further goals, and current projects.
We love this MSNBC issue on our INSCAPE space in Chelsea Manhattan... link below!
Arch2o has recently published an interview they had with Winka on their website. As shown in the article, many things were discussed
in this interview such as Winka's methods to running Archi-Tectonics, her role as Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, and questions about some of Archi-Tectonics's recent projects such as the Q Tower. This was only a portion of what was discussed as you can check out the full interview by clicking the link below!
Archi-Tectonics was invited to be included for an Exhibit and lecture in SpazioFMG per l’Architettura in Milan, as well as in the third chapter of The Architect Series, an exclusive video format presented by The Plan Magazine. Winka was present at the lecture discussing the methods and design strategies of Archi-Tectonics while focusing on the latest concept of “New Solids”.
The opening took place on June 14th in SpazioFMG per l’Architettura via Bergognone 27, Milano.
Plan magazine also launched a special edition Architects Series book for the occasion to be included in their magazine.
Archi-Tectonics was invited to participate in Collapse: Climate, Cities, and Cultures, an exhibition at New York University that showcases environmentally orientated design practices from organizations in different parts of the world. The exhibition was open from June 12th to June 29th at the Gallatin Galleries and showcased the Q Tower, one of Archi-Tectonics’ projects located in Philadelphia. The Q Tower was developed with MIT Media Lab to be a fully off the grid, robotic tower. With its 24 units and an elevated ground floor world-class restaurant, this building accommodates the public aesthetically and functionally, by participating as an integral part of a new type of technology-user connectivity. This robotic tower also efficiently uses geothermal energy, smart lighting, and cooling controls on sensors, and employs a solar-smart facade.
Archi-Tectonics has recently been mentioned on FloorNature.com regarding our inclusion in the third volume of The Architect Series, the new cultural format at SpazioFMG per l' Architettura. Floornature.com also went on to talk about our investigation into "New Solids", further highlighted in our Inscape, Hangzhou, Gipsy Trail, 33 Vestry Street, and Soho Tower projects. To read more about our recent involvement, click the link below.
Winka Dubbeldam was featured in the world premiere of "Unknown New York: The City that Women Built", a new documentary by Beverly Willis that aired on June 6 at the SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street between 8th and 9th Avenues. The film "...reveals the secrets of the once-anonymous city, introducing us to the women of Gotham whose legacy envelops us today."
Images and text credited to the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation.
As part of the Venice Biennale 2018, a session was organized on May 26th at the Sale d’Armi, titled Super City. Attendants included Winka Dubbeldam, Patrick Schumacher, Hernan Diaz Alonso, and Alisa Andrek, among others. Initiated by Tom Kovac for Malaysia’s Iskandar Puteri 100YC, architects and academics were asked to submit urban strategies; Winka spoke on her plan for Downtown Bogota, where bottom-up innovation is employed to reactivate Bogota's downtown.
Archi-Tectonics has won the Asian Games Sports Park Competition 2018! Two stadiums, a shopping mall and a massive landscaping strategy are designed as a backdrop for the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, but also act as a neighborhood park for the adjacent urban development. The park proves to bring much potential, a 34,000 sq m Table Tennis Stadium and an 18,000 sq m Field Hockey Stadium serve the Asian Games, but all features of the design have legacy considerations: concerts can be held in either stadium, certain infrastructure disappears and turn into playgrounds, skate parks, etc. Look forward to seeing the result of this collaboration with !Melk, Thornton Tomasetti Engineering, Mobility in Chain, and Ryan Soames Engineering.
Winka Dubbeldam was invited to be a juror for the Plan 2018 Award in Venice on May 23rd, which aims to disseminate knowledge of and improve the quality of the work done by designers and students in the architecture and city planning fields.
The Bartlett School of Architecture invited Winka Dubbeldam to speak at The Christopher Ingold Auditorium at the Bartlett in London, as part of the School’s International Lecture Series for 2018. On March 7th, Winka spoke to students about the importance of "New Solids" and how they have are to become an integral part of architectural innovation by integration of industrial design in architecture, and creating character and identity.
The government of Jingzhou invited Archi-tectonics to participate in a development strategy for the Jinan New District Overall City Planning Optimization and Design. We think that the future of the city lies in a BOTTOM-UP approach where development is initiated by “acupuncture”. By acupuncture, we mean a strategic local approach of optimized infills within the urban fabric which are more adaptive and considerate to local economic and social pressures. For Jingzhou, we have developed FOUR Acupuncture techniques: Connect to the old city, Ribbon City as integrated work/live/play zone, Edge City as live/play zone, and the Venice Model as the recreation/play zone.
Co-curated by Greg Goldin and Sam Lubell, the exhibition featured minimalist illuminated 3D Printed models as well as plans and drawings designed to animate “never built” buildings as if they were coming to life on the streets of New York. The exhibition was intended to offer a virtual reality of what the Metropolis that is New York City, could have been. Archi-Tectonics was honored to be a part of this exhibition, which was scheduled to take place at the Queens Museum in NYC, from September 17, 2017 to February 18, 2018.
Our Soho Townhouse is nearing completion, and catching the media’s eye, this time on cityrealty.com. This one family Townhouse features a climat skin that helps regulate its views and more importantly the energy-use. Several glass cuts provide light at unexpected places; especially the staircore and the glass elevator in the back of the building.
Winka was recently selected to speak at an event hosted by ABC Home & Whitewall Magazine on May 2nd, 2017 in NYC. The panel discussion
consisted of a wide range of topics including how to design with intention as well as how to use color and light as tools to create wellness
spaces. Winka was joined on the panel by Katy Donoghue, "Whitewall Magazine" editor in chief, Elian Zach-Sheshman, "WOOM Center"
co-founder, Paulette Cole, "abc carpet & home" CEO and creative director, and Amy Illias "abc carpet & home" EVP of art.
Winka was one of the main critics of the jury of the International Student competition in architectural design launched by the School of Architecture of Tianjin University and the Urban Environmental Design in Xi’an, China.
On this occasion, Winka also gave a Master lecture: “Smart Cities” in Xi’an China for an audience of over 1000 architects.
We are pleased to announce that Justin Korhammer has joined Archi-Tectonics as a partner as of April, 2016!
He received his Masters of Architecture and studied Industrial Design in Braunschweig/ Germany, and has worked at several internationally renowned architectural firms since 1993, including Studio Daniel Libeskind, Eisenman Architects, and for 7 years at Steven Holl Architects, where he was responsible for many award-winning commercial, institutional and cultural projects.
In 1999 Mr. Korhammer founded his own design firm, Anima LLC, with Florencia Kratsman. The firm is specialized in residential and commercial work and has completed more than 100 projects in the New York area and Puerto Rico.
Justin has been teaching design studios at the Berlage Institute, Columbia University, Pratt Institute and most recently PennDesign. He has also been freelance writing for several European architecture magazines, such as De Architect and Bauwelt.
medium.com has done a wonderful piece on Winka Dubbeldam, detailing important events from her lifetime and career. Check it out via the link below!
Archi-Tectonics was excited to participate in The Architectual League of New York and Open House New York's Open Studio day on Saturday, July 11th. We were featured as "One of the forty most inventive and exciting design practices working in the city today". For more information check the link below.
Archi-Tectonics is pleased to announce Winka's feature in Vladimir Belogolovsky's newly published "Conversations with Architects- In the Age of Celebrity". She appears alongside the likes of Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman, Norman Foster, and the like, as Belogolovsky details their work through a series of interviews.
"The ideas of architects are usually conveyed by their buildings. Vladimir Belogolovsky takes a different approach in his new work. The New York-based author gives a detailed picture of contemporary architects – through words." -amazon.com
After the recent re-design of our website, Jonathan Jackson / WSDIA is now finalizing the design of our next book "Strange Objects, New Solids, and Massive Forms", published by ACTAR Spain, and edited by Julia van den Hout / Original Copy.
Save the date for the opening of our exhibit STRANGE OBJECTS, accompanied by the launch of our new book, at the Venice Architecture Biennale at Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy, on May 21st 2021!
Find WSDIA's website HERE
NYCxDESIGN asks challenging questions via The Mic podcast. In March 2021: "How can we advance health and wellness through design? In what ways do built environments, interior spaces, and well-designed experiences foster individual growth and wellbeing?"
Find a duo of fantastic conversations between host Debbie Millman, and guests Winka and Elliot March, touching on the role of health and well-being in our work; from the very beginning to its transformative role in our design process today. Links below.
We were delighted to see our full page featured in SURFACE magazine's Fall 2019 issue. As designed by WSDIA, the layout highlights our commitment to innovation, identity, and clients, with a trio of images enclosed in an eye-catching yellow overlay.
Guest-edited by Yael Reisner, Beauty Matters: Human Judgement and the Pursuit of New Beauties in Post-Digital Architecture posits that "after 80 years of aggressive suppression of engagement with aesthetics, the temporarily dormant preoccupation with beauty is back ... Digital design continues to influence architectural discourse, not only due to changes in manufacturing but also through establishing meaning. The very term ‘post-digital’ was introduced by computational designers and artists, who accept that digital gains in architectural design are augmented by human judgement and cognitive intuition.
The issue takes an interdisciplinary approach to this re-emerging interest in beauty across neuroscience, neuroaesthetics, mathematics, philosophy and architecture, while discussing the work of the international architects, in both practice and academe, who are generating new aesthetics."
Happy International Women's Day!
To highlight the day this year, Dezeen asked 22 of the most influential women in design to nominate a woman who should be better known for their work. We are proud that Winka was highlighted on this list! Find the full article link below.
"The future of architecture is female," write the Architizer Editors, and we can't say it much better ourselves! We are proud to have our founder and principal recognized alongside these leading voices, delivering some of the best architecture around the globe. Read the full article here, and check out our Architizer Popular Choice Winner, the Asian Games 2021 Masterplan and Stadiums on our site at the link below.
"Dubbeldam Diagrid", writes Katie Angen of our Asian Games 2022 Table Tennis Stadium on archpaper.com. Read more from her analysis HERE.
We're proud to announce that our Asian Games 2022 Master Plan and Stadiums has been awarded First Prize in the 9th "Longtu Cup" National BIM Contest by the China Graphics Society!
Out of over 1,500 entries, ours was awarded as the first to coordinate master plan, infrastructure, landscape, and building technologies together across several Building Information Modeling softwares. We'd like to thank and congratulate our collaborators in this submission, ZheJiang Xinsheng Group and China Huadong Engineering Co., LTD.
Feel free to view the victory announcement below the credits of the Master Plan, Table Tennis Stadium, Valley Village, and Field Hockey Stadium projects in English and in Mandarin!
We at Archi-Tectonics sincerely hope everybody had a happy and healthy holiday. Winka had a quick trip to Italy, and joined Floornature's podcast for a full-length episode.
Find the link HERE.
Archi-Tectonics' visionary work and leadership in healthy, sustainable and innovative design is featured in the November edition of American Way, the in-flight magazine of American Airlines, distributed across the globe.
We're sending a big thank-you to Dwell Magazine for featuring the sculptural fence from our North Salem Residence and Landscape in their November and December issue.
In the meantime, you can check out the article on Dwell.com, with a free trial to Dwell+.
We're very excited to share these impressive videos from the construction site of the Hangzhou Asian Games Master Plan and Stadiums: click play on the image to the right to watch! Recorded in October, these clips not only celebrate the buildings and site's progress, but they also thank the fearless on-site workers for their continual efforts, on track for substantial completion in 2021!
Really great news to see the zero-earth strategy of the Master Plan's beginning to take shape, the Table Tennis Stadium's roof enclosed, the Valley Village's road and river successfully crossing over, and the spectacular Field Hockey Stadium's wing structure at scale!
Please join us for a live lecture on Friday, Nov. 6th at 7AM EST, delivered with India's Tiscon eDiscovery Program, aiming to connect young professionals from the architecture, engineering, and construction industries with leaders in the field.
The subject of the webinar and discussion will be the "Future of Home in the New Normal", as described below. Find the web link HERE.
"Post-COVID, architects from all over the world will have the mandate of defining the world’s ‘New Normal’. We firmly believe that the solutions to housing, healthcare, communities, you name it; are to be delivered post-COVID, but first have to be reimagined and not merely fixed by designers."
Please join us in attending The PLAN Award 2020's virtual awards ceremony this Tuesday, October 13th, at 12:00 pm EDT. Free registration is available here. There will be an introductory speech by Martha Thorne, followed by the announcements of the winners of the completed and future projects, and finally the announcement of The PLAN Award, as decided by jurors Winka and others.
We are pleased to announce that our Inscape Meditation Concept has led us to be selected as the winner of 2020 Design Studio of the Year[US] by the Travel & Hospitality Awards! We are very proud and excited to have been selected from over 1000 nominations, and would like to thank the THA Jury and their team for reaching out to us!
From the author: "THA global awards honor the firms and individuals which have displayed excellence in their fields throughout the year, singling out the most active and influential individuals in the travel and hospoitality industry, such as spa & wellness facilities, restaurants, and technology and innovation companies.
Please join us for Winka's online lecture at the University of Melbourne School of Design, titled "Strange Objects", this Tuesday 8/25 at 10 p.m. EST!
Register for the presentation and Q&A HERE.
We are excited to be a part of The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)'s annual event, this year titled Distributed Proximities. Entirely virtual due to the pandemic, the conference will focus on projects "that demonstrate the resilience and ingenuity of the computational design community in the face of crisis,” according to the conference’s website.
Winka will join 22 keynote speakers from across the US and Britain, for the week-long event beginning October 24th. Registration is available here, is open for the general public, and is free for students!
We're excited to announce that, thanks to your support, our Asian Games Park & Stadiums has WON the Popular Choice Award in its category!
We'd like to thank everybody who voted, spread the word, and shared online, for your help!
Click HERE to see the full post.
Watch the full discussion recording HERE.
From Design Pavilion:
"Innovation and beauty are not dependent on money, but require a state of mind that encapsulates concept, innovation, and intent. Social responsibility is part of being a citizen in this world. Every crisis is also a paradigm shift. And that in this shift, sharing knowledge and creativity, even pro-bono, is hugely beneficial for both an architectural practice and people who need it most. The agency of the architect is both in design and in the creation of cross connections, to make the impossible possible.
Probe a fascinating case study of an inventive solution developed in 2008 for a school in crisis in Liberia, that led to a successful application to a recently-completed sustainable passive solar townhouse in New York City."
The newest brand statement by forward-thinking fashion, architecture, furniture, homeware, and graphic design studio Siki Im features our joint pavilion, featured at "AMBER", the Arnhem Fashion Biennale, 2011. Find the 'related project' below, as well as Siki Im's website.
Every week, CEO, top-selling agent and entrepreneur Shaun Osher speaks with famous developers, architects and the creators behind some of the most iconic real estate in the world. In this week's ON SITE Podcast, Shaun interviews Winka about her inspirations, philosophy and experiences as an accomplished architect and academic.
You can download the podcast at the link below:
Feel free to join us for Winka's lecture on Thursday, April 30th, at 7:00 p.m. EST, free and open to the public, and will include a live Q&A discussion afterward. Click HERE to register for the ZOOM Link.
Happy Easter everybody! Our great friend Ellen Von Unwerth snapped this photo of her recently completed apartment! Look how the light comes in!
Photo by @ellenvonunwerth via Instagram, February 12th.
From The PLAN: "THE PLAN AWARD is an award created and promoted by THE PLAN to disseminate knowledge of and improve the quality of the work done by designers, academics, critics and students in the architecture, design and city planning fields, thereby promoting debate on topical design and planning themes." Archi-Tectonics has a wonderful relationship with The PLAN, and Winka is excited to join this esteemed jury.
For more information, and to submit your work, visit HERE.
Archinect's Deans List is an interview series with the leaders of architecture schools, worldwide. The series profiles the school’s programs, pedagogical approaches, and academic goals, as defined by the dean–giving an invaluable perspective into the institution’s unique curriculum, faculty, and academic environment.
For their latest installment, Architect spoke with Winka Dubbeldam, Miller Professor and Chair of Architecture of the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.
In the conversation, Winka, who is also a founding principal at Archi-Tectonics, highlights some of the latest research and academic endeavors at the Weitzman School, including the school's new advanced research and innovation lab, innovations in design deliverables, and how the school hopes to integrate recent technological leaps into the design and fabrication process.
Dear Clients, Colleagues and Friends,
As mandated by NYS order to stem the spread of the Coronavirus, our office will be operating remotely until further notice.
We have used the last 2 weeks to make sure we have the necessary infrastructure in place to maintain the professionalism, responsiveness and quality of work you expect from Archi-Tectonics. We are committed to our clients throughout this difficult time, and will continue to service projects and job sites as needed to ensure uninterrupted work progress. We have implemented the following steps to maintain business continuity during isolation:
- All staff has taken their workstations home and has full access to all projects and email
- We have scheduled several daily online office meetings, and are in constant contact
- All non-essential local and out of town travel is canceled
- We arrange client and job meeting per video or phone conference in lieu of in-person meetings
- We have put site visits on a limited, as needed schedule, conducted through FaceTime
- All work and completion schedules are currently being maintained
We will continue to make the safety and welfare of our employees, clients and of our community our utmost priority. We appreciate your support and understanding.
Take care and be safe!!
The AT Team
We'd like to thank Barbara Noordermeer for her great feature in FD, excerpts translated below:
"[NYC] is the place where Dutch architect Winka Dubbeldam settled in 1990 after finishing Architecture in Rotterdam. "I felt like a bird in a cage. Here I could spread my wings. In a country this large, there is more possible. And Americans are always happy for you if you are successful. "
Dubbeldam takes place in the industrially furnished office of Archi-Tectonics behind three large computer screens. Her team also includes Dutch people, but the working language is English. After the progress of projects have been discussed, Dubbeldam leaves for Philadelphia. There she heads the Architecture Department at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the best universities in America. "I love that combination. At University I discuss the future developments in architecture; on the construction site I am able to arrange practical things. To be able to make it in America according to Dubbeldam you have to work especially hard. "I had a clear goal in mind but you also need to be flexible, she says. "It doesn't happen by itself"
Image credits to FD Studio and iStock
We’re pleased to share that our recently completed project 512 GW Townhouse has been
recognized by the 2020 Rethinking The Future Global Architecture and Design Awards.
512 GW Townhouse project added a large extension to a converted former 4-story industrial
building to create a comfortable, 8-story one family residence wrapped in a smart "climate skin,"
an openable trellis volume that generates generous outdoor balconies & terraces, moderates
the climate, and creates privacy for its inhabitants.
Please join us in ringing in Tel Aviv University's Spring semester's first public lecture, as Winka lectures on our "Flatlands and Massive Things" philosophy. Sunday, March 8th, at 7:00 pm in the Fastlict Auditorium, Mexico Building. Read more at the link below.
Presented by CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE and AIANY Women in Architecture, Winka will participate in the Leadership Breakfast series this Friday, February 2nd, at 8 am. She will give a short lecture entitled "Strange Objects", which will be followed by an open conversation. Find the full video transcript at the article link below.
Please join us at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY 10012.
Submitting an article about our Waterfront New Rochelle project, we join Terreform ONE in their long anticipated publication.
Purchase the book HERE!
We've just received some great news! Our Inscape Meditation Center has been nominated by the jury of the Frame Awards 2020 for Health Club of the Year! Click here to vote! Public voting for the People's Choice Award is open until February 15!
Excited to announce that our Hangzhou Asian Games Sports Park won Honorable Mention in the Sports + Leisure category of the Plan Award 2020! Many thanks to the Jury! Check out the detailed article on Plan's website HERE.
Join in tomorrow, Nov. 14, at 12 PM ET for a Live Lecture by Penn faculty regarding a New Normal in future urbanism! To register, click HERE. From the Alumni Association and Weitzman School of Design:
"... New platforms, a New Normal…. is to be found in the post-digital, the non-human and the extra-social. Intelligence is found in a highly subjective platform where digital design and robotic production is the norm, and digital craft and integral design are the future ... This talk answers that question and provides innovative architectural examples from Manhattan and Hangzhou, China, among others."
Quote and images by Alumni Association and Weitzman School of Design.
On November 11th, Winka spoke on the panel for the launch of Women [Re]Build: Stories, Polemics, Futures at the Department of Architecture at the Weitzman School of Design. She is also a major contributor for the book of the same name, with an article titled “The Future is always Now".
From the author: the brand new book is "... exemplary in its mission to combine in one resource reflections on the renewal of feminist thought in architecture (Framing Stories), challenges to practice made possible by activism (Shaping Polemics), and portrayals of inspiring practitioners who pave the way for future women architects (Building Futures).
Follow the link below to shop the book, and read directly from architecture's female leadership.
We are pleased to announce that the brand new book ANCB Edition #6: Regions on the Rise. Culture and Architecture as Drivers for Rural Development is completed, and is soon to be released. Detailing Winka's and others' contributions to the international conference held in Sonyang in 2018, this publication by Aedes Network Campus Berlin is a continuation of a decades-long relationship between Aedes and China.
We're very pleased to announce our continuing collaboration with Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University (UAD), local architects on our Asian Games buildings. We've now opened up a new office: AT - UAD, and are excited to bring new work to the built landscape of the beautiful country! Big thanks to the UAD for the very nice ceremony!
For contact, please find:
Address:
Xixi Campus, Zhejiang University, 148 Tianmushan Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Postal Code: 310028
Tel: (0571) 85891036
Fax: (0571) 85891080
Website: here
Grateful for our recent lecture at the Green Campus Symposium, and the construction progress on our Asian Games site, both in Hangzhou, China! Stay tuned for more!
We are very pleased to announce that our From Hardware to Softforms work will be on display at MoMA's newly reinstalled collection galleries. Originally exhibited at the Frederieke Taylor Gallery in NYC as a holographic installation, these generative models and drawings come directly from our Gipsy Trail Residence and the transformative qualities between object and environment in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab.
We hope you will have a chance to visit the galleries either at the Opening Party on October 18th at 7:00 p.m., or 21st, when the new expansion opens to the public!
Grateful to all those who came out to the Aedes Berlin Exhibition. Didn't have a chance to make it? Read about it below!
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The second season of the Netflix Original Series, 'The Mind Explained' has prominently featured our Inscape Meditation Studio in their trailer and Mindfulness episode! Click the image to watch the trailer!
Check out the great series below.
Photo and Video by Vox/Netflix
For years, Piers Fawkes has been helping companies like Apple, Facebook, Google, and Nike with cutting-edge research. Now he's turned his eye to architecture and city-living, citing our 512 GW Townhouse as a prime example of "Parasitic Living" for the future of architecture. Full article link below.
Curated by Anna Butele, this exhibition tracks contributions to the field of architecture that have been driving forces in her creative design process. Opening August 17th at Aedes Berlin, our Inscape Meditation Studio will be featured within 100 "experiments", as "drawings, graphics, photographs, and models by renowned architects from 28 countries form a chain—each contribution is a reaction inspired by the previous work".
We're very excited to announce that construction is officially underway in China! Earth has been moved and foundations poured for the mile long park and two stadiums!
NEWSWIREFM will be featuring Winka as part of the new Life Cycles series coming Fall 2019. Get to know both her, and host Frederique van der Wal through background, tours, and conversation about Winka's work and life in NYC, as NEWSWIREFM continues to bring uncut, authentic content to connect its viewers to high-profile names across all fields of inquiry.
PennDesign Women in Architecture (PWIA) recently hosted a public conversation with Miller Professor and Chair of Architecture Winka Dubbeldam and Julia Gamolina, creator of online publication Madame Architect.
In front of an audience of students and faculty, Winka shared stories about how her interest in architecture developed, thoughts about studying and living in the Netherlands and New York, working for Peter Eisenman, and inspirational advice regarding design, practice, and theory.
Their conversation was live streamed in collaboration with Madame Architect and video will soon be available.
Launched in May 2018, Madame Architect is a digital platform for women to share their experiences working in architecture.
Claus Käpplinger of de Architect writes of our approach to hybridity, use of new technologies, daring attitude, and "passion for precision, prototyping, and prefabrication" in our Hangzhou Asian Games Park, Soho Tower, 512 GW Townhouse, Inscape Meditation Studio, Unknot Tower, and more.
Winka was invited to present her newest lecture "Protocities, Protobuilding, Prototypes" at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on April 15th, in addition to displaying some panels from her exhibition "Downtown Bogota // My Ideal City" previously on display at the Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin. The lecture spoke to A-T's studies into the scalability of architectural prototypes, not only working models, but finished products that become the template by which other forms are developed.
In one such Protocity: Downtown Bogota, A-T investigated Bottom-Up scenarios by which all people in Bogota may crowd-fund their own initiatives via an online platform. This allows for the people to dictate the pace and method by which their cities grow, and if successful, could be implemented around the world.
Daniella on Design: Winka was interviewed by Daniella in her Spring dialogues series on March 25th. She states: “Winka Dubbeldam, the leading and influential force in Architectural research and sustainability and founder of the international architecture firm Archi-Tectonics, is the subject of a new exhibition at Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin. Here are some great moment in the process of filming this series. Stay tuned.”
“Flat Lands and Massive Things – From NL to NYC & Beyond” opened March 15th at Aedes Berlin. The exhibit was hosted by Kristin Feireiss and Hans-Jurgen Commerell from Aedes, and generously sponsored by Abet Laminati, ArchiGlaze, Rieder Austria, Zumtobel, the Consulate of the Netherlands, and Plan Magazine. Before the opening the gallery hosted
a panel discussion named “Don’t Tell me it Can’t Be Done”, which was widely attended. Warmest thanks go out to the panel members: Alessandro Pelsino (Abet Laminati), Fulvio Serra (Archiglaze), Bostjan Vuga (Sadar Vuga), David Zampini (Cemex) for their contributions and Almut Gruntuch-Ernst for the moderating of the panel.
"Flatlands & MassiveThings–From NL to NYC", an exhibition that explores the philosophy, methodology and creative thinking of Archi-Tectonics, will be on view at Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin from March 16 - April 25, 2019. There will be a lecture and discussion at 5:00pm on March 15, followed by the opening reception at 6:30 pm. On display will be six recent projects of Archi-Tectonics, including the Hangzhou Asian Games 2022 Sports Park & Stadiums, and several projects currently under development and presented here for the first time.
Opening: Friday, 15 March 2019, 6:30 pm
Exhibition: 16 March - 25 April 2019
Location: AEDES Architecture Forum, Christinenstr. 18-19, 10119 Berlin
Hours: Tue-Fri 11-6:30 pm, Sun-Mon 1-5 pm
Special hours: Saturday, 16 March 2019, 1-5 pm
Sponsors: Abet Laminati, ArchiGlaze, Rieder, Zumtobel, The Netherlands, and The Plan Magazine
Three of our projects are prominently features in INTERNI Magazine 7th Edition 2018 "Architecture Work in progress Worldwide / Progetti 2018-2022: Asian Games Park & Stadiums / Hangzhou, 512GW townhouse NYC, and Blaak Tower / Rotterdam.
In this time of ever-growing income inequality, Sharing has gained a new urgency. Originally an idea that emerged during the sixties, as a political and ethical principle in the quest for sexual liberation and freedom from tradition, gained through mind-expanding experiments and communal living, it has now re-emerged in a new, pragmatic form. The notion of Sharing had long been discarded as an outdated and politically biased phenomenon of hippie culture, while individualism and personal growth became the new paradigm. So how did it become relevant again? To mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the New York City’s zoning code, we propose the next dimension of Urban zoning, a 4-dimensional Hypercube that un-crams [unpacks] Manhattan’s 2nd and 3rd dimensional congestion into a four-dimensional model of Sharing [space]. By projecting the grid’s coordinates into a large Hypercube [the 4th dimension in mathematics], we developed a typology that falls between the scale of a neighborhood and a building. A city in a city. Located at the East river’s waterfront, this becomes a new terminal, a domestic /commercial hybrid that takes the notion of Sharing to a new level.
The Architects Series - LECTURE
Winka Dubbeldam di Archi-Tectonics a SpazioFMG
Curated by The Plan
"On the 14th of June 2018, the Iris Ceramica Group of Milan, opened its doors to the innovative approach of the famous New York based studio Archi-Tectonics, founded in 1994 by the Dutch-born architect Winka Dubbeldam.
The lecture was followed by an interview with Winka Dubbeldam, on the design strategy of Archi-Tectonics, paying particular attention to the concept 'New Solids'."
Click play to watch the full documentary on Archi-Tectonics: The Architects Series Ep. 3 - A documentary on: Archi-Tectonics
Interview with Winka Dubbeldam, by Lainey Sidell with SURFACE , about inspiration, further goals, and current projects.
Arch2o has recently published an interview they had with Winka on their website. As shown in the article, many things were discussed
in this interview such as Winka's methods to running Archi-Tectonics, her role as Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, and questions about some of Archi-Tectonics's recent projects such as the Q Tower. This was only a portion of what was discussed as you can check out the full interview by clicking the link below!
Archi-Tectonics was invited to be included for an Exhibit and lecture in SpazioFMG per l’Architettura in Milan, as well as in the third chapter of The Architect Series, an exclusive video format presented by The Plan Magazine. Winka was present at the lecture discussing the methods and design strategies of Archi-Tectonics while focusing on the latest concept of “New Solids”.
The opening took place on June 14th in SpazioFMG per l’Architettura via Bergognone 27, Milano.
Plan magazine also launched a special edition Architects Series book for the occasion to be included in their magazine.
Archi-Tectonics was invited to participate in Collapse: Climate, Cities, and Cultures, an exhibition at New York University that showcases environmentally orientated design practices from organizations in different parts of the world. The exhibition was open from June 12th to June 29th at the Gallatin Galleries and showcased the Q Tower, one of Archi-Tectonics’ projects located in Philadelphia. The Q Tower was developed with MIT Media Lab to be a fully off the grid, robotic tower. With its 24 units and an elevated ground floor world-class restaurant, this building accommodates the public aesthetically and functionally, by participating as an integral part of a new type of technology-user connectivity. This robotic tower also efficiently uses geothermal energy, smart lighting, and cooling controls on sensors, and employs a solar-smart facade.
Archi-Tectonics has recently been mentioned on FloorNature.com regarding our inclusion in the third volume of The Architect Series, the new cultural format at SpazioFMG per l' Architettura. Floornature.com also went on to talk about our investigation into "New Solids", further highlighted in our Inscape, Hangzhou, Gipsy Trail, 33 Vestry Street, and Soho Tower projects. To read more about our recent involvement, click the link below.
Winka Dubbeldam was featured in the world premiere of "Unknown New York: The City that Women Built", a new documentary by Beverly Willis that aired on June 6 at the SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street between 8th and 9th Avenues. The film "...reveals the secrets of the once-anonymous city, introducing us to the women of Gotham whose legacy envelops us today."
Images and text credited to the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation.
As part of the Venice Biennale 2018, a session was organized on May 26th at the Sale d’Armi, titled Super City. Attendants included Winka Dubbeldam, Patrick Schumacher, Hernan Diaz Alonso, and Alisa Andrek, among others. Initiated by Tom Kovac for Malaysia’s Iskandar Puteri 100YC, architects and academics were asked to submit urban strategies; Winka spoke on her plan for Downtown Bogota, where bottom-up innovation is employed to reactivate Bogota's downtown.
Archi-Tectonics has won the Asian Games Sports Park Competition 2018! Two stadiums, a shopping mall and a massive landscaping strategy are designed as a backdrop for the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, but also act as a neighborhood park for the adjacent urban development. The park proves to bring much potential, a 34,000 sq m Table Tennis Stadium and an 18,000 sq m Field Hockey Stadium serve the Asian Games, but all features of the design have legacy considerations: concerts can be held in either stadium, certain infrastructure disappears and turn into playgrounds, skate parks, etc. Look forward to seeing the result of this collaboration with !Melk, Thornton Tomasetti Engineering, Mobility in Chain, and Ryan Soames Engineering.
Winka Dubbeldam was invited to be a juror for the Plan 2018 Award in Venice on May 23rd, which aims to disseminate knowledge of and improve the quality of the work done by designers and students in the architecture and city planning fields.
The government of Jingzhou invited Archi-tectonics to participate in a development strategy for the Jinan New District Overall City Planning Optimization and Design. We think that the future of the city lies in a BOTTOM-UP approach where development is initiated by “acupuncture”. By acupuncture, we mean a strategic local approach of optimized infills within the urban fabric which are more adaptive and considerate to local economic and social pressures. For Jingzhou, we have developed FOUR Acupuncture techniques: Connect to the old city, Ribbon City as integrated work/live/play zone, Edge City as live/play zone, and the Venice Model as the recreation/play zone.
Co-curated by Greg Goldin and Sam Lubell, the exhibition featured minimalist illuminated 3D Printed models as well as plans and drawings designed to animate “never built” buildings as if they were coming to life on the streets of New York. The exhibition was intended to offer a virtual reality of what the Metropolis that is New York City, could have been. Archi-Tectonics was honored to be a part of this exhibition, which was scheduled to take place at the Queens Museum in NYC, from September 17, 2017 to February 18, 2018.
Our Soho Townhouse is nearing completion, and catching the media’s eye, this time on cityrealty.com. This one family Townhouse features a climat skin that helps regulate its views and more importantly the energy-use. Several glass cuts provide light at unexpected places; especially the staircore and the glass elevator in the back of the building.
Winka was recently selected to speak at an event hosted by ABC Home & Whitewall Magazine on May 2nd, 2017 in NYC. The panel discussion
consisted of a wide range of topics including how to design with intention as well as how to use color and light as tools to create wellness
spaces. Winka was joined on the panel by Katy Donoghue, "Whitewall Magazine" editor in chief, Elian Zach-Sheshman, "WOOM Center"
co-founder, Paulette Cole, "abc carpet & home" CEO and creative director, and Amy Illias "abc carpet & home" EVP of art.
Winka was one of the main critics of the jury of the International Student competition in architectural design launched by the School of Architecture of Tianjin University and the Urban Environmental Design in Xi’an, China.
On this occasion, Winka also gave a Master lecture: “Smart Cities” in Xi’an China for an audience of over 1000 architects.
We are pleased to announce that Justin Korhammer has joined Archi-Tectonics as a partner as of April, 2016!
He received his Masters of Architecture and studied Industrial Design in Braunschweig/ Germany, and has worked at several internationally renowned architectural firms since 1993, including Studio Daniel Libeskind, Eisenman Architects, and for 7 years at Steven Holl Architects, where he was responsible for many award-winning commercial, institutional and cultural projects.
In 1999 Mr. Korhammer founded his own design firm, Anima LLC, with Florencia Kratsman. The firm is specialized in residential and commercial work and has completed more than 100 projects in the New York area and Puerto Rico.
Justin has been teaching design studios at the Berlage Institute, Columbia University, Pratt Institute and most recently PennDesign. He has also been freelance writing for several European architecture magazines, such as De Architect and Bauwelt.
medium.com has done a wonderful piece on Winka Dubbeldam, detailing important events from her lifetime and career. Check it out via the link below!
Archi-Tectonics was excited to participate in The Architectual League of New York and Open House New York's Open Studio day on Saturday, July 11th. We were featured as "One of the forty most inventive and exciting design practices working in the city today". For more information check the link below.
Archi-Tectonics is pleased to announce Winka's feature in Vladimir Belogolovsky's newly published "Conversations with Architects- In the Age of Celebrity". She appears alongside the likes of Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman, Norman Foster, and the like, as Belogolovsky details their work through a series of interviews.
"The ideas of architects are usually conveyed by their buildings. Vladimir Belogolovsky takes a different approach in his new work. The New York-based author gives a detailed picture of contemporary architects – through words." -amazon.com