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Gracia Studio

Jorge Gracia, who has located his office in the infamous town of Tijuana, is giving it a reputation for strong Modernist design.
Suzanne-Stephens
Suzanne Stephens
December 16, 2012
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Jorge Gracia, the 39-year-old founder of Gracia Studio, has quickly built a reputation for distinctive Modernist architecture in his hometown of Tijuana, Mexico.
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Easton+Combs

Laura Raskin
Laura Raskin
December 16, 2012
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A husband-and-wife team has gone back to basics, studying the material and structural innovations of centuries past to create new systems for building. Lonn Combs and Rona Easton, married in life as well as in practice, have spent the last year living and working in Rome. Combs won a Rome Prize in Architecture in 2011 and, with Easton, has been studying Italian architect and engineer Pier Luigi Nervi’s groundbreaking innovations with concrete. In a way, their time in Rome has been a mirror of their practice in recent years. Just as they are taking the time now to “slow down
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Envelope Architecture+Design

A San Francisco Bay Area firm deploys a minimal style to unsettle architectural expectations.
William Hanley
December 16, 2012
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Douglas Burnham wants to quietly rewire your experiences. He cites perception-teasing installations by artists such as James Turrell, Robert Smithson, and Michael Heizer as major influences, and early in his career he created similarly destabilizing work with San Francisco Bay Area design provocateurs the Interim Office of Architecture (IOOA).
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Design Vanguard 2012 Features

January 1, 2012
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By necessity, young architects do whatever is needed to keep themselves going and pay the bills—teach, serve as general contractors on small projects, fabricate lighting fixtures and furniture, and chase after jobs no matter how far away.


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Leong Leong

Two architect brothers sought different mentors, then opened their own firm. With budgets big and small, they are designing through the recession.
Fred A. Bernstein
December 16, 2011
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Brothers Dominic Leong and Chris Leong became architects for the only reason that matters: They couldn’t imagine doing anything else.
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NORD (Robin Lee/Alan Pert)

Taking its cues from the rugged contexts of Scotland and Ireland, a firm explored notions of form-making before its partners split earlier this year.
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Clifford A. Pearson
December 16, 2011
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Glasgow’s industrial heritage and roll-up-your-sleeves building traditions informed the work of Robin Lee and Alan Pert when they launched their firm NORD (Northern Office for Research & Design) in 2002.
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IwamotoScott

A husband-wife team finds ways of merging the virtual with the actual, while creating compelling visions of an architecture for the future.
Eva Hagberg
December 16, 2011
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"One thing that describes our firm is that we're caught between generations,” says Lisa Iwamoto.
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Johnsen Schmaling Architects

An enterprising duo explores materials and context in a series of projects that make big statements on a small scale.
Asad Syrkett
December 16, 2011
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Sebastian Schmaling and Brian Johnsen describe their studio’s work as being “informed by a reading of site and terrain.


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Koji Tsutsui & Associates

A Japanese architect establishes a modest global practice and develops adaptable design concepts that play across national and economic boundaries.
Naomi Pollock, FAIA
December 16, 2011
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For newly minted architects eager to see the world’s great buildings, international travel is a rite of passage. For Koji Tsutsui, it’s a way of life. Born and bred in Japan, educated in England, and having built his defining work to date in Uganda, the 39-year-old architect divides his time between offices in Tokyo and San Francisco.


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Doepel Strijkers Architects

Duzan Doepel and Eline Strijkers transform sustainable into desirable with, among other projects, a garage-turned house and a green tequila distillery. Salud!
Tracy Metz
December 16, 2011
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Doepel Strijkers Architects is revving up to conquer the world, starting with the first-ever sustainable, socially minded, zero-waste tequila factory.
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