The art is in the details
“We love the big vision, but then there are people in our studio who use craft to develop human-scale design,” Josephson says. “They get down to the detail of a finger interacting with an object, or designing a garbage bin that is safe for security.”
As the firm’s mantra has led them from work on bars and private residences to train stations and master plans for entire neighbourhoods, the world has begun to take notice: In 2017, their audacious design concept for a ferry terminal in Seoul was awarded the American Architecture Prize Design of the Year for Transportation. Their work, on the surface, may seem to be about wondrous moments and rule-bending forms, but it’s what leads to those moments that drives the firm – discovering new tools, working with engineers and fabricators, and using technical limitations to generate unconventional works of intricate beauty.