8/3/2023 0 Comments 56 leonard towerBy having to present, explain and defend your work, you gain the knowledge and confidence to articulate a vision to a client.ĭo you have an interest in returning to architecture? And maybe more important than anything, it teaches you how to be a strong communicator. It teaches you to be rigorous in your process. It challenges the way you think and see the world around you. T: Architecture school provides an invaluable education. What skills did you gain from architecture school, or working in the architecture industry, that have contributed to your success in your current career? Still from Target’s Art for All Brand Video We aren't interested in working in just one medium, we really enjoying the process of working in different mediums, each with its own structure. No matter what the medium we bring the same conceptual focus to the project. Sometimes we create sculptures and installations and other times we create films and animations. What we design changes from project to project. Photo of Bloom, from the Sharp installation Still from Bloom film, from the Sharp installation These digital mediums allowed for explorations that were more time consuming and costly to achieve in the built form. We were drawn to the immediacy and intimacy of film, animation and digital design. The intersections between the body, space, form and technology have always been what has interested us and what we have explored in the work. T: Neither of us feels like we ever really stopped pursuing architecture, we just shifted scales. When did you decide to stop pursuing architecture? Why? Jesse grew up in a family of landscape architects, so architecture and design were always surrounding him. T: When I was in high school I was able to take an architecture elective and really fell in love with the idea of form and space. Still from the image video for Herzog & de Meuron's 56 Leonard tower in NYCĪt what point in your life did you decide to pursue architecture? Still from the image video for Herzog & de Meuron's 56 Leonard tower in NYC (Click on this and all of the images to get a detailed view) Tronic: We both received our masters in architecture from Columbia University. Working out of the Box is a series of features presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths.Īre you an architect working out of the box? Do you know of someone that has changed careers and has an interesting story to share? If you would like to suggest an (ex-)architect, please send us a message.Īrchinect: Where did you study architecture?
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