Hollwich Kushner
International Architects Series
Thursday 2 March 2017 6.30 - 7.45pm
Geological Society, Piccadilly, W1
£12, £6 concessions. Includes panel discussion and drinks reception.
New York-based architecture practice Hollwich Kushner / HWKN will join our International Architects Series to share their most recent projects straddling architecture and communication.
Matthias Hollwich of HWKN, the practice he runs with Marc Kushner, will discuss their innovative approach to design, creating projects rich in personality and responsive to local context. In 2009 they launched Architizer, one of the world’s largest online platforms for architecture and design, revolutionising the dissemination of architecture. In 2012, the practice gained widespread international attention with an air-cleaning blue spiky installation called Wendy, with which they won the MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Programme.
Hollwich Kushner put people at the centre of their projects to create innovative social experiences through the exploration of new functional programmes and building typologies. Recent built projects include a sculptural timber leisure pavilion at Fire Island Pines in New York, the historic centre of gay vacation culture, and the transformation of a 20th-century paint factory into an innovation centre at the University of Pennsylvania. New cultural and residential schemes such as the Williamsburg Tech Hub in Brooklyn or a three-tower apartment-block development in New Jersey will soon be realised.
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Biography
Hollwich Kushner / HWKN is an architecture and design firm based in New York’s Lower Manhattan, founded by Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner. Recently the firm has designed projects of varying typologies for clients including Vornado, WeWork, Uniqlo and the University of Pennsylvania. Hollwich Kushner is a new kind of architecture firm; they are the entrepreneurs who founded Architizer.com. Marc Kushner, AIA, has taught at Columbia University’s GSAPP and published the book The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings (TED Books and Simon & Shuster, 2015). Matthias Hollwich, SBA, has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and published New Aging with Penguin Books in March 2016.
For more information, please visit the HWKN website