Emerging Voices: 5468796 architecture; INABA

Emerging Voices 5468796 architecture; INABA Johanna Hurme and Sasa Radulovic; Jeffrey Inaba Introduced by Annabelle Selldorf Friday, March 2, 2012 7:00 p.m. Rose Auditorium, The Cooper Union 41 Cooper Square 1.5 AIA and New York State CEUs The first evening of the 30th annual Emerging Voices lecture series, featuring 5468796 architecture and INABA. Emerging Voices spotlights individuals and firms based in the United States, Canada, or Mexico with distinct design voices and the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape design, and urbanism. For more information on the competition and annual awards, click here. Working in a variety of media, INABA “gives form to content” by “giving shape to facts through design.” The firm, led by Jeffrey Inaba and based in Los Angeles and New York, applies architectural design at multiple scales, ranging from diagrams and books to installations and master plans. Among the firm’s recent projects are a temporary café for the 2010 Whitney Biennial and installations for: the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale, Korea; Little Tokyo Design Week, Los Angeles; and the Festival of Ideas for the New City, New York. Winnipeg’s 5468796 architecture is a collaborative firm that engages design at a variety of scales, participating in “an ongoing dialogue rooted in curiosity and play, generating innovative architectural solutions within modest budgetary constraints.” Their current and recent projects range in scale from the OMS Stage to multifamily housing, including the projects Bloc 10; youCube; and Welcome Place, immigrant housing and services. Annabelle Selldorf is Principal of Selldorf Architects and President of the Architectural League. http://archleague.org/2012/03/emerging-voices-5468796-architecture-inaba-2/