#practicepreviews16

Hey everyone! 

I just wanted to share this video documentation of my time at Brooks + Scarpa. This is only one day that I was able to set up my camera with a little tripod while we were just working on whatever task they had ready for us. 

MOS // Sarah Wagner

It’s been a week since leaving MOS, but I could not be more glad to have been provided with the experience of working in such a fantastic firm if even for a short period of time. Included are some images from my time in the office, of both where we would work long hours on complex drawings and of the shop space tucked away into the basement of the building. While I didn’t spend time in the shop during my short externship, I feel that it gives a more complete image of the space and values of the team working there. Fabrication is central to their design processes, and even as I was working on drawings for the Venice Biennale, others were prototyping and then immediately manufacturing in-house doorstops for an apartment project. The demanding pace of the office requires rapid process of designing, building, and redesigning to happen often in the course of a single workday, and their small shop is crucial to that workflow.

I cannot thank Michael and Hilary enough for letting me join the office for a couple of weeks, answering all of my questions, and showing me so many fantastic projects and proposals. Thanks for the cups of coffee and the patience as I figured out the filing systems on your server. And thanks to John, Ivi, and Andrew, all three of whom taught me so much about building, about design, and about managing gigantic Illustrator files. And thanks, of course, to Marty for arranging this all.

Cheers-

MOS // Sarah Wagner

It’s been a week already; often it feels like time really does move faster in NYC. My weekdays have been filled from morning to evening helping MOS with lots of drawings in preparation for the Venice Biennale this summer, as well as running the occasional errand for plotter paper (B&H is huge!). The office has a lot of fantastic projects right now. On Thursday I was able to go to a site visit to an apartment in Brooklyn, but the firm has ongoing projects situated all around the world. If you haven’t ever seen their work, please do look it up online, because it’s absolutely amazing. I was familiar with it before coming to the office (I chose pretty specifically to come here, so I am probably a little biased) but seeing the detailing MOS puts into even the smallest parts and pieces of this apartment was even better in the actual space.

I’ll post photos from the office next week, but for now included are some images from our trip to the World Trade Center this past weekend. I hadn’t previously been in the museum or (of course) the newly opened Calatrava station, and both were great to visit, in addition to the memorial. Finally there’s a photo of the outside of MOS’s office in Harlem, on beautiful old wide streets and also with lots of fried chicken close by. 

Here’s to a new week with more excitement--

The University of Kentucky College of Design, School of Architecture has begun preparations for another exciting year of the Practice Previews Program.  We honored that many offices who have participated in the past are joining us again this year, thank you!  We also added several new offices to the growing list of participating firms Including - David Adjaye Associates, GRADE, Leong-Leong, MOS, Perkins Eastman & Young-Ayata all in New York along with De Leon + Primmer, Louisville. They will add new dimensions to the experience our program can offer to our students.

Unfortunately from year to year it is hard to predict the number of students who will be able to participate, therefore we had several other offices agree to participate but where we ultimately could not place a student.  We would like to thank them here publicly and hopefully reconnect next year (Griffen Enright, Neil Denari & Synthesis Design, Los Angeles | Iwamoto Scott, San Francisco.)  It seems like this year a majority of students wanted to head northeast.

Below you will find the list of participants for this year along with their office and destination city.  They will be posting to the tumblr and on social media so follow along.

Participants:

Jared Giles  – Brooks + Scarpa, Los Angeles

Tiffany Combs – Brooks + Scarpa, Los Angeles

Thomas Kirk – David Adjaye Associates, New York City

Joe Brewer - de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop, Louisville

Aaron Fritsch - de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop, Louisville

Paul Isaacs – GRADE, New York City

Kevin Bloomfield – HWKN, New York City

Julia Arnold – Leong-Leong, New York City

Zack Allen – Leong-Leong, New York City

Emily Fannin – LTL Architects, New York City

Nathan Williams – Morphosis Architects, Los Angeles

Zack Martin – Morphosis Architects, New York City

Sarah Wagner – MOS, New York City

Bryan Hardin - OMA, New York City

Andy Magner – Oyler Wu Collaborative, Los Angeles

Dalton Partin – PATTERNS, Los Angeles

Whitney Osborne - Perkins Eastman, New York City

Kelsea Clayton - Populous, Kansas City

Andrew Meyer – Reiser Umemoto, New York City

Thompson Burry – ShoP, New York City

Jennifer Bui – SO-IL, New York City

Lauren Turnage – Urban Lab, Chicago

Olivia Winn – Urban Lab, Chicago

Mariana Carvalho – Young-Ayata, New York City