Highlights / 2003 > 2013 / Strata Tower

The Strata Tower was my final project at Asymptote Architecture. I remember one night in Dubai just before we started, Hani Rashid and I smoked cigars at a floating nightclub (so Dubai) and talked endlessly about our ideas and ambitions for the building. 

I spent a sleepless year on the design, working solid through Christmas and New Years without taking a day off. Still, it all felt worthwhile when construction started.

Unfortunately, and this tends to happen too frequently in architecture, it did not get much further than this.

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Asymptote Architecture: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture

Highlights / 2003 > 2013 / Drums of Death

Drums of Death was supposed to be a vector animation music video the the Chuck D and DJ Spooky collaboration B Side Wins Again. It was the first paid project Noah Olmsted and I took on after graduating from Columbia. Our ambitions were impossibly high, and our project management skills non-existent. In the end we came out with some pretty interesting work, but we could never quite finish the video in a way that lived up to our expectations. Eventually the project died, and not surprisingly, no one was happy with us. 

Highlights / 2003 > 2013 / Jesus Saves From Sin

I took this photograph in Saluda, North Carolina in the summer of 2005 with my Nikon F100. It's part of a series of images taken throughout the South while travelling after I graduated from Columbia. 

Highlights / 2003 > 2013 / Topological Branching

I designed LGB in Hernan Diaz Alonso's studio at Columbia University in 2003. It is one of the earliest examples of the use of subdivision surface modeling in architecture and the first example of the single surface branching structure that has become an increasingly popular design technique. 

Highlights / 2003 > 2013 / Parabolic Solar Facade

Ecco Eco New York is one of the earliest buildings we designed at Bureau V.  Combining branding and environmental performance, the signature element of the project is an intricate patterned facade comprised of custom parabolic solar panels and grassy landscape elements.

Highlights / 2003 > 2013 / LQ Louis XV

I came across this rendering of the LQ Chandelier while working on the new version of my website. This was the final model before we began fabricating components, but I don't think we ever built any in this configuration. 

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Asymptote Architecture: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture

Ten Years of Architecture and Design

2013 marks the tenth year of my website, and in honor of that milestone, I'll be re-posting some highlights over the coming days and weeks. As always, I look forward to keeping the site updated with my latest projects, work from my friends, and whatever else I find interesting. Thanks for visiting and stay tuned.