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OBRA STUDIO OBRA BLOG Afraid of the Dark: Lecture on 10 December, 15:00-17:00 C205 Lecture room, Shenzhen University College of Architecture and Planning, Shenzhen SHELTERED: Do architecture and housing understand each other? HKSZ Biennale Opening Events panel moderated by Aric Chen to take place 10 December, 20:00 - 21:00 at Hua Gallery, OCT, Shenzhen BIENNALE OPENING: OXYMORON PAVILION opens 8 December at Shenzhen Civic Centre Plaza as part of Ultra-Light Village, 2011-2012 Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale for Architecture\Urbanism curated by Terence Riley OBRA and YOUTH: Exhibited at the Korea Institute of Youth Facility & Environment, Thursday 24 Nov to Monday 28 Nov, at Induk University, Seoul OBRA KOREA: Lecture to be held at Soongsil University, Seoul, on Thursday, 10 November 2011 at 6-7pm, Venture Hall Auditorium 309, see No. 10 on map, or click here for naver map or click here for address OBRA in Chile: 10+1 ARQUITECTOS LATINOAMERICANOS CLAUDIO MAGRINI Investigador: Marcelo Vizcaíno UP NEXT: OBRA's OXYMORON PAVILION to be built in the Ultralight Village of the 2011 Shenzhen-Hongkong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture, opening ceremony in Shenzhen, 8 December 2011 OBRA SOUTH: Pablo Castro lectures at the Universidad Nacional de San Juan in San Juan, Argentina, 08 August 2011, 6pm OBRA in SHENZHEN: OBRA has been invited to help build the ULTRALIGHT VILLAGE, six structures to be designed by architects from around the world and erected near Shenzhen Civic Center as part of the 2011 Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture, see curatorial statement by Chief Curator Terry RIley here CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS: Work continues on the 95-hectare site atop CERRO OSA on the OSA PENINSULA, Costa Rica OBRA on the cover: Pablo Castro: Arquitecto de San Juan para el mundo OBRA published in Korea: Special C3 issue on HOUSES Cocktails at OBRA: You are invited to stop by OBRA from 7 to 9 pm on Monday, May 16 for cocktails hosted by TOWANT events, Florence, Italy, with Interni, Devon&Devon, Essequattro, Listone Giordano and Stone Italiana. OBRA in ARQ: ARQ77 featuring works by Eduardo Castillo, Chile / leóndelima arquitectos, Perú / Sebastián Irarrázaval, Chile / Obra arquitectos, Argentina-EE.UU. / Smiljan Radic y Marcela Correa, Chile / Selgas Cano arquitectos, España with book publication party 27 April 2011 2011 AIA NY Design award winner: OBRA recognized with a 2011 AIA NY Design Award, symposium to take place at the Center for Architecture, New York, April 16, 11am to 5pm, exhibition opening on Thursday, April 14, 2011, 6 to 8pm AFRAID OF THE DARK: OBRA Lecture at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Feltman Seminar Spring 2011 Wednesday, March 9, 6-8 pm, Foundation Building, 7 East 7th Street, Room 315 UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Work has begun on the 95-hectare site atop CERRO OSA on the OSA PENINSULA, Costa Rica OBRA green: Centrifugal Villa included in 150 BEST ECO HOUSE IDEAS, Harper Collins NY + LOFT Publications Barcelona, 2010 OBRA ON RECORD: Survey of the past 11 years of MoMA PS1's Young Architects Program with views of BEATFUSE! OBRA OCEANFRONT: Here is our version of the Oceanfront Pavilion, a proposal submitted to CREATIVETIME and ArtBasel Miami earlier this year, we call it LIGHT CLOUD 1 OF 30: OBRA included in Wallpaper* Magazine's Architects Directory 2010 and featured in the July issue on newsstands now OBRA Roma: Quartieri Parco Ca D'Oro published in L'INDUSTRIA DELLE COSTRUZIONI, RIVISTA TECNICA DELL'ANCE #413, Roma BELLO E POSSIBILE: OBRA's prize-winning Quartieri Parco Ca D'Oro is exhibited at the Centro Culturale Santa Maria delle Grazie organized by /candiani5 URBAN CENTRE and Immobiliare Veneziana from June 19 to June 27 PANEL: Pablo Castro participates in A Final Look at Contemplating the Void panel at the Center for Architecture, New York, April 23, 6pm OPENING: AIA New York Design Awards 2010 on view at the Center for Architecture, New York, from April 15 to July 3 OBRA LECTURE: will take place at Delaware College of Art & Design on Thursday, April 8, 2010 at 12:45 OPENING: ORDOS NOW opens at O Gallery, 751 Art District, Beijing on Saturday April 3 OBRA places 3rd: Quartieri Parco Ca D'Oro wins 3rd Prize in the competition for social housing in Venice, Italy juried by Franco Purini and organized by La Immobiliare Veneziana: Master plan di interventi di edilizia residenziale non convenzionale, in collaboration with AZ Studio + CZ Studio OBRA WINS 2x: OBRA recognized with 2 Design Awards in this year's American Institute of Architects New York Chapter Design Awards, download the full list of winners here ON THE COVER: Centrifugal Villa featured in CASATREND Magazine, Bologna ON EXHIBIT: OBRA included in the Guggenheim's 50th anniversary exhibit: Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum on view February 12 to April 28 1 OF 50: OBRA selected as one of ARQUINE's 50 Emerging Talents of the Americas COMPETITION IN PROGRESS: Team OBRA selected to compete in IBA-Hamburg building exhibition for the Smart Price Houses competition COMPETITION: OBRA included in a restricted competition to design the Korean Cultural Center in New York City OBRA ON THE COVER: The Architect's Newspaper features Centrifugal Villa, Southampton OBRA IN LONDON: Two built projects by OBRA featured in AA|FAB Exhibition: Designing Fabrication part of THE LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL WORK IN PROGRESS: Interior installation for Queens Paideia School ON THE TRAIN:"Architecture and the Future" published in Fellow Traveler Magazine, available on China Railway High-Speed (CRH) trains OBRA BACK AT PS1: Young Architects Program 10th Anniversary Review now on at PS1 OBRA SELECTED: RED+HOUSING selected by the AA|FAB jury to be exhibited in London this September if you read chinese: please read about RED+HOUSING here FINALLY OUT: TOP ARQUITECTOS AMERICANOS recently released by Atrium Group Publishers, Barcelona OBRA IN THE NEWS: Interview with Pablo Castro published in El Nuevo Diario San Juan 29 May 2009 OBRA IN BQ: published in this Thursday's BQ Beijing Youth Weekly 28 May 2009 OBRA on the web: Villa of Captured Distance featured on www.baunetz.de on 19 May 2009 OBRA OPENING: Crossing: Dialogues for Emergency Architecture to open at the National Art Museum of China on May 12, 2009, 14:00 OBRA LECTURE: will take place at Tsinghua University, Beijing, on Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 16:00-17:30 OBRA INDUCTED: Jennifer Lee to be inducted into the Cooper Union Alumni Hall of Fame on April 17 OBRA AT COOPER HEWITT: Pablo Castro to participate in a presentation and panel at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 6:30 pm for Gilbert Rohde and Design Now moderated by Russell Flinchum OBRA POST: Moving Cities founder Bert de Muynck focuses on OBRA at Work in China OBRA LECTURE: will take place on Wednesday, March 3, 2009 at Universidad de Puerto Rico Escuela de Arquitectura JUST PUBLISHED IN CHINA: "OBRA, At Work in China," published in the February issue of Perspective Magazine, Hong Kong, download it here or see an excerpt online JUST PUBLISHED IN CHINA: Interview with Pablo Castro featured in the inaugural issue of ARCHITECTURE VIEW, January 2009, Volume 01, Beijing, China OBRA LECTURE: will take place on Monday, January 12, 2009 at 6 pm as part of the University of Florida School of Architecture Spring 2009 lecture series, co-sponsored by the School of Architecture and the Preservation Institute Caribbean OBRA INVITED: to participate in the exhibition Crossing: Dialogues for Emergency Architecture to open at the National Art Museum of China in May 2009 PUBLISHED IN CHINA: OBRA, Anonymous Poet in Mass Production Era published in November issue of Trendshome Magazine, Beijing, 2008/11, No. 144 PUBLISHED IN THE UK: HATCH: The New Architectural Generation by Kieran Long, published by Laurence King Publishing Ltd, London, September 2008 OBRA PODCAST: The Architectural League presents projects by the 13 New York-based architects participating in the Ordos 100 in the current exhibition 13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos, on view through November 26, 2008. Audio excerpts are included in the exhibition installation; view interview with Pablo Castro here OBRA ON EXHIBIT 11 OCT TO 26 NOV: On view at the Urban Center: 13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos, an exhibition of villas by New York-based architects participating in the Ordos 100, a new residential development in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, for accompanying events please see the invite OBRA OPENHOUSE: Studio tour with architects on Sunday, October 5 at 3 pm, see details at openhousenewyork OBRA ON EXHIBIT 17 SEPT TO 14 NOV: Pratt Institute will present CROSSING DISCIPLINES: LIGHT, an exhibition of faculty work in The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, work from the exhibition was selected by artist Keith Sonnier, known worldwide for his light sculpture, and is part of an ongoing series of faculty exhibitions that explore themes shared by artists and designers in multiple departments of Pratt Institute NEARING COMPLETION:CENTRIFUGAL VILLA in Southampton, New York OBRA IN PRINT: OBRA interview published in BQ Beijing Youth Magazine, Issue No. 25, 19 June 2008 and in the July/August 54th Annual Design Review issue of I.D. Magazine 10 July 2008: I.D. 2008 Annual Design Review exhibit organized by Parsons the New School for Design and I.D. Magazine on view until 28 Sept 2008 BOOKS IN PRINT: Available at William Stout and at Pace Books 24 May 2008: BEIJING TRIPOD opens at Median Art Gallery, Haidian District, a collaboration with Werner Sobek Engineers OBRA ON EXHIBIT 1 May 2008: AIA NY Honor Awards winners on display at the Center for Architecture, New York until 7 JULY 2008 17 April 2008: OBRA lectures at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing 28 March 2008: Jennifer Lee invited to jury the XXIII UIA World Congress of Architecture competition INFOPOINT in Torino, Italy 24 March 2008: OBRA's URBIA Furniture System for Small Apts in Big Cities wins a 2008 I.D. Annual Design Review Award of Design Distinction 25 Feb 2008: BEATFUSE! wins a 2008 AIA New York Project Honor Award OBRA IN CHINA: OBRA selected to participate in the ORDOS 100 project in Inner Mongolia 15 January 2008: OBRA competes in the History Channel's City of the Future Design and Engineering Challenge in Washington, D.C. OBRA OPENHOUSE: URBIA FURNITURE SYSTEM featured in a special showing SATURDAY OCT 6 and SUNDAY OCT 7, see details at openhousenewyork ON THE COVER: OBRA featured in Wood Design and Building Magazine's Summer 2007 issue, No. 39 12 September 2007: OBRA lecture at Temple Univ, Architecture Department of the Tyler School of Art July 2007: OBRA's work featured in Revista Casa Viva No. 36, Madrid 12 July 2007: Jennifer Lee of OBRA is honored with the 2007 Urban Visionaries Award for Emerging Talent by the Cooper Union 26 June to 19 August 2007: Young Americans exhibition opens at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main June 2007: OBRA featured in Issue No. 274 of C3 Magazine, Seoul, Korea May 2007: OBRA's work included in In.Form in its latest issue exploring the relationship between art and architecture 9 April 2007: OBRA gives a talk at Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires April 2007: OBRA featured in Young Architects Americas, DAAB Publishing, Cologne March 2007: OBRA featured in Young Americans: Neue Architektur in den USA, DOM Publishers, Berlin 12 March 2007: OBRA is awarded a contract with the NY City Dept of Design + Construction as part of its Design Excellence Initiative 7 March 2007: OBRA participates in an invited competition for 130-bed graduate student housing at Pratt Institute juried by Kenneth Frampton, Barry Bergdoll, Thomas Hanranhan, Richard Scherr 1 March 2007: Listen to OBRA's Conversation on the MoMA website at Think Modern: Adult and Academic Programs Audio Archive 2007 23 February 2007: OBRA lectures in Conversations with Contemporary Artists at Museum of Modern Art, Celeste Bartos Theater, Friday, February 23 at 6:30 pm 1 February to 1 March 2007: OBRA Architects BEATFUSE! exhibited at the University of Minnesota College of Design January 2007: OBRA featured in DETAILS Korea December 2006: OBRA's work featured in SPA-DE Space & Design, Japan 29 November 2006: Prototypes, Mockups and Models Roundtable at Center for Architecture 9 November to 12 December 2006: "Prototypes, Mockups and Models" exhibit at Fordham University 15 November 2006: OBRA lecture at UC Berkeley 19 October to 22 October 2006: Zodchestvo 2006 Architectural Festival, Moscow, exhibited by Union of Architects of Russia 16 October 2006: OBRA lecture at NC State University November 2006: "Temporary Works: OBRA Architects" A+U October 2006 No. 433 view excerpt here October 2006: OBRA featured in ARX Magazine, Moscow October 2006: OBRA featured in W Korea 9 September 2006: ARCHITECTURE TOUR AT PS1 August 2006: OBRA featured on the cover of CONCEPT Magazine, Seoul, Korea August 2006: FUJI TV spot On the air at NY1 Noticias Channel 801 in NY/NJ July 2006: "Dazzling pavilions of past and present" in International Herald Tribune Art Alfresco in New York Magazine As seen on TV Asahi Channel 10 Japan Featured on NY1 and Bloomberg Television On view at MoMA and in the courtyard at PS1 June 2006: BEATFUSE! in progress 15 May 2006: Pablo Castro and Jennifer Lee are named 2006 Fellows in Architecture/ Environmental Structures from the New York Foundation for the Arts 13 March 2006: OBRA Architects wins the 7th annual PS1/MoMA Young Architects Program 7 March 2006: OBRA lectures at Cooper Union as part of its CU@LUNCH series 19 January to 28 February 2006: "New American Architecture" Exhibit presented by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, Herman Miller Showroom, Los Angeles, California 17 November to 15 December 2005: "New American Architecture" Exhibit presented by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, Herman Miller Showroom, New York, New York October 2005: OBRA's first monograph published by China Architecture and Building Press is available online at www.cabp.com.cn 20 October 2005: OBRA interview by Swedish artist Jon Brunberg featured on the Polynational War Memorial Project website 31 March 2005: OBRA lectures at the Urban Center as one of 2005 Emerging Voices of the Architectural League of New York. February 2005: Pablo Castro and Jennifer Lee at Cranbrook Academy of Art Department of Architecture, Architects-in-Residence. 15 January to 28 March 2005:OBRA exhibits at the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design.