updates

OBRA AT WORK: Studio at 315 Church

NOTICE: Submit your letter of interest, resume and work samples to info@obraarchitects.com to join OBRA

JUST PUBLISHED IN CHINA: OBRA, Anonymous Poet in Mass Production Era published in November issue of Trendshome Magazine, Beijing, 2008/11, No. 144

JUST PUBLISHED IN THE UK: HATCH: The New Architectural Generation by Kieran Long, 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.