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Meet Tom Kundig

“I often work with elemental materials such as steel, concrete, wood and glass in their raw states,” says Tom Kundig, Principal / Owner / Founder of bi-coastal US design firm, Olson Kundig.

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“I have very hungry eyes.”

“I have very hungry eyes.”

“I love what I do.  I’ve loved it from my very first project".

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“Beginnings are awesome.”

“Beginnings are awesome.”

Embracing the disciplines of both traditional architecture and new technologies.

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“Every building is an anticipation of the future.”

“Nowadays, architects plan the life-cycle of a building over a period of years, or even decades,” says forward-thinking architect and entrepreneur, Marvin Bratke.

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“The challenge is to create an experience that is as immersive as possible.”

“The challenge is to create an experience that is as immersive as possible.”

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“If you don’t like what we’re doing now, give it 6 weeks.”

Such is the incredible speed of evolution in the mass timber construction industry, says XLam’s Head of Pre-Construction Services, John Eastwood.

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Meet Chahid Kairouz

“What people say they want might not be what they really mean,” says Chahid Kairouz, Architect and Managing Director of Melbourne’s C. Kairouz Architects.

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“I have a very strong attraction to the beauty of the grotesque.”

Thomas has always been attracted to “everything that resembles living creatures or what is considered oddity.

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Meet Matias del Campo

“I pick up old obsessions of architecture and try to read them through the lens of the new technologies we have today".

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“How you experience the sky relies precisely on what time you show up.”

“It began as an effort to capture the way light affects space; to try and keep it or hold it still before it vanished.”

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“To contaminate and to be contaminated are the common threads.”

“To put it in musical terms, my approach is more like a music producer than a sound engineer.  The main goal is a great jam session with the people I work with: design teams, artists, architects and other creatives.”

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Meet Moritz Waldemeyer

“It’s been a bit like the spiral path of an object being pulled into a black hole, each step bringing me closer to what I do now,” says London-based artist and designer, Moritz Waldemeyer.

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Meet Niccolo Casas

“I’m in transition and I love it.  I’m a maker.  Perhaps one day I will call myself an architect.  We’ll see,”  says Niccolo Casas, Principal and Founder of Niccolo Casas Architecture and Lecturer at Rhode Island School of Design.

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