'It's Not Corporate Architecture!' Insist David Bench and Jonathan Chesley, the Duo Behind the NYC-based INC_A

2019-03-18T10:00:00-04:00

In 2016, the Storefront for Art and Architecture held an unusual design competition asking architects to compete for the most creative way to tear down a building. The brief had come out of a prior competition, the New York non-profit's 'Competition of Competitions', in which David Bench and Jonathan Chesley proposed the idea for a dream-up demolition competition.

At the time, the two were beginning to form their own studio, born out of lunchtime chatter with one another in Union Square Park. Now, the New York-based INC_A (which stands for 'It’s Not Corporate Architecture') is busy growing as a design firm, working on a number of public and semi-public projects. For this week's Studio Snapshot, we talk with Bench and Chesley about their radical proposals and many evolutions as a practice.

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'It's Not Corporate Architecture!' Insist David Bench and Jonathan Chesley, the Duo Behind the NYC-based INC_A