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Rex’s Brown University Performing Arts Center Shape-Shifts to Fill a Campus Void

2019-06-14T13:38:00-04:00

The tradition of architects experimenting with new typologies and forms on college campuses is one that goes way back.

Whether considering Frank Lloyd Wright’s 10-building collection of Usonian structures at Florida Southern College, Venturi-Scott Brown’s technological-contextual works at UCLA, Minoru Yamasaki’s elegant and stately Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, or Frank Gehry’s shape-shifting Stata Center at MIT, college campuses have often provided fertile terrain where thoughtful, brand name designers and open-minded clients with unconventional program needs can come together in the pursuit of bold design solutions.

REX’s forthcoming Performing Arts Center at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island is no exception.

The far-reaching work by "state-of-the-art weirdos" MOS Architects

2016-03-11T14:12:00-05:00

MOS has developed an impressive cache of work over a relatively brief period of time, including a range of designs unequivocal to the company’s unique, and at times quirky, style. Their approach considers economic climates and environmental limitations, but evades conventional aesthetics. Take it from the firm’s website; MOS rejects the ordinary. A succinct self-description concludes that their company is “a collective of designers, architects, thinkers and state-of-the-art weirdos.”

With the recent release of MOS: Selected Works, it seems fitting to reflect on a selection of projects that highlight the company’s discernible attitude toward conceptual design and architecture.

ShowCase: Folkwang Library by Max Dudler

2012-12-07T17:44:00-05:00

ShowCase is an on-going feature series on Archinect, presenting exciting new work from designers representing all creative fields and all geographies.

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