Archinect - Features

How Jessy Escobedo Is Changing the Approach to Designing Environments With New Tools and Principles

2021-02-08T13:06:00-05:00

In our fourth and final installment of our 4-part series Designers in Tech, Alessio Grancini, Prototyper Engineer at Magic Leap and ex-Morphosis XR developer, speaks with Jessy Escobedo, Product Designer at Magic Leap.

Jessy is a community-centered product designer and strategist interested in near and far futures. As a developer of PlannAR, her work intersects technology and architecture considering the opinion of the community first.

Cutting a Rug: Making the Abstract Tangible With Urban Fabric + Elena Manferdini's "Building Portraits" area rugs

2017-02-10T12:13:00-05:00

After the success of Four O Nine’s “Urban Fabric” rugs, the firm has partnered with designer Elena Manferdini to create “Building Portraits,” a series of limited-edition area rugs that incorporate riffs on Miesian patterns and city grids with more abstract impressions of urbanity. The result, as unveiled in an opening in L.A.’s Chinatown on January 27th, is a mesmerizing blend of texture and architectural imagination.

Art + Architecture: Swipes and Changeups with Mike Nesbit

2015-11-25T14:12:00-05:00

"I'm always looking at things and taking them at face value," said Mike Nesbit, a Los Angeles-based architect and artist, as he leaned over the table and grabbed an empty glass to use as illustration. He turned the glass over in his hands several times causing the reflection of an overhead light to splinter and reform with each rotation. “Surveying a found object,” he continued, “and trying to eliminate the predetermined meaning that I have in my hand.”