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Meet crafty collaborators Lang Architecture: Your Next Employer?

2022-06-07T12:47:00-04:00

For the inaugural edition of our Meet Your Next Employer series, we shine the spotlight on New York-based Lang Architecture.

From their studio on Broadway in Manhattan, the firm is led by principal Drew Lang, who started the practice having settled in NYC after his architectural training at Yale University: A journey he outlined in a 2020 feature on Archinect.

Now counting over a dozen members, the firm is currently advertising for three positions on Archinect Jobs: a Project Architect, a Project Designer, and an Interior Designer.

Chelsea Townhouse by Lang Architecture

Through what Lang calls “generational sustainability through connected design,” the studio places a strong emphasis on collaborations, dialogues, and partnerships in its work. This attention to dialogue includes client-facing discussions about needs and desires but also extends into the design community itself. “Collaboration with artists, craftspeople, and the design community is essential to our approach,” Lang no...

Singapore's 13th annual Archifest celebrates craft in architecture

2019-09-30T19:51:00-04:00

Archifest is the Singapore Architectural Festival that began back in 2007. It is "an annual festival for the city to celebrate architecture and the built environment."

The festival is organized by the Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) which is a platform "for people from all walks of life to discuss, debate and dream about possibilities surrounding architecture, our city and the built environment at large."

For Archifest 2019, the theme is Craft. An event website poses the following question: "If the broadest definition of craft is about precision that demands laborious attention and skilled handwork, where would we locate it within the realm of architectural production or construction in an age where expediency and efficiency are privileged?"

It's a highly relevant query in today's digital landscape. Throughout the festival the aim will be to explore the idea of craft and "its multi-faceted manifestations through three different allegories, Objects, Time, and Digital, each d...