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Interior Design's 2019 Hall of Fame Awards Honor Rick Joy, India Mahdavi and LTL Architects

2019-10-27T07:00:00-04:00

As part of its 35th annual Hall of Fame (HoF) Awards, Interior Design has announced its inductees for this year: Rick Joy, principal of Studio Rick Joy; India Mahdavi, principal of India Mahdavi Studio; Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and David J. Lewis, principals of LTL Architects. Paula Wallace, president of Savannah College of Art and Design, received the 2019 Leadership Award.

Fairy Tale Architecture: The Death of Koschei the Deathless

2018-12-20T10:08:00-05:00

It was the theme of nesting that primarily fascinated us about the Koschei tale, as it corresponded with ideas of sectional nesting that we have exploited as an architectural technique for generating spatial intricacy - LTL Architects.

Our holiday series on fairy tale architecture returns this week with three new features, curated by writer Kate Bernheimer and architect Andrew Bernheimer. ⠀
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First up: in "The Death of Koschei the Deathless," LTL Architects examine the strange habits of a fearful man who sought to escape his death through an obsessive nesting of forms within forms and spaces within spaces. Their beautiful rendering of this very strange tale focuses on Koschei's buried reliquaries and how they function in space and in time. The madness and beauty seen in precise details help us access the hopes and fears encoded in the story. ⠀

The Radical Challenge of Building a Dorm for the Deaf

2013-08-27T18:19:00-04:00

The first thing you notice when walking into Gallaudet University’s newest residence hall is how utterly familiar it looks. [...] Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. is home to nearly 2,000 students who are deaf or hearing impaired, and its recently built dorm was designed with them specifically in mind.