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Karim Rashid launches design-development firm, Kurv Architecture

2017-01-16T17:44:00-05:00

Never one to bore, Karim Rashid has announced that he’s formed a new vertically-integrated firm that will incorporate architecture, investment, and development of new projects across New York City. Rashid has teamed up with his namesake firm’s director of interior design, Alex Loyer Hughes, to form Kurv Architecture D.P.C. [...] Although there’s overlap between Rashid’s namesake firm and Kurv at the moment, Kurv will focus more on ground-up production rather than design alone.

"We are foremost, a design-development firm, specializing in the increased return of tangible added value through the implementation of unique award winning design," the mission statement on Kurv's website reads.

"The word design is used in the broadest sense to describe the full scope of the development process. Therefore, we work at all scales and stages of the process to ensure that increased value is returned as a result of our direct involvement."

Project images via kurvarchitecture.com.

Listen to Episode 7 of Archinect Sessions, "The Peaks and Valleys of Architectural Value", out now!

2014-11-20T14:01:00-05:00

This week on the podcast: continuing our earlier discussion on student debt, special guest (and fellow Archinector) Quilian Riano joins Paul, Amelia, Donna and Ken to discuss the Architecture Lobby's advocacy for increasing the value of architecture, both monetarily and in the public eye. We also cover Karim Rashid's recent inflammatory New York Times interview.

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The NYT's interview with Karim Rashid, unlicensed architect

2014-11-12T13:47:00-05:00

Q. You’re an established industrial designer. Why the focus now on building design? A. I’ve always taken a great interest in real estate; in fact, if I had more capital, I’d probably be developing a lot more projects myself. There’s also money to be made in real estate — much more than one can as a designer. [...] Q. But you’re not a licensed architect. A. I am doing 11 buildings in the world, but I don’t have a stamp as an architect and I wasn’t educated as an architect.

Karim Rashid Rates Dildo Designs

2010-07-17T18:50:00-04:00

German newspaper die Welt asked superstar global design machine and Fun Factory sextoy shop designer Karim Rashid to comment on dildos. For the one called Dinky Digger he said, "this is a small animal, huh?" Welt Online

A World without Corners

2008-08-08T09:15:00-04:00

Grub Street interviews Karim Rashid. Topics covered include the difference between style and design, why he finds the design of NYC restaurants unispired and his design philosophies.

New York Magazine

Deutsche Bank Lounge by Karim Rashid

2006-12-07T15:20:00-05:00

Rashid talks of , “The world is becoming very visually savvy and info-savvy...If the art world is so flexible, so personalized, so complex and so aesthetic, why not the physical world ?” However after seeing the 3rd photograph of 14, I felt that I had seen it all. what do you think? designws.com via dezain

Semiramis Hotel by Karim Rashid

2005-08-22T01:42:00-04:00

First of a kind for Rashid, the Semiramis Hotel in Greece is covered here in Spanish by El Mercurio (w/ image gallery). via NA