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Five mountain residences by Dynia Architects: Your Next Employer?

2023-10-23T17:36:00-04:00

Following last week’s visit to Santa Barbara-based ANACAPA, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to Jackson, Wyoming to explore the work of Dynia Architects.

Founded in 1994, and with offices in Jackson, WY and Denver, CO, the firm describes its mission as to “elevate all aspects of the built environment to exceptional experiences through a process of rigorous design exploration that choreographs site and program into the making of meaningful architecture.” Over the past three decades, the firm’s portfolio has grown to encompass private residences, multi-family housing, hospitality, and cultural buildings.

Over on Archinect Jobs, the firm is currently hiring for a Designer to join their Jackson office. For candidates interested in applying for the position, or anybody interested in learning about the firm’s output, we have rounded up five mountain residences by Dynia Architects that exemplify the studio’s ethos.

Stone Creek Residence. Image credit: David Agnello

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Kanye West's favorite architect is drawing some seriously high praise

2021-09-21T15:15:00-04:00

“For most of us, architecture is a profession of compromise [...] We are service people, turned on and off by the client, not so terribly different from window washers. But Valerio is different. He believes in the physical substance of architecture, not the impression — that something should not just look interesting but be interesting. That makes him incredibly important to our field.”

The ever-famous Valerio Olgiati is also a favorite of Kanye West, whose splashy architectural tastes have made headlines of late, and for whom the Swiss architect is said to be designing an underground Wyoming home, among other projects. The 44-year-old rapper even reached out to him for input on his recent album Donda.

“He says I am Picasso, and his job is to buy land so that I can create,” Olgiati told the NYT Style Magazine. “I have never had anyone who appreciates so much what I do.”

Olgiati previously served as the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Harvard GSD. T Magazine has a lengthy profile of the prolific architect here.

TEDxJacksonHole - Nona Yehia & Jefferson Ellinger - New Architectures: Nature and Phenomena

2011-12-05T17:05:06-05:00

Nona Yehia and Jefferson Ellinger established the architectural firm, Ellinger/Yehia Design LLC in 2003 to investigate links between architecture, landscape and technology. In 2004, the firm opened an office in Jackson Hole, Wyoming to further explore these inter-relationships.
Architects, artists, scientists and designers throughout the ages have been inspired by the beauty and elegance in nature; studying, imitating and attempting to recreate natural systems has shaped life as we know it. Today, the question is how natural phenomena can become instrumental in the design of new architectures that radically redefine our built environment.