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Ob R a Architects 315 Church Street 4Th Floor New York OBRA ARCHITECTS OBRA ARCHITECTS 315 CHURCH STREET 4TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10013 UNITED STATES 19, CHANGGYEONGGUNG-RO 35-GIL JONGNO-GU, SEOUL 03076 KOREA OBRA Curriculum vitae ABOUT Obra Architects was founded in New York City in 2000 Completed work abroad includes a kindergarten for 540 6th AIA NY Design Award. In 2015 Obra was appointed as by Pablo Castro and Jennifer Lee. Obra’s work spans the schoolchildren in Beijing, the design of the main exhibition one of Seoul City Government’s Public Architects and in 2016 realms of architecture on all scales, from master planning for the first Seoul Architecture Biennale, and an ongoing the firm was selected to receive NYC Department of Design and institutional work to the scale of interiors, furniture, residential development in Argentina. and Construction Design Excellence contracts to design the and public art. The firm deploys and develops unique design City’s new public buildings and capital construction projects. solutions involving the latest technology and environmental Obra has produced a body of award-winning projects Pablo Castro was elevated to AIA Fellow in 2018. thinking. recognized by the American Institute of Architects, the Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Awards, and the Obra is a Minority Women-Owned Business Enterprise Pablo Castro and Jennifer Lee have extensive experience Architectural League of New York, among others. The work certified in the State and City of New York. Their second coordinating complex multidisciplinary design teams, while of Obra has been exhibited widely, and has been featured monograph entitled “Obra Architects Logic: Selected Projects, maintaining award-wining design quality and the highest at the Museum of Modern Art, PS1 Contemporary Art 2003 - 2016” was published by Arkitektur B, Copenhagen in standards of project development and execution. The firm Center, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the National 2017. has developed a collaborative practice of teamwork with Art Museum of China, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, fertile dialogue between architect and consultants, enabling at Rhode Island School of Design, and Architektur Galerie projects to develop with efficiency under optimal conditions Berlin. The Frac Centre in Orléans, France, one of the most Obra Architects, February 2019 for successful creativity and exploration of design potential. prestigious architecture museums in the world, will open a solo show featuring Obra in March 2020. Recent and ongoing work includes the Korean Cultural Center Winner of the 2006 PS1 MoMA Young Architects in Washington DC, private residences in Chevy Chase and Program, Obra also participated in both 2014 and 2016 in New York City, and a multi-unit housing project in Newark, the International Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy and New Jersey. Obra is active both nationally and internationally. received the 2014 Kim Swoo Geun Preview Prize as well as its LIST OF WORKS 2019- Residence on Glen Road, Potomac, MD 2014 Dormitory for Sports High School, Bolzano, 2009 Queens Paideia School, Brooklyn, NY 2018- Ward Residence, New York, NY Italy, Competition 2009 Red+Housing, National Art Museum of 2018- Chevy Chase Residence, Washington, DC 2013 Peabody Housing, London, UK Competition China, Beijing, PR China 2018 Korean Cultural Center, Washington, DC 2013 Art Site, Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do, 2009 Grace Farms, Grace Community Church, New 2018 Yongin Pavilion, Seoul, Korea Seoul, Korea Canaan, CT 2017- Makerhoods Paterson Mixed-use Social Housing, 2013 Five Elements Regional Masterplan, 2009 La Colombe Café, New York, NY Paterson, NJ Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do, Seoul, Korea 2009 Mill River Park Porch, Stamford, CT 2017 Indifferent Pavilion, Orléans Biennale, Frac 2012 Sanhe City Primary School, Beijing, PR China 2008 Playtime! Beaux Arts Ball, The Architectural Centre, Orléans, France 2012 Nikola-Lenivets Art Residences Masterplan, League, New York, NY 2017 Cities Exhibition Design, Seoul Architecture Nikola-Lenivets, Russia, Competition 2008 Beijing Tripod, Beijing, PR China and Urbanism Biennale: Imminent Commons, 2012 The Agnostic Confessionary, furniture work 2008 Villa of Captured Distance, Ordos, Inner Seoul, Korea from reclaimed historical lumber, 12X12 NYC, Mongolia, PR China 2016 C5 Gallery Expansion, Beijing, PR China WANTEDDESIGN, New York, NY 2008 City of the Future 2108: Washington, DC, The 2016 Taikang Space Expansion, Beijing, PR China 2012 Floating Cinema, London, UK, Competition History Channel, Competition 2016 Sanhe Kindergarten Interiors, Beijing, PR China 2012 Casa Osa, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica 2007 Brain Forest 2016 Bergman Clark Residence, NY 2011 Oxymoron Pavilion, Shenzhen Hong Kong 2007 Hotel Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2016 Rooms on Canal, NY Biennale for Urbanism/Architecture, 2007 European Solidarity Centre, Gdansk, Poland, 2015- Makerhoods Mixed-Use Social Housing, Shenzhen, PR China Competition Newark, NJ 2011 Inside-Out Gallery, Beijing, PR China 2007 Serialist Housing, Pratt Institute Graduate 2015- House in Chumamaya, Argentina [ongoing] 2011 Temple of Heaven Hotel Garden + Roof Student Housing, Brooklyn, NY, 2012 Sanhe Kindergarten, Beijing, PR China Pavilion, Beijing, PR China Competition 2012 Casa para un viñatero, San Juan, Argentina 2011 Serlachius Museum, Mäntäa, Finland 2007 Madrid International Convention Center, 2015 Seunssangga Citywalk, Seoul, Korea, 2011 Frieze Art Fair proposal, Randall’s Island, NY Spain, Competition Competition 2010 Town Square, Chicago Children’s Museum, 2007 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, 2015 Planetarium, Installation, Shenzhen, PR China Chicago, IL Jerusalem, Israel 2015 Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Dessau, Germany, 2010 Light Cloud, ArtBasel Miami Beach, Miami, 2007 URBIA Furniture System for Small Apts in Competition Florida, Competition Big Cities, New York, NY 2015 City of Science Masterplan, Rome, Italy 2010 IGS Hannover Mühlenberg, Hannover, 2006 Eco-village Residential Plan, Montréal du 2014 Day Care St. Gallen, Switzerland Germany, Competition Gers, France 2014 Desamparados Housing, San Juan, Argentina 2010 Kaohsiung Maritime Culture & Pop Music 2006 PS1 MoMA BEATFUSE!, PS1 Contemporary 2014 Il Cerchio e la Croce, Installation, Siracusa, Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, PR China Art Center, Long Island City, NY Italy, Competition 2010 Bearden Place: Housing in the Artists’ Core, 2006 House with Three Courtyards, Easthampton, 2014 World Health Organization, Geneva, Minneapolis, MN NY Switzerland, Competition 2010 IBA Hamburg Spiral Housing, Hamburg, 2005 Seaview Manufacturing Facility with Offices, 2014 Rising Oculus: Church in Tana Bru, Tana Bru Germany, Competition Port Washington, NY Norway 2009 Korean Cultural Center, New York, NY, 2005 Centrifugal Villa, Southampton, NY 2014 Thinnest Light: Seosomun-Bakk Historic Restricted Competition 2005 Mill Neck Residence, Oyster Bay, NY Site Design Competition, 2009 Quartieri Parco Cà D’Oro, Mestre, Venice, 2005 Parachute Pavilion, Coney Island, NY Honorable Mention, Seoul, Korea Italy, 3rd Prize Winner 2005 Seoul Performing Arts Center, Seoul, Korea Obra Architects 2004 Tittot Glass Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Projects, San Jose, CA, Competition, 1st BSA Space, Boston Society of Architects, Competition, 2nd Prize Winner Prize Winner Boston, MA 2004 Rockville Center Apartments, Rockville 1993 Margarit Family Residence, San Juan, Argentina 2012 Nov Where are the Utopian Visionaries? Center, NY 1988 San Juan Expo Pavilion, San Juan, Argentina Architecture of Social Exchange, BEB 2004 Casa en la Finca, San Juan, Argentina Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, 2004 Architettura Povera Wall of Lessons, SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Providence, RI Providence, RI 2012 Jun BEATFUSE!, Young Architects Program 2003 Private Residence, Old Westbury, NY 2019 Sep Architecture and Heritage: Unearthing Maxxi 2012, Maxxi Museum of XXI 2003 Nine Square Sky Housing, Chile Future, MMCA, Seoul, Korea Century Art, Rome, Italy 2003 Freedom Park Memorial and Museum, 2017 Oct La Biennale d’Architecture, Le Frac Centre 2012 May 12x12 NYC, WANTEDDESIGN, Pretoria, South Africa, Competition, Val de Loire, Orléans, France The Agnostic Confessionary, New York, NY 1st Prize Winner 2017 Jan Misunderstandings/Translations, Le Frac 2011 Dec 2011-2012 Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-City 2002 Villa of the Excluded Middle, Southampton, Centre Val de Loire, Orléans, France Biennale for Urbanism \ Architecture, NY 2016 Nov Misunderstandings, On the Collection of Shenzhen Civic Center, Shenzhen, PR China 2002 Aqueduct Housing, Guanajuato, Mexico Le Frac Centre Val de Loire, Orléans, 2011 Nov Korea Institute of Youth Facility & 2002 Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt CAMPO Space, Rome, Italy Environment, Induk University, Seoul, Korea 2002 Pittsburgh Manufacturing Offices, Pittsburgh, 2016 Sep OBRA Architects, Architektur Galerie 2011 Apr Design Awards 2011, AIA New York PA Berlin, Germany Design Awards, Center for Architecture, 2001 Motion Technology Manufacturing Facility & 2016 Sep OBRA Architects, Taikang Space, Beijing New York, NY Offices, Port Washington, NY 2016 Jul Space Salim Competition Winners 2010 Sep Wettbewerbe IGS Hannover Mühlenberg, 2001 New Tomihiro Museum of Shi-Ga, Azuma Exhibition, Seoul City Hall, Seoul, Korea Bauverwaltung Hannover, Hannover, Village, Japan 2016 Jun Drawn Theories / Teorie disegnate, Ca’ Germany 2001 Aalborg Aqua Centre, Aalborg, Denmark Pesaro Galleria Internazionale d’Arte 2010 Jun Master plan di interventi di edilizia 2001 Residence in New York, Queens Village, NY Moderna, Venice,
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