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OBRA ARCHITECTS 315 Church Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10013 +1 212 625 3868 [email protected] www.obraarchitects.com OBRA Curriculum vitae ABOUT Obra Architects was founded in New York City in 2000 Art Center, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, by Pablo Castro and Jennifer Lee. Obra’s work spans the the National Art Museum of China, the Deutsches realms of architecture on all scales, from master planning Architekturmuseum, at Rhode Island School of Design, and institutional work to the scale of interiors, furniture, and Architektur Galerie Berlin. A solo show featuring the and public art. e rm deploys and develops unique work of Obra at the Frac Centre in Orléans, France, is in design solutions involving the latest technology and early planning stages for an opening in March 2020. environmental thinking. Winner of the 2006 PS1 MoMA Young Architects Pablo Castro and Jennifer Lee have extensive experience Program, Obra also participated in both 2014 and 2016 in coordinating complex multidisciplinary design teams, the International Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy and while maintaining award-wining design quality and the received the 2014 Kim Swoo Geun Preview Prize as well as highest standards of project development and execution. its 6th AIA NY Design Award. In 2015 Obra was appointed e rm has developed a collaborative practice of as one of Seoul City Government’s Public Architects and teamwork with fertile dialogue between architect and in 2016 the rm was selected to receive NYC Department consultants, enabling projects to develop with eciency of Design and Construction Design Excellence contracts under optimal conditions for successful creativity and to design the City’s new public buildings and capital exploration of design potential. construction projects. Pablo Castro was elevated to AIA Fellow in 2018. Recent and ongoing work includes the studio and residence of an artist in Harlem, the Korean Cultural Obra is a Minority Women-Owned Business Enterprise Center in Washington DC, private residences in Chevy certied in the State and City of New York. eir second Chase and Potomac, and a multi-unit aordable housing monograph entitled “Obra Architects Logic: Selected project for seniors in the Bronx, New York. Obra is active Projects, 2003 - 2016” was published by Arkitektur B, both nationally and internationally. Completed work Copenhagen in 2017. Forthcoming books are currently abroad includes a kindergarten for 540 schoolchildren in progress to be published by Hatje Cantz Berlin and in Beijing, the design of the main exhibition for the rst Architectural Critics Association Seoul. Seoul Architecture Biennale, and an ongoing residential development in Argentina. Obra Architects, March 2019 Obra has produced a body of award-winning projects recognized by the American Institute of Architects, the Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Awards, and the Architectural League of New York, among others. e work of Obra has been exhibited widely, and has been featured at the Museum of Modern Art, PS1 Contemporary AWARDS, GRANTS, HONORS LIST OF WORKS 2018 Finalist, International Design Competition for 2019- Seohyun Jungil Building, Heritage Foundation Landscape of Columnar Jointing Area, Jeju Eventspace, Bundang, South Korea Island, Korea 2019- Perpetual Spring Pavilion, Architecture and 2018 Fellow of the American Institute of Architects Heritage: Unearthing Future, MMCA Seoul 2016 Finalist, Space Salim Competition 2019- Residence on Glen Road, Potomac, MD 2015 American Institute of Architects New York 2018- Ward Residence, New York, NY Design Merit Award 2018- Chevy Chase Residence, Washington, DC 2014 Kim Swoo Geun Prize Preview Awards, 2018 Korean Cultural Center, Washington, DC Sanhe Kindergarten 2018 Yongin Pavilion, Seoul, Korea 2014 American Institute of Architects New 2017- Makerhoods Paterson Mixed-use Social Housing, York Design Merit Award Paterson, NJ 2013 “100 Architects of the Year” 2013 by 2017 Indierent Pavilion, Orléans Biennale, Frac Korean Institute of Architects, Pablo Castro Centre, Orléans, France 2012 Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome 2017 Cities Exhibition Design, Seoul Architecture 2012 Chicago Athenaeum International and Urbanism Biennale: Imminent Commons, Architecture Awards, Korean Cultural Center Seoul, Korea 2011 American Institute of Architects 2016 C5 Gallery Expansion, Beijing, PR China New York Merit Award 2016 Taikang Space Expansion, Beijing, PR China 2010 American Institute of Architects 2016 Sanhe Kindergarten Interiors, Beijing, PR China New York Merit Award 2016 Bergman Clark Residence, NY 2010 Wallpaper* Magazine’s Architects 2016 Rooms on Canal, NY Directory 2010 2015- Makerhoods Mixed-Use Social Housing, 2008 I.D. Annual Design Review Award Newark, NJ 2008 American Institute of Architects New 2015- House in Chumamaya, Argentina [ongoing] York Honor Award 2012 Sanhe Kindergarten, Beijing, PR China 2006 PS1/MoMA Young Architects Program 2012 Casa para un viñatero, San Juan, Argentina 2006 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow 2015 Seunssangga Citywalk, Seoul, Korea, in Architecture / Environmental Structures Competition 2005 Emerging Voices, Architectural League of NY 2015 Planetarium, Installation, Shenzhen, PR China 2004 Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture 2015 Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Dessau, Germany, Awards, Freedom Park Competition 2004 Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture 2015 City of Science Masterplan, Rome, Italy Awards, Nine Square Sky 2014 Day Care St. Gallen, Switzerland 2004 Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition, 2014 Desamparados Housing, San Juan, Argentina Honorable Mention 2014 Il Cerchio e la Croce, Installation, Siracusa, 2004 Invited Competition, TITTOT Glass Art Italy, Competition Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Second Place 2014 World Health Organization, Geneva, 2003 Winner, Freedom Park Competition, Switzerland, Competition Pretoria, South Africa 2014 Rising Oculus: Church in Tana Bru, Tana Bru 2003 Society of Architectural Historians de Norway Montëquin Senior Fellow 2014 innest Light: Seosomun-Bakk Historic 2002 ACADIA Digital Design Exhibit, “Hybrid Site Design Competition, Modeling,” Honorable Mention Honorable Mention, Seoul, Korea 1994 San Jose Veterans Memorial Competition, 2014 Dormitory for Sports High School, Bolzano, First Prize (built) Italy, Competition 1987 San Juan Expo Pavilion Design Competition, 2013 Peabody Housing, London, UK Competition 1st Prize Winner (built) 2013 Art Site, Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do, Seoul, Korea 2013 Five Elements Regional Masterplan, Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do, Seoul, Korea Obra Architects 2012 Sanhe City Primary School, Beijing, PR China Spain, Competition 2012 Nikola-Lenivets Art Residences Masterplan, 2007 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Nikola-Lenivets, Russia, Competition Jerusalem, Israel 2012 The Agnostic Confessionary, furniture work 2007 URBIA Furniture System for Small Apts in from reclaimed historical lumber, 12X12 NYC, Big Cities, New York, NY WANTEDDESIGN, New York, NY 2006 Eco-village Residential Plan, Montréal du 2012 Floating Cinema, London, UK, Competition Gers, France 2012 Casa Osa, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica 2006 PS1 MoMA BEATFUSE!, PS1 Contemporary 2011 Oxymoron Pavilion, Shenzhen Hong Kong Art Center, Long Island City, NY Biennale for Urbanism/Architecture, 2006 House with Three Courtyards, Easthampton, Shenzhen, PR China NY 2011 Inside-Out Gallery, Beijing, PR China 2005 Seaview Manufacturing Facility with Offices, 2011 Temple of Heaven Hotel Garden + Roof Port Washington, NY Pavilion, Beijing, PR China 2005 Centrifugal Villa, Southampton, NY 2011 Serlachius Museum, Mäntäa, Finland 2005 Mill Neck Residence, Oyster Bay, NY 2011 Frieze Art Fair proposal, Randall’s Island, NY 2005 Parachute Pavilion, Coney Island, NY 2010 Town Square, Chicago Children’s Museum, 2005 Seoul Performing Arts Center, Seoul, Korea Chicago, IL 2004 Tittot Glass Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 2010 Light Cloud, ArtBasel Miami Beach, Miami, Competition, 2nd Prize Winner Florida, Competition 2004 Rockville Center Apartments, Rockville 2010 IGS Hannover Mühlenberg, Hannover, Center, NY Germany, Competition 2004 Casa en la Finca, San Juan, Argentina 2010 Kaohsiung Maritime Culture & Pop Music 2004 Architettura Povera Wall of Lessons, Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, PR China Providence, RI 2010 Bearden Place: Housing in the Artists’ Core, 2003 Private Residence, Old Westbury, NY Minneapolis, MN 2003 Nine Square Sky Housing, Chile 2010 IBA Hamburg Spiral Housing, Hamburg, 2003 Freedom Park Memorial and Museum, Germany, Competition Pretoria, South Africa, Competition, 2009 Korean Cultural Center, New York, NY, 1st Prize Winner Restricted Competition 2002 Villa of the Excluded Middle, Southampton, 2009 Quartieri Parco Cà D’Oro, Mestre, Venice, NY Italy, 3rd Prize Winner 2002 Aqueduct Housing, Guanajuato, Mexico 2009 Queens Paideia School, Brooklyn, NY 2002 Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt 2009 Red+Housing, National Art Museum of 2002 Pittsburgh Manufacturing Offices, Pittsburgh, China, Beijing, PR China PA 2009 Grace Farms, Grace Community Church, New 2001 Motion Technology Manufacturing Facility & Canaan, CT Offices,ort P Washington, NY 2009 La Colombe Café, New York, NY 2001 New Tomihiro Museum of Shi-Ga, Azuma 2009 Mill River Park Porch, Stamford, CT Village, Japan 2008 Playtime! Beaux Arts Ball, The Architectural 2001 Aalborg Aqua Centre, Aalborg, Denmark League, New York, NY 2001 Residence in New York, Queens Village, NY 2008 Beijing Tripod, Beijing, PR China 2001 Flemington Jewish Community Center, NJ 2008 Villa