EDITOR’S LETTER

e’re back on terra fi rma this month at the good STEPPING UP Wship Wallpaper*. After a few months spent navigating exciting We’ve gathered today’s but unchartered waters for our Made in China issue and top young practices in the newly restored then our Sex and Art extravaganza, we return refreshed and Neues Museum, Berlin, revitalised with something of a classic: the annual Design for our Architects Directory. This is our territory, our home turf. But don’t worry, Directory (see page 076). Each firm was we haven’t put our feet up and switched to cruise control. commissioned to Certainly not – complacency ain’t our bag. In fact, we’ve design its ideal home. done what we do best and have really pushed the boat out. The models will form Main cover Limited edition cover part of an exhibition And I promise, that is – almost – the last nautical metaphor. Photography: by Neville Brody we are taking on As well as our defi nitive room-by-room round-up of the Matthew Donaldson As well as designing the road in September latest and greatest designs for your home, we’ve identifi ed Interiors: this limited edition For more details about Benjamin Kempton cover for us, top British and profi led the world’s 30 most talented young architectural graphic designer Neville Neues Museum and We stretch the rules of practices. Always ambitious and determined to add value, Brody, known for his the best architectural the influential 1960s era-defining work on practices, visit we went that little bit further this year and commissioned Parker Morris report on The Face and Arena, www.wallpaper.com ∏ housing standards, see each of our 30 chosen ones to not only design their ideal home has also created a new House Rules, page 156 (a practical, sustainable, functional and elegant residential font called Peace 2, prototype, adaptable to any plot), but to also produce an see page 122. We’ve used it in our Design exquisitely crafted scale model (no soulless cad drawings Directory, see page 075 allowed). They then had to hop on a train, plane, automobile Limited edition issues (or boat) and assemble at our chosen photo-friendly location: are available to David Chipperfi eld’s masterpiece of restrained elegance – subscribers. Go to www.wallpaper.com ∏ the reconstructed Neues Museum on Berlin’s Museum Island. Huge credit to our architectural team of Jonathan Bell and Ellie Stathaki along with Art Editor Sarah Douglas for their gargantuan eff orts and powers of persuasion in securing this landmark portrait. And to the whole Wallpaper* crew for pulling together this shipshape design classic. I hope you enjoy it. Tony Chambers, Editor-in-Chief ∑ ARCHITECTS DIRECTORY | 077

FINE LINE In David Chipperfield’s reconstruction of the Neues Museum are representatives from 19 of the practices whose concept homes are featured Nicholas Bone Platform 5 Architects, UK Antonino Cardillo Antonino Cardillo, Italy Lourenço Gimenez FGMF Arquitetos, Brazil Kabru Propeller Z, Austria

Scot DiStefano Scot DiStefano, USA

Bruno Vanbesien Bruno Vanbesien, Belgium

Janne Teräsvirta ALA Architects, Finland

Jakub Majewski Moomoo Architects, Poland

Stephen Tierney Tierney Haines, Ireland Martin Martin Lejarraga Martín Lejarraga, Spain Sophie Goldhill, David Liddicoat Liddicoat & Goldhill, UK Rita Komlosi, Jürg Schmid Jürg Schmid Architekten, Switzerland

Fiona Scott, Jay Gort Gort Scott, UK

Daniel Zamarbide Group 8, Switzerland

Lorenz Prommegger X Architekten, Austria

Karl Muckenschnabel Phorm Architecture + Design, Australia Antoine Santiard H20 Architectes, France

Nina Tolstrup Studiomama, UK

Demetra Karabelia, Nikolas Travasaros Divercity Architects, Greece/UK

ARCHITECTS DIRECTORY 2009 Giving a fresh slant to our annual pick of the best young architects,we asked them to create model homes for us, displayed in the superbly rebuilt Neues Museum in Berlin

PHOTOGRAPHY: JASON SCHMIDT WRITERS: JONATHAN BELL AND ELLIE STATHAKI

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AUSTRIA THE BRIEF AUSTRALIA As if an annual sweep of the world’s most BELGIUM promising young architects wasn’t ambitious BRAZIL enough, for 2009 we’ve decided to add a new CANADA CHILE twist to the directory. Rather than simply report FINLAND on the newest firms to flash onto our radar, FRANCE Wallpaper* has commissioned 30 of the finest GREECE young architects to design their ideal home. IRELAND The concept was to create a practical house for ITALY JAPAN tomorrow; a sustainable, functional and elegant POLAND residential prototype adaptable to any plot. Here, PORTUGAL in David Chipperfield Architects’ reconstruction SPAIN of Berlin’s Neues Museum, we show how the class SWITZERLAND of 2009 rose to the challenge. UK USA

TIERNEY HAINES PLATFORM 5 ARCHITECTS X ARCHITEKTEN GROUP 8 IRELAND UK AUSTRIA SWITZERLAND Stephen Tierney and Nicola Haines, both in Set up in 2006 by UK-trained Patrick Michell Founded in Graz in 1996, X Architekten Group 8 consists of no fewer than nine their mid thirties, met at London’s Bartlett and Nicholas Bone, Platform 5 espouses moved to Vienna in 2003. It opened partners, all of them graduates either of the School of Architecture in 1998. The couple a human, conversational approach to a studio in Linz in 1999 and last year Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne now have a studio in Blackrock and combine architecture. They want their designs to kick-started a joint venture with React (EPFL) or of the University of Geneva. practice with teaching. Mindful of Ireland’s mediate between buildings and landscape, Studio, creating the Bucharest-based Their inspirations range from vernacular lamentable modern rural housing, they are and say their ‘work is a continuation of Rex-Architecture. The core team comprises architecture, nature, popular culture, music dedicated to sustainable design. ‘We take history, not a modernist rejection of the David Birgmann, Bettina Brunner, and technology to people and art. ‘What is inspiration from the constant debate of ideas past’. Both Adolf Loos and Sir John Soane Rainer Kasik, Max Nirnberger and Lorenz the future of single-unit housing? None. in teaching,’ they say. Their South House are name-checked as architects who Prommegger. ‘The “X” stands for openness,’ Indeed, the preciousness of soil has become model is a compact timber-framed house could ‘sequence space and create perverse they explain. ‘It signifi es a quality that goes such that “upwards” is the direction.’ With for a small urban plot. Oriented to the south, relationships’. Their Courtyard House beyond a single person’s abilities.’ Here, this statement, Group 8 introduces Weph, its solid walls are paired with a cascading prototype is a modular two-bed home with they urge you to ‘pimp up your roof’, an a vertical volume, stacked prototype that roof of photovoltaic glass, solar panels moveable internal partitions and space for experiment in increasing suburban density. suggests experimental urban housing for and clear glazing, creating an open ground ‘food production, wildlife and relaxation in The project imagines a typical saddleback- the future. Upcoming projects will harness fl oor and increasing levels of privacy on its interlocking gardens’. Among the pair’s roof house transformed into a platform solar, passive and low-energy systems and the upper levels. The duo’s upcoming upcoming projects are houses, hotels, and for a new dwelling, with the gable walls new means of communicating lightness works include homes in the UK and Ireland. a Vietnamese business and cultural centre. adapted into a running track. and weight, or so the team promises. www.tierneyhaines.com www.platform5architects.com www.xarchitekten.at www.group8.ch

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BUILDING A FUTURE From a prefabricated building to a log house whose electricity is supplied via an anaerobic composting system – where special equipment channels gas produced from waste – sustainability was key to the designs

PROPELLER Z LIDDICOAT & GOLDHILL FGMF ARQUITETOS MARTÍN LEJARRAGA ANTONINO CARDILLO STUDIOMAMA BRUNO VANBESIEN SCOT DISTEFANO AUSTRIA UK BRAZIL SPAIN ITALY UK BELGIUM USA Propeller Z was founded in 1994 and David Liddicoat and Sophie Goldhill Brazil-trained Fernando Forte, Heading his one-man practice in A born-and-bred Sicilian with East London’s Studiomama is Born in Aalst, just outside Brussels, With such diverse infl uences as consists of Turkish-born Korkut met at London’s Royal College of Art Lourenço Gimenes and Rodrigo Cartagena since 1991, Lejarraga a degree from the University of a young practice – founded at the Vanbesien, 33, studied at the Sint- poet ee cummings, composer Akkalay and Austrian architects and founded their practice in 2007. Marcondes Ferraz founded FGMF always works alone, with the Palermo, Antonino Cardillo set up turn of the millennium – including Lucas School of Architecture before Vivaldi, artists Martin Puryear and Kabru, Philipp Tschofen and Carmen Liddicoat studied at Cambridge in 1999, while still students, and exception of especially large-scale his Rome off ice in 2004. Hugely architecture, products, furniture, working for Pascal François, then Robert Smithson, and architects Wiederin. The collective trained in before spending time in Daniel now lead a 20-strong team. commissions and competitions. infl uenced by his professor, interiors and accessories in its setting up his own studio in 2005. Frank Lloyd Wright and Santiago schools around the world, including Libeskind’s Berlin off ice, while after ‘Challenging our own perceptions A graduate of Madrid’s School Antonietta Iolanda Lima, he says, portfolio. Principal Nina Tolstrup Infl uenced by the natural and calm Calatrava, DiStefano has an Japan and the USA; describing studies at the Slade and the Bartlett, is our main tool for creating new of Architecture, his work includes ‘I learned that in space, relations explains: ‘The range in disciplines designs of Peter Zumthor, David interesting portfolio. A sole their studio as a ‘platform for Goldhill went on to work with points of view,’ they say. Brazilian housing, cultural, civic and between things are more important is rooted in my Danish background Chipperfi eld, Aires Mateus and practitioner, he founded his own space, content, material, form and Foster, EDAW and Waugh Thistleton. culture – which they characterise educational buildings, as well as than the things themselves.’ History and the tradition from architects SANAA, he aims to investigate the business in 2000, after graduating programme research in all fi elds,’ The married couple are both in their as warm weather and friendly art and exhibition designs. The is another inspiration; he believes like Arne Jacobsen, where design basic principles of architecture and from the University of Florida and Propeller Z is constantly evolving. late twenties and have a pragmatic people – is a strong infl uence, award-winning practice has also that without memory it is impossible is considered in its totality. So design for the everyday. ‘I don’t like working at Dan C Duckham. His ‘We should discuss how to dispose view of modern practice. ‘We were refl ected in the relation of interior been working on ‘Fachades’, to build for the present, and sees the door handles, lighting, chairs supermarket architecture or Las approach has been dubbed of and recycle buildings,’ they say. born into Thatcher’s free market, and exterior spaces in their designs. a project about builders, with good architecture as an element and so on are designed to fi t with Vegas architecture,’ he explains. For ‘organtech’ architecture, though ‘Of course, it’s diff icult to imagine and trained during the late New Their Tic-Tac House is based on the images produced in collaboration that can unite people. Inspired by the architecture.’ As for her our bespoke structure, Vanbesien he incorporates technology with a brand-new expensive building as Labour property boom: we are wary concept of time. ‘It expresses the with photographer JM Diaz Burgos. private-garden fences spread across inspiration? ‘It is all about life, place, opted for a small ecological house, care: ‘I have observed that [it] waste.’ To this end, their concept of the cult of newness. Ecological constant need for change: nobody The House in the Dry Pool is his Marrakech’s dry plains, Cardillo’s people and interaction,’ she says. easy to construct and requiring tends to create more problems examines the complexity of and economic pressures mean we acts the same way in the morning, experimentation with the empty residential proposal is called Lime Tostrup’s prototype led her back to simple materials. Given that the than it solves,’ he says. Pyrginae the modern house, and the way must learn to live with less.’ They afternoon or evening… So why and unused pools that surround and Limpid Green House. Exploring Scandinavia. Designed for a forest assigned surface was just 100 sq m, House is not exactly a ‘prototype’, standards work against sustainable also admire eccentric, emotional should our houses be always the us. Seeing the opportunities that the history of courtyard houses, bankside, the Square Log House is he created narrow, stretched rooms as DiStefano fi nds the existence solutions. ‘Does it make sense to design. The Open Book House is same?’ they explain. The building is lie in a dry pool’s technological he was challenged to defi ne the a reinterpretation of the traditional to make the space look bigger. of a specifi c site and client crucial. expend such eff ort on a building a variation on the traditional London a light prefab structure, made up of equipment, from thermal insulation notions of external and internal. log house, taking advantage of The Tetris House was designed Designed for himself, the house’s that will be demolished by the terrace, a design that promotes fi ve modules. The central module to great orientation, he proposes The result was a home with a large wood’s inherent insulating quality. as a series of cubic volumes – some footprint was kept to a minimum next generation?’ Their solution ‘diff erent modes of living’. This acts as the kitchen and bathroom a transformation of pool spaces patio, like those found in cities Heating and cooling is generated closed to form rooms and some and it was located in a vacant plot involves prefabrication, creating means a rejection of that modernist core, while the others rotate and into extensions, studios, even stand- of the pre-modern Mediterranean. via geothermal energy, and open as patios – and it can be close to his home. Its ecological a house that is a kit of parts to keep staple, the free plan, in favour can be reconfi gured independently. alone houses. Lejarraga has been Currently, Cardillo is designing a electrical needs are covered by opened up to form a single space. features include passive lighting the environmental impact down. of a house with ten rooms, ‘each The architects are committed to very interested in the advances private residence in Melbourne. He an anaerobic composting system. Vanbesien’s approach is based more and ventilation, while the shape Currently on the boards are a designed to have a distinct innovation and believe that intense of science but increasingly values cherry-picks his projects, admitting Interested in building off the grid, on the way materials are used than references the Pyrginae butterfl ies spectacular penthouse structure in atmosphere, not a predetermined academic and practice-based the human presence throughout the his ideas might not suit everyone. Tolstrop is always sensitive to on expensive products. Good work, indigenous to the area. DiStefano Vienna and an elaborate courtyard purpose’. The architects are working research is the key to good design process. ‘People are a true ‘In my houses, the interactions with environmental factors. Her aim for for him, is in the use of natural light would love to build for people of house in Marrakech, while a sleek on several other structures in their architecture, through challenging measure of architecture,’ he says. environmental events such as sun, the future is to explore international and pure, clean spaces. He also low means. ‘Some call it “aff ordable new winery in Austria is set own street and they’re exploring the given and making design a ‘tool Lejarraga remains confi dent that rain, wind and sounds are more residential design, with a special acknowledges the importance housing”. I think we should call it for completion later in the year. a ‘new micro-house typology’. for the brand-new vision of the city’. architecture can change the world. important than objects or furniture.’ emphasis on local craftsmanship. of working with the right people. “aff ordable architecture”,’ he says. www.propellerz.at www.liddicoatgoldhill.com www.fgmf.com.br www.lejarraga.com www.antoninocardillo.com www.studiomama.com www.brunovanbesien.be www.scotdistefano.com ∑ ARCHITECTS DIRECTORY | 083

ARCHI TYPES These concept houses work hard to maximise design efficiency and integrity. For instance, Jürg Schmid selected walls of ultra-insulating Misapor concrete

JÜRG SCHMID ARCHITEKTEN GORT SCOTT DIVERCITY ARCHITECTS H20 ARCHITECTES SWITZERLAND UK GREECE/UK FRANCE Jürg Schmid gained experience at Burkhalter Jay Gort and Fiona Scott met when they In 2004, Divercity was founded in Athens by From their base in the Marais, Paris, the Sumi Architekten in Zurich and the École were students at Cambridge. Now in their Nikolas Travasaros and Demetra Karabelia. In three principals of H20 Architectes work on Polytechnique Fedérale de Lausanne before early thirties, they launched Gort Scott in the following four years, Dimitris Travasaros, ground-up projects and the restoration of setting up his own practice. A key infl uence 2007. They thrive on ‘creative friction’ and Christos Dimitroukas and Christina Achtypi historic buildings. Founded by Jean-Jacques is John Lautner because, ‘his buildings are believe the right mix of space, materials joined as partners, and today the practice Hubert in 2005, later joined by Charlotte remarkable for their sensitive balance and light should create something ‘everyone has off ices in Athens and London. The team Hubert and Antoine Santiard, the practice between the natural qualities of landscape instinctively has an aff inity with’. Their Nolli is inspired by all forms of culture, citing has worked for major fi rms like Jakob + and the artifi cial qualities of built structures’. House is named for the 1748 map of Rome, Hussein Chalayan’s fashion, Enki Bilal’s comic MacFarlane and Bernard Tschumi. In 2008, The Diamonds are Forever house has a 25 sq which illustrates public space fl owing books and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. Their they won the NAJAP prize, given to young m footprint, so it can be constructed on level through the solid private volume of the city. Envelope House is based on prefabricated architects and landscape designers by ground, ultra-compact sites, angled surfaces, The house appears as ‘a singular, compact components, allowing for diff erent layouts. the French government. H20’s project for or even on water. The roof is fi tted with solar rock-like volume from the exterior’, while It represents a structural experiment. ‘Why Wallpaper* demonstrates a literal path cells and collectors, with a wind generator interior spaces of varying sizes are carved should one build an independent structural through life, a route that coils up through in the centre. The house is built from Misapor out. Heavy construction keeps energy costs frame with a solely supporting role when the stacked structure for a fl uid, multi-layered concrete, so is heavily insulated thanks to the low, with green space provided by a roof the components can incorporate this spatial experience, united by slot windows. material’s high foam-glass content. The easily garden. Current projects include a new art themselves?’ they ask. Private residences New work includes renovating an existing separable materials mean it’s recyclable, too. gallery in Mayfair and a pub in Cambridge. and hospitality projects are next for the fi rm. structure in Paris to create social housing. www.jsar.ch www.gortscott.com www.divercityarchitects.com www.h2oarchitectes.com

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MODEL HOMES The perfectly formed prototypes had small footprints but were big on creativity – take Cell Space’s pivoting rooms or Moomoo’s elastic walls, for example

CELL SPACE ARCHITECTS GONZÁLEZ/LARRAÍN REIGO & BAUER ANDRÉ DE FRANÇA E ALA ARCHITECTS MOOMOO ARCHITECTS PHORM ARCHITECTURE JAPAN ARQUITECTOS CANADA CAMPOS E JOANA FINLAND POLAND + DESIGN CHILE MENDES PORTUGAL AUSTRALIA Mutsue Hayakusa set up Cell Space González Larraín was established Architectural and marriage partners After graduating from the University Founded in 2004, ALA has already Founders Jakub Majewski and When Paul Hotston returned to Architects in 1991, after spending in 2008, by Santiago-born partners Merike and Stephen Bauer founded of Porto and working in the off ices gained a lot of attention in its Łukasz Pastuszka had been Brisbane in 2000, after a seven-year time working at Nihon Sekkei, one Enrique González and Ignacio their studio in 2004, after studies at of Eduardo Souto de Moura and homeland thanks to its participation collaborating for years before fi nally worldwide architectural sojourn, he of the country’s architectural mega- Larraín, who met at the Pontifi cia the University of Toronto and a spell Carlos Prata, André de França e in a series of Finnish architecture setting up Moomoo Architects in founded Phorm, a dynamic studio practices. Now in her mid forties, Universidad Católica de Chile. They working in the UK. ‘We want to Campos and Joana Mendes Soldado competitions. The fi rm is headed 2008. Both in their mid twenties, with four to six members. The 40- the architect explains that her admire the round-shaped, austere bring exciting contemporary design established their own architectural by four partners, all in their mid the duo studied at the Technical year-old architect, who graduated studio’s work is a constant search and timeless buildings and light to the mass market,’ they say. practice in 2006. The pair rarely thirties: Juho Grönholm, Samuli University of Lodz. Currently, the from the University of Queensland, for solutions that ‘achieve a lasting play of Luis Izquierdo Wachholtz They describe their approach as look consciously at the work of Woolston, Antti Nousjoki and Janne Lodz-based team is fi ve-strong, and his team have subsequently beauty’. Following fashion is not the and Antonia Lehmann Scassi-Buff a, ‘high-tech results through low-tech other architects for inspiration; Teräsvirta. They work with an and experimentation is central won awards from the Australian way forward, she says. ‘My goal is as well as Australian architect means’. Their work is energy- instead, they use each brief’s international team of 16, based to their approach. ‘We are very Institute of Architects. Among their to create architecture that will use Glenn Murcutt’s research into the eff icient, respectful of scale and context, literature, discussions with in Helsinki, producing work that impressed by using textiles, which infl uences are the Australian mobility and change of form as economy of sustainability. The suspicious of modernist clichés colleagues, art and music as their is ‘a synthesis of analysis, lateral are ethereal and light,’ they say. landscape and the timber tradition nature’s formative beauty does.’ practice is committed to research and ‘deadening uniformity’. With main references. Nevertheless, thinking, architectural allegories ‘It’s amazing how you can connect of the Queensland vernacular. Hayakusa is keen to stress that the for materials according to the funds a nod to vernacular form, their de França e Campos says that and misunderstandings’. The rough and heavy concrete with very The infl uence of each site is vital best use of new materials and available and taking into account concept design, Spec House 03, Souto de Moura will always remain Focal House was designed to be delicate and soft textiles.’ For the so for their concept house they had computer-aided design is to help the building’s possible future life. has an asymmetric roof punctured a big infl uence. Both partners admit adaptable to any site, as it responds directory, Moomoo designed the to defi ne it to explore the ideas of ‘create forms that are closer to the Their Jeldes House is a study on one by notched openings revealing our brief confused them initially. to local solar conditions. A refl ector Houseview, a residence designed placement and displacement – natural world’, and cites Alvar Aalto of their existing projects, the family external decks contained within the ‘The programme was not specifi c is used to either heat or cool the to give its occupants a 360-degree coordinates, as the name suggests, as her favourite architect. The house of a young couple. Aiming superstructure. Using a standard and the site didn’t exist, so we rooms using an adjustable passive- perspective regardless of where are 26 30”01’ South. The main space Revolving Walls house is a living for an aff ordable, fl exible and low- wooden frame, Spec House 03 decided that, as in painting, the heat control system, and rainwater they stand. The fi rst fl oor appears is the loggia, an open, transitional space arranged around a main energy-consumption house in the brings ‘architectural intrigue without house’s name should be Untitled,’ is collected and stored. The layout suspended in the air, hung from the interior/exterior space; while the ∫ column, about which beds and semi-desert valley site, the pair adding to the cost of construction’. they say. They envisioned it as a is planned for maximum fl exibility, metal structure and wrapped with rooms fold open to each other or table can pivot. ‘The revolving walls designed a compact structure Standard fi nishes, fi xtures and shelter in the middle of a rich green and construction requirements are an elastic material that can be into the landscape, with no glass Visit www.wallpaper.com give the building multiple spaces organised around two main areas – details are combined with bespoke forest, and their eff orts to design kept to a minimum. The fi rm stretched to create openings and used. It was planned as a low-cost, to read more and see the full and allow for changing light levels one private, one public. The layout elements like solar-heated hot around the existing trees resulted strongly believes that architectural windows; there are also moveable low-embodied-energy house. With into the room to be according to is fl exible: while cooking, dining water. In the future, they want to in a snake-shaped, tube-like design, beauty comes from an eff icient and walls. In the future, the team will projects ranging from a micro- portfolios of all 30 of this the seasonal and daily variations. and living areas are in an open-plan work more with private clients: ‘In raised on stilts. Their work is already analytical design approach, and its continue to explore their fascination resort in Fiji to involvement in the year’s selected architects, My ambition is to design beautiful space, the bedroom is separated North America fewer than ten per recognised through several current projects include a Hanasaari with textile materials, unusual uses Queensland government’s HEAT as well as images and building complexes, unifi ed with by a mobile wall. The structure’s cent of houses being built involve competition wins, and they will housing scheme in Helsinki and and simple solutions. ‘We try to initiative promoting sustainable information on the Neues nature, on a larger scale than the winged shape allows for big an architect. We hope to nudge that continue to see the genius loci (the the Keilaniemi and Otaniemi follow modern lifestyles and involve architecture, the practice is looking residential level,’ she says. openings for lighting and views. number up, one house at a time.’ understanding of a place) as key. underground stations in Espoo. what inspires people in our work.’ forward to busy times. Museum design by David www.cell-space.com www.gonzalezlarrain.cl www.reigoandbauer.com Tel: 351.91 791 9771 www.ala-a.com www.moomoo.pl www.phorm.com.au Chipperfi eld Architects ∑