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Architectenweb Magazine
PLY Architecture's Shadow Pavilion was published in the March/April 2012 issue of Architectenweb Magazine. Architectenweb Magazine number 47 7e jaargang...
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Le Moniteur Architecture
Mies Van der Rohe Plaza is published in the April 2011 issue of Le Moniteur Architecture. Le Moniteur Architecture AMC no 205 April 2011
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Outside In House
The ultimate version of the weekend house was precipitated by yet another shift in parameters imposed by the client. Economic constraints were tightened resulting...
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59th Annual P/A Awards
Architect Magazine has awarded the Outside In House with a P/A Award Citation. You can follow this link to their webpage: Architect Magazine
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Shadow Pavilion
The Shadow Pavilion explores the paradox of a perforated structure where the removal of material makes a structure lighter and weaker. The Shadow Pavilion,...
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ar+d Emerging Architecture Award
ar+d award The Shadow Pavilion has been awarded a commendation from the 2011 AR+D Awards for Emerging Architecture. The winning and commended entries were...
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101 W Liberty St Loft
This project for a two-story apartment in a converted racket club in downtown Ann Arbor reconfigures and redistributes the spatial arrangements of the apartment...
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Sound Cloud
The project developed in response to the need for the control of echo in the conference rooms for a distributed corporation. Beyond simple face to face meetings,...
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Ayaka Sushi
Ayaka Sushi makes a strong use of color in an attempt to pull people off the sidewalk and into the space. Depending on the perspective, the amount of color in...
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Saica Japanese Restaurant
This project developed as a synthesis of dual research agendas – articulation of a furniture / field relationships and investigations into fabrication...
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Storm Glass
Storm Glass, a nineteenth century weather-predicting instrument, is a sealed glass container with a mixture of distilled water and chemicals, which predicts...
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2011 R+D Award
The Storm Glass Research wins a 2011 R+D Award from Architect Magazine. Also featured in the awards program is University of Michigan colleague, Vivian Lee's...
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Storm Glass House
A second version of the weekend house was precipitated by a substantial increase in programmatic scope of the house, including a second bedroom and a separate...
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R+D Award 2010
The Shadow Pavilion wins a 2010 R+D Award from Architect Magazine. Also featured in the awards program are fellow University of Michigan faculty, Steven...
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Parkridge House
This project redefines the internal organization and exterior form of an existing 1960’s single story ranch house. The project for a new master bedroom suite...
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Orchid House
The commission of a weekend house in Three Oaks, Michigan was the first opportunity to explore the storm glass wall system at the full spatial and architectural...
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Photostudio
In 2003 a photographer shot the Horton Kuwada Residence for a magazine advertisement. He liked the project so much that he decided to work with us to develop the...
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Park House / Ply Studio
The Park House addresses generic and specific aspects of residential construction. The site specifics are the adjacency of a city park on the North and a steep...
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Instability: Young Architects 8
Instability: Young Architects 8 Princeton Architectural Press from the book jacket: Instability is the eighth book in an annual series of publications, featuring...
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Horton Kuwada House
Thomas Jefferson’s Ordinances of 1784 and 1785 created the regulations for surveying and land acquisition for the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains. ...
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Damdi
Various PLY projects are published by DAMDI in Advanced Interior Design and Advanced Public Design. Damdi - Advanced Interior Design (includes firm profile, BTB1,...
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Terumo Heart
This project for a new office wing of a newly renovated clean room research and manufacturing facility attempts to provide interconnected relationships between...
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eat! Best of Restaurant Design
Omi Sushi is published in eat! Best of Restaurant Design. Eat! Best of Restaurant Design
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PLY Lights + Surfaces
The paper luminaries investigate the translucent qualities of paper by exploiting its ability to transmit light and cast shadows. Constructed from laser-cut...
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Big Ten Burrito II
Experiments for the second BTB interior also emerge from a series of questions about the relationship between the craft of making and new technologies of digital...
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Architectural Diagrams
Architectural Diagrams Multiple projects by PLY Architecture have been included in the 2011 DOM Publishers book Construction Design Manual – Architectural...
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Big Ten Burrito
Experiments for the Big Ten Burrito interior emerge from a series of questions about the relationship between the craft of making and new technologies of digital...
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American Architecture Awards
The Storm Glass House wins American Architecture Award The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and the Eurpoean Center for Architecture Art Design...
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Robbins Elementary
The Assembly Required proposal responds to an expansive attitude toward education and community where the potential of each emerges from its relationship to the...
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Young Americans
Various projects are published in Young Americans: New Architecture in the USA. Engelhorn, Beate (ed.)Young Americans: New Architecture in the USA. 1st. Frankfurt...
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Woodside Drive Addition
The exterior cladding for the residence uses pre-manufactured fiber reinforced concrete planks to unify the exterior form of the addition and capture exterior...
Mies van der Rohe Plaza
This project is an installation to honor Mies van der Rohe, and was the winning entry for a two-stage competition to revitalize the central area of the pedestrian...
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1000x Architecture of the Americas
The Park House is published in 1000x Architecture of the Americas. 1000x Architecture of the Americas
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Omi Sushi
The design of Omi grew from a desire to make a very clear, bold, and graphic statement with the space that would function as a place and as an identity. The...
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Urban Spaces Squares & Plazas
Mies Van der Rohe Plaza is published in Urban Spaces Squares & Plazas. Kottas, Dimitris. Urban Spaces: Squares & Plazas. 1st. Barcelona: Links, 2007. (pp. 144 -...
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Futurewood
Various PLY projects are published are published in Futurewood. Future Wood, Innovation in Building Design + Manufacturing - Ed. Neumann & Beesley
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Azure
Big Ten Burrito 2 is published in the May 2006 issue of Azure “Material World: Ecological Pavers.” Azure July/August 2006: 106.
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Trouble in Paradise
The Tea House for Robots is published in Trouble in Paradise.
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Joy Road House
We approached the interior from both the inside out and the outside in. The three existing living rooms (kitchen, dining and living) were opened and combined...
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Retail Plant Nursery
This project explores the connection between material, form, efficiency and sensuality. EPDM (rubber) roll roofing material is used for its cost effectiveness to...
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Blu Homes - Prefab Studio Complex
The studio complex is an addition to an existing house and the three units are programmed to include a photo studio, painting studio, and film viewing space....
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Landscape Architecture Environment Design
PLY is published in Landscape Architecture Environment Design volume 33.
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Advanced Interior Design
Various PLY projects are published in Advanced Interior Design.
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THR_33: Teahouse for Robots
The tea house structure conforms to the traditional dimensions of a Japanese tea house of 9 x 9 x 6’, the space provides a series of interactions between user...
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Fire Installation
The project is created in response to a university initiative to have multidisciplinary teams engage issues of the environment through art driven inquiry. Our...
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Quito
Mies Van der Rohe Plaza is published in the 2006 issue of XVBAQ. Lozada, Diego Salazar (ed). Visible Cities. 1st. Quito: Trama, 2006. [78 - 81]
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Contract
Various Ply projects are published in the July 2006 issue of Contract. Milshtein, Amy. “Fresh Approach.” Contract July 2006: 40 - 41, 58 - 63.
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Lunch
Mies Van der Rohe Plaza is published in Lunch volume 4.
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Azure
Mies Van der Rohe Plaza is published in the July/August 2006 issue of Azure. Cameron, Leah. “It’s a Wrap.” Azure May 2006: 38.
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a+t
In 2005, Mies Van Der Rohe Plaza is published in A+T In Common II Collective Spaces Velazquez, Alicia. “Mies van der Rohe Plaza.” A+T In Common II - Collective...
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Architectural Record
Big Ten Burrito 1 and Big Ten Burrito 2 are published in the November 2005 issue of Architectural Record. Joch, Alan, and Snoonian, P.E., Deborah. “Design...
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Architecture Magazine
Mies Van der Rohe Plaza is published in the September 2005 Architecture. Klara, Robert. “Order in the Court.” Architecture Magazine September 2005: 70.
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Canadian Architect
Big Ten Burrito is published in the May 2005 issue of Canadian Architect Taggart, Jim. “Cutting Edge.” Canadian Architect May 2005: 26 - 30.
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Robustness
In 2004, Karl Daubmann is interviewed by Olv Klijn in and published in Robustness. Klijn, Olv. “A Joint Practice: Interview with Karl Daubmann.” Concrete...
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Wood Design & Building
Big Ten Burrito wins 2004 Wood Design Honor Award, is published in the Autumn 2004 issue of Wood Design & Building and the Wood Design Honor Award Publication. ...
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l'architecture d'aujourd'hui
In 2004, Case Study House is published in l'architecture d'aujourd'hui Place, Jean-Michel (ed). “Case Study House, Cleveland.” L’architecture...
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International Design Magazine
Plywood Shades were published in the The International Design Magazine's 50th Annual Design Review. Codrington, Andrea. “Environments.” ID, the International...
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Ottagono
Horton Kuwada House is published in the February 2004 of Ottagono. “L’Oriente in Campagna,” Ottagono, February 2004
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Oz Journal
Case Study House is published in Oz Journal volume 25 2003. Benfer, Matthew, Amelia Nelson, and Mike Stofiel. “Case Study House.” OZ: Kansas State Journal of...
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House: Case Study Cleveland
PLY's Cleveland Case Study House Competition entry is published by SPACES Channing, Susan R. (ed.) House: Case Study Cleveland. Exhibition Catalog 1. Cleveland:...
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Architecture for Education
PLY is included in Chicago Public Schools Competition's publication Sharp, Robert V. (ed). Architecture for Education: New School Designs from the Chicago...
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Metropolis
Cleveland Case Study House is published in the December 2002 issue of Metropolis Sokol, David. “Casing the Joint.” Metropolis October 2002: 46 - 47.
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Architectural Record
PLY's Cleveland Case Study House Competition is published in Architectural Record Lerner, Kevin. “Ply Architecture: Four’s Company.” Architectural Record...
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Architecture Boston
PLY is published in Architecture Boton's 2001 Year in Review In 2001, PLY's project for the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a competition sponserd by the church...
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Thresholds
PLY published in Thresholds 20 In 2000, PLY's project for the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a competition sponserd by the church commnity, is publish in the...
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All American
Building Design Workshop has several projects published in All American: Innovation in American Architecture.
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Competitions
Chicago Public Schools Competition entry is included in Cornell School of Architecture's Competitions publication PLY's finalist project for Chicago Public...
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Residential Architect
Big Ten Burrito is published in the April 2005 issue of Residential Architect. Drueding, Meghan. “In Salsa Veritas.” Residential Architect April 2005: 96 - 97....
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Blu Homes - Product Development 2009
The creative direction team is responsible for the early development of houses and designed elements such as screens, carports, and multiple house configurations....
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