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Art Spotting: Solid Objectives

Written by Casey

Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO – IL) is an idea driven design office founded by Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu in 2008. With a global reach, it brings together extensive experience from the fields of architecture, academia and the arts. A creative catalyst involved in all scales and stages of the architectural process, SO – IL approaches projects with an intellectual and artistic rigor fueled by a strong commitment to realizing their ideas in the world.

SO – IL has worked on an array of projects ranging in scale from the master plan of a cultural campus in Shanghai, China to a series of prints for the Guggenheim Museum. Recent projects include a temporary classroom for the Whitney Museum, student housing in Athens, Greece, a park pavilion in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and a community center on the Belgian coast.

The work has received numerous awards, including the MoMAPS1 Young Architects Program, as well as the AIA Young Practices Award. SO – IL has been widely featured in international publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company and Wallpaper* and in exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angles Forum for Architecture and Urbanism, Studio-X in Beijing and Kunsthal KAdE in the Netherlands.

Images via SO – IL

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Casey

BLEU. She's an oasis child busy being born in New York. She lives in the East Village and spends time writing, reading, making movies, shopping at Chrome Hearts and Opening Ceremony. You might find her indulging at Momofuku, or, she is spinning off those calories at Equinox while simultaneously doing homework.