Tag So–il

21-09-2022

SO-IL: Amant artists’ studios, galleries and offices in Brooklyn, NY

Amant, designed by studio SO-IL, is a new centre for contemporary art in New York’s growing North Brooklyn district that is grafted onto the anonymous volumes of an industrial district, creating a pedestrian axis perpendicular to the roads travelled by vehicles.

15-01-2021

Episode 19: SO - IL

SO – IL (Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu) is a Brooklyn-based architecture firm founded by Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu in 2008. The couple represents one of the most inter-esting and original names among the young generation of architects. The philosophy that animates their work aims to dialogue with different cultures and countries, open to the world without any geographical borders.

17-11-2020

ONSTAGE: INTERVIEW WITH JING LIU, SO-IL

“The Greeks had two words to mean life and existence. Life is the fact that we move in the world, are in the world and exist in the world. Existence is the form taken on by life: given the external conditions, political conditions, traditional and cultural conditions and so on. I‘m not interested in life at all, I’m interested in existence… As a designer, as an architect and also as an intellectual I do this job: thinking about what existence can be, what it will be or what it has been.”, —Ettore Sottsass

03-11-2020

SO - IL

“The sensory perception of a speech, a person or a work of art is an extremely sophisticated process, which goes beyond the rational attitude with which we have been used to interpreting reality”, —Ettore Sottsass

01-02-2017

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson’s Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and SO-IL architectural studios designed Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, opened at the end of 2016 and named after patrons of the arts Jan Shrem, a Napa Valley winemaker, and his wife Maria Manetti Shrem.