https://www.mtquintana.com/bio daily 1.0 2019-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1545635673791-O2RULOK4YXWPZMJ6DNSW/About+-3.png Bio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1545635704125-3HX3DKCOQV927DN7074V/About+-2.png Bio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1545635735646-MMRULZKONHXJBP00142F/About+-1.png Bio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1545628873433-UO0K2IIETS1PPNLC93NB/Blue+Banner.png Bio https://www.mtquintana.com/home daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5745eb6359827e6ebb73dcdc/1494353314594-P9TUGLHXRXZBVFIW1JEN/Stocksy_txp35169653TeS100_Large_645135_WEBSAFE.jpg Miller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5745eb6359827e6ebb73dcdc/1494353316349-D2KTEXSJ1EWXMC7WIWRG/Stocksy_txp35169653TeS100_Large_674784_WEBSAFE.jpg Miller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5745eb6359827e6ebb73dcdc/1494353314529-06OBAASVMGSKM0CAH25A/Stocksy_txp35169653TeS100_Large_639001_WEBSAFE.jpg Miller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5745eb6359827e6ebb73dcdc/1494353316308-J0RLIOTX4WAW329UUPW4/Stocksy_txp35169653TeS100_Large_654428_WEBSAFE.jpg Miller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5745eb6359827e6ebb73dcdc/1494353317762-VEEPWQJKNF3R1A0A3SJ8/Stocksy_txp35169653TeS100_Large_674803_WEBSAFE.jpg Miller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5745eb6359827e6ebb73dcdc/1494353317877-OVS5NCLODKSL3MLXYKEY/Stocksy_txp35169653TeS100_Large_674807_WEBSAFE.jpg Miller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5745eb6359827e6ebb73dcdc/1493403391235-122UZVBAB7GCZ8FQPEG3/image-asset.jpeg Miller - Nulla porttitor accumsan tincidunt. Pellentesque in ipsum id orci porta dapibus. - pablo picasso https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5745eb6359827e6ebb73dcdc/1493402875328-BNUBDW0YU8T7FLFUE8TV/Stocksy_txp35169653TeS100_Large_674803_WEBSAFE.jpg Miller https://www.mtquintana.com/kunshan-phoenix-mall daily 0.75 2019-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544165897452-S9GXJYZQSZG3LZQDDMAV/image-asset.png Kunshan Phoenix Mall - Culture + Commerce Joel Sanders Architect, 2013 Two trends signal the increasing intertwining of culture and commerce. Today cultural institutions, like museums and theaters, typically incorporate retail and food services, motivated by the need to generate increased revenue. At the same time, commercial venues sometimes partner with prestigious artistic organizations to attract discerning consumers. The Phoenix Mall capitalizes on both trends by inventing a new building type—a cultural mall—that harnesses the synergy generated when culture and retail mix. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544668406526-Y3ZJSPUZEQ45S3A1CW95/Kunshan+-+8.jpg Kunshan Phoenix Mall Top Floor Bookmart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544668545049-BL6USOK8UTUJIKVSHZYA/Kunshan+-+6.jpg Kunshan Phoenix Mall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544508181896-B8HIW1X22FU6332UB7G7/Kunshan+-+4.png Kunshan Phoenix Mall - Project components 1 Office Tower - The slender proportions and solar orientation of the tower take advantage of favorable northern and southern exposure. 2 Rooftop Terrace - The sustainable green roof of the Book Mart serves as a cultural park. The pinnacle of each mini-mall pierces the roof, forming amenity spaces—sculpture pavilion, amphitheater, and spa. 3 Book Mart - Occupying the top floor, the Book Mart, marks the transition from retail podium to corporate tower, visually and symbolically tying the two together. 4 Cultural Mini-mall - The four mini-malls are composed of two nested elements—a Culture Core wrapped by a Retail Loop—encased in a glazed box that allows them to be seen from the street day and night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544508138974-PHLYXCQC1BE24M0VX4OW/image-asset.png Kunshan Phoenix Mall - Superblock urbanism The urban design encourages foot-traffic by subdividing the superblock site into a sequence of human-scaled indoor and outdoor public spaces that seamlessly integrate into the surrounding city. The superblock is crossed by two pedestrian corridors that sub-divide the site into four humanly scaled quadrants housing four cultural four mini-malls each dedicated to a different cultural program—performing arts (theater), arts and science (museum), education and fitness. The elevated Book Mart crowns the entire complex, tying the four quadrants into a cohesive whole that lends a unified identity to superblock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544507895512-6N25BALFA2K3CP5IY4Q9/Kunshan+-+2.png Kunshan Phoenix Mall - Cultural mall The project melds two generic building types—the mall and the cultural building—to create a unique hybrid, the “cultural mall.” Here, the mall atrium void is replaced with a cultural solid; now as visitors shop, they circulate around four floors of stores and restaurants that serve the cultural institutions they surround. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544508533084-13KBMNMN2NIT8F9CP9YY/Kunshan+-+7.jpg Kunshan Phoenix Mall Rooftop Pool and Spa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544508333228-WJ8TS85XJED61Z4KAHT2/Kunshan+-+5.jpg Kunshan Phoenix Mall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544165675816-TALJBCI5IFV4GC36M2IT/Kunshan+-+0.png Kunshan Phoenix Mall https://www.mtquintana.com/new-lab daily 0.75 2019-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544675991170-NBWOG5HZMWKJ2SDB8SWD/New+Lab+-+2.png New Lab - Maker space I was involved in this project from DD through CD. The budget was tight, designs were reworked on the fly. Mechanical systems were proposed, designed, priced, then scrapped inside of a week. More than anything else, this project taught me how to design and draw to meet the unique challenges of New York’s construction environment. I learned enormously. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544677341376-OVNYPUML1CC9F0FQE2TU/New+Lab+-+4.png New Lab Main Hall from south bridge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544675695937-I7A60NX0C2TAWSDHNID3/New+Lab+-+1.png New Lab - Raw space Marvel Architects, 2015 There are few sites like New Lab’s, a soaring former machine shop built at the turn of the last century. Long abandoned and facing demolition, DBI sought to overhaul the building and transform it into a innovation lab and maker space. In keeping with its industrial past, we opted to maintain the raw feeling of the space through simple gestures and muscular details. Steel framing is everywhere exposed, joints and connections unembellished, materials left unfinished. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544676971027-I4KR9DEH2XCCMKICKCFX/New+Lab+-+5.png New Lab Open air meeting spaces https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544676173854-MA6DUE80FZIXDKPRL04B/New+Lab+-+3.png New Lab - The contemporary office There’s something amazing about re-purposing a former foundry that made boilers for warships into an office for the coming age of digital manufacturing. Much of our design works at the level of reinterpreting a large space to fit the collaborative, team-driven, and fluid environment that innovative businesses desire. We strove to make a space that would be both inspiring and functional—based on best practices that both met ho-hum needs and quickened the pulse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544677204042-LOHJOLPN2VDNI7URN6HK/New+Lab+-+6.png New Lab Main Hall from lounge on north bridge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544675452198-5SAH3VN9DECFTRNQWVZ9/New+Lab+-+0.png New Lab https://www.mtquintana.com/one-clinton daily 0.75 2019-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544678341903-UNXJ19LE887BNQTCL6FY/One+Clinton+-+5.jpg One Clinton - Sweating the details, cont’d Making One Clinton look clean and classic required both hard work and a bit of magic. The art, I learned, was equal parts ingenuity and sleight of hand. To save on cost, the facade is veneer limestone. To gain a floor area bonus, the building complies with stringent sustainability targets. To bring these ambitions together at a good price required tireless collaboration with engineers, contractors, and consultants. Together we achieved an elegant yet plain skin that tick, tocks, and hums beneath like well designed Swiss watch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544678745600-NOG9LM4FL59KGQM178HK/One+Clinton+-+8.jpg One Clinton Reading room of new Brooklyn Public Library branch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544677941164-ZCG07UKKNJZ65R14ZI0U/One+Clinton+-+1.jpg One Clinton - Dare to be dull Marvel Architects, 2015-2017 Sometimes simplicity wins outs. At first it might seem like there isn’t much to One Clinton, that without any glitz and glam, it’s little more than a background building. Perhaps. Daring to be dull has its risks. Our challenge was to allow instances where a simple logic might give way to generous urban gestures, human-scaled details, and intimate moments. To such ends, the diagrams at right show how we inflected a plain grid with multiple rhythms to break down the tower’s scale, lent an air of permanence and tactility to the project with a limestone facade, and incorporated a public library and community facilities into the ground floor for neighborhood use. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544678259579-0PHID9VGAU8DFZB6E2BQ/One+Clinton+-+4.jpg One Clinton - Building as book If One Clinton can be understood as a slightly open book standing on end, the limestone facades are its dust-jacketed cover and this—the south facade—its open pages. Accordingly, this facade stands in contrast to the other two. Made entirely of bronze, the tower’s vertical lines are emphasized to read almost like the edges of pages. The result is a building with a clear front and back, and a reading that speaks to the branch library at its base. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544678492408-XFAZHXX2KH35NKZ19TTB/One+Clinton+-+6.jpg One Clinton Library entry facing Cadman Plaza https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544679079629-ZDBWVJUODV18WJV8R4IJ/One+Clinton+-+7.jpg One Clinton Residential entry on Clinton Street https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544678164490-DXWW3GYOEID0P31MMMPA/One+Clinton+-+3.jpg One Clinton - Sweating the details I cut my teeth as an architect developing these facade details for One Clinton. Fresh out of Yale, I was a skilled designer but had only a basic knowledge of the technical aspects of architecture. Over the course of a year, I picked it up by acknowledging what I didn’t know, raising my hand often, and seeking out mentors. I learned two things, how to put a building together and how to be a beginner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544678071430-TVT6IEPJSHKLXQDYZX19/One+Clinton+-+2.jpg One Clinton - Understated elegance For One Clinton, we created a buttoned-down, calm aesthetic for a blue-blooded neighborhood. Faced in limestone and accented in bronze, One Clinton’s primary facade acknowledges the historic character of Brooklyn Heights and the stately civic buildings across Cadman Plaza. Clear regulating lines paired with recessed spandrels emphasize the tower’s height and elegant proportion, as shown in the elevation at right. At the same time, intermittent horizontal bands of limestone breakdown the building’s scale into smaller groups of floors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544677720658-WJEEVVQHO907DS4KTXE2/One+Clinton+-+0.png One Clinton https://www.mtquintana.com/josai-dormatory daily 0.75 2019-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544680741838-L2O7C2DBBCHDHGKVEU3Y/Josai+-+1.jpg Josai Dormitory - Meet me on the balcony Studio Sumo, 2014 It’s said that if, by the time you leave university, you haven’t realized that you learned more from your peers than your professors, then you haven’t learned anything at all. This project is about that realization. The most noticeable design tropes, the entry portal and triangular balconies scattered across the screened facade, are gathering spaces for students to casually socialize. Our intention was to foster a communal and convivial environment, where students could meet easily on any floor, converse in the shade, enjoy views back towards central campus, and learn from each other. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544681176007-371FZQ2KZ367GW1ZP52D/Josai+-+3.jpg Josai Dormitory A pass-through portal forms the dormitory’s entry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544680962945-A25EISEH3LYXTHJ0A0MP/Josai+-+2.jpg Josai Dormitory - My role My involvement with this project was as the facade design lead. I translated intentions and aspiration for the project into build-able designs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544680486077-I2MN2NZ66PQ4K2TJLWP7/Tokyo+Dormitory+-+0.png Josai Dormitory https://www.mtquintana.com/manga-museum daily 0.75 2019-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544684283983-RH4JWNHVA9MA6PF83Z4J/Manga+Library+-+6.jpg Manga Museum Upper reading room above archive volume https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544683571109-OEJ80W7KOGLQACRGMF0S/Manga+Library+-+3.jpg Manga Museum - A machine to create cultural value As this new value is created, the upper cube comes back into play, recapturing a manga that has found new meaning. Thus the two cubes are tied together in a reciprocal relationship constantly cycling material back and for as it gains and loses value. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544684475196-BUUYQNZGZVYLRJIP3U0J/Manga+Library+-+7.jpg Manga Museum Small reading room in subterranean lending library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544682964389-P0Q3TIVAFXYZ4WRA10SJ/Manga+Library+-+2.jpg Manga Museum - Archive vs. individual collections Unreleased manga—the most valuable sort—starts its journey in a jewel box archive above the landscape. As items in the collection age and lose value, they are transferred to the subterranean library. Here, reading rooms allow individuals to move manga from the library to their own shelves, establish individual collections, and leave out manga they find particularly interesting. Such rooms establish a second and entirely unique organizational structure for the museum’s collection. In this network of reading rooms, manga is not organized rigorously by a catalog but rather arranged subjectively by individuals. The result is an inner labyrinth demanding to be explored and a collection distributed in manner that encourages browsing and discovery. Here one wanders, potentially discovers something new and entirely unfamiliar, and thereby establishes new value in what was once the dross of the archive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544682825515-QZGW2Z7GH0E1N93HDJPK/Manga+Library+-+1.jpg Manga Museum - Alchemy Yale SOA, Sunil Bald Studio, 2013 How to handle the paradox? By official mandate, the Japanese National Center for Media Arts must collect and trumpet the value of manga as an art form while, at the same time, an individual manga rapidly loses its value as it ages. Impossibly then, this museum must synthesize value by transforming hordes of aging books into cultural capital. To answer this this alchemical challenge, I proposed a half-buried machine that cycles manga as a cultural product in order to replace its fading monetary value with a new form of personal or cultural value. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544684903116-D7YLQJEMSJH5VNE7A4RD/Manga+Library+-+4.jpg Manga Museum Cross section through lending library below and archive above https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544681538000-GCSP3422XLMI2XG3F3O4/Manga+Library+-+0.png Manga Museum https://www.mtquintana.com/building-project daily 0.75 2019-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544808907771-Y1XLES1IZIGAD475K7R5/Building+Project+-+4.jpg Building Project - Design / Build Since 1967, the Yale School of Architecture has offered its students the opportunity to design and build a home in partnership with Neighborhood Housing Services, a local nonprofit affordable housing developer. My year, the project called for a 2,500 square foot home on a narrow lot at 456 Orchard Street. Our design took seriously the notion of affordability and created spaces that were both intimate and luxurious within a small building footprint and tight envelope. The experience of first designing then building a home was both edifying and rewarding. There were many bumps along the road from our initial vision to handing the keys to the new owner. The arduous process of sketching out an idea, then bringing it into the world taught me the necessity of on-the-fly problem solving and the value of staying nimble. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544809055707-A855VGXICZCQCXHLIAA9/Building+Project+-+11.jpg Building Project - Millwork Gary Leggett and I designed and built custom millwork for the Building Project house. We designed the cabinetry as simple carcasses that incorporate both closed storage and open shelves. Constructed of with Red Oak-veneered plywood, they were fabricated entirely in Yale’s shop. Gary and I donated time over the summer to see the project through and were assisted in construction by Daisy Ames, Mike Mills, and Chris Parkinson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544898806214-UCOQIG7XY4Z53HVKTF63/Building+Project+-+3.jpg Building Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544898707955-PXJT7695VWACWYUB3LGV/Building+Project+-+2.jpg Building Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544820788793-PL6YI0ZEBN94KN35Q5GP/Building+Project+-+1.jpg Building Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544808196737-DZJTEGF54TJM6U3JM14K/Building+Project+-+0.png Building Project https://www.mtquintana.com/new-index daily 0.75 2019-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544901367797-964QV4WOG62RRYI9HRI1/Furniture+-+1.jpg Furniture - Furniture drawings Schiller Projects, 2014 One winter, my friend Aaron asked for help redrawing his past work as he prepared to launch a website. Though the projects were small scale— these at right are a selection of furniture projects—the challenge was to bring coherence to a diverse range of work through drawing. It immediately appealed to my love for the medium. The challenge was made more complex and relevant because the drawings were intended for the web, a format that I’d never specifically considered. I hope what we achieved is a paired-down drawing aesthetic that conveys Aaron’s faith in simplicity and understated elegance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544902911434-MEUJTHWWBN3SDMBBAHES/Furniture+-+0.png Furniture https://www.mtquintana.com/private-library daily 0.75 2019-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544903131545-YDKFB7YXP2A5DA8OOG2I/Private+Library+-+1.jpg Private Library - Private library Schiller Projects, 2014 During January of 2014, I produced a suite of drawings in collaboration with Aaron Schiller for a project in Washington DC. The project, which was completed in 2009, provides a quiet space for study and reflection inside of a larger house. The design and extensive millwork fabrication was carried out by Aaron in collaboration with a master craftsman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544903379104-5M0GM9CGVETABVAIPKMT/Private+Library+-+3.jpg Private Library - A flexible style What we achieved, I hope, is a paired-down drawing aesthetic that conveys Aaron’s faith in simplicity and understated elegance. I chose to develop a consistent but flexible visual style that could be deployed for a wide range of projects, from furniture to interiors and private homes. Drawing on the tradition and graphic tropes of architectural blueprints, I chose to use a rich blue background and a family of soft white fills through the website. To this day, Aaron still uses the style. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544903243816-UM7BJ7XFVALLHZODW1OX/Private+Library+-+2.jpg Private Library - Building a visual identity As Aaron prepared to launch a web site for his recently established firm, he asked me to lend a hand revising some of his existing projects for presentation on the web. To add consistency to a diverse portfolio of work, I developed a representational aesthetic for his drawings. The challenge immediately appealed to my love for drawing as a medium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544903821807-R0S3AMWZKSPQTG031F58/Private+Library+-+0.png Private Library https://www.mtquintana.com/vineyard-house daily 0.75 2019-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544904474910-ZHNPPA1T8J8AY5OTLM52/Vineyard+House+-+1.png Vineyard House - Vineyard house Schiller Projects, 2014 During January of 2014, I produced a suite of drawings in collaboration with Aaron Schiller for a project on Martha’s Vineyard. The project, which began construction in May of 2014, provides a family retreat by the sea with four bedrooms and an adjoining guest house. Modelled after the classic barns of New England, this design adapts its precedent by shifting the line of the gable and lofting the main volume above the landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544904591647-Y6WPY6QVIQ5Z15VTHZXK/Vineyard+House+-+12.png Vineyard House - Building a visual identity As Aaron prepared to launch a web site for his recently established firm, he asked me to lend a hand revising some of his existing projects for presentation on the web. To add consistency to a diverse portfolio of work, I developed a representational aesthetic for his drawings. The challenge immediately appealed to my love for drawing as a medium. What we achieved, I hope, is a paired-down drawing aesthetic that conveys Aaron’s faith in simplicity and understated elegance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544904909079-Y2TUVGEWPYPG0IB2GCKH/Vineyard+House+-+0.jpg Vineyard House https://www.mtquintana.com/new-index-1 daily 0.75 2019-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544905268594-YBMET21VSJRPOCLE2RBA/Art+Institute+-+1.jpg Art Institute - Exhibition synopsis Studio Gang, 2012 Setting record attendance during its run at the Art Institute of Chicago, the SGA’s first solo exhibition, “Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects,” examined twelve built and unbuilt projects through the lens of four major issues facing contemporary architecture: its relationship to nature, the development of dense urban areas, the integration of the ideas of community members, and architecture and performance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544905771225-4CBWNO80UU73ZYQYW3BO/Art+Institute+-+2.jpg Art Institute - Environments design There are times when a summer internship pans out nicely. This was one of them. I participated in this exhibition as an environments designer, working on the layout of the materials within the space, the design of the “rope rooms,” and fabrication of site specific furniture. Most days I worked at the office, but as my favorite ones where when I went to the foundry to make full-size mock-up with Schuyler, the fabrication lead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544905083075-T58T8493E4PBQL0Q06GR/Art+Institute+-+0.png Art Institute https://www.mtquintana.com/venice-biennale daily 0.75 2019-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544906474140-CJCNRLLPHRHKP5QGMY8P/Venice+-+1.jpg Venice Biennale - Exhibition design Eisenman Architects, 2012. On occasion of Common Ground, director Sir David Chipperfield’s Thirteenth Architecture Biennale in Venice. I worked with Eisenman Architects to present A Field of Diagrams, wherein the improbable compositional aesthetics that drive Piranesi’s etchings are transformed into a spatial and temporal palimpsest between Imperial Rome and the present day, generating a radical notion of vertical dimension. The project is part of The Piranesi Variations, which includes three other contemporary interpretations of Piranesi’s fantastical project for Rome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544907664743-EWR8ZF96PRF9OSSRDFMY/Venice+-+2.jpg Venice Biennale - Historical background In 1762, after years of fieldwork measuring the remains of ancient Roman edifices, Giovanni Battista Piranesi published his Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma, a folio of etchings that have haunted the minds of architects and architectural scholars ever since. These etchings and further studies of ancient Rome completed by Piranesi construct a landmark shift—characteristic of the Enlightenment—from a traditional antiquarian perspective to a scientific, archaeological view of history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544906266322-4PL8TRRGCEJ6KZJPYK1K/Venice+Bienalle+-+0.png Venice Biennale https://www.mtquintana.com/perspecta-1 daily 0.75 2019-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544911634450-UG81M04YZFLNWBIXFWNJ/Perspecta+-+1.jpg Perspecta - Perspecta journal Perspecta 48 considers the uses and abuses of history and ignites a debate about the role of memory in architecture. Architecture, the most durable of the arts, is inextricably linked to issues of memory, nostalgia, and history. Yet, in this impatient century, the discipline’s relationship to the past has become increasingly fraught. The stream of readily accessible information has trapped us in a perpetual present, and our attention spans have been reduced to 140-character bursts. As archives overflow and data multiplies, these accumulating facts lack any theory of significance. Is history still relevant in a media landscape where time passes at an accelerated pace? Aaron Dresben, Andrea Leung, Ed Hsu, and I were the editors of this issue. We determined the topic, built the masthead, edited the essays, and selected then guided the graphic designers in laying out the issue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544911516096-FVL0VSAOYPYVO5GDRW4J/IMG_2937+extra+2.jpg Perspecta https://www.mtquintana.com/log daily 0.75 2019-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544913655594-DLVF62F109VTXHD3ID9I/Log+-+1.jpg Log - Log journal First as an intern and later taking over for the managing editor of Log, I collaborated intensively with the editor-in-chief to bring 75+ journal articles and 3 books to publication. It was my responsibility to review all essays for publication, layout the journal, and manage circulation and distribution. This issue pictured at right, was a special feature which packed a little more graphic punch than others and collected essays and conversations focusing on relationships between new media and materiality in architecture—with an emphasis on sensation and affect. Instead of the customary postcard, each copy of issue #17 came with a pair of 3D glasses, to reveal the depth displayed on the cover. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544914983284-K6L6KIMCQOXW4Z8JYQZW/Log+-+0+%5Brefit%5D.png Log https://www.mtquintana.com/electric-vehicles daily 0.75 2019-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544915260232-YFU7JZB2YKFWVY9TPEDA/Tesla+-+1.jpg Electric Vehicles - Electric vehicle charging Working with a Peter Logan, a classmate, I co-wrote a report exploring how Tesla’s supercharger network could be designed not as an electrical equivalent to standard gas pumps but instead be used as a pivot point to unlock novel types of auto-adjacent experiences. At present, Tesla has understood their charging network as infrastructure, rather than as element with in the larger brand ecosystem that the company is known for. What was of interest to us as designers, was the huge potential for disruptive innovation around these superchargers. With some design thinking and by identifying retail synergies there could be covert ways to re-script land-use patterns around typical roadside developments and make some much needed improvements to often-shabby American auto-landscapes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bd29d087980b304cb357b87/1544915722810-QL73D2PSMNFIPGYPIFTV/Electric+Vehicles+-+0+%5Brefit%5D.png Electric Vehicles