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HOUSE
Karesansui House
Proof House
Alan-Voo House
ST House
M&L House
Selby Avenue House
ADU No. 1
No Mass House
CLT House
Micro-Footprint House
OFFICE
9000 Wilshire
5600 West Adams
Wellness Center
Sotoak Pavilion
3 Vessels
Endeavor
Media Office Block
Green Brick Prism
Orange Square
HOTEL
La Brea Hotel
Alsace Hotel
6AM Hotel
Qualia Hotel
HOUSING
HL23
902 Davie
2 Burrard Place
130 West Broadway
320 La Cienega
Shift Stack Housing
Permanent Shadow
Porsche Design Tower
Dos Rios Housing
Slavyanka City
Kite City
Torre del Golf
NEU Development
Aomori
INSTITUTIONAL
Wildwood School
MOCA
Chapel in the Forest
Sori Yanagi Museum
Hameetman Center
CUHK Student Center
Maribor Museum
Carlow Art Center
Arlington Museum of Art
COMMERCIAL
Romaine Arches
Sycamore Arches
Commissary
Twentieth
MUFG Nagoya
MUFG Ginza
MUFG Umeda
Ningbo Bar Tower
l.a. Eyeworks
Casey Kaplan Gallery
Adidas Outlet Store
Thinkpark
TRANSPORTATION
Keelung Terminal
Peach Airlines
Houston Central Station
BOOK
Annotated Notebooks
ONICS
MASS X
OSU Baumer Lectures
Gyroscopic Horizons
Interrupted Projections
FURNITURE
Shift_Leg Table
EXHIBITION
T-Space
The Artless Drawing
Vert-Eco
TROIA
Gallery MA_IP
Fluoroscape
Close - Up
Chess & Go
MEDIA
Monorad
Currency Design
ARCHIVE
Cor-Tex 1982-98
NMDA 1998-
Site Design: INNER IDEAL
©2024 NMDA_LA
Year of the Dragon
Precise Form for an Imprecise World
2024 > ︎
Precise Form for an Imprecise World is a variation on one of Jean-Luc Godard’s most often repeated aphorisms: “Confront vague ideas with clear images.” It speaks to the process we undertake in design, which takes guesswork, hunches, possibilities, things in flux, and nascent ideas, and posits them as though they are refined, and indeed precise. In a discipline that is one of the least empirical 1, we work iteratively, positioning one possibility next to another.
1 This implies that architecture is one of the least scientific disciplines, and while science is deeply embedded in architecture, it is at it’s core a highly debatable, speculative discourse. Moreover, this implies that science is not a conceptually driven field, which of course it is too. Science = Data....but... Science = ? too.
Slow / Fast
Architecture is a perpetual necessity, but especially today, it is also perpetually anachronistic - in that it is a slow, heavy medium. It is meant to be fixed. Our challenge is how to design for an ever changing planet where environmental, political, and social conditions move and morph at lightspeed? This is architecture’s perpetual question and we make every effort in the work to chip away at answers or at the very least (most?), ask the question in a new way.
HOUSE
Karasansui House
Plate Graphics House
Trimmed Circle House
Alan-Voo House
ST House
M&L House
Selby Avenue House
ADU No. 1
No Mass House
CLT House
Micro-Footprint House
OFFICE
9000 Wilshire
5600 West Adams Wellness Center
Sotoak Pavilion
3 Vessels
Endeavor
Media Office Block
Green Brick Prism
Orange Square
HOTEL
La Brea Hotel
Alsace Hotel
6AM Hotel
Qualia Hotel
HOUSING
HL23
902 Davie
2 Burrard Place
130 West Broadway Porsche Design Tower Western Green Permanent Shadow
320 La Cienega
Dos Rios Housing Slavyanka City
Kite City
Torre del Golf
NEU DevelopmentAomori
INSTITUTIONAL
Wildwood School
MOCA
Chapel in the Forest
Sori Yanagi Museum Hameetman Center
CUHK Student Center Maribor Museum
Carlow Art Center Arlington Museum of Art
COMMERCIAL
Sycamore Arches Twentieth
Commissary
MUFG Nagoya
MUFG Ginza
MUFG Umeda
Ningbo Bar Tower
l.a. Eyeworks
Casey Kaplan Gallery Adidas Outlet Store Thinkpark
TRANSPORTATION
Keelung Terminal
Peach Airlines
Houston Central Station
BOOK
Annotated Notebooks ONICS
Mass X
OSU Baumer Lectures Gyroscopic Horizons Interrupted Projections
FURNITURE
Shift_Leg Table
EXHIBITION
T-Space
TROIA
Gallery MA_IP Fluoroscape
Close - Up
Chess & Go
MEDIA
Monorad
Currency Design
ARCHIVE
Cor-Tex 1982 - 98 NMDA 1998 -
© 2023 Neil M. Denari Architects