About
Synecdoche (Si-NEK-duh-kee) “simultaneous understanding”
We believe architecture is a discipline with blurring boundaries. No longer is it composed of a series of practices bundled together to create one outcome, rather one practice creating a series of outcomes. Architecture can be binding and invent new, unique and unprecedented relationships between contingent issues. The goal is to find emergent ideas in the blur to find a new focus for our office. We seek work demanding the understanding and exploration of the periphery.
Contingencies stretch beyond the design disciplines, reacting to the political, economic, and social forces of a project manifest solutions not always grounded in the physical but always reliant on the architectural. The designing of a framework, an infrastructure becomes a dynamically integrated rather than the statically present architecture. To work stretches between the speculative and constructed to understand how to stitch these two extremes together. Proposals of far-reaching territories refine themselves through the continuous interrogation of the conflicting and complimentary to find itself in the rational yet unexpected outcome.
Lisa Sauvé + Adam Smith
Lisa and Adam both hold Master’s degrees in Architecture from Taubman College at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, and Bachelor’s degrees in Architecture from Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, MI. Lisa was recently awarded the Sarah Marian Parker Award as the outstanding woman M.Arch degree candidate of 2011. She is continuing her academic research on contingent issues latent to architectural endeavors. Adam’s current interests focus on large scale infrastructural landscapes as well as material resource and assembly techniques.
About
Synecdoche (Si-NEK-duh-kee) “simultaneous understanding”
We believe architecture is a discipline with blurring boundaries. No longer is it composed of a series of practices bundled together to create one outcome, rather one practice creating a series of outcomes. Architecture can be binding and invent new, unique and unprecedented relationships between contingent issues. The goal is to find emergent ideas in the blur to find a new focus for our office. We seek work demanding the understanding and exploration of the periphery.
Contingencies stretch beyond the design disciplines, reacting to the political, economic, and social forces of a project manifest solutions not always grounded in the physical but always reliant on the architectural. The designing of a framework, an infrastructure becomes a dynamically integrated rather than the statically present architecture. To work stretches between the speculative and constructed to understand how to stitch these two extremes together. Proposals of far-reaching territories refine themselves through the continuous interrogation of the conflicting and complimentary to find itself in the rational yet unexpected outcome.
Lisa Sauvé + Adam Smith
Lisa and Adam both hold Master’s degrees in Architecture from Taubman College at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, and Bachelor’s degrees in Architecture from Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, MI. Lisa was recently awarded the Sarah Marian Parker Award as the outstanding woman M.Arch degree candidate of 2011. She is continuing her academic research on contingent issues latent to architectural endeavors. Adam’s current interests focus on large scale infrastructural landscapes as well as material resource and assembly techniques.
