This course explores the theme of working together in the field of architecture, delving into the many and varied aspects of the topic. First of all, working with others on your own team; then, working with professionals from other
spheres, with other architects and with clients. One aspect of working together concerns architecture itself: how contemporary architecture works with existing architecture. This course takes the form of an exclusive journey through the offices of Ennead
Architects, an architecture firm based in New York. The video presents experience and advice that have enabled these practices to expand and rise to meet international design standards, dealing with worlds far from their own. Closely examining flagship
past designs and future projects, the course provides valuable examples and useful analysis tools that the firms have evolved during their successful professional pathways. Insights and inspiration on co-working design are shared from decades of experience
at the highest levels in the architectural field, offering a forum for discussion and a significant study opportunity for all architects keen to find out more about international standard-dynamics from up close.
About the Architect
ennead Architects
Tomas Rossant is a founding Design Partner of Ennead Architects, a dynamic design collective with offices in New York City and Shanghai. A non-hierarchical collaborative of design generalists, the 190 person firm works at the nexus of strategy, research,
building technology, firmness, commodity, and delight. Cross-pollinating ideas and technology rapidly between typologies, the practice always questions conventional wisdom in order to formulate new architectural paradigms. Tomas was taught to place
the principles of Humanism at the root of architecture. Yet he believes the power of architecture to positively shape social and ecological outcomes has yet to be fully realized. He is on a mission to re-position the architect as the great problem
solver of our epoch, loves the fact that the myth of the heroic individual architect is dying, and through interdisciplinary and collaborative research, wants to reclaim “social engineering” as the guiding force of architecture. His work is recognized
for design excellence and has received numerous awards. His projects include: the Beus Center for Law and Society at Arizona State University; the expansion of Kansas State University’s College of Architecture, Planning; concept designs for future
Apple Stores; the headquarters for the public broadcaster WGBH in Boston; Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications; and the Masterplan for Yaddo, the historic artist colony in New York State. He is currently working on the new
student center for Northwestern University; the masterplan for the Westminster Schools; the new Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital; and a new medical university for the Kuwait Department of Education. Tomas was the 2015 President of AIANY, the largest
chapter of licensed professional architects in the United States; the former President of the Fine Arts Federation of New York; a founding board member of Design Onscreen; the former chairman of the board of the Jose Limon Dance Foundation; and he
has served on the advisory board of Design Colloquium.
