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CASA & Design Feb 2008: Did I choose this painful profession of an architect or did it choose me?
“This is one of the reasons I have put the house behind a glass facade. These buildings don’t belong to Beijing they have no reason to be rooted to this place. At the same time, I also want people to see them, because they deserve to be looked at carefully, their visual beauty…
The Big Idea
“In Los Angeles, Eric Owen Moss, Morphosis, RoTo, Daniel Libeskind during his life in L.A. and after, and Michele Saee, prominent among the many, presented architectural strategies that, if not in fact poststructuralist, appeared when annotated by its authors as spatial and literary metaphors of poststructuralism.” Johnson, Scott. The Big Idea: Criticality…
Venice Biennale 2004: Trajectories
“The new architecture of Publicis strongly exerts its new character while engaging the existing structure with a mutual respect and crafts a dynamic connection with the city and the celebrated site of the Arc de Triomph. Revealing a fragile character of light and transparency that is at the same time strong, the old and…
Sci-Arc Gallery: “I Broke the Glass” Installation
“In the SCI-Arc installation, as well as in the Publicis building, the steel structure is a force of momentum, rising towards the sky with a kinetic spiral structure. Partially veiled with the shifting and overlap of the curved laminated glass panels, the entire surface achieves a quality of both depth and lightness reflecting…
Spazio Architettura Feb 2003: Michele Saee Retrospective
“The floor of the walkway hanging from the ceiling is made of pierced sheet metal to bring out the transparencies and the overlapping spaces, levels and materials give this otherwise anonymous Los Angeles interior energy and appeal. If we were to try to read between the lines of the Angeli restaurant, we could see…
Heteropolis by Charles Jencks
“One of the great strengths of the L.A. School and hetero-architecture in general is its ability to work with and against the existing context at the same time. Virtually all the best work of Morphosis, Israel, Moss, Saee and company is a conversion – typically of a warehouse. Some architects are at their best…
Architectural Record Feb 2005: Spotlight on the Template House
“‘I wanted to create a space that embraces the body. The idea was to insert a protective layer – like a cocoon or set of clothes – within the existing building’s hard shell. I wanted you to feel like you could occupy the whole place while being in just one space at a…