The 20th-century Austrian scholar Otto Demus, in studies on the aesthetics of middle Byzantine mosaic art, coined the term space icons for this kind of imagery, in which the forms of architecture collaborate to make the solemnly stylized figures appear with unexpected tactility.
Reed Hilderbrand, the landscape architecture firm, collaborated on the project.
Ms. d'Amman, whose agency, Culture in Architecture, has collaborated on various design and decoration projects in the Middle East, has hired three interior decorators based in Paris, Cyril Vergniol, Chahan Minassian and Tristan Auer.
Not content with just architecture, Aalto collaborated with his wife Aino on town planning, interior design, furniture and glassware design, You will have seen his work even if you did not know it was his: the curvalicious bentwood Paimio chair; three-legged stackable birch stools with rounded legs; the asymmetrical Savoy vase that cradles flowers in its many crannies.
On the heels of Paris's Climate Energy Plan to reduce 75% of greenhouse gas emissions in the next 35 years, the architecture firm collaborated with engineers at Setec Bâtiment to design eight prototypes for towers that could bring greenery back into the city and provide sources of renewable energy.
"Having stayed there I know it as a very cosy, playful place, full of great little architectural games put in by Charles," says Perry, referring to Charles Holland of FAT Architecture, the firm hired by Living Architecture to collaborate with Perry on the design of the house.
At the newly started Centre for Urban Studies in a stigmatized suburb of Gothenburg, the academic fields of teaching, social work and architecture are collaborating with the local community.
Expedition Engineering and architecture firm Spence Associates collaborated and won the design competition that challenged UK structural artists to come up with a cutting-edge design for a pedestrian bridge as part of the area's revival project.
It was designed by the Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron; the landscape architecture firm Reed Hilderbrand collaborated on the project.
In the case of the library, OMA, the collaborating architecture firm of LMN and Front addressed an aspect of the curtain wall that has long troubled the modernist sensibility.
