Turett Collaborative Architects is at 86 Franklin Street, New York, 10013; (212) 965-1244; www.turettarch.com.
With a few exceptions, like the Croxton Collaborative, architects are unfamiliar with environmental technology and have formed few durable alliances with engineers who practice it.
Jessica Shaw, Mr. Rasiej's interior designer, from Turett Collaborative Architects in Manhattan, traced a source of fake flowers to Earthflora in West Lake, Ohio.
He sold his apartment for $1.75 million, bought the building and retreated to a studio in Zeckendorf Towers for two years while Wayne Turett, of Turett Collaborative Architects in Manhattan, who had worked on his previous home, turned his attention to the new building.
Skidmore, serving as an umbrella for a loose collaborative of architects and artists, dropped out a month later to work exclusively for Silverstein Properties.
Given that science is a collaborative endeavor, architects are striving to design new research buildings that not only provide a more pleasant work space but also facilitate interactions among researchers.
"The architecture of the future, however, envisions to be enticingly malleable and increasingly collaborative, gathering architects with media artists, designers, programmers, and engineers.
Later in the decade came Six Moon Hill, a small group of houses designed by The Architects' Collaborative, a group that included the Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius, who was teaching at Harvard.
The notion of a collective dates back to Walter Gropius and the Architects' Collaborative (TAC), which he founded in 1945 with seven younger architects in Cambridge, Mass.
Ms. Miljački said the hope is to "reactivate" projects by firms like the Architects' Collaborative of Cambridge, Mass., which designed a campus for the University of Baghdad in the 1950s, and Albert Kahn, the Detroit architect whose Moscow office helped to industrialize the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
