Studio Ames

Studio Ames is an architectural design and research practice. Studio Ames is a New York City based architectural practice.

We engage both the practical application of architecture as well as how architecture theory.

23/02/2023

Three Timber Houses, Three Timber Ways

1. Render Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) House
2. Plan Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) House

3. Render Structural Insulated Panel (SIP) House
4. Plan Structural Insulated Panel (SIP) House

5. Render Post-and-Beam (PNB) House
6. Plan Post-and-Beam (PNB) House

These houses illustrate emerging construction technologies across typically invisible categories: material waste, trade labor, renewable energy, natural light and cross-ventilation.

Representation assistance from Alek Tomich and Angela Sun, 2020.
Site: Westchester County, NY.

04/11/2022

Typical floor plan and underlying geometry of a mass timber, small-living, mixed-income housing project by Studio Ames on a site located in the Bronx, New York. This project came out of research on environmental policies, construction innovations, and new housing design strategies in Scandinavia, supported by LeBrun Travel Grant through by the AIA New York | Center for Architecture, with assistance from Tini Tang .ive !

09/06/2022

Grammin’ from the van! This housing workshop in Mexico City has been a great so far - from La Laguna, Prim, Liga, and Tatiana’s generosity to this super fun group of students!

25/04/2022

Sharing a snippet of 3rd Year Undergraduate Housing Studio Student Work – Assignment 2: Site Analysis asked students to represent, map and consider difficult to see / invisiblized aspects of the site along six themes: Air, Health, Labor, Water, Waste, and Energy. Shared above is the work of the following students and taught alongside Stephen Rustow and Jonathan Tate:

– Andrew Herbert, Julia Penchaszadeh Robert, Marina Duque Gonzalez, Kaivana Patel, and Austin Lai;
– Annie He, Ru Jai, Jiayi Chen, and Laela Baker;
- Razaq Alabdulmughni, Ji-Hoo Ahn, Jacob Chung, and Jayden Zhang;
– Augustine Crain, MC Love, and Elias Dills;
– Sara Ilich, Rebecca John, Denise Cholula, and Aeirn Chavez;
- Grace Ballo, Patrick Yu, Daniel Park, and Jaemin Baek;

22/03/2022

Looking forward to this! Tomorrow, March 23rd 2022 at 6pm you can tune into “Under Pressure: Urban Housing and Other Hybrids,” a housing studio event and book launch at The Cooper Union celebrating Hina Jamelle’s amazing book “Under Pressure.” Four contributors, Brian Phillips, Nader Tehrani, Laia Mogas-Soldevila, and Scott Erdy, will be presenting their work and we will discuss the various pressures the architecture profession faces alongside themes of this year’s housing studio sequence that I am coordinating - hybridity and invisibility. This is an in-person event for the Cooper students and faculty, and you can tune in via Zoom using the link in my profile.

16/12/2021

Studio Ames’s received an award from The Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design - Honorable Mention in the Exhibition Design category for our design and curation of “Linee Occulte: Drawing Architecture.” I am tremendously grateful for the opportunity to commission talented individuals to create drawings, and to continue the discussion with Kyle Miller in a series that followed called “Linee Evidente” … also, a big thank you to and the installation team for the support!

Gallery Space: Citigroup. Contributors: Daisy Ames, Iman Fayyed, Lindsay Harkema, Kevin Hirth, Alfie Koetter, Stephanie Lin, Melissa Shin, Linsey Wikstrom, Mersiha Veledar. Installation Team: Hanneke and Betsy Clifton. Discussants: Thomas de Monchaux, Anna Puigjaner, Jaffer Kolb, Francisco Brown, Debbie Chen, Elisa Iturbe, Matt Shaw, Ivi Diamantopoulou, Eliana Dotan, Utkarsha Laharia, and Miroslava Brooks!

Many thanks to the jurors for appreciating the work: , Jason Pugh and

06/12/2021

sending thanks and a big hug to my friends and colleagues with this upcoming review season. we created strong bonds this semester and the students have been a true inspiration! 🤍

01/12/2021

Studio Ames’s latest map! Published in journal, PLAT 10: BEHOLD, accompanied by my essay “Bring to Light: Historical Housing Policy” which looks at the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota by overlaying housing information that cuts across knowledge sources - from historical redlining, current policies, park investment, evictions, air temperature, flood plains, and park encampments during COVID. These invisiblized and often difficult to see elements are the bedrock that structure the living spaces and environments.
Thank you for assisting with this representation earlier this year!

10/11/2021

House Five by Studio Ames - elevation and bedroom…
Awarded by The Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design, Honorable Mention in the Unbuilt Residential Project Category 2020

15/10/2021

A simple and peaceful view from a project Studio Ames completed a few years ago - Apartment 3.

04/10/2021

So much housing to see in Los Angeles! For our Yale School of Architecture Advanced Studio, Heather Roberge and I took students on a tour of LA, looking at the genealogy of housing typologies as well as well as tours of prefabrication facilities doing really great work in innovating the construction of housing and houses.

1. Sun Tech Townhouses by Urban Forms Organization
2. Star Apartments by Michael Maltzan Architecture
3. Horacio West Court by Irving Gill
4. Living Homes by Ray Kappe and Plant Prefab
5. Mar Vista Tract Model Houses by Gregory Ain
6. IT House by Taalman Architects
7. Crest Apartments by Michael Maltzan
8. mnm MOD Prefab Facility
9. Blackbirds by Bestor Architecture

12/07/2021

Last chance to see “Linee Occulte: Drawing Architecture” at our closing reception this Thursday July 15th, 2021 from 6:30-8pm at 104b Forsyth Street, New York, NY 10009.

Many thanks to Citygroup for the invitation to propose an exhibition in which I was able to design the space and gather a group of colleagues around the topic of hidden lines. Contributors include: Stephanie Lin, Mersiha Veledar, Iman Fayyad, Kevin Hirth, Alifie Koetter, Lindesy Harkema, Lindsay Wikstrom and Melissa Shin.

I am also grateful to Kyle Miller after spending this summer co-curating our conversation series Linee Evidente with discussants Debbie Chen, Stephanie Lin, Elisa Iturbe, Matt Shaw, Mirka Brooks, Ivi Diamantopoulou, Iman Fayyad, Utkarsha Laharia, Eliana Dotan, Michael Cohen, Jaffer Kolb, Anna Puigjaner, Francisco Brown, Mersiha Veledar, and Violette de le Selle. These were events which were intimate, unrecorded and hosted in the exhibition space of Linee Occulte: Drawing Architecture.

Finally, shout out to Mauricio Higuera and Aaron Smithson for writing wonderful pieces for Cooper Union () and The Architect’s Newspaper () respectively in support of the work, and to installers Betsy Clifton and Hanneke van Deursen for executing the vision!

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