On May 21st, 2021 Saying goodbye to the Eagle Warehouse after 24 years. Two apartments, one on the top floor and the last on the bottom, the triplex that saw our daughter grow from a toddler into a very wise teenager. Like many of our works, never published, but forever providing contemplative satisfaction.
Pedagogy of Practice
Erika Hinrichs presented her pedagogy of practice at viaARCHITECTURE in Pratt Institute’s second School of Architecture Faculty Practice Presentations. She focused on several publicized projects and recent competition entries.
“Our work can be characterized by a material curiosity, a quality of being crafted, and a thoroughness with its spatial resolution. It is a practice that has generated an interlocking set of stories and relationships in the pursuit of three conditions:
Porosity Interiority MaterialityIt is in the craft of making that a distinction is made between inhabiting and dwelling. Through all of these investigations, we take the opportunity to reconsider the nature of utility. To make something more of it. First by finding additional paths of movement as a means of empowering those who engage the spaces— either for the body or the eye, then to the actual figuring of the space itself.”
Research Presentation
Frederick Biehle presented his Academic Research at the first Pratt School of Architecture Faculty Research Presentations on his 400 level design studios, ranging in programmatic topics while also addressing inner perspectives on architecture- foregrounding issues of narrative, cross-disciplinary methodologies, or ethical underpinnings, as well as coordination of the Undergraduate Rome Program, whose pedagogy engages the continuity of architecture and its history.
KPF Traveling Fellowship Jury 2019
Erika Hinrichs chaired the annual Kohn Pedersen Fox Travelling Fellowship Award Jury, selecting Steven Hillyer, Director of the Archive at Cooper Union School of Architecture and Maria Hurtado de Mendoza, Associate Professor at NJIT and co-founder of Estudio.Entresitio to participate. The summary was that this was a jury that looked first as to how the student work submitted addressed the underlying critical issues of our day.
April 16th, 2019
Housing After Banking
Frederick Biehle participated in a discussion following the presentation of a thesis and project proposal by Eunjeong Seong that proposed converting the single family house into an energy producing solar asset as a way of redirecting the current debt structure that controls the housing market.
April 8th, 2019
Creative Capital
BRINGING JOY TO A SMALL OFFICE IN LOWER MANHATTAN
viaARCHITECTURE
(A) Creative Capital's new Manhattan offices, designed by viaARCHITECTURE (Thomas Allen)
There are good clients and then there are good clients with great projects. They don’t always go together, but when they do, the result can be inspiring architecture and design. viaARCHITECTURE, the New York City firm led by Frederick Biehle and Erika Hinrichs, found both when they were commissioned to design the New York offices for Creative Capital.
October 2018
Kemeri Bog Competition
(A) View towards Main Entrance
ORACLE
In Classical Antiquity, the Oracle was thought to be the mystical portal through which the Gods could speak directly to the people.
This proposal is shaped as a man-made clearing, a space that allows for an interface between the Earth and the Sky; the vertical axis that can intersect with the horizon and the extended horizontal path that will traverse the Great Kemeri Bog. It is a space that allows for the gathering of knowledge through its Visitor Center exhibition and a place of respite as a kind of oasis that offers regeneration.
The enclosing walls are fabricated in faceted sections from Shou Sugi Ban charred wood, a finishing system invented in Japan that naturally preserves the material. It is set up to act as a scrim- a surface that both filters the condition that lies beyond it while allowing natural light to enter in.
(A) Oracle Plan
(A) Section through Courtyard and Campground
(B) View from outdoor Cafe towards Ticket Booth
October 2018
Midtown, NYC
Revisiting a project realized nearly 20 years ago, Ruby Lerner's Park Avenue apartment was re-imagined by adding the floor as a composed and integrated elevations. Its previously warm coloration was made to be more contemplative, reflective of the sky. Published originally in Living Large in Small Spaces, it continues to remain her sanctuary.
April 2018
Denver, Co
New York City
Panel discussion DESIGNING TOWARDS AN EQUITABLE, DIVERSE, AND INCLUSIVE ARCHITECTURE PROFESSION with Esteban Beita and Noor Ul Ain, moderated by Farzam Yazdanseta at the Center for Architecture, NYC.
February 10, 2018
