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INTRODUCTION
FIRM STATEMENT
Archi-Tectonics, a WBE certi昀椀ed company, founded by Winka Dubbeldam in
1998 and joined by Justin Korhammer as partner in 2016, has developed an
extensive portfolio of high-performance, hybrid buildings and urban strategies
around the world, driven by rigorous research in addressing complex socioeconomic challenges and combating climate change.
“Strange Objects Exhibit”: Venice Architecture Biennale 2023
Our projects vary in scale and type, from bottom-up urban “acupunctures”
like the such as the 116-acre eco-park with seven green buildings in
Hangzhou and the 80-acre Healthy Living Village in Staten Island to advance
climate-responsive structures that feature material innovation and advanced
production, including the London Solar House, the 512GW Climate Skin, the
V33 Building in Tribeca, and the 497GW passive solar condominiums. Each
Amber, the Fashion Biennale Arnhem for Siki Im
of our interventions serves as a catalyst for making our cities more resilient –
imbibing an evocative, haptic quality that fosters communities and promotes
wellbeing of humans, non-humans, and the planet.
Our design process is aimed at developing an object (as building) not with a
focus on a particular aesthetic or style, but on its ‘coming into being’. Edmund
Husserl described this as the linguistic translation from the mental, spiritual
“Synthe琀椀c Natures Exhibit”: Spazio Milesi, Milan 2025
space of the inventor, where the originaliter resides, to a formation of the
“ideal object.”
The design as ‘growth’ originating from the seed’s ‘inner logic,’ often results
in another aesthetic, approximating what others might consider unusual, or
ugly, by conventional standards. This newly formed original with its almost
ugly or uncanny nature is in fact an indicator of the autonomous nature of the
“building as object”, an object with character and identity.
“Monsters & Mutants Exhibit”: Architekturgalerie, Munich 2025
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From Hardware to So昀琀 Form, in Permanent Collec琀椀on at MoMA, New York
