Young Projects: Figure, Cast, Frame

Young Projects is a New York-based design studio that combines digital and analog methods to create innovative architectural typologies. Their first monograph explores a new approach to spatial design that combines exploration and architecture, focusing on materiality, structure, and form. The studio's projects include five innovative houses completed between 2015 and 2020, as well as less in-depth looks at other projects that define their practice. Through a rich landscape of drawings, diagrams, renderings, mock-ups, prototypes, and photography, the book explores the studio's interest in using ambiguity and anomaly to create novel and accessible spaces. Young Projects' process begins with simple exercises in making, such as hand-pulling plaster with an irregular knife, using furniture foam as a casting bed, and forming concrete with palm stems. By letting go of control at the right moments, the studio produces results that are often surprising, bespoke, and resist replication.

Format: Hardback
Length: 308 pages
Publication date: 14 June 2022
Publisher: Monacelli Press

This first monograph from New York-based Young Projects explores a new approach to spatial design that combines digital and analog methods at the intersection of exploration and architecture.

This monograph introduces the cutting-edge research and work of Young Projects, founded by Bryan Young, where materiality, structure, and form intersect to generate new architectural typologies. The book presents a selection of the practices most relevant projects: five innovative houses completed between 2015 and 2020 as well as less in-depth looks at other projects that define the practice.

Each house serves as a chapter through which Young Projects broader body of work is explored across scales, illustrated through a rich landscape of drawings, diagrams, renderings, mock-ups, prototypes, and photography. The through-line connecting all chapters is the studios interest in using ambiguity and anomaly to create novel and accessible spaces, whether for high-profile clients like Heidi Klum or a new resort in St Kitts.

Young Projects seeks to draw users into immersive spatial experiences that unfold over time, in a manner that is familiar but subtly foreign. This quality of “allure” is a result of a unique and experimental approach to materiality and spatial legibility. These are the threads that tie the work together and have set Young Projects apart as an emerging practice, as well as inform the larger-scale projects the studio undertakes as it enters its second decade.

Young Projects process often begins with simple exercises in making: form-finding experiments they undertake within their Brooklyn studio. Material research has included hand-pulling plaster with an irregular knife, using furniture foam as a casting bed, and forming concrete with palm stems. These experiments, a.

Weight: 1506g
Dimension: 204 x 277 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781580935982