boxing match

• Published in: Interior Design Vol. 88; no. 15; p. 78
• Main Author: Lassell, Michael
• Format: Trade Publication Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boca Raton Sandow Media 01.11.2017
• Subjects: Architects; Architectural services; Architecture; Art galleries & museums; Corporate profiles; Partnering; United States > US
• ISSN: 0020-5508

Lassell discuss about the firm FreelandBuck, an architectural design practice based in Los Angeles. The eponymous partners of the bi-coastal FreelandBuck met in grad school at UCLA. They founded their six-person firm in 2010, with David FreeLand based in Los Angeles, where he teaches at SCI-Arc, and Brennan Buck, a faculty member at Yale University in New York. We try to make engaging spaces that are also challenging or provocative, Buck says by way of summarizing the firm's philosophy. The pair, who speak of layering in all its physical and theoretical manifestations, have recently garnered attention with their multicolor installation at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery in Washington DC, which riffs on 19th- and 20th-century tromp l'oeil ceilings. The firm was also just named a finalist for the 2018 Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PSi Young Architects Program.