Edited with text by Florian Idenburg, Jing Liu. Text by Ted Baab, Karilyn Johanesen, Nicolas Kemper. Photographs by Iwan Baan, Naho Kubota.
The award-winning Brooklyn architecture studio challenging the status quo of urban housing
For over a decade, Brooklyn-based architecture firm SO–IL has been envisioning houses and other projects in between and adjacent to domestic spaces. Reflecting on the state of housing design today, often constrained by pressures of production, SO–IL approaches these projects with generous experimentation. They adapt and adjust the architectural and physical “body languages” of domesticity while operating through the framing and occupation of liminal spaces. The projects featured in In Depth represent SO-IL’s attempt to “hack” the codes, cores, courts and corridors; to stretch and inhabit “inefficiencies”; to turn the old stones and bring fragments of buried treasures from the past into the present; to question if housing for all should be the yardstick for the shelters of our souls; and to ask the future generations what kind of home we should design for them.
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
Arch Daily
Christele Harrouk
The book redefines domesticity as an active and shared experience and examines how architects can address pressing urban challenges such as affordability, density, and sustainability.
The Guardian
Oliver Wainwright
SO-IL’s impressive talent is to limbo beneath the bureaucracy, stretching loopholes and exploiting zoning quirks, to carve out space for architecture.
FORMAT: Pbk, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 360 pgs / 371 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $50.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $70 ISBN: 9783037787571 PUBLISHER: Lars Müller Publishers AVAILABLE: 1/7/2025 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA LA
Published by Lars Müller Publishers. Edited with text by Florian Idenburg, Jing Liu. Text by Ted Baab, Karilyn Johanesen, Nicolas Kemper. Photographs by Iwan Baan, Naho Kubota.
The award-winning Brooklyn architecture studio challenging the status quo of urban housing
For over a decade, Brooklyn-based architecture firm SO–IL has been envisioning houses and other projects in between and adjacent to domestic spaces. Reflecting on the state of housing design today, often constrained by pressures of production, SO–IL approaches these projects with generous experimentation. They adapt and adjust the architectural and physical “body languages” of domesticity while operating through the framing and occupation of liminal spaces. The projects featured in In Depth represent SO-IL’s attempt to “hack” the codes, cores, courts and corridors; to stretch and inhabit “inefficiencies”; to turn the old stones and bring fragments of buried treasures from the past into the present; to question if housing for all should be the yardstick for the shelters of our souls; and to ask the future generations what kind of home we should design for them.
