morphosis 2041 colorado avenue santa monica, california 90404 t: 310.453.2247 f: 310.829.3270 [email protected]www.morphosis.net FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Morphosis wins the first international Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment for recently completed United States Federal Building in San Francisco. Los Angeles, July 5, 2007– On June 28 th , the Zumtobel Group announced the winners of the first international Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment. Designed to commend outstanding sustainable and humanitarian solutions in contemporary architecture and engineering, the award carries a purse of EUR 140,000, shared among two categories: Built Environment and Research & Initiative. For the Built Environment, the jury honored Morphosis for the United States Federal Building in San Francisco. The Research & Initiative award went to Schlaich Bergermann Solar, Stuttgart, Germany, for the design of the Solar Updraft Tower. The two winning projects were selected from a worldwide total of 40, proposed by a global network of experts in architecture and engineering. Determining the laureates in the two categories was the task of an independent, interdisciplinary and international 9- person jury comprising leading architects and engineers, a philosopher, the Executive Director of UN Habitat and the CEO of the Zumtobel Group. As they assessed the nominations, the jury applied wide-ranging criteria from the fields of sustainability and humanity, from environmental and aesthetic quality to high ethical, social and economic standards. The jury selected Morphosis’s recently completed office building for the United States General Services Administation for its innovative and integrative combination of leading- edge sustainable technology with intelligent design strategies to create an architectural landmark of outstanding aesthetic quality. In the words of the jury: "Through its leadership in sustainable thinking, this building sends out a strong signal and message in the urban context, not only in the US, but all over the world.” INFORMATION ABOUT THE AWARD The Zumtobel Group Award was launched by the Austrian-based Zumtobel Group in collaboration with the Aedes Architecture Forum, Berlin, Germany. For many years now, the Zumtobel Group – present in the global lighting market through its Zumtobel and Thorn brands and components manufacturer TridonicAtco – has assigned top priority to sustainability and energy efficiency in the function and application of its products. The award aims to promote outstanding sustainable solutions in architecture and engineering that make a notable contribution to a livable, sustainable, equitable and more humane future. The award in the 'Built Environment’ category is offered for exceptional architectural, engineering or urban design projects realized within the last two years that meet current demands for sustainable living and envisage the needs of the future. In this category, the award carries a purse of EUR 80,000. In the "Research and Initiative” category, the award is offered for an innovative, current research project or social initiative in architecture and the built environment, developed and run by non- governmental organizations, universities or independent groups and individuals. Aiming in particular to encourage researchers and practitioners in architecture and urban design, in this category the award carries a purse of EUR 60,000 and is intended to facilitate and foster the progress of an ongoing initiative or emerging research project.
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2041 colorado avenue santa monica, california 90404
Morphosis wins the first international Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment for recently completed United States Federal Building in San Francisco.
Los Angeles, July 5, 2007– On June 28th, the Zumtobel Group announced the winners of the first international Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment. Designed to commend outstanding sustainable and humanitarian solutions in contemporary architecture and engineering, the award carries a purse of EUR 140,000, shared among two categories: Built Environment and Research & Initiative. For the Built Environment, the jury honored Morphosis for the United States Federal Building in San Francisco. The Research & Initiative award went to Schlaich Bergermann Solar, Stuttgart, Germany, for the design of the Solar Updraft Tower.
The two winning projects were selected from a worldwide total of 40, proposed by a global network of experts in architecture and engineering. Determining the laureates in the two categories was the task of an independent, interdisciplinary and international 9-person jury comprising leading architects and engineers, a philosopher, the Executive Director of UN Habitat and the CEO of the Zumtobel Group. As they assessed the nominations, the jury applied wide-ranging criteria from the fields of sustainability and humanity, from environmental and aesthetic quality to high ethical, social and economic standards. The jury selected Morphosis’s recently completed office building for the United States General Services Administation for its innovative and integrative combination of leading-edge sustainable technology with intelligent design strategies to create an architectural landmark of outstanding aesthetic quality. In the words of the jury: "Through its leadership in sustainable thinking, this building sends out a strong signal and message in the urban context, not only in the US, but all over the world.”
INFORMATION ABOUT THE AWARD The Zumtobel Group Award was launched by the Austrian-based Zumtobel Group in collaboration with the Aedes Architecture Forum, Berlin, Germany. For many years now, the Zumtobel Group – present in the global lighting market through its Zumtobel and Thorn brands and components manufacturer TridonicAtco – has assigned top priority to sustainability and energy efficiency in the function and application of its products. The award aims to promote outstanding sustainable solutions in architecture and engineering that make a notable contribution to a livable, sustainable, equitable and more humane future. The award in the 'Built Environment’ category is offered for exceptional architectural, engineering or urban design projects realized within the last two years that meet current demands for sustainable living and envisage the needs of the future. In this category, the award carries a purse of EUR 80,000. In the "Research and Initiative” category, the award is offered for an innovative, current research project or social initiative in architecture and the built environment, developed and run by non-governmental organizations, universities or independent groups and individuals. Aiming in particular to encourage researchers and practitioners in architecture and urban design, in this category the award carries a purse of EUR 60,000 and is intended to facilitate and foster the progress of an ongoing initiative or emerging research project.
The first international Zumtobel Group Award ceremony will be staged on 14 September 2007 at Kunsthaus Bregenz on the shores of Lake Constance in Austria. An exhibition and catalogue featuring the award-winners as well as the other projects considered by the jury is planned for autumn/winter 2007/08.
JURY Stefan Behnisch, Architect / Behnisch Architects, Stuttgart (Germany) Yung Ho Chang, Architect, Head of Department of Architecture / Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge (USA) Colin Fournier, Architect / University College London, London (United Kingdom) Peter Head, Structural Engineer / Arup, London (United Kingdom) Andreas Ludwig, CEO Zumtobel Group, Dornbirn (Austria) Enrique Norten, Architect / TEN Arquitectos, Mexico City and New York (Mexico, USA) Kazuyo Sejima, Architect / SANAA, Tokyo (Japan) Peter Sloterdijk, Philosopher, Dean of Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe (Germany) Anna Tibaijuka, General and Executive Director / UN Habitat, Nairobi (Kenya)
For more information about the award, please visit www.zumtobel-group-award.com
MORPHOSIS PRESS CONTACT: Anne Marie Burke Morphosis +1.310.570.0140 [email protected]
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July 6, 2005 DEDICATION OF NEW SAN FRANCISCO FEDERAL BUILDING SAN FRANCISCO: The Pacific Rim Region of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is hosting the formal dedication ceremony of the new San Francisco Federal Building on Monday, July 9, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. The event will be held in the plaza at the corner of Seventh and Mission Streets and includes keynote remarks by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Mayor Gavin Newsom, GSA Administrator Lurita Doan, the building’s design architect Thom Mayne and others. News media reporters and crews must present media credentials and photo ID to access this by-invitation only event. Water will be provided. Please do not bring any liquids to the site. Be advised that there will be no parking on Seventh and Mission Streets and there will be no reserved parking. The San Francisco Federal Building was recently completed and tenant Federal agencies began moving into the building in March 2007. The innovative 18-story office tower is a mere 65 feet wide. The building’s shape and orientation allows natural airflow for cooling and ventilation and takes advantage of natural daylight for the illumination of the majority of the office interiors. These features and other energy-saving elements significantly reduce overall energy consumption compared to conventional office buildings in the United States. For more information, please call Gene Gibson, GSA Regional Public Affairs Officer, at 415-264-9401.
# # # # Founded in 1949, GSA serves as a centralized procurement and property management agency for the federal government. GSA manages more than one-fourth of the government’s total procurement dollars and influences the management of $500 billion in federal assets, including 8,500 government-owned or leased buildings and 205,000 vehicles. GSA helps preserve our past and define our future, as a steward of more than 425 historic properties, and as manager of USA.gov, the official portal to federal government information and services. GSA’s mission to provide superior workplaces, expert technology solutions, acquisition services, purchasing and eGov travel solutions and management policies, at best value, allows Federal agencies to focus on their core missions.
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UNITED STATES FEDERAL BUILDING San Francisco, California When architecture engages social, cultural, political, and ethical currents, it has the potential to transform the way we see the world and our place in it. It is from this intersection of broad societal currents that we approached the design for the new Federal Building in San Francisco. Our primary interest was to produce a performance-driven building that would fundamentally transform its urban surroundings, the nature of the workplace, and the experiences of the people who use it while making intelligent use of natural resources. For me, this project represents the epitome of an optimistic architecture; an architecture that synthesizes its complex forces and realities into a coherent whole. Thom Mayne
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UNITED STATES FEDERAL BUILDING San Francisco, California PROJECT DATA Location 7th and Mission Streets Site Description 91,000 square feet Building Size 605,000 Gross Square Feet 450,000 Rentable Square Feet (GSA should confirm that this number is correct) Tower 18 Stories - 240 Feet High - 65 Feet Wide Cost of Construction $144 Million Developer U.S. General Services Administration Lead Design Architect Morphosis Executive Architect Smith Group, Inc. Construction Management Hunt Construction Group General Contractor Dick Corporation/Morganti General Contractors Key Dates: Design Start: September 2000 Construction Start: March 2003 Construction Complete: March 2007 Occupancy: Spring 2007 Number of Employees Approximately 1,500 Major Tenants U.S. Department of Labor U.S. Department of Health and Human Services U.S. Social Security Administration U.S. Department of Agriculture U.S. Office of Personnel Management U.S. Department of Defense Shared Public Facilities Café Health and Fitness Center Child Care Center Conference Facilities including multi-purpose auditorium
Building Description The slender, 18-story, 240-foot tower creates a landmark for the City of San Francisco, while the four-story annex connects to the scale of the adjacent neighborhood. The large, open public plaza along with the shared public facilities, provide valuable assets to the community. In addition, the design redefines the culture of the workplace through office environments that boost workers’ health, productivity and creativity. A dramatic example of sustainable design principles, the building’s shape and orientation maximize natural airflow for cooling and ventilation, and take advantage of natural day light for the majority of the office interior. These features, combined with a number of other energy-saving elements, significantly reduce overall energy consumption compared to conventional commercial office buildings in the United States. For more information on these and other aspects of the building, see the attached design narrative. For more information, contact Gene Gibson, Regional Public Affairs Officer (415) 522-3001.
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UNITED STATES FEDERAL BUILDING San Francisco, California PROJECT CREDITS Lead Design Architect Morphosis Principal: Thom Mayne Project Manager: Tim Christ Project Architect: Brandon Welling Project Team: Linda Chung, Ben Damron, Simon Demeuse, Marty Doscher,
Rolando Mendoza, Eui-Sung Yi Project Assistants:, Caroline Barat, Gerald Bodziak, Crister Cantrell,
Delphine Clemenson, Todd Curley, Alasdair Dixon, Haseb Faqirzada, Chris Fenton, Arthur de Ganay, Dwoyne Keith, Sohith Perera, Kristine Solberg, Natalia Traverso Caruana
Executive Architect Smith Group, San Francisco Project Manager: Carl Christiansen Project Architect: Jon Gherga Project Assistant: Belinda Wong Collaborative Artists James Turrell, Ed Ruscha, Rupert Garcia, Hung Liu, Raymond Saunders, William Wiley Structural, Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing Engineer Ove Arup and Partners Project Manager: Steve Carter Structural Engineers: Bruce Gibbons, Steve Ratchye Mechanical Engineer: Erin Mcconahey Natural Ventilation Modeling Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Landscape architect Richard Haag Associates Inc. with J.J.R Civil Engineer Brian Kangas Foulk Geotechnical Geomatrix Lighting Consultant Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design, Inc. Signage Kate Keating Associates
Cost Estimator Davis Langdon Curtain Wall Curtain Wall Design & Consulting, Inc. Blast Consultant Hinman Consulting Engineers Code Rolf Jensen & Associates Acoustics Thorburn Associates Vertical Transportation Hesselberg, Keessee & Associates, Inc. Construction Manager Hunt Construction Group General contractor Dick Corporation/Morganti General Contractors
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UNITED STATES FEDERAL BUILDING San Francisco, California GSA’S MODEL OF DESIGN EXCELLENCE The San Francisco Federal Building is a reflection of the GSA's commitment to design excellence and sustainable architecture. Built to serve its tenants and the community well into the next century, like the adjacent James F. Browning U.S. Courthouse (1905), the San Francisco Federal Building reflects the highest design aspirations and most innovative technology of our time. As part of its commitment to sustainable living, the GSA works to reduce consumption of natural resources, minimize waste, and create a healthy and productive work environment for all tenants who occupy federal workspace. The San Francisco Federal Building is a demonstration of this commitment, incorporating state-of-the art technology and performance driven innovation. Tenants of the San Francisco Federal Building will enjoy sweeping views of San Francisco, and an abundance of natural light and natural ventilation that promote a healthy work environment while dramatically reducing energy consumption. The new federal building is a slender 65-feet-wide tower rising 18 stories (240 feet) along the northern edge of the Mission and Seventh Street site. A four-story building annex adjoins the tower at the western edge of the site, helping to define the space that constitutes a new public plaza. In addition to this active plaza, the facility includes a number of resources that are available for public use, including a café, a childcare center, and a conference center. Climate Control Throughout the year, San Francisco’s design temperature ranges between 44 and 78 degrees Fahrenheit. The new San Francisco Federal Building takes advantage of the temperate climate to provide a comfortable interior environment while reducing energy consumption. As a whole, the building is best understood as a hybrid that includes different space conditioning strategies appropriate for different locations in the building. The first five levels, with high concentrations of people and equipment, are fully air-conditioned. Above the fifth floor, the windows automatically adjust, allowing fresh air directly into the building for natural ventilation and free cooling. The window system creates a “living skin” that allows the building to breathe. Breezes pass through openings on the windward side and are vented out through the leeward wall, with control based on wind speed and direction. A computerized system, known as the building automated system (BAS), controls and monitors all of the building’s mechanical equipment including
those devices that are used to maintain internal environmental conditions and lighting levels. On the naturally ventilated floors, the computer system opens and closes windows, vents and sunscreens in response to temperature within the building as well as external environmental conditions. The window wall features manually operated windows for occupant control of the internal environment and includes a heating system integrated into the mullions. A minimal number of central, fully enclosed offices and meeting rooms are served by local, supplemental cooling units to accommodate higher density occupancies. During the night, the BAS opens the windows to flush out heat build-up and allows the nighttime air to cool the building's concrete interior. Throughout the day the thermal mass of the exposed concrete columns, shear walls and wave-form ceilings help cool the occupants of the building. In the tower, the design of the high-performance facades is critical to the functioning of the natural ventilation. At the southeast elevation, a perforated metal sunscreen protects the glass façade from excess solar heat gain; at the northwest elevation, a series of fixed translucent sunshades are attached to an exterior catwalk, breaking the sun’s path to shade the glass These climate specific facades give the building its distinctive appearance. Nationally, the GSA strives to use no more than 55,000 Btu of energy per square foot per year in its buildings. The new San Francisco Federal Building is expected to surpass the GSA’s target as well as California’s stringent Title 24 Energy Code. The naturally ventilated floors are projected to have an average energy consumption of less than 25,000 Btu per square foot per year, a significant improvement over the national standard. The local utility provider, PG & E, has confirmed that the project will receive an energy rebate of $250,000 at the completion of construction. Electrical Lighting is typically the largest energy cost for an office building, representing up to 40 percent of a facility's total energy load. The new San Francisco Federal Building's lighting strategies improve the workplace and are a critical facet of this project's sustainable design. Approximately 85 percent of the workspace is illuminated with natural light. Ambient light, the general illumination in an office, comes from sunlight channeled through the windows and reflected off walls and ceilings to extend its reach with minimum glare and intensity. With an average overall ceiling height in the tower of 13 feet, natural daylight will penetrate deep into work spaces. Powered lights are also provided to supplement the natural light. Through simple sensors, the building's automated systems manage the balance between powered and natural daylight. The powered lights are on only when people are at their workstations. Together, these approaches reduce energy used for lighting by approximately 26 percent.
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Flexible Information Technology Large and flexible floor plans with power and data cabling conveniently routed through easily accessible, under floor space make workspace reconfiguration easy while reducing costs for remodeling. Building Materials The San Francisco Federal Building incorporates building materials and construction strategies that minimize waste and energy consumption. The building minimizes pollution by replacing high proportions of Portland cement in its concrete foundations and frame. During the manufacturing process, Portland cement is associated with very high levels of greenhouse gas emissions. In the Federal Building’s concrete mixture, 50% of the pollution-intensive Portland cement is replaced with blast furnace slag, a recycled waste product from the steel industry, significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions resulting from conventional concrete. This environmentally sound choice also results in higher-strength concrete and has a warm, light-colored tone that contributes to the favorable daylight penetration within the office space. The GSA mandated that 75 percent of materials used during construction be recycled. Currently, the project is recycling 87 percent of its waste material. Carpet, paint and furniture were carefully considered with respect to the project's sustainable goals. Work Environment Several features support federal initiatives to promote health and improve productivity: the location of the cafeteria on street level across the plaza and the use of skip-stop elevators—elevators that stop at every third floor, opening onto soaring lobbies with wide, open stairs—promote cardiovascular fitness and reduce lost work hours. These lobbies and stairs, in addition to a sky garden and a 90-foot high entry lobby at street level, provide a comfortable setting for informal meetings and social interaction. A handicap accessible elevator that travels to every floor is also available. The tower's high ceilings and glass facades provide 85 percent of the building's tenants with views overlooking the city. The outer perimeter of the tower is configured with open offices and 52-inch-high workstation partitions, maximizing access to natural light. Fritted glass panels that enclose meeting rooms and offices located in the middle “spine” of the tower, provide both privacy and access to natural light.
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Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Rating Managed by the U.S. Green Building Council, LEED's Green Building Rating System is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of high performance green buildings. LEED's whole-building approach to sustainability recognizes performance in five key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection, and indoor environmental quality. Certification is awarded one year after occupancy. Even though the new San Francisco Federal Building was designed five years before the LEED Certification System was established, it is still considered by many to be a benchmark for sustainable building design. Quality Control Three independent systems are used to verify that the building is meeting energy conservation goals. Energy use will be monitored by the GSA Energy Center and compared with conventional federal buildings and the project's goals. To verify sustainability, the project is registered with the LEED program. The project team and the GSA's Office of Applied Science have allied with a number of academic researchers to verify workplace productivity strategies. Among them: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics, and the University of California Berkeley, Center for the Built Environment.
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* square footage calculation excludes annex building, server rooms & the elevator machine room. ** source: CA Commercial End Use Survey, Itron, Inc prepared for the California Energy Commission, March 2006, report CEC-400-2006-005, "Large office building" category *** assuming optimal use of natural lighting and HVAC (lights on 30% of time in the open office spaces; 80% of time in enclosed office and conference spaces; 100% of time in lobbies) **** conversion from Kbtu to kWhr: 1 kBtu = 0.293071 kWhr***** all numbers except those for the “average building” use estimated usages from DOE-2-based energy model, using California Energy Code occupancy schedules.
=total savings 6.9 million kWhr/year
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* based on similar building area of 520,975 sf (SF Fed tower size excluding annex, server rooms, elevator machine room) ** based on similar building area of 279,365 sf (SF Fed tower size levels 6-18) *** national average of energy used by an American household = 11,300 kWhr/yr; Source: 2006 Buildings Energy Data Book, september 2006, prepared for the Buildings Technologies Program and Office of Planning, Budget, and Analysis Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy U.S. Department of Energy by D&R International, Ltd., p 7-8, table 7.3.1**** conversion from Kbtu to kWhr: 1 kBtu = 0.293071 kWhr
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* analysis based on square footage of SF Fed tower size levels 6-18 ** source: CA Commercial End Use Survey, Itron, Inc prepared for the California Energy Commission, March 2006, report CEC-400-2006-005, "Large office building" category*** assumes optimal use of natural lighting and HVAC (lights on 30% of time in the open office spaces; 80% of time in enclosed office and conference spaces; 100% of time in lobbies)
high tower energy consumption by program zone
TYPICAL FLOOR PLANfor levels 8,11,14,17
TYPICAL FLOOR PLANfor levels 7,10,13,16
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SF Federal Building’s high tower uses only 33% of energy used by a typical California large office building
*energy price per kWhr: 14.45 cents = 1 kWhr; source: 2003 CA Average Retail Electricity Rates by Major Utility PG&E rate for Medium Commercial** national average of energy used by an American household = 11,300 kWhr/yr; source: Buildings Energy Data Book p 7-8, table 7.3.1
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SF Federal Building uses blast furnace slag to replace 50% of Portland Cement in concrete
* slag is a waste product from steel production recovered from blast furnaces during iron production: when used as a cement replacement, it substantially lowers the embodied energy and CO2 emissions associated with concrete by reducing the amount of virgin material needed to produce concrete. ** approximately 5000 tons of Portland Cement was replaced in the concrete mixture with blast furnace slag, which represents a 50% reduction from conventional concrete. *** production of one ton of cement produces one ton of CO2; 833 cars x 15,000 miles/year x 0.8 lb CO2/mile = 10M lb = 5000 tons CO2 5000 tons cement saved = 5000 tons CO2 saved.
=SF Federal Building saves CO2 amount equivalent to 833 cars emissions
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assumes each car drives 15,000 miles/year [total = 12,495,000 miles]
assumes one car gives off 6 tons of CO2/year [total = 5000 tons]
during the manufacturing process, Portland cement is associated with very high levels of greenhouse gas emissions. in the Federal Building’s concrete mixture, 50% of the pollution-intensive Portland cement is replaced with blast furnace slag, a recycled waste product from the steel industry, significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions resulting from conventional concrete. the building minimizes pollution by replacing high proportions of Portland cement in its concrete foundations and frame.
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UNITED STATES FEDERAL BUILDING San Francisco, California THOM MAYNE Thom Mayne founded Morphosis in 1972 as an interdisciplinary and collective practice involved in experimental design and rigorous research. As the firm steadily grows, currently with 40 architects and designers, Mr. Mayne remains committed to the practice of architecture as a collective enterprise. Thom Mayne was born in Connecticut in 1944. He moved with his family to Los Angeles as a teenager, and proceeded to receive his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California in 1968. While there, he met five other students and educators with whom he would later join to create the Southern California Institute of Architecture, or SCI-Arc. In 1978 he received his Master of Architecture from Harvard University. Throughout his professional career, Mr. Mayne has remained highly involved in the academic and institutional facets of architecture. He has held teaching positions at Columbia University, Harvard University (Elliot Noyes Chair, 1998), Yale University (Eliel Saarinen Chair, 1991), the Berlage Institute in the Netherlands and the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, and he has taught as a visiting professor at many other universities around the world. His commitment to the education of young designers has not wavered over the past 30 years, and currently he holds a tenured faculty position at the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture. Each year Mr. Mayne participates in various international symposiums, lectures, and design juries at numerous institutions and universities. His distinguished honors include Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Award (2006) Pritzker Prize Laureate (2005), Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy of Design in Rome (1987), the Alumni of the Year Award from USC (1992), Member Elect from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1992), the 2000 American Institute of Architects / Los Angeles Gold Medal in Architecture, and the Chrysler Design Award of Excellence (2001). Thom Mayne remains committed to developing a critical practice where creative output engages the contemporary discourse of the discipline through both architectural design and writing. With his firm, Mayne has consistently sought new and different design problems to solve and has resisted becoming specialized in any particular building "type". The solution to each individual design problem is always approached from a fresh beginning. As a result of this interest and commitment, Mr. Mayne’s work ranges from designs for watches and teapots to designs for large-scale civic buildings such as Federal Courthouses to innovative urban design and planning schemes that reshape entire cities. With Morphosis, Thom Mayne has been the recipient of 25 Progressive Architecture Awards, 60 AIA Awards and numerous other design recognitions. Under his direction, the firm has been the subject of various group and solo exhibitions throughout the world, including the largest ever exhibition of Morphosis’ work, Continuities of the Incomplete, which was on view at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France in 2006. Other notable exhibitions include those at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Walker Arts Institute in Minneapolis, the Ministerio de Fomento in Madrid in 1998, and a major retrospective at the Netherlands Architectural Institute (NAI) in 1999. In addition to these solo exhibitions, Morphosis has been included in prestigious group exhibitions in Tokyo, London, Vienna, Buenos Aires, at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, as part of the "End of the Century: 100 Years of Architecture" exhibition, and at the 2002, 2004 dn 2006 Venice Architecture Biennales. Drawings, furniture, and models produced by Morphosis are included in the permanent collections of such institutions as the MOMA in New York, MOMA San Francisco, the MAK Vienna, The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and the FRAC Center in France. Morphosis buildings and projects are published extensively in prominent architectural publications internationally. They have been the subject of 21 monographs, including four by Rizzoli, two by Korean Architect, two by El Croquis (Spain), one by G.A. Japan, and one by Phaidon, in 2003.
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UNITED STATES FEDERAL BUILDING San Francisco, California TIM CHRIST Principal, Morphosis Tim Christ joined Morphosis in 2000. He is a principal of the firm. Tim has over eleven years experience in the profession of architecture, experienced with all phases of design and construction services, with a special emphasis on sustainable technologies and integrated engineering. In addition to serving as project manager for the new San Francisco Federal Building, Mr. Christ is currently managing several other projects for the firm including the U.S. Port of Entry in Alexandria Bay, New York, a new corporate headquarters for the Giant Group in Shanghai, China, the National Jazz Center and Civic Park Master Plan in New Orleans, Louisiana and the Phare Tower in Paris, France. Other projects that he has managed at Morphosis include the Hypo Bank Headquarters Project (Udine, Italy), the competition phase of the Caltrans District 7 Headquarters, and the Penang Cultural Park Urban Planning and Design Competition (Malaysia). Before joining Morphosis, Mr. Christ spent five years as associate and project manager for William Bruder, Architect-Ltd., working on a wide range of public and residential architecture projects. His prior professional experience includes eight years in the construction industry on a variety of projects in the US and abroad. Tim has lectured and served as a guest critic at different institutions while with Morphosis. Some recent lectures include ‘Field Notes,’ CalPoly Pomona, May, 2006; ‘The Cutting Edge: San Francisco Federal Building,’ International Building Performance Simulation Association Conference, Boulder, CO, August, 2004; ‘Numbers Count, A Symposium,’ School of Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, April, 2004; and ‘mOrphosis + Sustainability’, Construction Specifications Institute Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, January, 2003. Mr. Christ received his Master of Architecture from Yale University in 1995.
m o r p h o s i s
2041 colorado avenue santa monica, california 90404
UNITED STATES FEDERAL BUILDING San Francisco, California MORPHOSIS SYNOPSIS Founded in 1972, Morphosis is an interdisciplinary practice involved in rigorous design and research that yields innovative, iconic buildings and urban environments. Today, as the scale and sophistication of the California-based firm’s projects continue to grow, Morphosis consists of a group of more than 40 professionals, who remain committed to the practice of architecture as a collective and interdisciplinary enterprise. Morphosis is a dynamic and evolving practice that responds to the shifting social, cultural, political, and technological conditions of modern life. With projects worldwide, the firm’s work ranges in scale from residential, institutional, and civic buildings to large urban planning projects. The firm also invests significant creative energy in drawing and in the design of functional objects and furniture. Thom Mayne was named the 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, the profession’s highest honor, and Morphosis has been the subject of extensive publications and exhibitions throughout the world.
FIRM BACKGROUND Morphosis was founded in 1972 in Los Angeles as an interdisciplinary and collective practice involved in experimental design and rigorous research. Today, the firm consists of a group of more than 40 professionals, who remain committed to the practice of architecture as a collaborative enterprise.
Named after the Greek term, morphosis, meaning to form or be in formation, Morphosis is a dynamic and evolving practice that responds to the shifting and advancing social, cultural, political and technological conditions of modern life. A critical practice where creative output engages contemporary society and culture through architectural design and education, Morphosis is a process driven firm that seeks new and different design challenges and has resisted becoming specialized in any particular building type. With projects worldwide, the firm’s work ranges in scale from residential, institutional, and civic buildings to large urban planning projects. The firm also invests significant creative energy in drawing and in the design of functional objects and furniture.
With founder Thom Mayne serving as design principal, Morphosis typically generates its ideas through brain-storming sessions, in which designers question all prior assumptions about a project and intensively test and refine different avenues toward a solution. Collaboration with the client is an essential part of this process. Morphosis works closely with its clients to help them define the ethical and functional goals of the project, then translates those goals into a design that satisfies the unique requirements and aesthetic opportunities of the program, site and context. The ultimate goal is to produce an architecture that surprises and inspires—a critical architecture that contributes to the conversation about how we live today.
Over the past 30 years, Morphosis has received 25 Progressive Architecture awards, 68 American Institute of Architects (AIA) awards and numerous other honors. Thom Mayne was named the 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, the profession’s highest honor, and in 2006, received the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award. Morphosis was also selected as the 2005 Firm of the Year by the AIA California Council. Morphosis has been the subject of group and solo exhibitions around the world, including the largest ever exhibition of Morphosis’ work, Continuities of the Incomplete, which was on view at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France in 2006. Drawings, furniture and models produced by Morphosis are in the permanent collections of institutions including MoMA, New York; SF MoMA, San Francisco; the MAK, Vienna; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; and FRAC Centre, France.Morphosis buildings and projects are published extensively in prominent architectural publications internationally. The studio has been the subject of 18 monographs, including four published by Rizzoli and a 2003 monograph from Phaidon.
