We are Elizabeth Boone, Eric Brockmeyer, Adam Buente, and Kyle Perry. Our paths are aligned towards the pursuit of a new model of practice.
Over the past two years we have collaborated on a variety of projects from exhibition installations to reactive architecture. Our work has been displayed in various print, web, and built forms. We have a shared love of making that drives each of our projects and have thus chosen to pursue a collaborative thesis which we have dubbed PROJECTiONE.
PROJECTiONE aims to examine and prototype an innovative start up firm, through research of existing firm structures, documentation of the process of our internal collaboration as well as with industry and clients, resulting in built projects, subsidiary publications, and an expanded network that represents a culmination of the ideas and work our group has produced together.
We realize some of the challenges of creating a successful practice within the academic world and are excited by them, as each of our past projects has challenged our understanding of architecture. In order to begin framing our process for this endeavor, we have developed a few key goals: These goals are not checkpoints as much as principle to work under.
PROJECTiONE aims to be a self sustaining venture. The documentation of this process will be highly rigorous, not involving a singular project, attempting to understand how processes and testing can add value. We will investigate how material research in design impact design, how we understand the value of an idea as opposed to the value of an object, how our theory of practice impacts the product, and where we fit as specialists in a generalists profession.