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"Architecture Doesn’t Exist Without People": Smith-Clementi on Starting Practice Anew

Eric Baldwin — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 07:35:00 +0000

Architects Julie Smith-Clementi and Frank Clementi have changed the built environment of Southern California and Los Angeles for over three decades. Together, the duo recently launched Smith-Clementi, a new multidisciplinary design practice working at the intersection of urbanism, architecture and product design. Following a "plates to parks" design philosophy, the duo is transforming the built environment at multiple scales.

2019’s Biggest Developments in Landscape Architecture

Eric Baldwin — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 05:00:00 +0000

This year showcased how landscape architecture is shaping public life in the built environment. In the first two decades of the 21st century, landscape architects created vibrant resiliency plans, rehabilitation projects, and new urban parks. As these twenty years come to a close, 2019 embodied many larger ideas and trends that will continue to influence the next decade of landscape design.

Rios Clementi Hale Studios x Cal Poly Tech: VR in Architecture

Rene Submissions — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 03:30:00 +0000

Join Rios Clementi Hale Studios and Cal Poly Tech for an investigation of virtual reality in architecture on Sunday, December 9 at the Rios Clementi Hale Studios offices.

A jury will judge final presentations from architecture students taught by Frank Clementi and other RCHS team members. The virtual reality projects all aim to evaluate the essential conventions of architectural spaces and adapt them to the reduced conditions of simulated environments. Attendees are invited to experience the students' plans firsthand followed by a roundtable discussion investigating the evolution of architecture and how it behaves.

This event is open to the public.

Rios Clementi Hale Studios Address Gentrification Through New L.A. Office

Thomas Musca — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 07:00:00 +0000

The Los Angeles-based firm, Rios Clementi Hale Studios, a transdisciplinary practice engaging in design from urban planning to product design, opened their new offices in the city's Crenshaw neighborhood. A recent article by Metropolis Magazine outlines the firm's design process in creating their new office layout to emphasize their aspirations as an established practice.

Philip Johnson's Crystal Cathedral Born Again

Vanessa Quirk — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Johnson Fain and Rios Clementi Hale Studios have been selected to transform Philip Johnson's 1981 Crystal Cathedral, originally a Protestant mega-church, to make it more in keeping with its new, Catholic identity.