Eric Owen Moss Architects

Profile of Eric Owen Moss Architects, headquartered in United States. Eight projects submitted by Eric Owen Moss Architects have been published on Architecture News Plus (ANP).

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Principal

Eric Owen Moss

Brief description

We contemplating Us

Culture is a studied look in a fun house mirror. The image bends, and flexes. We contemplating Us. Sometimes crooked, rotund, or attenuated. But never an empirical perspective. Culture isn’t evolution. Culture isn’t progress. We gain. We lose. We move. Reflections on our reflection move too.

Architecture on defense

Architecture on defense sustains a particular moment in the mirror, and insists that moment is enduring.

Architecture qua architecture interrogates the culture, contests the reflected view, builds not what the view in the mirror prescribes, but proscribes the view in the mirror.

Architecture qua architecture never ratifies the culture. Architecture’s duty today is to subvert pro forma form.

The world can always be other than it is. New architecture can facilitate that re-imagining.

Published projects

: Spiretec Business Park by Eric Owen Moss Architects Sun, Water, and Wind: The Spiretec Project is environmentally didactic. A single, unifying planning and design strategy, using the environmental properties of...

: Cactus Tower by Eric Owen Moss Architects Samantha Hart, owner of Foundation Content, a Chicago-based media, production, and graphic design company expands to Los Angeles, and rents a 30,000 square...

: Samitaur by Eric Owen Moss Architects The Kodak Headquarters Office Building in South Central Los Angeles utilizes the air rights space over a private road in Los Angeles as the building site. The...

: Lawson-Westen House by Eric Owen Moss Architects The Lawson-Westen house is located on an 80’ x 180’ suburban site on the west side of Los Angeles. The house is positioned on the north side of the lot,...

: 3555 Hayden by Eric Owen Moss Architects The Tennis Channel project is the most recent addition to the ongoing redevelopment of the Hayden Tract in Culver City, California, and the adjoining portion...

: Stealth by Eric Owen Moss Architects The design concept for the Stealth originated with a requirement for the excavation and removal of toxic earth on the west street front of the formerly...

: José Vasconcelos Library by Eric Owen Moss Architects The design of the National Library of Mexico City is an opportunity to make the latest technical means of delivering information available to a general...

: Beehive by Eric Owen Moss Architects The Beehive, named, in retrospect, for its shape, includes a 2nd floor conference facility and a ground floor reception area for an on-line medical supplies...