Year in Review: 8 Up-and-Coming Designers You Should Know
From product design to landscape architecture and everything in between, these rising practitioners are advancing cutting-edge, engaged design.
New Talent
From Experimental Products to Immersive Interiors, Masquespacio Hones a Nonconformist Approach
Despite far-reaching influences, the Valencia, Spain–based creative consultancy is grounded by local materials and collaborators.
New Talent: Jerome Byron Is a Rebel Without a Pause
The architect and designer managed to emerge from the traditional architecture pipeline with his counterculture instincts intact.
In Uncertain Times, Spiegel Aihara Workshop is Just the Shape-Shifting Studio we Need
In addition to running their San Francisco-based practice, Megumi Aihara and Dan Spiegel are both professors of architecture at universities in California.
With Interactive Concepts and Unfussy Materials, Hou de Sousa Knows "What the Public Wants"
New York designers Nancy Hou and Josh de Sousa create public art installations driven by practicability, adaptability, and a keen awareness of what delights.
New Talent: Space Popular Mines the Distant Past and Imminent Future
The kaleidoscopic studio reflects upon the ways technology changes our relationship to the world, history, and one another.
New Talent: Sara Zewde Explores How Narrative and Context Produce Landscape
Raised in the South and schooled in the Northeast, Sara Zewde relies on firsthand research, archives, and public engagement to produce experiential landscapes.
New Talent: EXTENTS Expertly Weaves the Digital and the Physical
Through installations, conferences, and teaching, the Michigan-based studio engages critically with technology.
Year in Review: New Talent
In 2019, Metropolis featured ten up-and-coming architects and designers. Together, they point design in a positive, progressive direction.
New Talent: the Architect Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco Knows How to Infuse Space With Narrative
The New York-based Spanish-born architect's work explores cycles of real estate boom and bust as well as his client's personalities.
T SAKHI’s Urban Interventions
Founded by sisters Tara and Tessa Sakhi, the intercontinental studio aims to change how people interact in cities.
New Talent: Alex Brokamp Breathes New Life Into Forgotten Objects
Designer Alex Brokamp, who is being honored at Maison et Objet this week for his furniture and lighting designs, has a knack for turning the familiar on its head.
OFFICIAL Brings Its Nimbleness in Residential and Product Design to the Workplace
The young Dallas design firm applies a multidisciplinary perspective to meet the challenges of creating a contemporary office.
The Paris Researcher Pioneering a New Way to Recycle Building Materials
Anna Saint Pierre's Granito project is harvesting the ingredients for new architectural building blocks from demolished structures.
Architect Jonathan Tate Is Pioneering a New Breed of Contemporary Infill Architecture in New Orleans
The six-person Office of Jonathan Tate (OJT) is a serious and thoughtful practice, and the built work is somehow of its place but wholly new.
From Playful Products to Clever Urban Interventions, New Affiliates Distills Design to Its Essence
Founded by Ivi Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kolb, the New York–based firm creates visually pleasing design, but its most interesting work is cerebral.
Designer Brecht Wright Gander's Work Is Both Elusive and Exploratory
Gander’s practice is twofold, straddling conceptual and industrial design: He develops restrained commercial editions under a moniker and imaginative sculptural work under his own name.
Taller TO Explores Movement in Architecture on Mexico City’s Unsteady Ground
Firm founders Carlos Facio and José G. Amozurrutia's commitment to environmental and social responsibility has grounded the studio as it expands.
New Talent: Neogenesis+Studi0261 Melds Historical Influences into a Balanced, Minimal Aesthetic
The young Surat, India–based design trio has completed 60+ projects and has proved adept at balancing client demands, programmatic pressures, and spatial constraints.
Case Design Combines Local Craft, Art, and Architecture for a School in Mumbai
The firm uses the kind of architectural process that it believes is possible only in Mumbai—thoughtful, iterative, and craft-led.
