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.
From product design to landscape architecture and everything in between, these rising practitioners are advancing cutting-edge, engaged design.
Despite far-reaching influences, the Valencia, Spain–based creative consultancy is grounded by local materials and collaborators.
The architect and designer managed to emerge from the traditional architecture pipeline with his counterculture instincts intact.
In addition to running their San Francisco-based practice, Megumi Aihara and Dan Spiegel are both professors of architecture at universities in California.
New York designers Nancy Hou and Josh de Sousa create public art installations driven by practicability, adaptability, and a keen awareness of what delights.
The kaleidoscopic studio reflects upon the ways technology changes our relationship to the world, history, and one another.
Raised in the South and schooled in the Northeast, Sara Zewde relies on firsthand research, archives, and public engagement to produce experiential landscapes.
Through installations, conferences, and teaching, the Michigan-based studio engages critically with technology.
In 2019, Metropolis featured ten up-and-coming architects and designers. Together, they point design in a positive, progressive direction.
The New York-based Spanish-born architect's work explores cycles of real estate boom and bust as well as his client's personalities.
Founded by sisters Tara and Tessa Sakhi, the intercontinental studio aims to change how people interact in cities.
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.
The young Dallas design firm applies a multidisciplinary perspective to meet the challenges of creating a contemporary office.
Anna Saint Pierre's Granito project is harvesting the ingredients for new architectural building blocks from demolished structures.
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.
Founded by Ivi Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kolb, the New York–based firm creates visually pleasing design, but its most interesting work is cerebral.
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.
Firm founders Carlos Facio and José G. Amozurrutia's commitment to environmental and social responsibility has grounded the studio as it expands.
The young Surat, India–based design trio has completed 60+ projects and has proved adept at balancing client demands, programmatic pressures, and spatial constraints.
The firm uses the kind of architectural process that it believes is possible only in Mumbai—thoughtful, iterative, and craft-led.