We’d like to take the opportunity to introduce you to the 2nd prize winners of our “Toronto Affordable Housing Challenge” competition – Giovanni Fruttaldo, Kimberly Carlisle and Noah Lemus from United States!
Kimberly Carlisle, Giovanni Fruttaldo and Noah Lemus from United States
F-ARE is a young architectural practice based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 2017, and its team currently has 5 people.
The studio currently focuses on residential projects at the single and multi-family scale. Our smallest project is a garage conversion into a guest studio, and our largest is a 7-story mixed-use building. Our design approach starts with researching the history of a place and the economic agents at play, and then moves to create scenarios for its sustainable development. We put an emphasis on enduring craft and efficient technical solutions. The result is a highly detailed and stylistically measured design.
Architecture is made of projects. Through its practice of physical or speculative designs, architecture envisions, alters, or creates ecologies made of places, cultures, and nature. As such, the architect is an agent of change.
Competitions are invaluable opportunities to research and test ideas that may not be possible to investigate within the confines of a project brief developed in an office or educational environment. Entering a competition deepens the knowledge of place, typology, and tectonic of architecture. Designers are asked to communicate an idea visually in a concise and compelling fashion. Through failures and successes, competitions are skill builders and thought-provoking bombs for those who participate.
Practice makes perfect, or at least better. We believe that entering a competition is always the right choice to become better designers. Participating in a competition is a catalyst of professional growth: it brings better ideas into the practice of architecture.
Submit a masterplan for an industrial park in Houston, Texas
Design guest homes for an organic winery in Italy
Design a picturesque painters' residence
Design a sustainable artists residence in honor of Antoni Gaudi
Design a movie pavilion set in the stunning scenery of northern Iceland
Design meditation cabins to help Tokyo citizens destress and reconnect
Design a structure that would function as a source of education on past events or a method of raising awareness of ongoing injustices
Use architecture to create different emotional states
Present your best work and submit your favorite architectural visualization
Design an iconic new skyscraper constructed from timber
Design affordable housing in Las Vegas
Design a pavilion to exhibit rammed earth as a building material
Design a new concept of small-scale home
Share your views on architecture competitions
Design THE architect's t-shirt!
