op.AL is an award winning, cross-disciplinary design practice located in New York City, formed between an Architect, and a Landscape Architect. The office approaches design problems by exploring the opposing vantage points conventionally established in the two constructed arts. Our work seeks to re-calibrate the subject - object relationship typically established between Landscape + Building. Our projects are indexed by the frequent conversations surrounding several thematic oppositions:
KINETIC - CULTURE
Moments defined with ephemeral culture images, types and figures.
MICRO-INFRASTRUCTURES
Objects inserted at the local level with worldly and regional foci.
SYNTHETIC NATURES
Realist hybrid images of the human and non-human ecology.
OPTICALITY
The Collective exposure of individual vantage points.
FIGURE - GROUND
Perceptual reversibility of design as placed and placeless.