In Depth documents a decade of residential experimentation by Brooklyn-based SO-IL, a firm that approaches housing not as a typological given but as a set of codes, courts, and corridors available for deliberate subversion. 38 words.
About This Book
SO-IL — Solid Objectives Idenburg Liu — has built its practice on the threshold between the domestic and the institutional, and In Depth gathers the residential work that defines that edge. Rather than treating housing design as production problem to be solved, the firm treats it as a cultural question to be asked. Projects here are framed through the occupation of liminal spaces: the inefficiencies stretched into inhabitable moments, the buried fragments of earlier buildings brought forward, the liminal gap between a house and the city reconsidered entirely. For architects and students interested in contemporary housing typologies and the boundaries of domesticity, this is a precise and searching document.
Key Features
- 360 pages of residential project documentation, including drawings, photography, and critical reflection on SO-IL's domestic practice
- Edited by Florian Indenburg
- Features SO-IL's first Frieze New York pavilion (2012) and the Brooklyn Amant arts complex among referenced works
- Published by Lars Müller Publishers, 2012
What You'll Discover
- How SO-IL interrogates housing typology by working through liminal and in-between spaces rather than resolved formal gestures
- The firm's method of "hacking" architectural codes — cores, corridors, courts — to generate unexpected domestic conditions
- A sustained critical question about whether universal housing standards are the right measure for the design of shelter
- How fragments and material histories of existing structures can be drawn into contemporary residential projects
About the Author
SO-IL — Solid Objectives Idenburg Liu — is a Brooklyn-based architecture firm founded in 2008 by Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu. The practice is known for its 2012 design of the first Frieze New York pavilion and the 2021 Amant arts complex in Brooklyn, with a body of work centred on spaces for culture, learning, and domestic life.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 360
- Dimensions: 17.15 x 23.5 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783037787571
- Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
- Publication Date: 2012
Perfect For: Architects and students exploring contemporary housing design, researchers working on domestic typologies, and those interested in SO-IL's practice and the cultural politics of shelter.