News: the latest info, events, and details about current projects and office activities.

The latest news, events, and details about current projects and office activities.

AIA national Small Projects Award for Four Eyes House

February 19, 2012

We are happy to announce that our Four Eyes House has won the 2013 AIA Small Projects Award in the Unbuilt category.  This is a national award, open to all AIA members.  The jury commented:

“This is exquisite; a minimalist “tour de force”. Conceptual reinforcement of phenomena makes for a very powerful connection with nature. The imagery is expertly rendered and communicated. Both rational and lyrical and possessing excellent spatial quality. Architectural towers and horizontal lines modulate the viewer’s experience and connection with an elemental landscape. It redefines how a home should be built.”

And: 

“One can find minimalist, modern architecture easily these days – design blogs, glossy magazines, and so on. However, minimalist modern architecture that is referential to the cosmos, the horizon, and the sun is rare indeed. This project takes the experience of place and via an ‘architectural amplifier’ of thoughtful movement (ascension into each bedroom space) and choreographed view capture / light receiver (well-placed windows), makes it a triumphant celebration of humankind situated in the center of the natural universe.”

An awards ceremony will be held at the AIA National Convention in Denver on June 20th.  Our presentation boards for this project will also be on view at the convention.

 

EOA wins two Boston Society of Architects | AIA Honor Awards

January 31, 2013

Following our double win at the AIA Los Angeles Design Awards last October comes another double win tonight at the Boston Society of Architects | AIA Design Awards. Once again, both the Four Eyes House and Hybrid Office won Honor awards, the highest award level that the BSA bestows, in the Unbuilt category. The black-tie gala, held in a Copley Square hotel ballroom, was attended by some 400 guests. It was great to come back to Boston and reconnect with old grad school friends, as well as meet new colleagues. We feel very fortunate for this honor!

Boston Society of Architects AIA Honor Awards

EOA wins two AIA Los Angeles Honor Awards

October 23, 2012

We are excited to announce that Edward Ogosta Architecture has won 2012 AIA | LA Next LA Honor Awards for both the Four Eyes House and the Hybrid Office. The Honor Award is the highest AIA design award level available; it is quite unprecedented that an office in its early years receives one, let alone two, such awards at this level. The announcement was made last night at the AIA | LA awards ceremony at Santa Monica's Broad Stage. Given the strong competition by highly-regarded design offices, we are very honored to be recognized by the jury.

AIA Los Angeles Design Honor Awards

Berkeley Nanobrewery

September 20, 2012

EOA has been commissioned to design a nanobrewery + pub on Alcatraz Avenue in Berkeley, California. The project will be a complete interior fitout, incorporating an onsite small-batch craft brewing area and tasting room. Housed in a simple 1950's brick building, the project's main storefront facade will also be sensitively updated. The full design can be seen here.

EOA shortlisted for Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands

September 4, 2012

Edward Ogosta Architecture is on the invited shortlist with seven other offices for the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands new administration building in Rancho Mirage, California. Designed by noted midcentury architect A. Quincy Jones, the Sunnylands desert estate has hosted numerous U.S. Presidential retreats, diplomatic summits, and state dinners, in addition to being the Annenbergs' winter home. As the youngest firm to make the shortlist, we're honored to be included.

Essay "Onsite Insight" published in Conditions magazine

July 10, 2012

The Scandinavian architecture journal Conditions has published Ed Ogosta's essay "Onsite Insight" in Issue #10 on the theme: Gossip. The essay explores the disconnect between buildings as idealized in the architectural media and buildings as they are actually perceived by the body in situ. By positing the role of "experiential gossip" in architecture--that is, those shared of word-of-mouth anecdotes of what a building is really like--the essay asserts that recounted experience forms a fundamental means of resistance against the media image as the dominant criteria for assessing architectural value. 

Ed Ogosta published in CLOG magazine

June 17, 2012

"Big Boxes", a composition by Ed Ogosta, has been published in the architecture journal CLOG. The issue, entitled DATA SPACE, explores the impact of an emerging new typology, the Data Center, upon the built environment.  This issue is available in print here.

New Culver City warehouse to office conversion

May 21, 2012

EOA has been commissioned by Servicon Systems Inc. to convert their existing Culver City warehouse into a new worker training facility. The company is considered the leader in sustainable building maintenance services for the Southern California aerospace and tech industries. Located one block from the new Expo Line light rail station, the 3,400 sf warehouse, attached to the company's headquarters, is expected to receive LEED-NC Gold certification. More project info here.