Kutan Ayata and Michael Young: "Drawings, Objects, Buildings"

Young & Ayata formed a partnership in New York in 2008 to explore novel formal and organizational possibilities in architecture and urbanism. The practice is dedicated to both built commissions and experimental research. We view the reality of contemporary building as a provocation to the progression of experiments in form, material and technology. In following these contemporary trajectories it is necessary to understand architecture in its historical processes, beyond the specifics of built construction, towards an engagement with cultural issues that influence and are influenced by our environment.

 

Both principles teach and view the educational experience as crucial to the continual development of architectural ideas. Young & Ayata additionally pursue architectural research in a wide range of issues, including geometry, tectonics, and urbanism. The desire of the practice is to investigate architecture as the production of intensified sensations on several levels: materially, formally, programmatically, ecologically and culturally.