Architects, Founders @ i29 – NL
Architects, Founders @ i29 – NL
Agostino Iacurci (b.1986) studied Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
In his practice, he employs various media including painting, mural, sculpture, drawing, and installation. Often driven by a site-specific attitude, Iacurci collects heterogeneous materials, reworking and manipulating them. He does this to generate images and visions in which he freely narrates and associates cultural history, personal memories, literary references, and vernacular tales.
Iacurci has shown his work in solo and group exhibitions including; Dry Days, Tropical Nights, Torre Treves,Milan (2023), Alien Horti Picti, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin (2023); Of my abstract gardening, Ex Elettrofonica, Rome (2022); Hortus, IIC, Prague (2022); Premio Termoli LXII, MACTE, Termoli (2021); Tracing Vitruvio, Musei Civici, Pesaro (2019); Talent Prize 2019, Mattatoio, Rome (2019); Gypsoteca, M77 Gallery, Milan (2018); Trompe-l’oeil, Celaya Brothers Gallery, Mexico City (2017); Urban Art Biennale, Völkinger Hütte, European Centre for Art and Industrial Culture (2017); Cross the streets, MACRO Museum, Rome (2017); 16° Premio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan (2015).
Since 2009 he has created monumental wall paintings and installations for public and private institutions including; The garden of Alabu, Aalborg (2023); Cote-des-Neiges Mural project, wall painting, Montreal (2022);Ludwigs-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen (2021); Life is Beautiful, Las Vegas (2021); Principal Place, London (2020); Yakutsk Biennale, Yakutsk (2017); Distrito Tec University, Monterrey (2016); Govind Puri Metro Station, New Delhi (2016); Istituto Mario Penna, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2014); Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei (2012).
He participated in residency programs such as ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program), New York (2020-2022), and Plop x Cob Residency, London (2021).
Iacurci received The New York Prize, promoted by Mibac, MAE and Italian Academy-Columbia University (2020), and Cantica21, Italian Contemporary Art Everywhere Prize (2021).
He collaborated with international brands and publishers, including Apple, Adidas, Hermès, Herman Miller, La Repubblica, Penguin Random House, Starbucks, The New Yorker.
Imagen Subliminal Architectural Photography + Film was founded by architect and architectural photographer Miguel de Guzmán.
The firm, comprised of Miguel de Guzmán and RocÌo Romero, is a New York and Madrid-based practice whose work is commissioned by many internationally renowned architecture, construction, and real estate firms.
Imagen Subliminalís photographs have been published worldwide in print magazines such as Architect, Dwell, El Croquis, Arquitectura Viva, A+U Japan, Domus, Casabella, Mark, C3, and many other books and newspapers.
The practice also collaborates with online media as Archilovers, Archdaily, Dezeen, Designboom, Architizer…
Junya Ishigami is a Japanese architect born in Kanagawa prefecture in 1974.
He acquired his master’s degree in architecture and planning at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 2000. Ishigami worked with Kazuyo Sejima from 2000 to 2004 at SANAA, before establishing his own firm in 2004: junya.ishigami+associates.
Ishigami showed solo in the Japanese pavilion at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008; and was the youngest ever recipient of the Architectural Institute of Japan Prize for the Kanagawa Institute of Technology KAIT Workshop in 2009. In 2010 he won the Golden Lion for Best Project at the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale, and in the same year he became an Associate Professor at Tohoku University in Japan. In 2014 he was made the Kenzo Tange Design Critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in the US. Ishigami is the winner of the fifth BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2016.
i29 Interior Architects is founded by Jaspar Jansen and Jeroen Dellensen, in close collaboration they head the work of the office. Since the start the office produced a wide variety of award winning projects. Ranging from residential, commercial, retail, education and exhibition spaces. Many of these projects are (inter) nationally published and respected for its clarity and originality.
i29 believes in simplicity and contradiction. The result of being selective is that you have to push each choice to the limit. It also provides a field of tension, and energy to a space. But more importantly it leaves you with a charismatic environment.
i29 stands for a work ethic that leads to design solutions dependent neither on expensive materials nor on technical show. We look for choices that answer to multiple questions at the same time. They should tell a conceptual story about the company, the space and it’s users. The firm represents a method in which architecture and interior architecture come together in a model combination.
The specific ways in which the firm extracts so much from so little has proved itself to the projects which have been awarded until now. Founding partners Jaspar Jansen and Jeroen Dellensen and their team have received national and international awards for their work, which is published worldwide in magazines and books.
i29 Interior Architects on ARCHILOVERS
Melissa Jones is a creative director with over 15 years of experience working in fashion, beauty, and luxury. She has managed and developed visual communications for over 40 brands internationally and in the U.S., including Fendi, Karl Lagerfeld, Aquatalia, J.Crew, Nike, Kevyn Aucoin, and Prabal Gurung. Melissaís experience also lies in video and user-engagement in the digital world. She has been responsible for developing omnichannel experiences from concept through to production across e-commerce, brand and app platforms. She is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and is the CEO and Creative Director of DTE studio, a creative consultancy and design studio based in New York.
Nikos Karaflos is the Imagineer and owner of Dexamenes Seaside Hotel, a place of meaningful luxury that changes the way we experience hospitality. With a strong background in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, as well as in Lighting and Multimedia, he believes in devising powerful ideas with cultural and social impact. Early on, at the age of 18 he stood out with numerous distinctions such as a prize by the President of the Hellenic Republic and other awards and grants from Foundations for excelling in education. After finishing his studies, his passion about implementation of creative ideas in practical form led him to join the team of K-studio architects, where he held a managerial post until 2016. Right after, he brought one of his strongest visions to life: Dexamenes°° Taking advantage of his previous academic and professional background and his experiences from his travels around the world, he created a New-Generation -already awarded- hotel that focuses on hospitality as an experience through art, wine, nature and local culture. Getting back to his homeland (where Dexamenes is based), he has transformed an ex-winery into a platform of hospitality, cultural activity and conscious wellbeing.
Architect, Creative Director @ k-studio – GR
Architect, Partner @ Studio Libeskind – USA
Born in London, Anna attended Central St. Martins School and Glasgow School of Art. Trained in visual communication, she is a self-taught product designer.
Her work also encompasses projects in print, art direction, fashion shows, interiors and a
fine jewelry collection. This alchemic approach to design led her to launch her Furniture + Fine Objects Collection and she is now represented internationally by a network of design galleries and works with leading interior designers and architects to place her pieces in some of the most prestigious buildings.
She believes strongly that all forms of design should tell a story and that all the disciplines contribute wonderfully to each other and therefore no one area should remain untouched.
Her studio practice, Anna Karlin Furniture + Fine Objects, and Anna Karlin Fine Jewelry, are the result of this sensibility.
Anna currently lives and works in New York, USA.
Photo credit: Christelle de Castro
