Exhibition: 15 UFOs
27 May – 10 June 2010 | Gallery
Urban Future Organization (UFO) was founded at the Architectural Association in London in 1996 as a global collective of architects and self organized architectural practices. The common ground for UFO is a firm belief in the network organization as the conduit and primal condition for the production of architecture of conjecture free of questions of individual authorship. The freedom and autonomy of the individual UFO member is the key to the success of the collective and the quality of its output and the emergence of a group identity.
UFO operates as a network of independent practices, each office responding to its own locale whilst being able to draw on the resources of a global collective. To date, this includes offices in Australia, China, Greece, Italy, Korea, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Turkey, USA and the UK. With an international incentive, the organization yet maintains the specific qualities of local diversity. Members within the organization are currently involved in all areas of architecture, including practice, higher education, and research.
Our aim is to start from the individual client’s demand in creating an idiosyncratic architecture free from stylistic references that explicitly responds to each design briefs specific demands. We see our client’s objectives and constraints as a springboard for creative and innovative design solutions to emerge. The value that urban future organization offers a design project is a collective creative energy, innovative concepts, cutting edge technical skills, a to the organization intrinsic will to collaborate, an ability to deliver projects of varying complexity as well as an expertise in making the apparently complex simple and buildable. Our ambition is to combining conceptional sophistication, social sensibility and technical innovation with practical inventiveness in creating an idea driven ecological architecture.
The work of UFO is examined by the dissemination of 15 UFO projects in varying scales carried out in the first 15 years of UFO’s history.
anat stern, andrew yau, andrei martin, anna liuzzo, arjan scheer, artur ferreira viveiros, carmela notaristefano, christopher robeller, claudio lucchesi, daniel fagerberg, david cole, denis balent, dirk anderson, eda yetis, eduardo de oliveira barata, erlend bakke-eidsa, eva diu, francesco giordano, giorgia cannici, gustav fagerström, hjeong jung kim, jackie yang, jonas lundberg, jonas runberger, jung mook moon, katarina larsdotter, kengo skorick, luana fabiano, marcos zotes lopez, max zinnecker, peco mulet, ruairi molloy, stephen harker, steve hardy, theodoros kanellopoulos, thomas tong, william hailiang chen, ying wang, zlatko haban with
peco mulet velasco, aaron casey, artur ferreira viveiros, garry thomas, andrea fiorista, dimitris antonopoulos, elena tesoriero, francesco fiorentino, francesco sanmartino, giorgia amato, giorgos vogiatzakis, giuseppe giordano, henning hansen, isabell gonzaga, konstantinos kanellopoulos, konstantinos makrikostas, lago lopez, leyla rahnavard, lucia colosi, matti lampila, marco trifiletti, simona puglisi, alex lorente, alberto sanchez, ariane sibitkzy, david hebblewaite, jason tang, jenice chan, magnus schon, may tang, michael hughes, oliver barsoum, patrick finney, pauline murphy, peter alsterholm, peter hazer, raymond chan, ramesh depala, rob bearyman, sascha haselmayer, sonja rump, sophia ferreira, sophia lau, torbjorn lundell, yasu santo, andrea marini, jaspal virdi, esi carboo, woijiech hydzik, mark, chris robeller, rebecca woffenden, alex kaiser, tom moss and many others
partners/collaborators: Estream Architects, Gianni Botsford Architects
consultants: BDSP, ARUPS, Halcrow, DLE, AKT, Tall Engineers, Galbriath Hunt Pennington, Planning Korea,
special thanks to :
arup acoustics, architectural association, aurora aliani, centola & associates, bahram shirdel, brett steele, don bates and peter davison lab, duncan macrae, foreign office architects, gianni botsford architects, gabriella riggi, hanif kara AKT, Jason gill planning korea, jeff kipnis, klaus bode BDSP, london metropolitan university, luca bergamo, MHM Scandinavia, missimo mirosi, ocean net, paolo cavagnera, plasma studio, yo2, richard hyde, seb joun arups acoustics, daniel bosia arups agu, sangmyung university, seoul national university, smartlodge, tsing hua university, university of westminster, KLH Scandinavia and zaha hadid architects.
