RHINEBECK, NY.- ‘T’ Space will present an exhibition of work by SAA/Stan Allen Architect, Garrick Ambrose, Steven Holl Architects, Toshiko Mori Architect, and MOS. This show will open September 7 at the Archive Gallery, on the ‘T’ Space Reserve: 60 Round Lake Road in Rhinebeck, NY.
New Hudson Valley Houses features ten recently designed homes by five architects, within three hours of New York City. The works are presented solely through models and drawings (no photos), inviting viewers into the design process. The houses are at different stages of design and each unique to their situation with four shared aspirations.
1. Maximum Preservation of landscape
On large rural sites these houses aspire to guard and preserve the natural landscapes of the Hudson Valley in the spirit of the organization Scenic Hudson.
2. Individuation of expression
The possibility of independent experimental actions, expressive of freedom of individual thought, are counter to the repetitive dictates of consumer culture.
3. Material / Detail / Scale
Often underestimated, domestic architecture at this scale is a critical platform for experimenting with the core principles of architecture: light, proportion, material detailing, and scale.
4. Ecological architecture embedded in landscape
The Hudson Valley’s landscape—shaped by ancient glaciers and varied in its geography—offers a testing ground for new and experimental relationships between architecture and nature. Houses aspire to be free of fossil fuel, deploying varying strategies of solar, geothermal, and green roofs respectively.
The participating architects are SAA/Stan Allen Architect, Garrick Ambrose, Steven Holl Architects, Toshiko Mori Architect, and MOS.
Stan Allen holds degrees from Brown University, The Cooper Union and Princeton. In 1991, after working for Rafael Moneo in Madrid, he established an independent architectural practice. Since that time, he has pursued parallel careers as architect, educator, and writer. He has taught at Harvard, Columbia, The Cooper Union, and Princeton. He served as Dean of the Princeton School of Architecture from 2002 – 2012. His current design work is focused on houses and studios for artist clients, and a more direct engagement with the natural landscape. This means a smaller office and a more hands-on way of working: both in the studio and on site. This recent work builds on his long-standing engagement with landscape and ecology; it offers an alternative way of understanding the relationship between architecture and landscape, now through the lens of the American vernacular and a sense of local history.
Garrick Ambrose leads a practice based in New York and the Hudson Valley. He is interested in an architecture that is tied to its situation, connects to the human experience, and is innovative in its use of material. In our digitized world, architecture has the opportunity to allow us to slow down and connect with each other, culture, and the natural world. Ambrose has experience working in a range of scales from small artist studios to large cultural institutions. Before going out on his own, Garrick was a Senior Associate at Steven Holl Architects in New York City. He oversaw The Reach at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, The Winter Visual Arts Center at Franklin and Marshall College, and 'T' Space, a non-profit art space in Rhinebeck NY. Garrick was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1980 and studied architecture at Cornell and Harvard.
Toshiko Mori Architect (TMA) is known for nearly four decades of innovative and influential work in a diverse body of projects that have received numerous design awards. Mori’s intelligent approach to ecologically sensitive siting strategies, historical context, and innovative use of materials reflects a creative integration of design and technology. Her designs demonstrate a thoughtful sensitivity to detail and involve extensive research into the site conditions and surrounding context. The work of TMA combines a strong conceptual and theoretical approach with a thorough study of programmatic needs and practical conditions to achieve a design that is both spatially compelling and pragmatically responsive.
Steven Holl Architects is an internationally recognized, innovative architecture and urban design office with locations in New York, the Hudson Valley, and Beijing. Founded in 1977 by Steven Holl, the firm is led today by Holl with principal Dimitra Tsachrelia Holl and partners Noah Yaffe, Roberto Bannura, and Olaf Schmidt. The firm is known for shaping space and light with contextual sensitivity, creating concept-driven architecture across multiple scales. In the Hudson Valley, Steven Holl Architects has realized a series of structures that explore materiality and light—distilling core principles of the firm’s design philosophy into intimate, site-specific experiments in architecture. These residential projects form a vital part of the practice, which extends globally across the arts, culture, and education, as well as public works, offices, and urban design. Each project reflects a deep engagement with site, structure, and spatial experience.
MOS is a New York–based architecture and design studio founded by architects Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith in 2007. Working across North and South America, Europe, and Asia, their architecture and design projects include private residences, multi-family housing, master planning, educational institutions, collaborative art installations, exhibition design, gallery spaces, cultural buildings, interactive work spaces, co-working spaces, and furniture. Together they are the recipients of the United States Artist Award, the Architectural League of New York Emerging Voices, and a National Award in Architecture from the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Design Museum. Their design work is held in the collection of MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale Art Gallery, SFMoMA, and the Carnegie Museum of Art. Their written work is in the special collections of the Harvard Loeb Library and Columbia University Avery Library. They were the 2023 Arnold W. Brunner/Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize Fellows in Architecture.
