Next Phase: Asymptote 3.0

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(...)Seventeen years into their partnership, Asymptote’s founders Lise Anne Couture and Hani Rashid have achieved enough rank for their firm’s name to be writ large on Soho walls. Their architecture—characterized over the decades as experimental, bloblike, and virtual—is beginning to see its first realizations in the messy media of drywall, paint, and wires. In the last year Asymptote has reached a veritable tipping point, with clients calling from Malaysia, Mexico, and Abu Dhabi. Deyan Sudjic proposes in his book The Edifice Complex that just 30 architects—the “flying circus of the perpetually jet-lagged”—design all of the world’s high-visibility buildings; Asymptote is pushing hard for membership.(...)

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