Benjamin Aranda

Benjamin Aranda is principal at Aranda\Lasch, an architecture and design studio located in New York and Tucson. Aranda\Lasch designs buildings, installations and furniture through a deep investigation of structure and materials. Recognition includes the United States Artists Award, Young Architects Award, Design Vanguard Award, AD Innovators, and the Architectural League Emerging Voices Award. Their projects are the subject of the books, Pamphlet Architecture: Tooling and Trace Elements. Aranda\Lasch has exhibited internationally in galleries, museums, design fairs and biennials. Building projects include commercial development in Miami, an outdoor theater in Gabon, and an Art Park and museum in Bali. Aranda\Lasch continually develop furniture products and are represented by Gallery ALL and Volume Gallery. Their work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Education

• Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) Columbia University - Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (1996 — 1999)
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

Companies

• Assistant Professor The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (2017)
• Principal Aranda\Lasch (2005)
• Instructor Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation (2015 — 2016)
• Friedman Fellowship UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design (2012 — 2012)
• Instructor Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2012 — 2012)
• Visiting Professor SCI-Arc (2009 — 2009)

Books

• Aranda, Benjamin and Chris Lasch. Pamphlet Architecture No. 27: Tooling. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005.
• Balmori , Diana and Sanders, Joel. Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture. New York, NY: The Monacelli Press, 2011
• Gissen, David. Subnature, Architecture’s Other Environments. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.
• Henley, Simon. The Architecture of Parking. London, UK: Thames & Hudson, 2007.
• Johnstone, Lesley. Hybrids: Reshaping the Contemporary Garden in Metis. Montreal, Canada: Blueimprint, 2007.
• Rosa, Joseph. Figuration in Contemporary Design. Chicago, Illinois: Art Institute of Chicago, A+D series, 2007.
• Kubo, Michael. From Control to Design: Parametric/Algorithmic Architecture. Barcelona, Spain: Actar, 2008.
• Kubo, Michael. Verb: Natures. Barcelona, Spain: Actar, 2008. Aranda, Benjamin, and Chris Lasch and Matthew Ritchie. The Morning Line. Vienna, Austria: Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary, 2008.
• Obrist, Hans Ulrich and Olafur Eliasson. Experiment Marathon. Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik; Serpentine Gallery, London; Koenig Books, London, 2009.
• Antonelli, Paola. Design and the Elastic Mind. New York, NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 2007.