Florian Idenburg
Professor of the Practice at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
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Biography
Florian Idenburg is a cofounding partner of New York-based architecture firm SO–IL with Jing Liu. His practice spans architecture, installation, exhibition, and furniture design. In addition to being an expert on structural and spatial form, he is an accomplished writer and educator.
Idenburg was educated in the Netherlands and trained as a practitioner in Japan. His aesthetic sensibility and approach to architecture is a synthesis of Dutch and Japanese traditions. From 2000 to 2007, he worked at Tokyo-based SANAA, the firm of Pritzker Prize-winning architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. At SANAA, he oversaw the design and development of the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art (2006) and the New Museum (2007).
Founded in 2008 by Idenburg and Liu, SO–IL has grown into a world-renowned architecture firm with public and private clients spread around the globe, from France and South Korea to the United States and Mexico. Their work is celebrated for its sensitivity, intellectual rigor, and imaginative approach to solving challenges of the built environment. Idenburg brings playful intuition and unbounded energy to the professional practice of architecture. Idenburg earned a Master of Science in Architectural Engineering from the Delft University of Technology.
Academic Research/Specialty Areas
- Architectural practice
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)
- Emerging Voices, Architectural League of New York (2013)
- Charlotte Köhler Prize, Prince Bernhard Culture Fund (2010)
- MoMA PS1 Young Architects (2009)
Publications (Selected)
- Human(s) Work (Taschen, 2020)
- Florian Idenburg, Jing Liu, Ilias Papageorgiou, "Solid Objectives: Order, Edge, Aura" (Lars Müller Publishers, 2017)
Videos
Baumer Series: Florian Idenburg
09.24.19 Visiting Lecture | Florian Idenburg: Figure, Type, Abstraction
Spotlight: Vol. 2 Florian Idenburg of SO-IL
Hyde Lecture: Florian Idenburg
Florian Idenburg : Strings attached (October 13, 2021)
Peter Barber: 100 Mile City and Other Stories
Florian Idenburg
Beeline – An Interview with Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu (SO - IL)
Building Tomorrow | Florian Idenburg - Advice for Future Architects
In Conversation: Architects Respond To The Fabricated Landscape
Design in Dialogue #57: Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu (SO-IL)
Order, edge, aura – Florian Idenburg / CANactions Festival 2017
Lecture: Florian Idenburg
Florian Idenburg, "To Be Determined"
The Amsterdam Agenda #3: Lecture by Florian Idenburg
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