Studio SUMO, New York City
Yolande Daniels & Sunil Bald
Yolande Daniels and Sunil Bald have collaborated since 1995 as SUMO. SUMO approaches architecture as a reflexive practice. Their work explores architecture as a mediator between multiple situations and desires in a world that is global and local—simultaneously interconnected and divided—shape-shifting.
Sunil Bald is a Fulbright Fellow (1994) and is presently the Louis Kahn Visiting Professor at Yale University. He is also a member of the graduate faculty at Parsons School of Design. Yolande Daniels is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony (2005-06), the American Academy in Rome (2003-04) and the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (1996-98). She is on the faculty of Columbia University. Since 1999, Sunil Bald and Yolande Daniels have taught summer courses at JOSAI International University in Togane, Chiba-ken in the Cultural Studies and Women’s Studies Departments positioning architecture within an expanded cultural field.
SUMO has received recognition from: the New York Foundation for the Arts, Architecture + Environments grant (2002/3); Young Architects Program of the Museum of Modern Art/PS1 Finalist (2001); and the Architectural League of New York, Young Architects Award (1999). SUMO’s work has been included in the anthologies: Row: Trajectories through the Shotgun house, the Journal of Architectural Education, Emerging Ideas in American Architecture,Young Architects: Scale; and in journals such as Global Architecture, Architecture, Architectural Record and Frame.
Recent work includes the 75,000.00sf New School of Business Management at JOSAI University in Sakado, Japan (2005), the 1,600sf Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora/MoCADA in New York (2006), and the 12,500sf Museum for African Art in New York (2002). SUMO has exhibited work at: GA Gallery, Tokyo; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Field Museum, Philadelphia; Project Row Houses, Houston, the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. and the Architectural League, New York.
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Jillian Puleo |
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Jillian has a background in geography and urban studies and is currently a participant in the JET programme. She is returning to the U.S. next year to pursue a graduate degree in sustainable community development and is interested in urban planning issues in Japan. She is co-organizer of Wakai, an on-going project focused on the impact of globalization on youth culture and dedicated to exploring social issues and provoking social change in Japan.
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Kathryn Sargent |
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Kate Sargent is currently working towards her Master of Urban Planning at Columbia University in New York . She has an undergraduate degree in International Affairs and several years of political organizing experience with environmental issues. She is interested in alternative forms of transportation.
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Tasmia Eshita Khan |
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I would like to join the workshop as I think it would be a great opportunity for me to get involved in the various subcultures of Shimokitazawa and its community groups, which are in many ways much different from Singapore's! This would also be a wonderful opportunity for me to getting to know people from other cultures and how they think and approach problems and find solution for those!
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LIM HUI MIN JAN |
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Jan is a 20-year-old undergraduate at the National University of Singapore and has just completed the first year of her architectural education. She likes writing, reading, travelling, and learning about different cultures, but has also dabbled in print advertising and theatre. She used to study the Japanese language.
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MaXiao (Max)
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Born in China and migrated to Singapore at the age of 12, Max has just finished his first year of architectural education in National University of Singapore. He is interested in architecture, political and social studies, history and Chinese Litererature.
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Masashi Kawakami |
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Jun Hanazawa |
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Chiba Pref. |
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Kei Nakayama |
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Tokyo Kei Nakayama majored in politics at Keio University and explored, from a theoretical approach, the creation of public space lending to openness. Kei has also worked to create interactive spaces, such as the renovation and reopening of a Japanese house for student social space near KeioUniversity's Mita campus. He has even used his own apartment as a private bar, giving birth to hundreds of interactions.
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