Located in Buffalo (New York, USA), Holes of Matter is an architectural practice led by Sergio López-Piñeiro.
Olmsted’s Blank Snow is Melting
In Progress
Temporary Winter Landscape
Front Park, Buffalo, USA
December 2010 – March 2011
Olmsted’s Blank Snow Textures
In Progress
Temporary Winter Landscape
Front Park, Buffalo, USA
December 2010 – March 2011
Plowing Olmsted’s Blank Snow
In Progress
Temporary Winter Landscape
Front Park, Buffalo, USA
December 2010 – March 2011
Playing in Olmsted’s Blank Snow
In Progress
Temporary Winter Landscape
Front Park, Buffalo, USA
December 2010 – March 2011
How to Do a Thesis on Archinect
How to Do a Thesis: Practice Models as Instigators for Academic Theses makes it to the Top 10 Most Requested Features on Archinect for the year 2010.
Olmsted’s Blank Snow in Progress
In Progress
Temporary Winter Landscape
Front Park, Buffalo, USA
December 2010 – March 2011
Ramp Design
Sergio López-Piñeiro has received a Junior Faculty Development Fund Grand from UB’s School of Architecture and Planning for his proposal “Ramp Design.”
Olmsted’s Blank Snow in Good Magazine
In Video: Choreographed Snow in Buffalo Becomes Winter Park by Kyla Fullenwider.
Olmsted’s Blank Snow in Co.Design
In Buffalo Professor To Turn Snow Into a Colossal Work of Art by Suzanne Labarre.
Proposal for Olmsted’s Blank Snow
In Progress
Temporary Winter Landscape
Front Park, Buffalo, USA
To take place during the winter of 2010
Reconsidering the Enabling Architect
Reconsidering the Enabling Architect has been published on arq: Architectural Research Quaterly. The article discusses the current relevance of architects’ enabling capacity and proposes Blank Architecture as an alternative model to The Architecture of Persuasion, as it was best described in Learning from Las Vegas.
Sergio López-Piñeiro, “Reconsidering the Enabling Architect,” arq: Architectural Research Quaterly, vol. 14, no. 3 (2010): 286-288.
Studies for Olmsted’s Blank Snow
In Progress
Temporary Winter Landscape
Front Park, Buffalo, USA
To take place during the winter of 2010
How to Do a Thesis
On March 7, 2010, Sergio López-Piñeiro presented How to Do a Thesis: Practice Models as Instigators for Academic Theses at the 2010 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
White Space
White Space has been published in the journal Places. A photo essay by Sergio López-Piñeiro, “White Space” shows how everyday snow plowing practices — practices with no artistic or design ambitions — have the capacity to transform snowed-in parking lots into beautiful winter gardens.
NYSCA Grant for Olmsted’s Blank Snow
Sergio López-Piñeiro has received a New York State Council on the Arts grant for his proposal “Olmsted’s Blank Snow.”
Space Clearing
Competition Proposal
International Garden Festival at Les Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens Grand-Métis, Canada
October – November 2009
International Seminar on Urban Form 2009
On September 5, 2009, Sergio López-Piñeiro presented “The Blank Meander” at the International Seminar on Urban Form in Guangzhou, China.
Imprecise Infrastructure
Competition Proposal
2007 AMD Open Architecture Challenge Mukuru Kwa Njenga, Nairobi, Kenya
September 2007 – February 2008
UB Reporter on Architectural Blankness
Sergio López-Piñeiro and his work on architectural blankness has been featured in the UB Reporter, University at Buffalo’s weekly newspaper.
Swelling Depths
Competition Proposal
Market Square Design Competition, Stratford, Canada
September 2006
Playful Infrastructure
Competition Proposal
Keitai City Competition
Honorable Mention
September 2005
People
Sergio López-Piñeiro (Madrid, 1973) graduated from ETS Arquitectura Madrid in 1998 and received his M.Arch. degree from Princeton University in 2004, where he was awarded the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize. He has previously worked at Foreign Office Architects (London, 2000-2002) and at NoMad (Madrid, 1998-2000). Currently, Sergio López-Piñeiro is an assistant professor at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning.
Collaborators: Katie Conwell, Nicole Halstead, Wesley Lam, Kin Chun Ma, Joseph Piwowarski, Kim Anh Tran, Niina Tsuchiya, Nicholas Yamich, Saki Yoshimura
Contact
Holes of Matter
46 Lancaster Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222
United States
Telephone: +1 (716) 880-9301
Email: holes(at)holesofmatter(dot)com
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