Escher GuneWardena's work addresses issues of sustainability,
affordability and the dialogue between form and construction. They
seek to establish simple formal manifestations of the complexities of
each project, investigating the sublimated characteristics intrinsic to
the work itself. Published internationally, among the firm’s
distinctions are inclusion in the 2003 National Design Triennial
(Cooper Hewitt Museum), the 2004 Dwell Home II winning competition
entry, and the 2006 exhibition entry for OPEN HOUSE: Intelligent Living
by Design (the future house and digital technologies), organized by the
Vitra Design Museum and Art Center College of Design. The firm’s
interest in contemporary art has led to various collaborations with
artists and art related projects, including numerous installations for
Sharon Lockhart, Olafur Eliasson (Emi Fontana Gallery’s 2005 West of
Rome series), Mike Kelley (Sculpture Projects Muenster 07), and the new
Blum & Poe Gallery, Los Angeles. Current projects include
exhibition designs for Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art
(Japanese American National Museum) and Between Earth and Heaven: the
Architecture of John Lautner (The Hammer Museum) co-curated by Frank
Escher and Nicholas Olsberg.