P XS is an
architecture and research office committed to advancing contemporary
design in collaboration with progressive clients. Areas of professional
practice include architecture, interiors and landscape. Beginning with
a premiated competition entry for housing in Amsterdam, the office has
taken particular delight in reorganizing difficult contextual,
programmatic, and material constraints to engender design solutions
that evince an easy vitality. Assembling and directing a team of allied
professionals as appropriate to the immediate challenge, P XS develops
each project through an intensive logic culminating in designs that
appear at once inevitable and surprising.One of the office's projects, “off-use,” is a 1,860 s.f. office and residence that extended the
office's interest in combining the material excesses of mass culture
with the speculative discipline of modernism. Nicolai Ouroussoff as,
formerly, architecture critic of the Los Angeles Times (now architecture critic of the New York Times), wrote that “what
makes the design compelling is its ability to transform a seemingly
mundane context into something of beauty,” and that “its sense of
social mission lies in its lack of pretension, its openness to new
experience, its empathy for everyday life.” In addition to this ability
to recharge context and experience, “off-use” typifies the firm’s
ambition to develop an appropriate and guiding economy of means for
each project in terms of its design as well as its use of relatively
inexpensive and often neglected materials. They pride themselves on an
ability to employ direct yet inventive organizations to enhance
alternative forms of occupation and lifestyle.P XS conceives
each project as a collective endeavor that must successfully resolve
the requirements and desires of the client while making a contemporary
contribution to the discipline of architecture and design.