PNEUMASTUDIOis an
interdisciplinary design practice situated between the fields of architecture
and landscape architecture. Formed in 2011, pneumastudio premiered its
work in two exhibitions and a symposium related to issues of environmental
design and ecology, the first of which was held at the Design Museum in
Barcelona and the second at GLOBAL Design / New York University’s Gallatin
School of Individualized Study.
Publications include Bracket 2: Goes Soft
by Actar and Architecture Inserted by
Yale School of Architecture.
Forthcoming publications include Post-Sustainable:
Blueprints for a Green Planet by Metropolis Books.
Both partners in the firm are recipients of The MacDowell Colony fellowship in
2013.CATHRYN DWYRE received a Master of Landscape
Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was the
Managing Editor of ViaBooks with a volume published by MIT Press entitled Dirt. Dwyre has variously been an art
book designer and publisher, and has produced art books and chapbooks. She is
the author of the introduction to a book forthcoming in 2013 through Metropolis
Books Post-Sustainable: Blueprints for a
Green Planet. Featuring one of pnuemastudio’s
projects in a collection of many contemporary designers interested in ecology
and sustainability, her polemic introductory text is entitled “not a throbbing
squirm”. Her current work moves between park design and landscape
strategy, to writing and researching around the topic of play and ecology.
Dwyre is interested in the dialectical exchange between architecture and
landscape architectural design, as well as using environmental signs and
systems as drivers in the design of landscapes. Dwyre is the recipient of
the MacDowell Colony fellowship 2013, where she is developing a catalogue of
designs for follies with her partner in pneumastudio,
Chris Perry.
In addition to a driving creative sensibility Dwyre was also
a start-up technology leader involved with two successes—one going public, and
the 2nd purchased by a public company. Dwyre’s first technology success was
with domain name registration company Register.com. Dwyre grew the company from
3 to 250 employees and to a successful IPO in 2000. She subsequently
joined GridApp Systems, where she was instrumental in raising over $8 million
dollars in venture capital for the company. As Vice President of Corporate
Development, Director, and 4 years on the Board as Director in charge of
corporate governance, Dwyre recruited and assembled the team that was sold to
BMC software in 2010. Before that, Dwyre dealt in rare books at Ursus
Rare Books, with a specialization in aesthetics, livres d’artistes, gardens and architecture. At Ursus, Dwyre wrote
and designed chapbooks with runs of 2500 copies and up. Previously, Dwyre
worked as a field scientist for the United States Geological Survey under the
Department of the Interior, doing geological mapping in the Cascade Mountains.
CHRIS PERRY holds a Master of Architecture from
Columbia University where he received an Award for Excellence in Design in
1997. After ten years as principal of his first design practice servo, he co-founded his current
practice pneumastudio with Cathryn Dwyre in 2011.
servo’s work has been exhibited at a
number of prominent venues, including the Venice Architecture Biennale, the
Centre Pompidou, the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Cooper-Hewitt National
Design Museum, Artists Space, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, and
SFMoMA. Publications of the group’s work include servo: networks and
environments, a monograph published by DAMDI Press in Korea, 10x10_2 by Phaidon Press, The New Mathematics of Architecture by
Thames & Hudson, and Interactive
Architecture by Princeton Architectural Press. servo’s work is also part of the permanent collections of SFMoMA
and the Frac Centre in Orleans, France.
Formed
in 2011 and situated between the fields of landscape and architecture,
pneumastudio has exhibited its work at the Design Museum in Barcelona and New
York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Forthcoming
publications featuring the group’s work include Architecture Inserted by Yale School of Architecture, Bracket 2: Goes Soft by Actar, and Post-Sustainability: Blueprints for a Green
Planet by Metropolis Books.
In
2010 Perry was the Louis Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor at the Yale School
of Architecture, an endowed chairmanship. Since 2000 he has taught at Columbia
University, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Rice
University, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, the University of
Toronto, the Architectural Association in London, and RMIT in Melbourne. He is
currently an Assistant Professor at the Rensselaer School of Architecture where
he is Director of the Geofutures
Post-Professional Program and Coordinator of Undergraduate Thesis.
Perry
is a recipient of the Architectural League of New York’s Prize for Young
Architects and Designers and The MacDowell Colony Fellowship. He is
co-editor of Collective Intelligence in
Design, published by Wiley-Academy in 2006, and has published essays in a
variety of architecture journals and books, including Yale Perspecta, Architectural
Design, Architectural Review, Scroope (Cambridge University
Architecture Journal), The Digital Turn
in Architecture: 1992–2012 by Wiley-Academy, Architecture Inserted by Yale School of Architecture, Architecture In:Formation by Routledge, Autogenic Structures by Taylor &
Francis, Lubricous Architectures: Studies
in Hybridity by Columbia Books of Architecture, and Bracket 2: Goes Soft by Actar