Aptum Architecture

Claudia La Rocco, ‘Tere O'Connor's "Cover Boy""’, The New York Times, 12/13/2011
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Co-Editor, Plym Booklet for Kenneth Frampton; University of Illinois,
Date of Completion Pending: Winter 2012

INTERNI. ANCI Creative Awards. November Issue 2010. P. 52
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David Hoekstra, ‘Housing transition as seen through the art of sprawl’, Chicago Sun Times, 12/15/2009
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Melissa Merli, Old IMPE basketball floor now ready for new shoes,
News Gazette Champaign 5/16/2009
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Pivot, Issue 24, 2009 ‘The New Graduate Dance Center’, Jan Erkert

Competitions, ‘FLIP-A-STRIP Competition’
Winter 2008/2009 Volume 18, Louisville, KY, pages: 10-17
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Thawed, in Field Correspondence, ‘Setting out Lines’, Issue 1, 2009
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99k house Competition, Selected Entries, RDA/AIA Houston 2008, pages: 162-163
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Julie Larsen M. Arch.
Roger Hubeli Dipl. Arch. ETHZ/SIA

Bahnrain 1
8154 Oberglatt
Switzerland

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APTUM Architecture is a firm based in Switzerland, which was founded in 2002 by Roger Hubeli and Julie Larsen and also offers Design Consulting Services in the USA.

In classical rhetoric and fine art, [aptum] is described as the ‘right relationship between the used words or forms and the described subjects’. Rather than just a formal principal we see this term as a challenge to design architecture that is driven by each project’s close fit to its surroundings | contexts | or ecological systems. We are thus interested in the notion of liminality – the transitional or marginal conditions and spaces that allow one system | interaction | or ecology to migrate into another and vice versa.

Integral to this approach is a clear and in-depth understanding of the methods and processes of the surrounding ecologies (environmental, economical, social etc.) to a place and its effects on the architecture that resides within it. Consequently our work finds it’s tectonic through an intensive engagement with a structural and material context. These investigations partake in all our work, from exhibitions, to small-scale projects to the design of large urban interventions.

We have been engaged with the current architectural discourse since starting the firm in 2002. We pursued our academic career in architecture at the University of Michigan’s Architecture Program and at the ETH Zurich Architecture Program under the chair of Marc Angélil. Currently, we are holding Assistant Professorships at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Julie Larsen got her M-Arch from Columbia University in New York. Roger Hubeli got his M-Arch from ETH in Zürich. He is a member of the SIA (Association of Swiss Engineers and Architects). Julie and Roger are recent fellows at the MacDowell Colony.

While continuing to immerse ourselves in the contemporary discourse and practice, we call upon our network of innovative partners including artists, writers, designers, environmentalists, engineers and builders to shape each project. We engage these other fields as experts on design and we are interested in how design thinking can reciprocally inform other fields.

Principals

Julie M. Larsen M. Arch (Assitant Professor UIUC)
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Roger Hubeli Dipl. Arch. ETHZ/SIA (Assistant Profesoor UIUC)
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Technical Advisor and Project Management (Switzerland)
Albert Hubeli dipl. Arch. HTL STV

Collaborations with
Beat Steuri dipl. Arch. ETHZ
Prof. Dr. Fernando Lara
Kevin Benham M. Arch.

_S. Hicks, A. Newmeyer (Design with Co.)

_Gale Fulton (Landscape Intelligence)

People
Brian Vesely
Diego Morell
Danny Duong
Rossitza Kotelova
Alvaro Luna
Jasmine Lee
Mark Nemecek
Min Chen
Hiba Bhatty
Jordan Gearhart
Andrew McGee
Andrew McIntyre
Hattie Stroud

Photography

_Wallo Villacorta