SO–IL is an idea-driven design office that brings together extensive experience from the fields of architecture, academia, and the arts. A creative catalyst involved in all scales and stages of the architectural process, SO–IL approaches projects with an intellectual and artistic rigor fueled by a strong commitment to realizing ideas in the world. SO–IL is lead by partners Florian Idenburg, Jing Liu and Ilias Papageorgiou
SO–IL has worked on an array of projects ranging in scale from the master plan of a cultural campus in Shanghai, China to a series of prints for the Guggenheim Museum. Projects include the flagship store for Benetton in NYC, student housing in Athens, Greece, the Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California in Davis, the Frieze Art Fair in NYC, and Kukje Gallery in Seoul.
The work has received numerous awards, including the MoMAPS1 Young Architects Program, the AIA Young Practices Award and the Emerging Voices award by the Architectural League. SO–IL has been widely featured in international publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company and Domus, and in exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urbanism, Studio-X in Beijing, Kunsthal KAdE in The Netherlands and the Benaki Museum in Greece.
VAILED, GREECE, VENICE BIENNALE 2014 VAILED, GREECE, VENICE BIENNALE 2014 SPIKY, BEIJIN, CHINA 2013 SPIKY, BEIJIN, CHINA 2013 SO-IL, STUDIO BENOIT PAILLEY SHREM MUSEUM , DAVIS, CALIFORNIA, 2016 EXPECTED POLEDANCE, NEW YORK, PHOTO BY IWAN BAAM, 2010 POLEDANCE, NEW YORK, PHOTO BY IWAN BAAM, 2010 PARTYWALL, ATHENS, COMPETITION 2010 LOGAN OFFICES, NEW YORK, PHOTO BY IWAN BAAN, 2012 LOGAN OFFICES, NEW YORK, PHOTO BY IWAN BAAN 2012 LOGAN OFFICES, NEW YORK, PHOTO BY IWAN BAAN 2012 ARTA, ARNHEM, THE NETHERLANDS, COMPETITION 2014 FRIEZE ART FAIR, SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, PHOTO BY IWAN BAAN 2012 KUKJE GALLERY, SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, PHOTO BY IWAN BAAN 2012
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