About

Combining a host of experience from the worlds of architecture, academia and the arts Solid Objectives - Idenburg Liu is a small office with a global reach. Founders Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu set up their Brooklyn-based studio in 2007 to be a creative catalyst, involved at all scales and all stages of the architectural process. Being rooted in the Europe, China and Japan – with these particular countries’ optimism in the feasibility of the architectural project – SO – IL vehemently believes in realizing their ideas in the world.

Recent projects include a house for designer Ivan Chermayeff in upstate New York, a shell-shaped wedding chapel in Nanjing, China, a museum for contemporary art near The Hague, the Netherlands, as well as a project space for Kukje Gallery in Seoul. SO – IL was finalist in an international competition for student housing in Athens Greece and is this year’s winner in MoMA’s Young Architects Program to design an installation for the P.S.1 courtyard in Long Island City.

SO – IL has been featured in numerous publications including the NY Times, Wallpaper* and Surface. The work has been exhibited in institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, the LA Forum for Architecture and Urbanism and the Center for Architecture in New York.

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Biography

Florian Idenburg

Florian Idenburg was born in the Netherlands and holds a MSc. from Delft University. Prior to founding SO – IL, Idenburg was an associate at SANAA in Japan between 2000 and 2007.

Idenburg is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School for Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and a Design Critic at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. Previously he held the position of Visiting Lecturer at the School of Architecture at Princeton University. He is a frequent lecturer, panelist and critic at universities and institutes throughout the U.S. and abroad. His writings appear regularly in magazines such as Abitare, Domus, A+U, and Mark Magazine. In his teaching he has been exploring the role of architecture in different social cultural and economical conditions. Part of this research is the subject of a book Idenburg edited, “Learning from Japan”, published by Lars Mueller Publishers in 2009.

Jing Liu

Jing Liu grew up in China, Japan and the United Kingdom. She obtained her M-Arch II studying architecture at the Tulane School of Architecture in New Orleans. Prior to founding SO – IL, Liu worked at Starwood Group and Kohn Pederson Fox. Jing is currently teaching the Advance Architectural Degree program at Columbia University’s GSAPP and has been a visiting critic at several universities.