Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO – IL) is an idea driven design office founded by Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu in 2008. With a global reach, it 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 their ideas in the world.

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. Recent projects include a temporary classroom for the Whitney Museum, student housing in Athens, Greece, a park pavilion in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and a community center on the Belgian coast.

The work has received numerous awards, including the MoMAPS1 Young Architects Program, as well as the AIA Young Practices Award. SO – IL has been widely featured in international publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company and Wallpaper* and in exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angles Forum for Architecture and Urbanism, Studio-X in Beijing and Kunsthal KAdE in the Netherlands

clients include

• Arper
• Derek Lam
• Frieze Art Fair
• Ideo
• Ivan and Jane Chermayeff
• Kukje Art Gallery
• Municipality of Koksijde
• The Museum of Modern Art
• Province of Antwerp
• Oliaros development SA
• Whitney Museum of American Art
• The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
• Meicang Art Center

Florian Idenburg.

Florian Idenburg, principal

Florian Idenburg (1975, the Netherlands) holds a MSc. in Architecture from Delft University of Technology.

Prior to founding SO – IL, Idenburg gained eight years of experience at the practice of Pritzker laureates Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA. Idenburg is a recognized voice in academia and has held teaching positions at Harvard, Columbia, Princeton and the University of Kentucky.

Jing Liu.

Jing Liu, M Arch, principal

A native of China, Jing Liu received her education in China, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, concluding with a Master of Architecture from Tulane University School of Architecture in New Orleans.

Liu worked at New York based Kohn Pedersen Fox and Starwood prior to founding SO – IL. Liu is currently teaching at Columbia University’s GSAPP and faculty at Parsons The New School for Design.