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.