Image via Preliminary Research Officeĭo you have partners, how did you decide to work with partners, and where did you meet? How many people work at your company?ĬNB: We’re three partners and have three employees in the office now. For us, not being treated too seriously is a treat which gives us room to wonder and mingle. We figured if that’s what we want to do, we might as well start early, while we can still afford to make mistakes and are not yet treated too seriously. It’s probably a shared dream for architects to have their own offices. What made you make the decision to start an office? Dingliang Yang, Yaohua Wang and Chloe Natanél Brunner At this point, we are not sure what we will be “pro” at, but the only way for us to get there is to be preliminary first.įrom left to right. ![]() At the same time, the name also implies the desire to be “pro” at something. To be preliminary, for us, is to question the basics and to build a foundation for ourselves. ![]() The name of our office is a reminder to ourselves of that. How did you come up with your company name and ethos?Īt the point when we were about to start a practice, we felt that we needed to reboot our ideas, to start with a clean sheet. We started our studio in New York in 2015 and have been in LA since 2016. Led by Chloe Brunner, Dingliang Yang and Yaohua Wang, Preliminary Research Office has been making a name for itself as an emerging practice leveraging contemporary motifs, exceptional techniques, and potent design schemes to consistently push the boundaries of what a young office can do in today's practice focused climate.įor this week's Studio Snapshot, we talk with two of the office's principals Chloe Brunner (CNB) & Yaohua Wang (YHW) about the practice's origins, their unique work approach, along with a view into their approach to the discipline through theory, buildings, and models.
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