GA Gallery, Tokyo selects OPA "Echo Lake" for GA Houses Project 2024 exhibition. This special exhibition features houses by 53 international architects.
GA Gallery, Tokyo selects OPA "Space Invader" for GA Houses Project 2023 exhibition. This special exhibition features 53 houses by 53 international architects.
Dezeen selects Softie for the 2021 Dezeen Awards "shortlist" in the House Interior category.
The Modern Architects
Presented by Diane Dorrans Saeks
Wednesday, June 9, 6pm
This webinar will examine and celebrate this current moment in design and architecture—and face the future of design with optimism and renewed energy.
Joshua Aidlin of Aidlin Darling
Anne Fougeron of Fougeron Architecture
Zoë Prillinger of OPA
Tickets available at sfdesignweek.org
GA Gallery, Tokyo selects OPA Palisade for GA Houses 175: Project 2021 exhibition. This special issue and exhibition features 45 residential projects by 45 international architects.
The Plan shortlists Shapeshifter for a 2020 Award.
Zoe Prillinger is on the jury for thesis reviews from 10-1:15 on Friday May 8.
GA Gallery, Tokyo selects OPA Varial for GA Houses 169: Project 2020 exhibition. This special issue and exhibition features 50 residential projects by 50 international architects.
OPA named top 15 San Francisco residential architecture firm on 2020 list.
California Home + Design "spotlight on just a handful of the architectural talents in the Bay Area who are making their mark on the city’s skyline—that also happen to be women."
Robyn Wise, "Five Bay Area Women at the Forefront of Architecture"
Zoë Prillinger is on the jury for 200A reviews at the Berkeley College of Environmental Design on Tuesday December 10.
Christie's International Real Estate feature on desert architecture. "Dreams of living in the wilderness are being made reality by architects working with, rather than against, the rugged landscapes of the desert."
Jonathan Bell, "Castles in the Sand: The Art of Desert Architecture."
Zoë Prillinger is on the jury for Graduate Thesis Reviews at the Berkeley College of Environmental Design on Friday May 10.
GA Gallery, Tokyo selects OPA Softie for exhibition of 50 international residential projects.
This annual exhibition features the 50 international residential projects selected for the GA Houses Project 2019 special issue.
Metropolis selects Hidden House for Metropolis's Best Houses of 2018
"Out of all the building types we publish at Metropolis, houses are the projects that elicit the most ooh’s and ah’s from our editors. It’s hard to pick which ones are our favorites, of course, but the following six truly push the envelope—literally and figuratively"
Taschen publishes Homes for Our Time: Contemporary Houses around the World
A sweeping survey of the contemporary house, and a reminder that we all have a lot more in common than might be expected. Surely because of the rise of the Internet as the most accessible form of information, talented and cosmopolitan architects are coming forward and building innovative, spectacular houses around the globe. Especially where houses are concerned, there is no longer a deep divide between developed and developing countries: great homes are being built everywhere by talented architects.
Yale University Press publishes The New Urban House: A Global Survey
Architects face many challenges when designing a modern urban house. Environmental performance, aesthetics, technical logistics, material concerns, site constraints—these are all considerations that have the potential to limit what architects can achieve, but that also can inspire creative solutions. In addition, each city’s history, obstacles, and opportunities influence local design approaches. Superbly illustrated with 600 color images, this expansive compendium offers fascinating insights into building modern houses on a local level.
Jonathan Bell and Ellie Stathaki "Gallery House," pp. 36-39
Dwell nominates Shapeshifter for Best of Design Awards for Best Outdoors
Selected as the most inspiring projects featured by Dwell this year, our nominees showcase innovative solutions and creative, context-driven design.
Luke Ogrydziak on AIA East Bay Ex Res Design Awards jury
The AIA East Bay Exceptional Residential: Bay Area Regional Design Awards is a unique design awards program established to recognize the best in the Bay Area housing design. ExRes 2018 emphasizes the important impact excellent design has on everyday living and our communities. Criteria to be used by the jury include quality of design, resolution of the program idea, sustainable responsibility, innovation, thoughtfulness, and technique.
Metropolis Magazine features Hidden House
Metropolis is an architecture and design–focused magazine published ten times per year. It has over 50,000 print subscribers and its website receives approximately 85,000 unique visitors every month. Metropolis is based in New York and has been published since 1981.
AAG publishes article by OPA
Advances in Architectural Geometry (AAG) is a conference where both theoretical and practical work linked to new geometrical developments is presented. It involves architects, engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians, software and algorithms designers and contractors. We aim at connecting researchers from architectural and engineering practices, academia and industry. AAG has become a reference both in research and in practice and is supported by the direct participation of the most renowned architectural design and engineering offices along with research laboratories.
Luke Ogrydziak and Zoë Prillinger "Nuclear thresholds: Geometric strategies for flexible cord assemblies," pp. 256-272
Wallpaper* feature on Shapeshifter
Ellie Stathaki, "Unfolding the origami shapes of OPA’s Shapeshifter House in Nevada"
A.D.A. Edita Tokyo Co., Ltd. features OPA in GA 159
GA Houses documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. Included in each issue also are retrospective looks at residential works of the past which are now considered epoch-making.
Yoshio Futagawa, editor "OPA ," pp. 8-9, 116-15
Dwell feature on Shapeshifter
Sam Lubell, "Life Mimics Art"
"Everyone is in disbelief that we could have a house like this here." —Peter Stremmel, resident
Shapeshifter wins 2018 American Architecture Award
The nation’s highest public awards given by a non-commercial, non-trade affiliated, public arts, culture and educational institution. Over 100 shortlisted buildings have won the prestigious 2018 American Architecture Awards for the best new buildings designed and constructed by American architects in the U.S. and abroad and by international architects for buildings designed and built in the United States.
Architectural Element volumes 1, 2, and 3 published by Damdi
Features projects and essays by OPA. The first volume deals with ENTRANCE; the second, STAIRS; and the third with ROOF. Architectural Element provides a sweeping survey of contemporary and classical case studies, surveyed through photographs, technical drawings, sketches, and models.
Zoë Prillinger on final review juries at Rice School of Architecture
OPA principals lecture at Stanford University
The third lecture in the Stanford University Architecture & Landscape Spring Lecture Series. This event will be at 6:30 on May 9 at Bishop Auditorium, Lathrop Library.
The Observer reviews Untitled, San Francisco second edition
"Just as the art world starts to swing into high gear after the haze leftover from December’s Miami Art Week and holiday hoopla, Untitled, San Francisco launched its second edition this past weekend. Over 50 exhibitors from 11 countries participated, with the notable addition of powerhouse New York and London gallery David Zwirner joining the lineup this year, an indicator of maturation for the budding Bay Area edition of the fair, which originally started in Miami Beach in 2012. Running January 12 through 14, the curated art fair touted a new director, former Simon Lee gallery director Manuela Mozo, and a new location at the iconic Palace of Fine Arts, a monumental gem of neoclassical revival architecture in the city’s Marina District."
Artnet reviews Untitled, San Francisco 2018
Untitled, San Francisco 2018 opens this weekend at the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
Untitled, Art is an international, curated art fair founded in 2012 that focuses on curatorial balance and integrity across all disciplines of contemporary art. Untitled, Art innovates the standard fair model by selecting a curatorial team to identify and curate a selection of galleries, artist-run exhibition spaces, and non-profit institutions and organizations, in dialogue with an architecturally designed venue.
Architect magazine feature on OPA.
Blaine Brownell, "Discovery, Mystery, and Transformation: Approaching Architectural Practice as a Narrative"
The Bad Woods 3d printed model available on Shapeways.
Hyperallergic review of CP-1 commemoration
The 75th anniversary commemoration of Chicago Pile 1 includes OPA's Nuclear Thresholds installation.
"...a temporary architectural entitled Nuclear Thresholds was installed at the site of Chicago Pile-1, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Henry Moore’s Nuclear Energy sculpture. Firm OPA added a network of hundreds of 75-five-foot-long cords of thick black rubber that formed a bench at one end before unraveling into a twisted network of cables."
OPA principals talk at the University of Chicago.
The culminating lectures for the 75th anniversary of the Chicago Pile-1 experiment and the concurrent 50th anniversary of the unveiling of Henry Moore's Nuclear Energy sculpture. Features talks by eminent Moore scholar (and former Henry Moore Foundation Research Curator at Tate) Anne Wagner, architect Ludovico Centis, and principals Luke Ogrydziak and Zoe Prillinger from California-based firm OPA (the design team behind Nuclear Thresholds, the temporary architectural installation on the CP-1 site). This event will be at 4:15 on December 2 at the Reynolds Club, University of Chicago.
Chicago Maroon feature on Nuclear Thresholds.
""Nuclear Thresholds" Installation Meditates on Duality," by Perri Wilson.
"Amid the chaos of this year’s O-Week move-in day was a mysterious group of workers crowded around the Henry Moore sculpture outside Max Palevsky West Residential Commons. Throughout the week, one could find them milling around a pile of long, black rubber tubes, which slowly began to take form. The installation, entitled “Nuclear Thresholds,” is one of the many projects commissioned by the University to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1), the first successfully built, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction."
Zoë Prillinger one of three jurors selected for 2017 Portland Architecture Awards
Bay Area jurors Allison Williams, William Leddy, and Zoë Prillinger will present the 2017 awards at this annual event featuring special guest Congressman Earl Blumenauer.
This event will be at 6:00 on October 27 at Revolution Hall, Porland, Oregon.
The Gallery House roof garden photographed by Marion Brenner.
Seasoned garden writers Susan Lowry and Nancy Berner, along with leading landscape photographer Marion Brenner, tour more than thirty-five private gardens in the San Francisco Bay Area, illuminating the unrivalled beauty of Northern California—the breadth of the sky, the quality of the light, the sparkle of the Bay, the shapes of the hills—that has beckoned landscape designers and gardeners for generations.
Lowry, Susan and Nancy Berner. "Lenore Pereira and Rich Niles Garden: South Park" in Private Gardens of the Bay Area. The Monacelli Press. pp. 96-99.
Mark magazine feature on OPA.
Tylevich, Katya. "OPA," Mark No. 67, April/May 2017, pp. 83-101.
"When designing buildings, Zoë Prillinger and Luke Ogrydziak take cues from the disparate qualities of daily existence."
GA Houses Project 2014 Exhibition featuring OPA Shapeshifter opens in Tokyo.
Architizer
A+ Awards, Finalist
Best Interior Design Firm
Architizer
A+ Awards, Finalist
Residential Interiors (<3000 sq ft)
DNA Paris
Design Awards, Grand Prix - Interior Design
Softie
Architizer
A+ Awards, Finalist
Best Firm - North America
Dezeen
Design Awards, Shortlist
Softie
Architizer
A+ Awards, Special Mention
Hidden House
San Francisco Design Week
Design Awards, Honorable Mention
Softie
The Plan
Design Awards, Finalist
Shapeshifter
Wallpaper*
Design Awards, Shortlist
Shapeshifter
Architizer
A+ Awards, Finalist
Nuclear Thresholds
Dwell
Best of Design Awards, Finalist
Shapeshifter
Dezeen
Design Awards, Longlist
Shapeshifter
Metropolis
Best Houses of the Year
Hidden House
The Chicago Athenaeum
American Architecture Award
Shapeshifter
AIA San Francisco
Interior Architecture Citation
Vortex
Architizer
A+ Awards, Special Mention
Vortex
Architizer
A+ Awards, Finalist
Dune
AIA San Francisco
Unbuilt Design Citation
Shapeshifter
AIA San Francisco
Architecture Merit Award
Hyde
Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize
Emerging Talent Best Building, Long List
Gallery House
New York Architecture League
Emerging Voices Award
AIA San Francisco
Architecture Citation
Ourcadia
AIA San Francisco
Unbuilt Design Honor Award
Dune
AIA San Francisco
Architecture Citation
Triskelion
AIA San Francisco
Architecture Honor Award
Gallery House
AIA California Council
Architecture Merit Award
Triskelion
AIA California Council
Architecture Merit Award
Gallery House
AIA San Francisco
Interior Architecture Citation
Honighaus
AIA California Council & Sunset Magazine
Western Home Awards, Best Remodel
Honighaus
AIA San Francisco
Interior Architecture Citation
Concrete House
AIA East Bay
Architecture Merit Award
T House
AIA Central Valley
Architecture Citation
Kayak House
Monterey Design Conference
Emerging Talent Award
AIA San Francisco
Unbuilt Projects Honor Award
Concrete House
AIA San Francisco
Architecture Honor Award
Co-op
AIA California Council
Architecture Honor Award
Co-op
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For us, every project is personal, whether private or public. Fundamental to our work is our close relationship to our clients and communities, whose use of our spaces give life to the architecture. We see the design process as a joint exploration of expanding and choreographing what’s possible. Together, we uncover what a project really wants to be and make that desire a physical reality.
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Luke Ogrydziak
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Luke Ogrydziak was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and grew up in Northern California. He studied at Princeton University, where he received both his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture summa cum laude in 1992, and his Master of Architecture degree in 1995. At Princeton, he received the Shellman Award for architectural representation. Ogrydziak Prillinger Architects was formed with Zoë Prillinger in 2004. He is a licensed architect in California and Nevada, and has taught graduate design studios at the University of California at Berkeley and the Harvard GSD.
Zoë Prillinger
zoe@oparch.net
Zoë Prillinger was born in Decatur, Illinois—with US, Australian, and British citizenship. She studied at Princeton University, where she received both her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture magna cum laude with a certificate in European Cultural Studies in 1992, and her Master of Architecture degree in 1994. Ms. Prillinger has worked in architecture offices in Melbourne, Paris, New York City, and San Francisco, and formed Ogrydziak Prillinger Architects with Luke Ogrydziak in 2004. Ms. Prillinger is a licensed architect in Hawaii, and has taught design studio at the University of California at Berkeley and the Harvard GSD.