Item Code: MOLMISFERC5
Suppliers Code: FER-C5
Brand Name: Molo
Designer: Stephanie Forsythe, Todd MacAllen and Robert Pasut
Designers’ Profile: Stephanie Forsythe - Canadian, born on 1970 (B.EDS, M.ARCH)
Todd MacAllen. - Canadian, born 1966 (B.FA, B.EDS, M.ARCH)
Robert Pasut (B.COM, MBA)
Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen of Forsythe + MacAllen Design, www.forsythe-macallen.com, have been operating a multi-disciplinary design studio since 1996 and are currently based in Vancouver, Canada. Their early projects, before and after earning their Masters Degrees in Architecture in 2000, were a series of houses in Canada and the United States that they both designed and built. These projects have since won international awards and have been published in several design and architecture books and magazines around the world.
Forsythe + MacAllen have always endeavored for hands on experience in making whatever they design. This represents a fundamental part of their ongoing exploration; a need for ideas to pass from mind to hands and back again, ingraining a sense of materiality, making, space and experience. Forsythe + MacAllen work back and forth between the intimate scale of furniture and objects to the larger scale of buildings, landscapes and cities. Product design allows them to experiment directly and quickly with materials, and variations of these material studies are also investigated at the scale of Architecture. Working at the smaller scale with materials heightens their sense of the scale of the body and human experience in Architecture. Conversely, the furniture design benefits from the perspective of thinking in the greater context of place.
In 2001 Forsythe + MacAllen won first prize in a competition to design 200 units of housing and community facilities at the center of Aomori city, in northern Japan. The competition, judged by Tadao Ando and Jean Nouvel, attracted the attention of over 4000 competitors from 86 countries. They continue to work on this project for Aomori, which has since evolved into a Museum and Creative Culture Centre for Nebuta, one of Japan’s largest festivals.
In 2003 Forsythe + MacAllen were selected for the Architecture League of New York’s, Young Architects Forum, and they were further awarded The Ron J. Thom Award from the Canada Council for the Arts. They also won the Golden prize in the Design Beyond East and West housing competition held by Hanssem of Korea, and First Prize in the LighTouch competition for an interactive lighting design, held by Design Singapore and sponsored by FLOS of Italy. Most recently, they were selected with four other winning entries for the First Step Housing Competition in New York.
