Three-pronged Accomplishments at SITU
What happens if you combine the processes of design, research, and fabrication in one organization? The potential of this multi-professional collaboration is convincingly demonstrated in the diverse accomplishments of SITU, a firm located on the appropriately experimental terrain of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This extensive former military installation, reclaimed for light manufacturing and tech-oriented activities, was able to accommodate SITU’s offices and its fabrication workshop, just a short walk apart. The three current partners of SITU – Basar Girit, Aleksey Lukyanov-Cherny, and Brad Samuels – met as architecture classmates at The Cooper Union in Manhattan. They credit the curriculum there rooted in spatial analysis, making, and prototyping for contributing to the perspective and skills they bring to their work today. Their staff is diverse, with degrees in computer science, furniture design, art history, urban design, social policy, and more. SITU is composed of three divisions – each headed by one …
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