Using Architecture to Create a New Civic Movement: SHoP's Chris Sharples Speaks

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This article was originally published by Autodesk's Redshift publication as "SHoP's Chris Sharples on Urban Architecture, Digital Fabrication, and the Public Realm."

Twin brothers Chris and Bill Sharples are two of the founding partners of SHoP Architects, a New York-based firm established 20 years ago to bring together diverse expertise in designing buildings and environments that improve the quality of public life.

The firm’s style is difficult to define, but a connective thread throughout SHoP’s portfolio is a design philosophy rooted in constraints. From digital models to next-generation fabrication and delivery techniques, technology is at the center of the firm’s movement toward an iterative approach that, as Chris Sharples says, “is beginning to blur the line between architecture and manufacturing.”

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Cite: Jeff Link. "Using Architecture to Create a New Civic Movement: SHoP's Chris Sharples Speaks" 03 Oct 2018. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/903157/using-architecture-to-create-a-new-civic-movement-shops-chris-sharples-speaks> ISSN 0719-8884

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