Formation Association in Wallpaper*

Formation Association’s design for Council_St is out now in Wallpaper*. Situated in Los Angeles' Historic Filipinotown, the garage turned artist studio and exhibition space reimagines vernacular craftsmanship. Clad in asphalt shingles, the building appears as a monolith and echoes the neighborhood’s myriad shingled, craftsman homes. “The project's multiple identities, unassuming materiality yet remarkable presence” writes Nana Ama Owusu-Ansah, embodies “Formation Association’s practice of ‘architecture as a cultural project transforming our expectations of the built environment’.” Click here to read more. Photo by Janna Ireland.