P XS 950 South Highland Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90036 Phone +1 323 304 2584 Fax +1 888 269 05 82 office (at) pxsarchitecture.com www.pxsarchitecture.com Owner / Management Linda Pollari Established1994 Employees1 Specialties Architecture Interiors Landscape
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Top: Sponge-scape, Monterey Park, 2008 (Rendering: P XS) Details |
Top: Barcode housing system, Atlanta, 2007 (Rendering: P XS) Details |
Bottom: Off-use, Los Angeles, 2004 (Photo: Deborah Bird) Details |
Bottom: OTIS Entry Experience, Los Angeles, 2009 - (Rendering: P XS) Details |
 Philosophy
P XS is an architecture and research office committed to advancing contemporary design in collaboration with progressive clients. Areas of professional practice include architecture, interiors and landscape. Beginning with a premiated competition entry for housing in Amsterdam, the office has taken particular delight in reorganizing difficult contextual, programmatic, and material constraints to engender design solutions that evince an easy vitality. Assembling and directing a team of allied professionals as appropriate to the immediate challenge, P XS develops each project through an intensive logic culminating in designs that appear at once inevitable and surprising.
In 2002, P XS completed “off-use,” a 1,860 s.f. residence and studio that extends the office's interest in combining the material excesses of mass culture with the speculative discipline of modernism. Nicolai Ouroussoff, former architecture critic of the Los Angeles Times, wrote that “what makes the design compelling is its ability to transform a seemingly mundane context into something of beauty,” and that “its sense of social mission lies in its lack of pretension, its openness to new experience, its empathy for everyday life.” In addition to this ability to recharge context and experience, “off-use” typifies the firm’s ambition to develop an appropriate and guiding economy of means for each project in terms of its design as well as its use of relatively inexpensive and often neglected materials. They pride themselves on an ability to employ direct yet inventive organizations to enhance alternative forms of occupation and lifestyle.
P XS conceives each project as a collective endeavor that must successfully resolve the requirements and desires of the client while making a contemporary contribution to the discipline of architecture and design.
Publications
Architecture and Design: Los Angeles (forthcoming) 1000 x Architecture of the Americas (2008): 20 spaces Issue 21 (April 2008): 3, 86-93 FORM Pioneering Design (September/October 2007): 40
archithese 3:2007 (May/June): 46-47
California HOME + DESIGN (May 2007): 100-101
pen 4/1 No.172 (Japan: 2006): 70-71
L.A. WOMEN ARTISTS AND ARCHITECTS (2005) Schlebrugge.Editor: 120-121, 159
Archidom #8 (57) (Russia: November 2005): 84-88
LOS ANGELES architecture & design (teNeues, 2004): 18-19
Architectural Digest (September 2004): 150, 153
LA Architect (January/February 2004): 31
Praxis 5 (2003): 92-93
Sunset (August 2003): 98
LA Architect (July/August 2003): 29-31
Metropolitan Home (July/August 2003): 80
Competitions (Summer 2003): 28-29
Los Angeles Times (November 22, 2002): E62
Architecture (November 2002): 50-55
Los Angeles Times (May 15, 2002): F2
Los Angeles Magazine (May 2002): 96-99
Design Times (July/August 2001): 54-57
Custom Home (April 2001): 5 and 41-43
LA Architect (May/June 2000): 12-16
Interior Expressions (March/April 1998): 29
Practices 5/6 (1997): 104-107
Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design Newsletter (Late Fall 1997): 5-6
LA Architect (July 1996): 5 and cover
Space Vol. 333 (July 1995): 52-60
Space Design (September 1994): 54-55
Assemblage 23 (April 1994): 83
Architecture and Urbanism No. 276 (September 1993): 22-23
Indivisible Space de Singel (1993): 80-85
Newsline Vol. 5 No. 2 (November/December 1992): 6
Semiotext(e) Architecture (1992): 68-73
Awards
2007 Citation, American Institute of Architects Los Angeles Next LA Awards 2004 American Architecture Award, The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design
2004 Award of Excellence, Los Angeles Business Council 34th Los Angeles Architectural Awards
2003 Merit Award, American Institute of Architects Los Angeles Design Awards
2003 Merit Award, AIA-Sunset 2003-2004 Western Home Awards
2003 Finalist, San Jose State University Museum of Art and Design Competition
2002 House of the Year Award, Architecture and Metropolitan Home Magazines
1992 First Place, limited competition entry for Vrije Sector Housing on the Edge of Nieuw-Soten
Current Projects
2009- OTIS Entry Experience
interior architectural design for the building main entry at OTIS College of Art and Design including Guard’s Desk, Reception Desk, Display Wall, and Guest Seating
Important Projects
2008 sponge-scape
5000 s.f. extended-family home, office, gym and entertainment theater on downhill slope with integrated U-shaped pool and four decks (parents’ deck, master deck, gym deck and pool island)
2006 house enhancement
1400 s.f. residential renovation and addition to a 1200 s.f. 1930’s bungalow 2004 up-hill house
3000 s.f. home/office on 77% uphill slope with pool and integrated landscape
2004 off-use pool/landscape
2500 s.f. landscape design with "cocktail" pool
2003 office-scape
320 s.f. freestanding office additions with integrated landscape
2003 pell-scape
landscape project for invited participation in HGTV's Landscaper's Challenge
7,000 s.f. bi-level landscape design for existing house and pool
2002 off-use
1860 s.f. office-house
2001 Christa Jackson Pools
combined 300 s.f. swimming pool, 60' long lap pool, and 6 person spa
1999 house reduction
1500 s.f. residential renovation and landscape design: kitchen, breakfast room, living room, exterior first and second floor decks, exterior facade, custom casework
1997 trans Global Cuts
graphic package for Woodbury University's 33rd Annual Fashion Show: poster, invitation, envelopes, flier, tickets, program, and title
1996 Pacific Rim Kitchen
graphic and identity package for a pan-Asian restaurant: logo, menus, business card, gift certificate, place mats, advertising slogan,interior and exterior building signage, interior color palette
Competitions
2007 barcode housing system
housing strategy proposed for the Decatur Modern Design Challenge 2005 bay-scapes
entry for San Francisco Prize-Octavia Boulevard Housing Competition
2003 MoA+D
finalist, competition entry for San Jose State University Museum of Art and Design
35,000 s.f. museum complex: 7,500 s.f. galleries, 250-seat performance hall, classroom, artists' residences, administrative spaces, workshops, storage
1995 KOMA
competition entry for Korean American Museum of Art
200,000 s.f. museum complex: 1000-seat theater, lecture hall, galleries, library, artists' studios, gardens, parking
1994 Desert Tortoise Research Facility
entry for West Mojave Educational Outreach and Research Facility Ideas Competition
3,000 s.f. facility: conference rooms, sleeping rooms, laboratory, parking
1993 Vrije Sektor/free section houses
first place, limited competition entry for Vrije Sector Housing on the Edge of Nieuw-Soten
cluster of four 1500 s.f. single-family homes on an “island” lot in Amsterdam
1992 Centrum Nova
competition entry for A Development Scheme for the Warsaw City Core
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