Florian Idenburg
SO-IL | New York
"Architecture Work"
Lecture: Wednesday, November 6, 2024 | 6:00PM | ARCH 132 DF Pray Lecture Theatre
Florian Idenburg is a cofounding partner of New fiYork-based architecture firm SO – IL with Jing Liu. His practice spans architecture, installation, exhibition, and furniture design. In addition to being an expert on structural and spatial form, he is an accomplished writer and educator.
Idenburg was educated in the Netherlands and trained as a practitioner in Japan. His aesthetic sensibility and approach to architecture is a synthesis of Dutch and Japanese traditions. From 2000 to 2007, he worked at fiTokyo-based SANAA, the firm of Pritzker Prize-winning architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. At SANAA, he oversaw the design and development of the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art (2006) and the New Museum (2007).
Founded in 2008 by Idenburg and Liu, SO – IL has figrown into a world-renowned architecture firm with public and private clients spread around the globe, from France and South Korea to the United States and Mexico. Their work is celebrated for its sensitivity, intellectual rigor, and imaginative approach to solving challenges of the built environment. Idenburg brings playful intuition and unbounded energy to the professional practice of architecture. Idenburg earned a Master of Science in Architectural Engineering from the Delft University of Technology.
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