About PUSH / JCJ Architecture:
Christophe Cornubert graduated with honors M. Arch from the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of California Los Angeles.
Christophe was invited by Rem Koolhaas to join his Office for Metropolitan Architecture, where he was lead designer for several influential projects, including the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medien building for the city of Karlsruhe, the Jussieu University Libraries in Paris, and the Universal Studios Masterplan and Headquarters in Los Angeles.
As Partner-in-Charge of Design, his project for the Educatorium at Utrecht University received the prestigious Reitveld Architecture Prize, and has been selected as a showcase for sustainable design by the Dutch Ministry of the Environment.
Since founding his firm in LA, Christophe has exhibited his work and lectured extensively, and has been a consultant to diverse clients, including the City of Rio de Janeiro Department of Housing and Urbanism, and the Hollywood Entertainment District.
PUSH has been invited to participate in numerous international competitions including the HotelProForma in Orestad and the New State Library in Guadalajara.
In addition to professional work he has been a visiting professor at leading architecture schools around the world, including the Berlage Institute in the Netherlands, the Southern California Institute in Los Angeles, the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen, and the Architectural Association in London.
About the firm:
PUSH is an architecture office based in Los Angeles founded by Christophe Cornubert.
The working approach of the office is based on the identification of strategies for architecture that engage the panorama of cultural, economic, and environmental currents that form the context of each project – and our contemporary city.
The firm navigates an expansive ocean of intelligence, networking researchers, artists, engineers, and other specialists to create designs that value performance as much as form.
Active collaboration with stakeholders and experts in the field allows for the coupling of conceptual ideas with technical development and material execution.
This method is brought to the design of cultural and educational institutions, commercial and residential projects as well as urban design and media-oriented work.
Complementing the firm’s work in architecture and urbanism. PUSH creates public art and media installations, including projects for the Venice Biennale and UN World Environment Org.
Awards:
Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition, First Prize, 2000.
Netherlands Foundation for Architecture and Art, Individual Research Grant, 1999.
Dutch Ministry of the Environment Sustainable Building Design Award, 1998.
Rietveld Prize (Educatorium), 1998.
UCLA Julia Thomas Fellowship, 1989.
