The interest in innovative design in New York City, which has allowed a number of the world’s most famous architects to win residential building commissions, is helping starchitects’ assistants too. In part, the price premium that famous designers can command (see Apartment buildings as canvases) has allowed their younger, cheaper trainees to win their own projects.
Leading the generational shift are architects like Dan Wood and Amale Andraos of Work AC (who both worked for Rem Koolhaas), Markus Dochantschi at Studio MDA (who worked for Zaha Hadid) and G Tects’ Gordon Kipping (who worked for Frank Gehry). All are in their thirties or early forties. Read the full story from the February 2008 issue here.