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Cole Kazuo Masuno

Cole Kazuo Masuno is a Los Angeles based designer who has received his Bachelors of Architecture (B.Arch) from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).

He is currently working at LOHA, and has co-taught as a teaching assistant for various design studios, visual and applied studies seminars at SCI-Arc. Prior to working at LOHA, Cole worked at award winning offices such as Eric Owen Moss Architects, and FreelandBuck.

Cole is a principal/co-founder of Alterity Studio.
Things Worth Looking At — What Constitutes A Project...︎


Index
2023
AO Air
Jewelry
2023
AO Table
Furniture
Sculpture


Archive
2022
Engaging Excess
Landscape
2021
The Zipper
Building
2021
Multiples
Building
2020
Accumulating Difference
Building
2019
Ubiquitous Difference
Building
2018
Representation As Reality
Building
2021
AI Assemblies
Building
2022
Non-Exhaustive List 
Book Design
2021
Re: Rendering Beaux Arts
Book Design
2020
Gaps & Frays
Image
2021
Image Objects
Image
2021
Image Artifacts
Image
2022
Draw The Line
Drawing
Mark

Cole Kazuo Masuno

Cole Kazuo Masuno is a Los Angeles based designer who has received his Bachelors of Architecture (B.Arch) from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).

He is currently working at LOHA, and has co-taught as a teaching assistant for various design studios, visual and applied studies seminars at SCI-Arc. Prior to working at LOHA, Cole worked at award winning offices such as Eric Owen Moss Architects, and FreelandBuck.

Cole is a principal/co-founder of Alterity Studio.
Things Worth Looking At — What Constitutes A Project...︎

Index
2023
AO Air
Jewelry
2023
AO Table
Furniture
Sculpture

Archive
2022
Engaging Excess
Landscape
2021
The Zipper
Building
2021
Multiples
Building
2020
Accumulating Difference
Building
2019
Ubiquitous Difference
Building
2018
Representation As Reality
Building
2021
Re: Rendering Beaux Arts
Book Design
2022
Artificial Mineralization
Animation
2020
Gaps & Frays
Image
2021
Image Objects
Image
2020
Draw The Line
Drawing
Mark


250 page risograph book

RE:RENDERING BEAUX ARTS

Medium & Technique

Los Angeles, California
Type: Sculpture


Robin Evans’ investigation of translational techniques in The Projective Cast helped produce a knowledge around forms of representation that move between drawing/image and building. Stereotomical drawings were one example which suggested new formal possibilities through an investigation of medium and technique. Today, architects work with a restricted repoitoire of products available on the market, whose experimentation is further limmited by building information modeling. The development of the flat-bed printing as a contemporary building technology, and image based workflows that utilize neural network algorithms suggest possibilities to advance material exploration, in the production of tectonic systems that are instrumental to legibility of material effects. Style Neural Network Transfer algorithms produce new layered, image based materialities, flat-bed printing produces new graphic cosmetics by directly printing onto material substrates.


neural network renders


UV ink printed on concrete panels 



250 page risograph book




detail drawings