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