Herbert Lotz Designers of the Year 2010: Graft
Graft is a productive bundle of contradictions. The five young partners
collaborate on every design even though they are now working out of Los Angeles,
Berlin, and Beijing. In their 12 years of practice, they've progressed from
temporary installations to varied buildings and on to master plans and major
urban developments, while insisting that they tackle only the projects that
inspire them. The bright colors and swooping lines of their exuberant hotels,
restaurants, and commercial interiors carry over into an ambitious project to
rebuild a devastated ward of New Orleans. Playful and serious, inventive and
socially responsible, there seems no limit to the potential of Graft.