Testa & Weiser has developed a unique business model that enables work with Fortune 500 corporations, start-ups, institutions, and universities. Recent collaborations include projects with Stäubli Robotics, NASA/Ames Research Center, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology (EMPA), ACCIONA Infraestructuras, 3D Systems Inc., ARUP Consulting Engineers, Herman Miller Inc., HEXCEL, Álvaro Siza and Gehry Partners.
Current Testa & Weiser projects include Factor(E) electric vehicle design and manufacturing complex for PSA Peugeot Citroën EV; ZXT housing and mixed-use towers in Shenzhen, China; House Gallery 5; X-NRG water and energy infrastructure for NASA; and Composite Order, a prototype building systems with a consortium of manufacturers.
The studio has been featured in numerous publications including AD Architectural Design Magazine, The New Yorker, and The London Times, as well as books Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance; Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture; and FORM+CODE In Design, Art, and Architecture. Testa & Weiser exhibits at leading museums and galleries worldwide, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; National Art Center, Tokyo; Embankment Galleries, London; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York. In 2015 the firm’s work will be featured as one of twenty projects defining the digital turn in architecture at the Canadian Centre for Architecture CCA and Yale University School of Architecture (YSOA).
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Peter Testa is a founding partner and Design Principal at Testa & Weiser and Founding Director of the MIT Emergent Design Group (EDG) 1997-2002. At Testa & Weiser he leads a range of projects including Carbon Tower an all composite high-rise; Factor(E) electric vehicle design and manufacturing complex for PSA Peugeot Citroën EV; ZXT housing and mixed-use towers in Shenzhen, China; X-NRG water and energy infrastructure for NASA; and Composite Order, a prototype building systems with a consortium of manufacturers. Previously he was principal-in-charge with Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate Álvaro Siza in Europe and the United States.
Testa's work is exhibited at leading museums and galleries worldwide including recent shows in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Tokyo, and Beijing. His firm’s work is part of the permanent collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). He is the author of three books and more than 30 papers on architecture and design. His work and writings are published in international art, architecture, design, engineering, and scientific journal as well as major newspapers. The London Times profiled Peter Testa as a design innovation leader defining architecture and the art of building in the 21st century.
Testa was Associate Professor of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1997-2002) and at Columbia University GSAPP (1990-1996). He has taught as Visiting Critic at Harvard University GSD and the University of Pennsylvania GSFA. In 2008 he was appointed Esherick Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2004 he has been a member of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) Graduate and Post-Professional faculty. In 2010 he initiated and designed the SCI-Arc Robot House sponsored by Stäubli Robotics. Testa holds an S.M.Arch.S. (History/Theory) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a Registered Architect in California (NCARB Certificate). He is the recipient of numerous awards including the MIT Innovation Award and Design Arts Award of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Devyn Weiser is a founding partner and Design Principal at Testa & Weiser and co-founder of the MIT Emergent Design Group (EDG) 1997-2002. At Testa & Weiser she leads a range of projects including Factor(E) electric vehicle design and manufacturing complex for PSA Peugeot Citroën EV; ZXT housing and mixed-use towers in Shenzhen, China; House Gallery 5; X-NRG water and energy infrastructure for NASA; and Composite Order, a prototype building systems with a consortium of manufacturers
Weiser's work is exhibited at leading museums and galleries worldwide including recent installations in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, and Beijing. In 2015 her firm’s work will be featured as one of twenty groundbreaking architectural projects of the early 21st century in the group show ‘Archeology of the Digital’ at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). Her work and writings are published in art, architecture, and scientific journals. Testa & Weiser projects are featured in books on contemporary architecture and design including Extreme Textiles, Designing for High Performance and Code+Form in Design, Art & Architecture. The New Yorker profiled Devyn Weiser as one of the most gifted designers of her generation.
Weiser has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, University of Pennsylvania GSFA, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2006 she joined the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) faculty where she served as Undergraduate Thesis Coordinator from 2009-2013. In 2010, she initiated and designed the SCI-Arc Robot House sponsored by Stäubli Robotics. Weiser is the recipient of numerous awards including the Architecture Award of the Municipal Art Society of New York, and the Graham Foundation Award. In 2013 her firm’s work was acquired for the permanent collection of the CCA. Devyn Weiser holds a B.F.A. and B.Arch from the Rhode Island School of Design (with honors); and a MS.AAD from Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.
Collaborators - in chronological order
Ursula Schneider
Duks Koschitz
Ian Ferguson
Nina Chen
Hunter Knight
James Vincent
Joshua Mun
Emily White
Atsushi Sugiuchi
Patrick Shields
Jonathon Stahl
Christopher Day
Steven Moody
Rangel Karaivanov
Emily Burton
Interns - in chronological order
Annie Lo
Jocelyn Lin
Evelina Sausina
Yuan Tiauriman
Ryohei Koike
CS Dawson
Brian Fraumeni
Dong ah Cho
Andy Chang
Margaret Hewitt
Kazua Ogawa
Nanao Shimizu
Zachary Schoch
Danielle Yip
Elana Pappoff
Diego Trujillo
Erin Besler
William Hu
Haleh Olfati
Jasmine Park
Anass Benhachmi
Jack Gaumer
Andrew Kragness
Larisa Rus
Simon Alvarez
Kyle Branchesi
Rachel Bagen
Uriel Lopez
Benjamin Vanmuysen
Alison Rust
Lily Nourmansouri
Peder Brand
Michelle Lozano
Su Yun Hong
Franco Chen
Alex Chang
Noni Pittenger
Daniel Hapton
A.J. Rosales
Lisa Barrett
Kevin Lin
2015 Colossal Order (High-rise)
2015 Compound Order (Low-rise)
2014 ZXT Housing & Mixed-use
Shenzhen, China
2014 House Gallery 5
2014 Hachure
2014 TYP.o
2014 DOMEz
2012 FactorE
PSA Peugeot Citroën EV Factory
2012 orBOT
2012 Composite Order
2010 SCI-Arc Robot House
with Stäubli Robotics AG
2010 X-NRG
Pilot Projects:
California Coast
Cape Verde Islands
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2009 ESCape Waste to Energy
XPLANT Photosynthetic Bioreactor
XTRACT Energy Recovery Station
2009 NASA OMEGA
with NASA Ames Research Center
Mountain View, CA
2009 D3 Arctic Peace Park
[competition]
New Diomede Island D3
Bering Strait Tunnel
Climate Research Center
Inflatable Ice Bridge
2007 Cloud Tower
2007 FML House
Santa Monica, CA
2007 XPL001, XPL002
Immersive Learning Environments
LAUSD
2006 Carbon Beach House & Studio
Malibu, CA
2006 Filament Tower
New York, NY
2006 Automorphic Strand Tower
for "Skin+Bones" MoCA
Los Angeles, CA
2006 Tape House Prototype
2005 M-branes
2005 Stinnett McCarty House
Santa Monica, CA
2004 Basalt Towers
for "Extreme Textiles" NDM
New York, NY
2004 Transgenic Timber Towers
with EMPA/ETH
Zurich, Switzerland
2004 City Lights
[competition]
New York, NY
2004 PULP+
2003 Palisades Glacier Mountain Lodge
[competition]
Sierra Nevada, CA
2003 Porsche Port - Prototype
Stuttgart, Germany
2002 House Gallery K
Manhattan Beach, CA
2002 Sound Lounge
Totem Design Store
Soho, NY
2001 Carbon Tower
with ARUP NY
2001 PULP: Wasted Paper Products
Stockholm, Sweden
2001 HMI Ceilingscape
for Herman Miller Inc.
Zeeland, MI
2000 HMI Agency Office System
with Herman Miller Research
Zeeland, MIA
2000 Everyware:
Air/Information/Surfaces
1999 Kings Road Apparel Shop
West Hollywood, CA
1999 LACCD Campus
1999 BMW Simulation Environments
BMW Designworks USA
1998 Kyoto Morphospace [competition]
Kyoto General Planning Bureau
Real-time Environments
Free-net Dataspace
Water Pavilion
Emperor's Forest
Metabody Exchangers
Electrotextile Smart Kimono
Joint Venture with Álvaro Siza
2005 Parrish Museum of Art
Southampton, NY
Finalist Invited Competition
2001 Art Center College of Design
Hillside Campus Pasadena, CA
Master Plan with Gehry Partners
Technical Skills Center
Nokia Graduate Research Center
2001 Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
Finalist Invited Competition
TESTA & WEISER have been featured in the following journals and books:
AD Architectural Design (London)
Architectural Record (New York)
Architecture (New York)
A+U Architecture and Urbanism (Tokyo)
Architecture d'Aujourd'hui (Paris)
Archis (Amsterdam)
Arkitekten (Copenhagen)
Arquitectura (Madrid)
Assemblage (Cambridge)
Baumeister (Munich)
Bauwelt (Berlin)
Blueprint (London)
Casabella (Milan)
Civil Engineering (Washington)
Concept (Seoul)
Construire (Milan)
Domus (Milan)
El Croquis (Madrid)
GA Global Architecture (Tokyo)
Indian Architect and Builder (Mumbai)
Kenchiku bunka (Tokyo)
l'Arca (Milan)
LA Architect (Los Angeles)
Lotus International (Milan)
Metropolis (New York)
New Yorker Magazine
Praxis (New York)
Topos (Munich)
El Pais (Madrid)
Le Monde (Paris)
Los Angeles Times
London Times
New York Times
Washington Post
FORM+CODE In Design, Art, and Architecture
Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams
(Authors)
Network Practices
Anthony Burke, Therese Tierney
(Editors)
Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in
Fashion and Architecture
Brooke Hodge, Patricia Mears, Susan
Sidlauskas (Authors)
Extreme Textiles: Designing for High
Performance
Matilda McQuaid (Author)
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