Lawrence Sprague | Selected Works

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L AW R E N C E S P R A G U E Law re n c e i s a 2 5 ye a r- o l d A rc h i te c t fa s c i n a te d by t h e p s yc h o l o g i c a l e f fe c t s o f architecture. He is actively pursuing multiple built homes as the sole architect and d e s i g n e r. I t i s h i s b e l i e f t h a t e v e r y n e w home offers a new opportunity to design a n a rc h i te c t u re i n c o nve r s a t i o n w i t h a p e rs o n’s i d e a l w a y o f l i v i n g l i f e .

He supplements his architectural adventures with ceramics. A physical and organic counterplay with the digital and logical a r t h e l p s t o ke e p h i m e x c i t e d t o e s c a p e into each world as well as find bridges between them lawrence@sprague.com +1 (646)-896-4164

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Led a team of 4 colleagues from Syracuse during early quarantine

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SPRING 2021 JEBAH BAUM

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Re c yc l e d W i n d ow Po r t a b l e G re e n h o u s e

CLAUDIA BAEZ

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EXTRA CURRICULARS

SYRACUSE UNIVERIST Y: SOA

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School of Architecture B a c h e l o r ’s D e g r e e Magna Cum Laude London Study Abroad Florence Study Abroad

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Te a c h i n g A s s i s t a n t 2 n d Ye a r A R C S t u d i o

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Syracuse University Peer Advisor

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High School Diploma

APPRENTICESHIPS J A N E M O O R E / / D AV I D H A L L SUMMER 2023

CERAMIC POTTERY

JOHN MOSLER SUMMER 2021

CERAMIC SCULPTURE

LEED Green Associate Member - Morris Adjmi Suststainability Committee Te a c h i n g A s s i s t a n t 1 s t Ye a r A R C S t u d i o

PROFICIENCIES Rhinoceros Adobe Suite Rev i t 3DS Max V- r a y f o r R h i n o Google Suite

Model Making H a n d S ke t c h i n g Drafting Photography Laser Cutting 3D Printing

SELECTED WORKS & C R E AT I V E E N D E AV O U R S

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HOMES OF PERSONA p s yc h o l o g i c a l a rc h et y p e h o u s i n g

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I TA L I A N S U R V E Y S K E T C H I N G o n - s i t e s ke t c h i n g o f h i s t o r i c a r c h i t e c t u r e

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750 JULIE LANE p r i va te re s i d e n ce u n d e r co n s t r u c t i o n

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CERAMIC WORK functional ceramic explorations

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160 MAPLE STREET p r i va te re s i d e n ce

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A A LT O C H E S S S E T architectural style through chess design

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ART HARBOR multi-disciplinary art residency

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PROFESSIONAL WORK collection of professional contributions

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F LO R E N T I N E S C R E E N P R I N T I N G architectural pattern making with italian silkscreens

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REVISITED IDEAS updated visualizations of early university projects

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P O R TA B L E G R E E N H O U S E g re e n h o u s e a s s e m b l e d f ro m re c yc l e d w i n d ows

HO M E S O F P E RS O NA

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Bachelor’s Thesis Instructors Richard Rosa & Valeria Herrera

Collection of archetype collages and allocated architectures

Single Family Residential | Without Location Spring 2021 This thesis explores the creation of architecture based on psychological profiles by creating an index of relationships between an archetypal persona and its architectural translation through the lens of the domestic space, with the intention of highlighting architecture’s ability to heighten or interrupt hap piness.

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archetype collages

allocated architectures

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assembly diagrams

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all 16 persona homes While designing an architecture for ever y person is impossible, beginning to increase the diversity of space and style, in relation to the wide collection of persona on this planet is not. Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as a referential spectrum of 16 general personalities and characters, this thesis begins to link architecture with psychological traits, and combine the assor tment of diagram matic concepts into domestic homes.

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selectec spreads of individual homes

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Tempietto, Bramante

Italian Architectural Sur vey | Various, Italy Instructors Giovanni Romagnoli, Luca Ponsi, Fall 2019 Selected drawings from hand-sketching on-site throughout Italy. The drawings focus on propor tion, rhythm, relationships, composition and hierarchy of detail and space.

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Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, Borromini

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Uffizi Galler y, Vasari

Villa Emo, Palladio

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750 J U LI E LA N E

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Private Residential Construction Clients Pascal Mottier & Amy Waddell

photo of kitchen/living room taken august 27, 2023 750 Julie Lane | Sedona, Ari zona Collaboration with Pascal M ottier, Amy Waddell in 2023 The first built residence of Lawrence’s career, Julie Lane stands uniquely in its context. Nested away from the street, offering room for a meandering garden approach, the home prioritizes an immersive experience of the surrounding mountains. Almost ever y room in the small but open and inter twined home has access to a new view of the 360 looming Arizona red rocks.

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750 JULIE LANE

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concept design floorplans **construction permit set drawn by Core Structure Group**

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selected design elevations

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Design began on December 18th of 2022 and final design plans were sent to licensed structural engineer Jason Hale on March 25th, 2023 to draw up a permitting set. Lawrence designed the project in his o ff hours while working full-time at MA in NYC. Meeting with the clients weekly for updated drawings and renders allowed for a rapid set of iterations and studies to be created. When construction began, he took a 3 month sabbatical star ting in August to temporarily move to Arizona to oversee construction as well as produce multiple batches of potter y, as shown later.

The construction process was intense and humbling. Surrounded by local craftsmen and experienced builders, Lawrence absorbed more than he thought possible. Yet is all too well aware the knowledge gained only scratches the sur face.

exterior material palette study SELECTED WORKS

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D ES IGN PRO GRES S Explored through Exterior Renders

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02/24/23 process render

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D E S IGN PRO GRES S Documented in Render - Photo - Painting

02/18/23 entr y render

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10/10/23 entr y photo

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Ergonomic Functional Potter y | Brooklyn, NY Sculptor John Mosler, Summer 2022 Selected pieces from a set of potter y batches produced while under apprenticeship of renown Sculptor John Mosler. The majority of time was spent assisting John in his upcoming show “The Decline of Intimacy” while free moments were spent at the wheel. While there, Lawrence had invaluable access to Mosler’s extensive and refined glaze librar y. Using countless variations of a simple ergonomic form, he studied these wonder ful glazes.

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Deser t Functional Ware | Cottonwood, A Z Ceramicists David Hall & Ja ne Moore, Summer 2023 While working on 750 Julie Lane, Lawrence spent his down-time apprenticing under the ceramic Masters David Hall and Jane Moore at their Studio Made in Jerome. Located in Jerome, a repopulated ghost town on the mountains of Cottonwood, their studio has been producing work for over 50 years. Work was additionally produced at Reitz Ranch in Cottonwood for increased access to glazes, clay bodies and a variety of firing methods.

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160 M A PLE

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Private Residential Concept Design Clients Shirley and Frank Scheitrowsky

exterior material palette study

Private Residence | Ontario, Canada Collaboration with Shirley, Frank and Leanna Scheitrowsky in 2023 160 Maple, address still pending, is Lawrence’s first international project to be built. Due to code restrictions, the design was confined to a nearsquare. Taking the perimeter as a positive jumping off point, the design naturally divided into a 9-square layout. The clients are ver y future con scious and seeing this home as their retirement refuge, it was ver y impor tant that all necessar y programs be accessible on the main floor. The second floor and basement are designed to be occupied by their children with the potential to be rented out to tenants, allowing for slightly more ver tical movement.

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160 MAPLE STREET

The design process of 160 Maple was almost entirely completed while Lawrence was on his 3 month sabbatical in Arizona, building Julie Lane. The families of these two hjems could not be more dissimilar and was a per fect oppor tunity to reconsider the Thesis work completed only 2 years prior. Heavily focused on the comparison of personalities informing space, he developed two ver y different layouts in tandem, while acutely aware of arising similarities that began to allude to a forming style.

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08/22/23 trace paper plan

09/07/23 digital plan drawing

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09/14/23 rendered plan

concept desi gn site plan

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full set renderings Alvar Aalto Chess Set | Syracuse, NY Instructor Richard Rosa, Spring 2021 As an intense dive into the formal language and origin of chess piece design, this set was designed to match the language of Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto. Par ticularly using Aalto’s armchair 42 as precedent, the cur ved plywood acts as the main voice for the pieces, creating the humbled bent knees of the bishop, or the mane of the knight.

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chess/aalto studies

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or thographic drawing set

selected pieces from physical model set

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ART HA R BO R

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Multi-Disciplinar y Ar tist Residency Masterplan Clients Pascal Mottier & Amy Waddell

preliminar y render of hillside dotted with studios and centers

Ar t Harbor | Cornville, Arizona Collaboration with Pascal Mottier, Amy Waddell in 2023 Ar t Harbor is a unique, beautiful and complex dream project born from the mind of Amy Waddell. Daughter of John and Ruth Waddell, prolific ar tists and sculptors of Arizona, Amy hopes to continue their dream of creating a sanctuar y for ar tists of all mediums. Master’s and apprentice’s of paint, dance, ceramic, word and more, would gather here, around the s erene valley looking at a creek that has been occupied, enjoyed and cultivated for the past 60 years by John and Ruth. While in Arizona, Lawrence and Amy explored not only a master plan of the site, but also preliminar y designs for each potential building.

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ART HARBOR

masterplan

john standing with rising

sketches of all master studios

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Essential to this project is the sculpture “Rising ” by J oh n Waddell. The 40’, multi-par t bronze-cast sculpt u re wou ld greet guests at the entr y on the bronze colored wa ll re p re sented in the render above. Throughout the site , s p an n in g the paths between each Master’s studio and con n e c tion to the existing foundr y, will be other, life-size bron ze s c u lptures that John is famous for. The glimmering b ron ze figures, often mid-dance dot the hillside and bring it to life .

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rising - art gall ery & cafe

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KINDRED HOMES

portion of master studio sketches

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PRO F E S S I O N A L WO RK - C O NF I DE NTI A L

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Selected Concept Design Renderings Projects developed at Morris Adjmi Architects

805 demonbreun Assor ted Locations Collaboration with Morris Adjmi, Harlan Redgen, Nicholas Chelko, Magdalena Dlugosz & more Selected renders from experience at MA Architects. Each of these Images were produced during Concept or RFP Phases as preliminar y ideas to show the client. Primarily working with one senior designer, Harlan Redgen, and often a small team, Lawrence oversees the entire model and rendering workflow. He actively contributes to design discussions throughout the projects, and has allowed for ver y advanced visualizations at early stages.

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PROFESSIONAL WORK

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805 demonbreun interior

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blue series 1/1

Floating Archipelago | Florence, Italy Fall 2019 Designed and hand silk-screened in Florence, the Floating Archipelago was a playful exploration into an isometric world of little restric tions and much enjoyment. The core of the piece was derived from a previous project, “Blending the Binar y”.

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RE VI S I TED I D EA S

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First Year Architecture Design Studio - Reimagined Instructors Ted Brown & Molly Hunker

folded pavillion

blended binar y

Folded Pavillion | Blended Binar y Fall 2016 - Fall 2017 - Revisited in 2022 As some of his earliest, info rmed, architectural work, these two projects stand out in Lawrence’s mind as wonder ful explorations of intuition. With such minimal experience and knowledge of the practice prior, the designs of these forms were not heavily guided by precedent, and more so instinct. The naivete is beautiful, as it is unattainable in the future, and represents a freedom of mind, unrestricted by realities.

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Folded Pavillion | Ted Brown As an exploration in simplicity, 4 sur faces are folded in relation with each other. Each pair restricte d to an axis and set of rules, the result offers a complex series of nested spaces born from the interactions of these planes.

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Blending Binar y | Molly Hunker

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By puncturing and suppor ting a series of or thographic, rectilinear functional boxes with a cluster of fluid, cur ving forms, this project per forms as a social condenser for L.I.C. , offering up a power ful dynamic relationship between opposites. While t he pristine interiors of the boxes are meant for guided education, the terrace spaces allow for freedom of expression.

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physical models

graphic axonometric

perspective section SELECTED WORKS

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P O R TABLE G R E E NH O U S E

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Personal Greenhouse Collaboration with Jebah Baum

exploded isometric

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Por table Greenhouse | Poughkeepsie, New York Collaboration with Jebah Baum, Summer 2020 Selected representation from concept to construction of a built pri vate greenhouse project in Gardiner NY. With a collection of recycled windows, locally sourced lumber, relentless effor t from Jebah, the greenhouse went from paper to planted in under a month’s time.

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BAUM GREENHOUSE

planting schedule/map

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final greehouse built by Jebah Baum

interior - 2 months of growth

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