The Architectural Work of
MAXwell Smith B.Arch Arizona State University / M.Arch Pratt Institute
Education 2014 - 2017
Pratt Institute Graduate Architecture & Urban Design
2008 - 2014
Arizona State University Bachelor of Science in Architecture
2004 - 2008
Brophy College Preparatory
Experience 2016 -
Director of Fabrication, Asymptote Architecture Direct design process and traffic management of an architectural model shop. Maintain operations of wood shop. Delegate assignments in the studio according to a designer’s skills and strengths. Project quality control and assessment. Project review and analysis. Ensure work is delivered promptly and to deadline while achieving client and studio needs.
2015 -
Manager, Cafe Colette Oversee operations of standalone bar and restaurant. Train and supervise a dedicated team in providing a positive customer experience. Ensure quality and performance standards are met. Manage relationships with vendors. Assist general manager with day to day operations, inventory, ordering, scheduling, and other miscellaneous duties.
2015 - 2016
CNC Technician, Pratt Institute Assisted in wood shop and CNC maintenance for graduate students at Pratt Institute. Converted and optimized files for milling. Operated and adjusted scope of work to produce experimental milling and robotic techniques. Fabrication included panels, sculptures, replicas, and furniture.
2014 - 2015
Studio Assistant, Van der Most Modern Direct design process and traffic management of a furniture design studio. Conceptualize road maps for projects. Delegate assignments in the studio according to a designer’s skills and strengths. Project quality control and assessment. Project review and analysis. Ensure work is delivered promptly and to deadline while achieving clients needs.
2013 - 2014
Architectural Foreman, Hosco Inc. Supervise luxury residential designs as an on-site architect. Participate in the architectural design process. Develop alternative solutions and presentation graphics used to communicate concepts to the client. Assist with contract administration responsibilities. Ensure building design accuracy and quality. Manage relationships with contractors.
2011 - 2013
Communication and Infographics, IKEA Communicate visual and architectural design through environmental branding. Concept development and execution of environmental graphic design. Space planning and construction of room exhibits. Explore printing and fabrication methods. Ensure design and construction are completed promptly and align with the branding framework.
Skills & Interests Windows / Mac Adobe Creative Suite AutoCAD / Rhino / Revit CNC Certified / 3D Printing After Effects / Premiere Pro Maya / Grasshopper / Kangaroo Visual Studio / C# / ABB Robotics
Drawing / Sketching Furniture Fabrication Music / Playing Piano Graphic Design / Virtual Reality Craft Cocktails / Bourbon / Bars Experimental Film / Photography Skateboarding / Biking / Outdoors
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ARCHITECTURAL WORKS
Infrastructure is our largest yet most over-looked public space. Necessitating billions of dollars of investment every year, it is typically designed to meet the most basic functional requirements only. In the last five years, architects, urban designers, landscape architects and planners have come together to reimagine what infrastructure could be in the 21st century. This is generating a barrage of new and interesting design work and has resulted in new theories of urbanism based on large scale ecologies, economies, and flows (e.g. infrastructural urbanism, landscape urbanism, combinatory urbanism). Next generation infrastructure has the potential to be multi-functional, socially-conscious, technologically advanced, environmentally productive, adaptable, and truly public. Here in the southwest, we have the great advantage of having a test case happening right in our own backyard: I-11.
Las Vegas, NV 2.1 million
Los Angeles, CA 18.7 million
TOTAL 25.9 million
Phoenix, AZ 4.6 million
Tucson, AZ .5 million
Health on the Hudson
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Input
Transfer
Disturbance
OUTput
Distorting / changing one physical form to another change in the form during processing, the inbetween
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Nature that is artifically displayed for the purpose of education and reflection on the past, present and future. Concerning or having to do with the natural world.
TIMES SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY The epicenter of artifical. The displays dont shy away from consumer culture and reflection of the now. Concerning or having to do with adveritsement, media, and spectacle.
THE HUDSON RIVER Site location of an installation in which data transmitted from Times Square will have a direct impact with the architecture and ecology at the Hudson. The transformation of form will manifest through means of mechanical (artifical) and natrual manipulation.
ARCHITECTURAL PROPOSAL A standalone installation at the Hudson River will serve as an artifact created by outside inputs. The installion and other visuals will be broadcasted back to Times Square.
Switzerland sound pavilion
Switzerland Sound Pavilion
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form mass with dirt
pour concrete shell
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FIDI Elementary School
Financial district K-6 Elementary
auditorium
fifth grade playground
fourth grade office park
auxiliary auxiliary
third grade second grade
staff offices
art studio
science lab
main office
library
first grade
kindergarten
cafeteria entrance fitness track
gymnasium
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Connection of primary program with the lover portion of the building and connection to the adjacent buildings through means of stitching floorplates together across the site providing larger square footage for new and growing businesses.
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Suspended volumes of rotation programing (art, science, and literature) gives the center atrium purpose and allows for frequent active to take place within the space during all times of day. Classrooms and administratve programing is push to the street edge providing much need identity to the school.
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One of the more difficult challenges for the school, the light is bounced down the side of the tower, bounced again underneath the atrium which is coated in a reflective surface and into the atrium. The light then bounces of the many surfaces of the rotationary programs and illuminates the space while also provide a moment of awe when look up at the sky through these large masses.
Large glass windows look out on to the atrium connection each program visually with one another. The spaces take on the same type of tessellated surface as the volumes themselves giving purpose to their shape as it relates to activities being preformed inside. The spaces reflect light back into the atrium as well.
Bay Ridge Housing Bay Ridge, brooklyn Multi family housing
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CRAFTMANSHIP
Van der Most Modern: Furniture
“The connections, the connections, the connections, it will in the end be these details that give the product its life.� - Charles Eames
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Van der Most Modern: Furniture “Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.� - Charles Eames
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MODELS
St. Moritz, Site Model 1 : 300
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Wynwood, Site Model 1 : 32
Tempe, Site Model 1 : 300
Wynwood, Site Model 1 : 32
Fabrication: Untitled 2017
Acrylic, MDF, Spray Paint 24 x 36 inches
Wynwood, Site Model 1 : 32