ULTRAMODERNE

ULTRAMODERNE is an internationally-recognized, award-winning architecture and design firm. Led by co-principals Aaron Forrest and Yasmin Vobis, our office creates buildings and public spaces that are at once modern, playful, and generous. We believe that design is not a luxury, but rather fundamental to the construction of all aspects of the built environment. We continually challenge architecture to do more-irrespective of circumstance-in the knowledge that thoughtful and creative design can serve as the basis for a better world... We approach building systems, organization, and materials experimentally, in order to find new and more efficient ways to economically and sustainably reshape the built environment. Working both digitally and through physical models and full-scale mock-ups, we intensively research standardized and emergent construction systems to find new, better ways of making. This approach-simultaneously conceptual and pragmatic-not only leads to more responsive..