objet design is Bill Luza and his collaborators --- a small, energetic SF Bay Area / NYC / Washington, DC based design studio, noted in 2003 as one of the Top 21 Emerging Designers by the Washington, DC AIA.

 

Bill is a graduate of the NC State University School of Design, with eighteen years of design and project management experience and thirteen years of commercial and residential architecture experience. He has been an invited Guest Lecturer and Critic for architectural courses and studios at Pratt Institute, NC State University, Virginia Technical Institute, The Corcoran College of Art and Design, The Catholic University of America, and De Montfort University (Leicester, UK); and the students at these schools have periodically been given assignments based on objet's work focus.

 

In support of these assignments Bill has given project site-tours, and studio lectures.

 

The work of objet design focuses on the two essentials of Food and Shelter…

 

In 2006-2007 Bill took a 9 month research sabbatical, traveling through the UK, Germany, Austria, Italy, and France; on a quest to explore systems-built affordable housing and food-services culture. In 2008 Bill returned to the US, and since then the objet team has been back at it, designing new restaurant and bar ventures and prototyping the more affordable Affordable-Home.

 

On the commercial side, Bill has a particular interest in the design of grocery stores, restaurants, and the "third-place". He has done prototype design work for Whole Foods Grocery Stores, Red Box Automated Convenience Stores (McDonald's Corp), fine dining establishments such as Restaurant Savannah (NC), KUSHI (DC), and in 2008 was selected by Starbucks and Shop24 as a preferred Designer/Project Manager to someday possibly assist each with proposed re-branding and development.

 

On the residential side, Bill and objet design have been working towards designing better looking, smarter, more affordable, and sustainable modern housing. Our residential clients have good ideas and a quest for all things wonderful and modern, but they're typically short of the all-mighty-dollars necessary to renovate or build a new home these days. In light of this, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to challenge and rethink the design and construction of the roof over our heads.

 

If you'd like to commission objet design to design a modern, affordable, systems-built home, multi-family project, food services project, furniture, or any other creative object -- or if you're interested in collaborating with objet, or working with our studio -- email Bill at: bill@objetdesign.com.

 

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Share your reality...

 

In architecture, the goal is to be able to show people the way without the use of words.

 

Many times, words seem to get in the way. Instead of clarifying, they just confuse the issue more.

 

When we don't understand each other's words we tend to become frustrated; and our human minds eventually assume that we are superior to whomever we do not understand. It seems that we are almost programmed this way, and even the most open minded of us fall victim to this human nature at times.

 

On the other hand lots of talk that is not meant to direct… but more so just to put thoughts and ideas out there… can be enlightening. There's a good Looper song about this concept and idea of putting your ideas out there, with an invitation for derivation & development.

 

I suck at math & science, but each amaze me in how they provide us with the means to derive a new thing from something very familiar. Design - the final product and the creation process - provides the same wonder of inventiveness. It's amazing the effect that a made object has on us. Everything is "made"... But there's a difference when WE MAKE.

 

What are YOU going to MAKE this year?