NEWS


15/04/2021 > OSA and Washington University in St. Louis receives a Good Green Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum for the project Catoptric Surface project.


03/12/2020 > OSA and Washington University in St. Louis receives an Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Award for the project Catoptric Surface in the Architectural Lighting – Indoor category.


10/11/2020 > OSA receives a Chicago Athenaeum New American Architecture Award 2020 for Tautos Namai, Lithuanian National Concert Hall in Vilnius, Lithuania.


30/07/2020 > OSA with Washington University in St. Louis is a finalist for the Architizer A+ Awards for the project Catoptric Surface in the category of Architecture + Light.


17/12/2019 > Chandler Ahrens and Aaron Sprecher lecture at Data-driven Modeling and Design for Architecture and Environment Integration conference at TU Wien, Vienna, Austria.


9/12/2019 > Chandler Ahrens lectures and gives a workshop at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.


 11/10/2019 > OSA receives receives an AIA St. Louis Distinction Design Award for the project Sam Houston University Housing, Huntsville, Texas.


 11/10/2019 > OSA receives receives an AIA St. Louis Drawing Award for the project Columbus State University Technology and Commerce Center, Columbus, Georgia.


 11/10/2019 > OSA receives receives an AIA St. Louis Drawing Award for the project Rajeunir Black Caviar, Friendswood, Texas.


19/9/2019 > Aaron Sprecher lectures at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.


10/7/2019 > Aaron Sprecher lectures at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.


12/9/2019 > Chandler Ahrens lectures at Venture Cafe, St. Louis, Missouri.


5/5/2019 > Aaron Sprecher lectures at the Azrieli Foundation Symposium, Tel Aviv.


28/3/2019 > Chandler Ahrens and Aaron Sprecher moderate the panel, Deductive, Inductive… Adaptive Methods in Architectural Design, Black Box 107th ACSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.


 2019 > Aaron Sprecher is named member of the Israel National Institute of Building Research.


 18/04/2019 > Chandler Ahrens lectures at the CAADRIA conference, Wellington, New Zealand.


 28/03/2019 > Chandler Ahrens and Aaron Sprecher moderate a panel presentation and discussion titled “Deductive, Inductive… Adaptive Methods in Architectural Design” at the 107th Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Annual Meeting  |  BLACK BOX: Articulating Architecture’s Core in the Post-Digital Era in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania


 19/03/2019 > Instabilities and Potentialities, Notes on the Nature of Knowledge in of Digital Architecture, edited by Chandler Ahrens and Aaron Sprecher and published by Routeldge is available. Click here for Routledge website. Click here for Amazon.


 19/10/2018 > Chandler Ahrens lectures at the ACADIA conference, Mexico City, Mexico.


 16/07/2018 > Chandler Ahrens lectures at the Los Angeles Institute of Architecture & Design, Los Angeles, CA.


2018 > Aaron Sprecher is promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology


2018 > Chandler Ahrens is promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure at Washington University in St. Louis


 14/09/2017 > OSA receives an AIA St. Louis Design Distinction Award for the project Rajeunir Black Caviar in Palm Desert, CA.


 14/09/2017 > OSA receives an AIA St. Louis Design Merit Award for the project Slrsrf in Culver City, CA.


 14/09/2017 > Chandler Ahrens receives an AIA St. Louis Design Merit Award as the professor for the undergraduate design/ build studio at Washington University in St. Louis for the project for Nahed Chapman.


 10/06/2017 > Chandler Ahrens receives a Building Technology Educator Society Emerging Faculty Award.


 28/03/2017 > OSA receives a Chicago Athenaeum New American Architecture Award for the project Rajeunir Black Caviar in Palm Desert, CA.


 25/10/2016 > OSA receives an AIA Los Angeles Merit Design Award for the project Rajeunir Black Caviar in Palm Desert, CA.


13/09/2016 > Chandler Ahrens was interviewed on STL Live television talk show about the project “Fracture” as part of the Murmuration Festival.


 01/08/2016 > OSA selected for the first round of the Secret Life of Buildings competition.


 24/5/2016 > OSA selected to create an installation for the Murmuration Festival in the Cortex Innovation District, St. Louis, MO.


 15/09/2016 > Chandler Ahrens was interviewed on STL Live television talk show about the solo exhibition “Klimasymmetry” featured at the Center for Architecture + Design, STL, St. Louis, Missouri


2016 > Aaron Sprecher is joining the Technion Israel Institute of Technology as Associate Professor. He co-founded the Technion Material Topology Research Lab (MTRL)


5/5/2015 > Aaron Sprecher lectures at the Israel Institute of Technology, Technion, Haifa, Israel.


 23/04/2014 > Chandler Ahrens designs and inaugurates Whiteout as part of the exhibition Installation Nation at Indianapolis Art Museum.


 01/07/2014 > Aaron Sprecher is featured in the Young Architects Forum.


 12/10/2014 > Aaron Sprecher leads the Creative Maker Space program at the new School Confluence, Lyon.


 23/10/2014 > Eran Neuman curates the exhibition David Yannai: Architecture and Genetics, Tel Aviv Museum of Art.


 11/16/2013 > Aaron Sprecher moderates a session at Phyllis Lambert Seminar curated by Alessandra Ponte at Université de Montréal


 10/17/2013 > Open Source Architecture is featured in the book “Architect’s Notebook” (Damdi Publishing, Seoul)  


 07/12/2013 > Chandler Ahrens lectures at “BIM Futures” conference at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles


 09/05/2013 > Chandler Ahrens serves as a jury member for the AIA Dallas Design Awards


 01/13/2013 > Chandler Ahrens and Aaron Sprecher will lecture at the 9th International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society, session on “Technologies for Common Knowledge”, University of British Columbia. 


 12/10/2012 > Aaron Sprecher’s recent studio projects co-taught with Martin Bressani are on display at the Canadian Center for Architecture 


 08/15/2012 > The exhibition “Informed Consent: Open Source Architecture Recent Projects” opens at Woodbury University Hollywood Gallery


 04/19/2012 > Eran Neuman lectures at the conference “On the Operativity of Theory and History”, at Harvard Graduate School of Design


 03/31/2012 > Aaron Sprecher is respondent at “Infrastructures Territoriales”, Phyllis Lambert Seminar 2012 curated by Prof. Alessandra Ponte


 03/30/2012 > Open Source Architecture participates to the exhibition “Diagramme(s)” at Ecole Speciale d’Architecture, Paris, curated by Odile Decq as part of the “Salon du Dessin 2012  


 03/25/2012 > Aaron Sprecher has been awarded a prestigious Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant to advance research in computational architecture.


 02/15/2012 > Open Source Architecture is featured in the article “Forme et Information. Chronique de l’Architecture Numérique” by Georges Teyssot and Samuel Bernier-Lavigne, in “Action Architecture”,Guiheux A. (ed.), Editions de La Villette, Paris


 01/18/2012 > Chandler Ahrens and Aaron Sprecher lectures at the Technology, Knowledge and Society Eighth International Conference at the University of California Los Angeles


 01/20/2012 > The book “Performalism: Form and Performance in Digital Architecture”, co-edited by Eran Neuman and Yasha Grobman is published at Routledge


 10/29/2011 > Chandler Ahrens lectures at Advancing Sustainability Conference in Los Angeles


 09/08/2011 > Eran Neuman lectures at the prestigious European Culture Congress together with Umberto Eco, Brian Eno, Vaclac Havel and Aphex Twin.


 07/08/2011 > Chandler Ahrens lectures at Extreme BIM 2011 at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles


 05/18/2011 > Aaron Sprecher lectures at the conference “Virtues of the Virtual” at McGill University


 03/20/2011 > Chandler Ahrens moderates a round table discussion for the Mock-ups Exhibition at the WUHO Gallery, Los Angeles


 03/04/2011 > Aaron Sprecher lectures at Syracuse University as part of the Transdisciplinary Media Studio led by Prof. Mark Linder. 


 01/20/2011 > Aaron Sprecher lectures at Laval University in celebration of the School of Architecture’s 50 anniversary. 


 01/2011 > Eran Neuman’s book “Shoa Presence: Architecture and Holocaust Culture” is forthcoming in 2011 at Ashgate.


 10/25/2010 > The book “LIFE in:Formation” (co-edited by Aaron Sprecher, Shai yeshayahu and Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa) and the exhibition catalog “Evolutive Means” (co-edited by Chandler Ahrens, Axel Schmitzberger and Michael Su) are now available on amazon.com.“Life in:Formation” and “Evolutive Means”


 11/24/2010 > Aaron Sprecher lectures at University of Toronto.


 10/21-24/2010 > Chandler Ahrens and Aaron Sprecher are co-chairs of the ACADIA 2010 Conference at Cooper Union, NYC. Visit us at: 


 10/25/2010 > ACADIA 2010 is now concluded. This year’s conference gathered a fantastic panel of designers, architects and theorists such as Antoine Picon, Georges Teyssot, Alessandra Ponte, Nader Terhani, Evan Douglis, Karl Chu, Georges Legendre, Mark Linder, Winka Dubbeldam, Chris Perry and many others. The lecture of Antonino Saggio is available online.