COSCIA + DAY Architecture + Design
12732 Maxella Ave., Los Angeles, Ca. 90066
Firm Bio:
COSCIA DAY Architecture + Design is located in Venice, California and was started in 1992 by Anthony Coscia and Johnathen Day, design principals-in-charge.
Coscia . Day Publications, Honors & Awards:
Selected for Dwell Magazine’s Home Tour 2011- Los Angeles’s best west-side homes.
Coscia Residence (Skywave House)
WAN (World Architectural News) Residential Awards 2010, Made the top 10 list.
1000x Architecture of the Americas, 2008
L.A. Architect November 2006, 10 Firms to Watch- the next generation.
NEW BLOOD EMERGING L.A. ARCHITECTS EXHIBITION, Architectural Design Museum, 2006
LA Architect March 2006; Form Unstructured- 747 House/ Medical Imaging Center
Hospitality & Design, May, 2005; Rika’s view from the top
Wall Paper, July/ August 2003; 25 Best Emerging architectural practices around the world
Oz Magazine, Volume 25, 2003; Regionalism, Position, Expression article
Hospitality & Design, April, 2002; Natalie Thai (Venice) feature article
2001 Bienal Miami Exhibition, Received (2) Honorable Mentions
LA LOCAL Japanese book of LA architects, 1999
Hospitality & Design magazine cover and Natalie Thai (Beverly Hills) feature article June, 1999
Architect’s Guide to Los Angeles by Michael Webb, 1998,2001
Buildings in Los Angeles a book on SCI-ARC’s faculty and alumni, 1998
GA (Global Architecture) Houses Project publication plus exhibition in Tokyo, Japan;
Selected in 2007,2002,2001,2000,1998,1997& 1996.
Competitions Magazine the National Diet Library Competition-Japan, 1997
Interiors magazine Annual Awards, Received Honorable Mention in Hospitality Category, 1996
AIA LA Architect March, 1994 (Yangtzee Restaurant cover photo and article)
Anthony Coscia Articles and Lectures:
LA FORUM Lecture series in collaboration with MOCA Summer 1999
Competitions Magazine article on the National Diet Library Competition-Japan 1997
UCLA Extension Program guest speaker for Xi’an for Michael Hriack 1997
Woodbury guest critic for 2nd year for Stan Bertou 1990
Johnathen Day Interviews and Lectures
LunchLine award winning university interview program on architects, Ball State 1997
The Edge idea exchange conference - San Francisco guest lecturer “Idea Architecture-
a Philosophical Concept of Space” with M. Angie Cooksey of Ball State University.
Firm’s Philosophy
We work intensively with “body” models and section models of varying scale. The computer is an invaluable design tool allowing the projects a higher level of clarity, form and reality.
Urbanistically we are attempting to produce a new typology of Figure/Figure utilizing the fold as both and operational method and as a determinant of form creating a Weak Form Architecture.
Our work embodies both topomorphic and anthropomorphic conditions. We are creating a figural architecture of suppleness possessing a distinct separability of parts. Elements inherently connected through body geometry produce space through relational alignments. An architecture of movement emerges from FigureForms built using straight lines set within a logic of curvilinearity in both plan and section combined with geometrically free extruded arcs. Interiors, plazas and courtyards of spatial residue are created by the super imposition of open and closed, sited and floating fractal solids set within the complexities of a folded wall/roof’s section geometry.
By folding the solid of architectural form with the void of landscape a hybrid is created. The resultant Landform Architecture is a synthesis of the surrounding landscape and built form. The projects reconfigure the pre-existing topography of the site through the formation of a complex of building components linked directly to the site (and the city) through latent formal and spatial relationships.
