Fictive Kin

David Ruperti (MArch ’07, BS Arch ’05) + Andrew Miller (BS Arch ’05)

Photo Credit: David Brandon Geeting.

Photo Credit: David Brandon Geeting

David Ruperti and Andrew Miller are architectural designers and co-founders of Andy and Dave, an architecture and design studio in Brooklyn dedicated to producing work that draws inspiration from the experience of contemporary life. Projects often explore the intersections of architecture, media and urbanism with an emphasis on politics and consumer culture. At a time when disciplinary boundaries are being subverted like never before, Andy and Dave are pushing toward an aggressively transdisciplinary and collaborative approach that freely shifts between scales, and between points of view.

Fictive Kin

High back chairs always reach beyond what is ergonomically prudent. Like the irrationally expressive skyscrapers of a contemporary city, their height and personality give definition to a space within a larger space. And the relationships between them can create an imaginary context for a person to temporarily inhabit. Fictive Kin is a composition of chairs and a single dining table that seeks to create a pseudo-urban domestic space.

Project Credits: David Ruperti, Andrew Miller (design), exhibited at Chamber Gallery in New York