Pink Thermal Baths, winner of The Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Award 2021 in the Unbuilt Cultural Project category
Miroslava Brooks and Daniel Markiewicz | Laskey Charrette Kickoff Lecture
Miroslava Brooks and Daniel Markiewicz will deliver the 2025 Laskey Charette Kickoff Lecture as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series at WashU.
FORMA is a full-service architecture firm led by Miroslava Brooks and Daniel Markiewicz. The practice was founded in New York in 2018, and expanded to Los Angeles and Philadelphia in 2023. FORMA’s work is defined by carefully considered form, thoughtful configuration of the architectural plan, typological exploration, and innovative programming.
Through residential projects – Homes – the firm reconsiders built forms of domesticity, from single-family houses to multi-generational living and multi-family housing. Through character-driven civic spaces – Commons – the work explores new forms of collectivity manifested within institutional, cultural, and educational projects. Often imbued with bold coloration and a dash of whimsey, FORMA’s projects evolve through a rigorous iterative process in order to establish a clear design intent. The firm’s recent work includes a ground-up house in Upstate New York, a proposal for an early education and community center in Stamford, CT, a multi-family gut renovation and addition in Brooklyn, NY, a competition entry for an 800-foot-long multi-purpose public space in Atlantic Beach, NC, and a number of ongoing renovations and additions in the Tri-State area.
about Miroslava Brooks and Daniel Markiewicz
Both principals teach design courses at the graduate level and consider academic engagement crucial to the evolution of FORMA’s architectural ideas and design methodologies. Currently, Brooks is an Assistant Professor at the University of California Los Angeles and Markiewicz is Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. Previously, they have taught at Yale University School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin and Columbia University GSAPP.
FORMA’s first ground-up house in Upstate New York, finishing construction by the end of 2024.
Protoplans, design research project displayed in ‘Mosaic of Unlikely Affinities’ exhibition, a companion piece to the 2022 ACADIA conference.
Roebling Multi-Residence, FORMA’s first multi-family project, completed in 2023 in Brooklyn, NY.
Playscapes, proposal for an early education and community center in Stamford, CT, awarded the 2024 AIA Connecticut Design Award Merit in the Unbuilt category.
More Upcoming Lectures
Apr 14 at 5:30pm • Steinberg Auditorium
Rahul Mehrotra | AIA St. Louis Scholarship Trust Lecture
Rahul Mehrotra will deliver the AIA St. Louis Scholarship Trust Lecture as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series at WashU.
Rahul Mehrotra is the founding principal of RMA Architects in Mumbai and Boston. A professor of urban design and planning at Harvard, Mehrotra has led dozens of projects across India, from urban land recycling to housing, boutiques, factories, social institutes and commercial buildings. Recent highlights include an artists’ retreat near Mumbai, a housing project for elephants and their caretakers in Jaipur and the JSW School of Public Policy in Ahmedabad.