Studio de.Materia
The completed works of Adam Wysocki’s Studio de Materia, founded in Poznań in 2013, include local project House JRv2 (pictured), a timber and concrete box partly submerged into a sloping site set in leafy parkland. The plan is responsive to the topography of the landscape, and the result is clean, neat and modern. studiodemateria.com
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Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022).
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