2017
17.0 x 25.0 inches
Design: Pentagram

Storefront for Art and Architecture, the commissioner of the 2014 United States Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia presented OfficeUS, a global experiment in the making of architecture, history and work. OfficeUS responded to the theme of Absorbing Modernity:1914-2014 by focusing on the ways in which the space, structures, and protocols of the U.S. architectural office have participated in the construction of Modernity.

OfficeUS, simultaneously a repository and a laboratory of ideas and criticism in the form of an alternative architecture office, looked simultaneously backward and forward, submitting both historical material and office protocols to contemporary agents of disruption, critique, pessimism, and optimism physically and digitally.

Occupying the US Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Biennale in Venice from June 7 through November 23, 2014, OfficeUS presented a global history of the architectural office while mapping aspirations for its future.

The OfficeUS Tote Bag designed by Pentagram is collectible merchandise from this project.