ARX New York

The research in our office is concentrated around the conceptualization of the notion of "scale" – of particular relevance given the multiple virtual realities we experience today. How should we incorporate into the physically build environment the ever increasing presence of a conceptual and virtual reality? Our aim is to produce a materialization of a concept, a project that can satisfy the mind as well the body.
We try through our work to challenge the preconceive perceptive cultural code, building object from image and context from text. ARX – an architectural and cultural group questioning the possibility of communication transculturally – was founded in 1988 by Frederic Levrat. ARX stand as the expression where ARt and ARchitecture takes different paths and the X expresses the intention to reconcile their intersection.
Frederic Levrat and Zolaykha Sherzad are both professors of architecture at Columbia University and Pratt Institute. The real aim of theory is to theorize, but to realize spaces of high quality, conceptually, visually, physically and materially.



2000 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Award in Architecture

1999 First Prize Europan 5 Competition - Zurich-Affoltern

1997 Young Architect Forum Recipient, the Architectural League. Selected as one of the 6 best young architects of the year in the USA

1996 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship

1995 Second Place, International Invited Competition for the Extension of the United Nation in Geneva, in association with Eisenman Architects

1993 Finalist Spreebogen International Competition for a new German Capital in Berlin. With "ARX", 8th prize out of 835 entry from 44 country. Exhibitions in Berlin,Bonn,NY

1987 First Prize, School of Prélaz entrance design competition, Lausanne, Switzerland



2000 Singapore Management University Campus, Singapore

1999 Courtaman Civic Center, Fribourg, Switzerland

1998 CECE Graphitwerk, Zurich Affoltern, Europan 5 First Prize

1997 College de Montbrillant, Geneva

1997 Oklahoma City Memorial, USA

1996 Greenport Harbor Waterfront Park, Long Island, NY. Selected exhibition at the Van Alen Institute

1996 Petrosino Park Competition, New York, Selected exhibition at the StoreFront

1996 Barcelona ZAL, Harbor Restructuration, Barcelona, Exhibition at Van Alen Institute + Arch. League, New York

1996 Kansai National Diet Library, Kyoto, Japan

1995 Extension of the United Nation in Geneva, Second Place, in association with Eisenman Architects

1992 Spreebogen International Competition for a new German Capital in Berlin. Finalist with "ARX", 8th prize out of 835

1987 School of Prélaz entrance design, First Prize, Lausanne



2000 Space + Design ARX New York, Tokyo, Japan

1999 ARK - Finnish Architectural Review, Helsinki, Finland

1999 Ingenieurs + Architectes Suissses - Europan 5 projects, Cover page

1999 Le Temps - Geneve se fait capitale de la jeune arcuitecture européene. 28.09 p.43 - Geneva

1999 Newsline - Of note - fall 1999 - p.7- New York

1999 Europan 5 Winners Selection - Paris



1998 Bibliothèque du future OCDE Paris

1998 Building Between, Architecture Gallerie, Munich

1996 M Emory Games, Harvard Press/Rizzoli, Cambridge

1995 SD Computer and Architecture, Special Issue, Tokyo

1995 Zaha Hadid Exhibition, Newsline, NewYork

1994 Addition by Subtraction on Tadao Ando, ANY Magazin,NY

1993 Arx - Fax, Any Magazine 3, pp.58-63, New York

1993 Anti Cubist Cube, S. Ogawa Critic, Osaka, Japan

1993 Second Nature ARX Portugal, editor, Portofolio 4 Lisbon

1992 Des sens aux sens, Dossier Eisenman L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui #279 Paris pp.98-115 Cover page design

1991 Space/Object, Studio Maruyama EPFL, Lausanne

1989 “Des Constructions.”, on Zaha Hadid, Halle Sud #22, Ge

1988 “La lumière pourfendait le silence.”, on T. Ando, Halle Sud #20,Genève



2000 Exhibition Information in Formation, Brooklyn, NY

2000 James Restaurant, New York

1998 ISDC, Eropeen Space Agency, Ecogia, Geneva

1998 Extension of the service area, Sport Center, Versoix

1997 Bibliothèque IUHEI, Place des Nations, Genève, in association with Eisenman Architects

1996 Wagnon Residence, W 49 street, New York City

1996 Exhibition “Containers” with Silvia Kolboski, CCC Barcelona

1991 Koizumi Building, with Eisenman Architects, Tokyo

1991 Axonometric Chair, acquired by the Vitra Chair Museum



Walizada Apartment, Prince Street, New York

254 E 7 Street- 3B Renovation, New York

Le Croissant Shop Transformation, 33 street & 7Ave, NY

Explora Park Interactive Museum, Vevey, Switzerland

CECE Graphitwerk, Master plan, Zurich-Affoltern

House in Long Island, Huntington, New York



2000 Information in Formation, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

1999 Europan 5 International symposium, CICG Geneva

1998 American Architects at the Edge, Parson Gallery, 5thAv. NY

1999 Europan 5 Winning Entries, Zurich, Letzigrund

1998 American Architects at the Edge, American Academy, Rome, Italy

1997 Buiding the Between,Architecture Gallerie, Munich, Germany

1997 The River Projects, Van Alen Institute, New York

1997 Frederic Levrat & Zolaykha Sherzad, Young Architects Forum, the Architectural League, New York

1996 Greenport Harbor Competition, Van Alen Institute, NY

1996 Petrosino Park Competition, the Store Front, NY

1992 Spreebogen International Competition for a new German Capital in Berlin. With ARX, 8th prize out of 835 entry from 44 country. Exhibitions in East Berlin Parlement, Bonn Congress House, New York Arch League



2000 Information in Formation, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

1996 “Containers” with Silvia Kolboski, UIA at CCC, Barcelona

1995 Zaha Hadid Recent Work, Grand Central Terminal, NY

1993 M Emory Games - Eisenman Recent Work, Harvard GSD, Cambridge, Massassuchet

1988 Tadao Ando, Halles Sud, Geneve