LTL Architects is thrilled to share the announcement that Marc Tsurumaki has been promoted to Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia GSAPP.
From GSAPP: “Tsurumaki is principal and founder of LTL Architects @ltlarchitects in New York, and has a deep familiarity with GSAPP as a faculty member who has been teaching in the architecture programs since 2004. Marc Tsurumaki, in partnership with Paul Lewis and David J. Lewis at LTL Architects, has established a model for architectural practice in which research and publishing are intrinsically related to material development and design. The vastly influential book “Manual of Section” (2016) has been translated into six languages and remains a reference for understanding the ways in which the drawn section functions as representational techniques and reveals a building’s formal characteristics. Their more recent book, “Manual of Biogenic House Sections” (2022), presents a series of houses selected for using materials with beneficial environmental conditions – such as the capacity to sequester carbon or having low embodied carbon – and analyzes both their benefits at a time of climate crisis and their impact on the building’s section.
Alongside their publishing projects, LTL is an award-winning architecture practice that has sharpened its focus to study the environmental impact of architecture and develop methods that reduce embodied carbon through the use of plant and earth-based materials, carbon-capture, and material reuse. Their work operates at the intersection of spatial invention, material innovation, and collective experience.”