Gino Griffiths Architects

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A gathering of tropes, archetypes and conventional objects in the name of architecture.

Gino Griffiths Architects were established on winning a competition to design and build a Temple of Laughter in 1995.

Jason Griffiths is a partner in Gino Griffiths architects and works in the American Southwest. His practice is based on a multidisciplinary approach to architecture working through competitions, buildings, furniture, writing and photography. He has won numerous international awards and has exhibited and published widely including in AA Files, Architecture, JA, JAE and the Sunday Times. He is the author of "Manifest Destiny – A Guide to the Essential Indifference of American Housing" which offers an account of a six-month tour of North American suburbs. As an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University's Design School his work explores archetypical forms and daily activity through digital fabrication. Built work includes The Lowest House in the Mojave Desert, Siouxland Transit Bus Stops, K-Zell Metalworks, The Political Ply Shade Canopy and Scottsdale Arts Camera Obscura's. Jason has lectured widely throughout Europe, the US and Mexico and has taught at the Bartlett, Westminster, the AA and the Tech de Monterrey.

Alex Gino was born in 1971 and grew up in London, after spending her early childhood in Belgium, Puerto Rico and Colombia. In 2001 she began teaching at the University of Westminster at undergraduate level and was teaching assistant to David Greene. She is a practising architect and faculty associate in The Design School at ASU.

Between her degree and diploma studies at the Bartlett School of Architecture she won the Temple of Laughter competition with Jason Griffiths and Ed Jessen. Since leaving the Bartlett she has worked for Michael Hopkins & Partners and for tonkin architects, whilst continuing competition work as part of ginogriffiths.

Alex’scurrent work explores time-based media and architecture. Her current commissions include animations for The Center for Nano Technology and The Fulton Center at ASU.

Her work has been published in World Architecture, Japan Architec and the JAE..

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