People
MAP Studio seeks out projects that demand innovative and refreshing solutions to the complex issues and conditions in which we all find ourselves.
Whether realized in a built form, a residence, a product, a virtual or time-based project, or a design, our ambition is to materialize a dynamic and evocative response within the most pragmatic consideration of production and technical concerns.
MAP Studio is currently led by two principals. Katherine Lambert, AIA, IIDA and Christiane Robbins.
Katherine Lambert, AIA
Katherine is a founding partner of Metropolitan Architectural Practice and MAP Studio, both are located in the San Francisco Bay Area. MAP Studio has realized numerous award-winning architectural projects throughout the USA based on a long-standing commitment to progressive architectural aesthetics, sustainable construction, and research in new technologies, materiality and digital methodologies.
Her award winning projects have been widely published in architectural journals and periodicals such as Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Architectural Record, DWELL, ID, Metropolis, and Interior Design. An architectural exhibition in 2016 at the Venice Architectural Biennial entitled ‘This Future Has a Past’ became the inaugural Anyspace pop-up exhibition at the AIA in NYC the following year.
Lambert is Professor of Architecture at California College of the Arts and she chaired the Interior Architecture program from 2005-2012.
christiane robbins
Christiane is a founding partner of MAP Studio. As a Director/Producer she has worked with digital media, moving/still images, design and video installations. Her work delves into the potentialities of morphing architecture and design with digital media.
Her projects have been exhibited across the USA, Europe, and Asia, ranging from venues such as MOMA, the Whitney Museum, to the Sao Paolo Biennal, the Venice Biennale, the Gwangju Biennale, the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Vigo International Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, the Banff Center for the Arts, SFMoMA, and the Other Cinema. She was a recipient of a SFMoMA SECA Award Video Commission, a Banff Co-Production Fellowship, a City of Los Angeles Award (COLA) Fellowship, as well as numerous other international awards, fellowships and grants, including a first-place Women in Design International award.
Her work is found in numerous museum and public collections and she has received appointments at various universities, most recently holding the position of Professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Director of USC Matrix Program for Digital Inter-Media, an invited member of the USC's Norman Lear Center, and recipient of fellowships from Stanford University. Her work has been the subject of international review in publications including ARTFORUM, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, DWELL, L.A Times, I-D Magazine, and Domus.
TEAM / CoLLABORATORS
Collaborator: Jetztzeit Studios
Director: Christiane Robbins
Scriptwriters: Christiane Robbins, Katherine Lambert
Digital On-line Programing: Crystal Noonan
Cinematographers: Vivian Rivas, New York; Paul Gibson, New York; John Kiffe, Los Angeles; Ron Freidman, Los Angeles; Scott Mahoy, Los Angeles
Editor: Christiane Robbins
Associate Editors: AnnaBelle Peasy, (1000 Sq. Ft.) Rosemary Comella (NPLU)
Production Manager: Magali Capi, New York
Assistant Camera/Sound: Niko David, New York
Creative Director: Christiane Robbins
Technical Director: J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira (Venice, 2016)
Visual effects: Jetztzeit Studio
Music: Various; David Byrne, Tangerine Dream (Venice, 2023)
Song: "Along the Canal" (Installation,2023)
Still Images/Photography: Jetztzeit Studios, Christiane Robbins
Project Research Consultation: Katherine Lambert, Richard Corsini, Anthony Denzer, Pierluigi Serriano, Julius Shulman
Projects (Cross Disciplinary)
Installation Graphic Design (Venice, 2023)
Design: Ophelia Studios, Portugal
Design Director: Cristiana Couceiro
Design Executive: Anna Franco
Printer: Davide Brusatin, Imaging Pro, Venice, IT
Creative Director: MAP Studio
Web Designer and Consultant: Crystal Noonan
Web
Catalogues
Editor/Curator: Cynthia Davidson, Ex. Director, Anyspace
Commissioning Editor: AnySpace
Graphic Design: Mieke Gerritzen, New York
Design Executives: ECC-Venice, IT; Center for Architecture, New York
Copy Editors: Carly Richmond (English)