Morphosis is an architecture and design practice based in Los Angeles and New York City, founded informally in 1972 by Michael Brickler, Thom Mayne, Livio Santini and James Stafford; Michael Rotondi was a principal from 1975 to 1991. Thom Mayne, its leading figure, was a founding member of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and won the Pritzker Prize in 2005.
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The Graduate House, University of Toronto (2000) and Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona (2000) come from its rise in the 1990s. The San Francisco Federal Building (2007) uses daylight for 80 percent of its space, and its south wall of perforated stainless-steel panels warms in the sun to pull cool air through sensor-controlled windows; it was the first federal building certified under LEED. 41 Cooper Square in New York (2009) wraps a full-height atrium in an operable skin of perforated stainless steel. The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas (2012) is a large cube floating over a landscaped base, with an escalator in a glass tube slanting outside it. Morphosis's projects are studied for layered building skins and climate-driven design.
Diamond Ranch High School2000 · Pomona
San Francisco Federal Building2007 · San Francisco
Perot Museum of Nature and Science2012 · Dallas
Graduate House, University of Toronto2000 · Toronto
Caltrans District 7 Headquarters2004 · Los Angeles
41 Cooper Square2009 · New York
Emerson College Los Angeles2014 · Los Angeles