New Practices in Conversation: BAAB & Mattaforma with Tal Schori

In conjunction with the New Practices New York 2025: Voice exhibition, the AIANY New Practices Committee is hosting a three-part event series, featuring the six winning firms of this year’s New Practices New York: Voice competition. A biennial competition since 2006, New Practices New York serves as New York City’s pre-eminent platform to recognize and promote new and innovative architecture and design firms. Each event in the series will feature a lecture by two winning firms followed by a moderated discussion that will highlight their range of work and approach to this year’s theme, Voice.

Firm Presentations:
Ted Baab, AIA, Principal, BAAB
Lindsay Wikstrom, Founding Principal, Mattaforma

Moderator:
Tal Schori, RA, LEED AP, Partner, GRT Architects LLP

About the Firms:
BAAB is a practice focused on houses and housing. They are interested in the ways everyday spaces can be rethought to invent new possibilities of living, through form and geometry as instigators of plan and organization. Their work on multi-family housing in complex urban contexts looks for inventive ways to use site and zoning limits to challenge current models of living together in cities. They are also interested in the re-imagination of existing structures, playing off past building types and found conditions to prompt new relationships of space and ideas of living. They believe in buildings as sites of conversation, for those who live, work, learn, and play

Mattaforma is an award-winning design studio specializing in projects that conceive of the built environment as an actionable medium towards a more equitable planet. Committed to investigating design in the broadest sense, we realize built commissions from concept to construction alongside research, writing, and speaking engagements. Our goal is to work with clients and experts to jointly imagine opportunities for improving forms of wellness and expanding the types of spaces we enjoy spending time in. This includes our homes, schools, retreats, restaurants, and more. Founded by Lindsey Wikstrom, Mattaforma believes that shaping the next generation of buildings in our built environment requires an ethical underpinning, a new perspective towards resources. Wikstrom’s extensive research and writing on renewable and reclaimed materials informs her belief that material choice is one of the greatest levers we have in this regard; it is the moment we actively eliminate carbon from our palette.

More Events in the Series:
May 14: New Practices in Conversation: AUR & IGG with Nahyun Hwang
June 9: New Practices in Conversation: A+A+A & aanda with Koray Duman