PROFILE
Jason Payne, a faculty member since 2002, has taught at Rice University, Pratt Institute, Bennington College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has worked as project designer for Reiser + Umemoto Architects and Daniel Libeskind Studio, and co-partners the award winning office Gnuform, best known for the NGTV Bar (2006 AIA Design Award) and the 2006 PS1/MOMA Young Architects’ program entry “Purple Haze.” With the launch of his new office, Hirsuta, Payne continues to promote a new materialism with a distinctly sensate bias. Informed by intensive research and an experimental approach, his work engages material dynamics in the production of form to create a direct appeal to the senses. Payne teaches option studios, core studios, and technology seminars. His research and teaching is characterized by unusual couplings of intrinsic architectural values, with such exotic extrinsic influences as botany, hairstyling, and pharmacology. The work produced in his courses establishes credibility for these strange hybrids and is distinguished by its extreme specificity, technical complexity, commitment to materialization, and the frequent use of rich colors and textures.
EDUCATION
MSAAD, Columbia
B.Arch., SCI-Arc
STUDIO
HIrsuta
