Jonathan Wilkinson

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Selected Work

An ideas competition to speculate on an unfinished Loire chateau project based on plans by Leonardo de Vinci. The competition invited 20 international architecture schools to envision a plan for the next 500 years of the Domaine de Chambord, a walled-off royal ground designed on utopian ideals. The project won two national awards including the AIA’s award dedicated to student work. The proposal from Rice University responds to fears of imminent climate disaster and the destruction of national heritage and seeks to establish a positive relationship with the unique ecology of the site.

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Après le déluge (After the Flood)

Chambord Inachevé Jury Prize. With Will Letchinger, 2019.

Collective masterplan for Midtown Houston for medium-density housing across ten parcels. The individual architectural proposal takes the form of three slender towers with modest one and two bedroom apartments. An irreguar central core ‘wobbles’ around the center of each tower to produce a number of self-similar unit types.

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How Much Land Does a Man Need?

Masterplan for Houston's Midtown neighborhood. Rice Architecture Core Studio, 2018.

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A long floating vanity covered in walnut becomes the centerpiece of a renovated master bathroom with a simple material palette. The transformation presents the tub, shower, and vanity as separate and pure pieces of geometry.

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River Oaks Residence

Bathroom renovation, 2020

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In our perception, the built environment tends to disappear into the background through habit and routine. A representational ‘sameness’ allows subtle differences to foreground in our perception.

The project takes a sociological definition of space, positing the latent potential of third places to mediate between the privacy of our domestic environments and our public spheres within the context of our everyday social environment.

Sited in a fictional urban context, the project disguises itself as a normative five-story building containing spaces for domestic, professional, and social activities.

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Third

M Arch thesis, 2020.

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A 1920s era wooden house is lifted from its home in Brazoria County and moved to a site in Houston’s South Park neighborhood. An addition at the back of the house has since been added. The client asks for the added space to be converted into a third bedroom with ensuite bathroom and to update the existing bathroom and kitchen.The structure’s original four-square plan and the proportional addition created the basis for a six-square planimetric organization of spaces.

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The House on Blocks

Houston, TX, 2019-20.

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Sketchbook

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About

Jonathan Wilkinson, born Auckland, New Zealand, 1994

M Arch, Rice University, 2020
BS Arch, University of Cincinnati, 2015

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References available upon request.

Practice

Tolila+Gilliland Atelier d'Architecture

2019, Intern. Paris, France.

Perkins+Will

Designer, 2017–18. Dallas, TX.

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

Designer, 2015–16. Chicago, IL.

Fearon Hay

Intern, 2013. Auckland, New Zealand.

Research

DC/S David Costanza Studio

Research Assistant, 2017—19. Houston, TX

Arch Out Loud

Art Director, 2017—18.

Exhibition

2020

Arch League, ReImagine Town Hall.

2019

Chambord 1519–2019, Utopia at Work. Chambord, France.

2017

Guimard Metropolitain, digital archival font, featured in Max Roberts' Art Nouveau Paris Metro map.

2015

Circuit exhibited in Rethinking Burnet Woods. Niehoff Urban Studio, Cincinnati, OH.

Video clips screened at Final Friday in Over the Rhine. Cincinnati, OH.

2014

The Wall exhibited at 014 Storefront Studio. Cincinnati, OH.

Award

2019

Chambord Inachevé Jury Prize; Margaret Everson-Fossi Fellowship; AIA/ASCA COTE Top Ten Award; AIA Fort Worth Honor Award; SARA NY Design Award for Après le Déluge (completed with Will Letchinger)

Morris R. Pittman Traveling Fellowship

2015

First Place: PINarchitecture: The Nearsighted Wall

2014

Honorable Mention: Architectural Congress of Ohio Pavilion

Service

ACE Mentor, Dallas, TX. November 2016—May 2017.
AIA Tour of Homes Docent, Dallas, TX. 2016
DAAP Ambassador, Cincinnati, OH. 2014—15.

Nuclear

Promotional video, landmarker for a waste isolation site (collaboration with Arch out Loud), 2020.

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A 'sanctuary for books' is proposed across the street from a mid-century church on a low-density intersection. The proposal attempts to reinforce the street edge set by the church and connect to library the protected rear lot.

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Saint Martin's Neighbor

A proposal for a branch library in Austin, TX, 2017.

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Rosa Mexicano

A future for the abandoned NAICM construction site for Mexico City, option studio with Frida Escobedo and Heather Rowell at Rice University, 2019.

The Wall & the Death Strip

Berlin site, 2014.

Two Minutes

A gas station in Dallas offers something unexpected, 2016.

2015, University of Cincinnati

A Periscope Cinema is an 'Exquisite Corpse' inspired process that started with the purchase of an inexpensive framed print.

Thrift shop: Framed print, $10
Google Images: looping image search of the words “grandma’s cottage” contained images of the story of Little Red Riding Hood and themes of voyeurism and privacy.
Collage (analog): Grandma’s mirrored roof hinges open, revealing a terrible scene inside (The Rape of Lucretia).
Rendering: Grandma’s cottage and its saccharine setting are turned drive-in cinema. Two lovers on a date replace Grandma’s cat, watching from a distance.
Construction: the mirror is turned periscope with which to see inside the 'cinema.' You, the viewer, are now the wolf, waiting in the back.

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A Periscope Cinema

Architectural construction, 2015.