Peter Storey and Eddie Blumer founded Still Projects in 2012 after they were selected as one of four finalists, out of 300 entries, in the City of Dreams Pavilion competition in New York City. Since then, Still Projects has established a reputation for generating innovative and functional architectural designs through a variety of disciplines that simultaneously solve problems and resonate with their specificity of place and purpose. Their works range in scale from small pop-up installations to large-scale urban planning projects. Still Projects embraces a research-based approach to identifying both the opportunities and constraints unique to each project in an enduring commitment to realize the most appropriate and poetic solution to every design problem.
It is in this thinking that Still Projects can generate an architecture where the author disappears and the space resonates a frequency that can be felt, in addition to being seen. This expression of the bodies tactile senses facilitate and support our experiences and understanding of the natural and built world. Generating an architecture that can short circuit the dominant sense of vision and refocus our contact with the world at the boundary line of the self and not just what we see. This process of design enhances the built world we create and addresses the senses simultaneously to help fuse our image of self with the experience of the world. The essential mental task of architecture is accommodation and integration. It projects our human measures and sense of order into the measureless and meaningless natural space. Architecture should articulate the experience of our being-in-the-world and strengthens our sense of reality and self.
In experiential architecture a peculiar exchange takes place; we lend our emotions and associations to the space and the space, in turn, lends us its atmosphere. The architecture we create is not experienced as a series of isolated retinal pictures, but in its full and integrated material can offer an experience of strengthened coherence where the idea of simply seeing something vanishes and an experience of feeling something is heightened.
Peter Storey RA, Principal
Peter received his BA in Computer Science from Indiana University in 2005 and his Master of Architecture degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 2009. After graduating, Peter moved to Southampton, NY to join Bates Masi Architects where he worked on several award-winning high-end residential projects. During his time with Bates Masi he served as the project lead on the Mothersill residence (Interior Design Best of Year Winner, IDA ‘Gold’ Award), the Pierson Way residence (Residential Architect Design Award, Builder’s Choice Custom Home Award), and Elizabeth II (Professional Builder Gold Award, Interior Design Best of Year Winner). In 2013 Peter joined Allied Works Architecture where he has served as the project lead on various projects including the New York offices of Johannes Leonardo and a new 60,000-square-foot dormitory for a private academy in Thornwood, NY. Peter has been an integral contributor to several high profile design competitions for which Allied Works was selected as a finalist, including the Arvo Part Centre in Laulasmaa, Estonia and the new modern wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Eddie Blumer, Principal
Working construction with his father from an early age permitted Eddie to develop skills not only as a designer, but also as an efficient artisan in many areas of the profession. It is this awareness of taking an idea from his imagination through its physical construction that allows him to design at a multitude of scales. Eddie received his BArch from Arizona State University in 2004 and his MArch degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 2007. His work at the University of Texas has been recognized with the AIA Henry Adams Medal and has been printed in several publications. He then joined John Ronan Architects in 2007 where he worked on several residential and institutional projects such as the award-winning Gary Comer College Preparatory High School, the South Caicos Master Planning Development, and the Urban Model High School. In addition, he was an integral contributor to John Ronan Architect’s selection as a finalist in the Daniel Burnham Memorial Competition. Eddie joined Woodhouse Tinucci Architects in 2009. He has served as the lead on several significant projects including Northwestern University Sailing Center, Gillson Park Beach Pavilion, University of Chicago Midway Club Lounge, a Private Dermatology Office in Chicago, and The University of Chicago Young Memorial Building Renovation. His work has been recognized with numerous design awards such as the AIA Chicago's Distinguished Building, AIA National Small Buildings, Interior Architecture, and Divine Detail Awards. He also serves as a lecturer and guest critic at The Illinois Institute of Technologies College of Architecture.