The JSS Mission
With strong links to the Sabin Lab at Cornell AAP, Jenny Sabin Studio is an experimental architecture studio based in Ithaca, NY. The studio investigates the intersections of architecture and science, and applies insights and theories from biology and mathematics to the design, fabrication, and production of material structures and spatial interventions. We collaborate with scientists and engineers and employ architects, designers, and artists. Our applied projects are diverse and operate across multiple length scales including adaptive materials, building facades, installations, pavilions, tapestries, rugs, and architectural interventions. Our portfolio is equally diverse including clients such as Nike Inc., Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, the American Philosophical Society Museum, the Exploratorium, and the Frac Centre.
Built Projects
2022 ExoKnit, NeueHouse NYC USA
2021 Eddy & Shroud, Google, Bay View building complex, Mountain View, CA USA
2021 Convergence, University of Nebraska Medical Center and the Nebraska Arts Council 1% for the Art, Omaha, NE USA
2021 PolyForm, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, ITHACA, NY USA
2021 DataKnit, Foundation Medicine, CAMBRIDGE, MA USA
2020 Purl, IMKAN Properties, Makers District Beach, Reem Island, ABU DHABI UAE
2020 SinewFlex, Nike Inc., Serena Williams building on Nike’s campus, BEAVERTON, OR USA
2019 Ada, Microsoft Research Artist in Residence, Microsoft Building 99, Redmond, WA USA
2018 Luster for House of Peroni, NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES, MIAMI, WASHINGTON D.C
2018 Lux for By the People festival, Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building, WASHINGTON D.C
2018 Lumen @Constructo, on view at Mall Plaza, SANTIAGO CHILE
2017 Lumen, Young Architects Program competition for MoMA PS1, NYC USA
2016 LightWeb for Arbor House, PHILADELPHIA USA
2016 The Beacon at Jefferson University, MEDstudio at Thomas Jefferson University, part of Design Philadelphia 2016, PHILADELPHIA USA
2015 Polythread for Beauty, Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, NYC USA
Permanent Collections
2017 Centre Pompidou, PARIS FRANCE
2016 Centre National des arts plastiques, French National Contemporary Art Collection, PARIS FRANCE
2014 FRAC Centre, ORELANS FRANCE
2014 FRAC Centre-Val de Loire, VAL DE LOIRE FRANCE
2013 Exploratorium, SAN FRANCISCO CA USA
Exhibitions
JUL22 Synapse 15: Intersections of Art & Science, Emily Davis Gallery, AKRON, OHIO USA
JAN19 Drawing Codes Vol. 2, Cooper Union, NYC USA
OCT19 Living Forms, Musée national Adrien Dubouché Limoges, LIMOGENS FRANCE
OCT18 Matter Design Computation: Projects 2012-2018, Simons Center Gallery, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, STONY BROOK, NY USA
JUN18 Collapse: Climate, Cities, Culture, Global Design NYU, NYU Gallatin, NYC USA
MAY18 KANAL – CENTRE POMPIDOU, Citroën Yser garage, BRUSSELS
JAN18 Minding the Digital, Design Society Museum + V&A, SHENZHEN, CHINA
OCT17 On Site: Jenny Sabin, Art Omi, GHENT NY USA
SEPT17 New New York Icons, Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC USA
SUMMER17 MoMA & MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, MMCA, SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
SUMMER17 MoMA & MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, Museum of Modern Art, NYC USA
FEB17 Mutations-Créations / Imprimer le monde (Printing the World), Centre Pompidou, PARIS FRANCE
FEB16 Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum; Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, NYC
JUL15 Smart Flexibility; Design for impact festival at RMIT, BARCELONA SPAIN
JUL15 Data Clay: Digital Strategies For Parsing The Earth, Museum of Craft and Design, SAN FRANCISCO CA
SEPT-DEC14 Intimate Cosmologies: The Aesthetics of Scale in an Age of Nanotechnology, CCA, Cornell University, ITHACA NY
MAR14 Jenny E. Sabin – Datascapes, Bibliowicz Family Gallery, Milstein Hall, Cornell University AAP, ITHACA NY
FEB14 Eliciting Environments / Actuating Response, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH PA
JUL-NOV13 Smart Flexibility, Disseny Hub Barcelona (DHUB), BARCELONA SPAIN
SEPT13 Archilab 2013, Naturalizing Architecture, 9th Edition, FRAC, ORLEANS FRANCE
APR13 En Vie/Alive, EDF Foundation, PARIS FRANCE
Lectures
NOV23 Institute for Lightweight Structure and Conceptual Design (ILEK), University of Stuttgart, PhD Symposium on “Lightweight Research: Design Methods”
NOV23 Keynote, Responsive Cities Symposium 2023, Collective Intelligence Design. IAAC, Barcelona, Spain
NOV23 IntCDC Status Seminar, University of Stuttgart
JUN23 DigitalFUTURES Award 2023
JUN23 Generations symposium, organized by Mario Carpo, MAK, and The Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
MAR23 School of Architecture and Planning, University of Buffalo
FEB23 Architecture After AI Symposium, The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture
NOV22 Tulane School of Architecture Lecture Series, Allen Eskew Endowed Lecture
OCT22 Keynote, International Research & Design Forum, On Materiality – Creating New Architecture through Research, SOM Foundation in partnership with the Cluster of Excellence Integrative Computational Design & Construction for Architecture, University of Stuttgart
SEPT22 Lecture contribution, Multiplicity: Agency, Constraint, and Freedom in Contemporary Architecture, UMass Amherst, Department of Architecture
SEPT22 Adaptivity as Utopia Lecture Series, Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design, University of Stuttgart
JUN22 Keynote, 2022 UNStudio Conference
MAY22 Keynote, KPF International Tech Week
APR22 School of Architecture 50th Anniversary series, UNC Charlotte
JAN22 Sliver Lecture Series, Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna
OCT21 Keynote, ACM SCF 2021, symposium on computational fabrication
JUL21 The Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment, BBE 2021 Annual Summit
JUN21 Keynote, Inclusive Futures, Digital Consortium – Performance Based Digital Design, Methodologies Lecture Series
MAY21 Keynote, Tech+Virtual, Harnessing Technology for Future Practice, The Architect’s Newspaper
APR21 Keynote, Advances in Architectural Geometry annual international conference