INTERVIEW: Vincent James and Jennifer Yoos of VJAA (Part 2)

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DATE : Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:50:31 -0500
Entered in Database : 2007-10-18 18:50:31
length : 9103641
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In this interview, Vincent James and Jennifer Yoos discuss their influences and inspirations. James is the son of an anthropologist who took his family to Africa, Asia and Europe. As a teenager, James had building photograph competitions with his father and also admired his father's collection of architectural monographs. Yoos' father taught at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. That was her first encounter with extraordinary architecture. Today the pair design buildings together as part of Vincent James Associates Architecture (VJAA) in Minneapolis. Unlike Frank Gehry or Thomas Mayne, James and Yoos say they are "trying to avoid a repetition of the same kind of style."

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