Issue 10 — Spring/Summer 2019 Christian Wassmann

In major metropolises where modern architecture is more often about how high, rather than how deep, Christian Wassmann’s structures stand out. The Swiss-born architect, whose designs include an art observatory at the Guggenheim Helsinki, Miami’s Sun Path House and Lisson Gallery, and the Williamsburg Supreme store in New York, fuses a modernist aesthetic with inspiration from Eastern architecture, geometry and the cosmos, creating spaces that invite the viewer to engage with their surroundings. In a world of skyscrapers and superstores, Wassmann’s work is distinguished by an increasingly uncommon notion—the value of substance over scale.