Independent Architecture + Paul Preissner Architects

Denver and Chicago, United States

Paul Andersen and Paul Preissner started their collaboration by designing two barns for the 2013 Biennial of the Americas. Preissner runs Paul Preissner Architects and is associate professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Andersen founded Independent Architecture in 2009. He also teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is the author of The Architecture of Patterns (2010) and The Monuments Power the Cars (2015). 

Biennial Project: Independent Architecture + Paul Preissner Architects. Summer Vault (collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago). Courtesy of Chicago Architecture Biennial / Nathan Keay, 2015