Jaffer Kolb News Today

What would architecture be like if design began from a place not of unlimited imagination and abundance, but rather one of economic and material scarcity?

Testbeds, a project led by New Affilliates, recycles mock-ups once treated as construction waste into investments in public space.

New Affiliates and Samuel Stewart-Halevy have created a prototype of their Testbeds project, which repurposes models used for large architectural projects.

A new project from New York-based duo New Affiliates is making headlines in the Queens neighborhood of Edgemere, where architects Ivi Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kolb have invented a radical new way of reusing one of the design processes’ most wasteful customs – discarded architectural mock-ups...

A new program to reuse architectural mock-ups in community gardens is gaining interest as a way to keep them out of the landfill.

A new program to reuse architectural mock-ups in community gardens is gaining interest as a way to keep them out of the landfill.

Model Behavior, an exhibition at the Cooper Union stages architectural and informational models, but the subject of conduct goes unexplored.

New Affiliates has designed art studios, country homes, and temporary installations, for numerous art venues and events.