NEW TALENT A Process of Becoming

摘要

Dan Spiegel and Megumi Aihara are no strangers to upheaval. When the three of us spoke for this piece, a significant portion of the world remained in COVID-19 lockdown. But Spiegel Aihara Workshop (SAW), the eight-person architecture and landscape firm that the two lead, seems oddly ready for such a historical moment. The partners completed their degrees at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2007 and 2008, entering "into what, at the time, we thought was the worst economic meltdown we would face," says Spiegel. "It was both a pressure and an opportunity to think differently about the practice, try to stay small and nimble and do whatever projects we could."