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Tronic Studios: Architecture’s New Heavy-Hitter on the Block

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

By JRS

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Tronic Studio co-founders, Vivian Rosenthal and Jesse Seppi, bring architecture off the paper and onto the screen

Vivian Rosenthal and Jesse Seppi met almost ten years ago in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture. As Vivian puts it, it was a unique time in the history architecture. The dean of the college at the time was Bernard Tschumi, who was really pushing what he called “paperless studios.” “You think of an architect or an architecture student,” Rosenthal explains, “and you think of a drafting board and a pencil. But the dean was really pushing for studios where everything was done on the computer. ”

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