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From the scale of the city to the detail, CODA designs unique, site-responsive, and sustainable solutions that balance function and desire. ​ Our award-winning work is known for its use of an innovative material palette, as well as for our commitment to a dynamic interaction between the architecture and its inhabitants over time.​


Since 2008, CODA has designed inventive solutions for a range of programs, from art installations to houses, from religious and public buildings to housing, and from furniture to entire city design. Despite this range, all of the projects have a specific approach in common: a deep investigation of the programmatic needs of the user at the same time as an expanded analysis of what the site has to offer, including materials, climate, landscape, etc. This approach leads to solutions that are at once novel and in dialogue with the context. Our designs are often not one thing, but exist in different states in response to different seasons or programs.


CODA's practice collaborates regularly with O'Donnell's Ecological Action Lab at Cornell University and with the design practice OMG (O'Donnell Miller Group), a collaboration with Martin Miller.

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DESIGN DIRECTOR: IRIS XIAOXUE MA



2018-2023



FARZAD (FREDDO) DANESHVARAN



2019-2022



KATE HEATH



2020-2022



JOSÉ IBARRA



2016-2021



MOLLY MA



2019-2021



ISA BRANAS



2020-2021



ALEXANDRE MECATTAF



2018-2020



JOHN LAI



2013-2019



MWANZAA BROWN



2018-2019



BRIAN HAVENER



2019



ALIREZA SHOJAKHANI



2016-2018



DEREK YI



2018



VANILLE FRICKER



2018



MARIA YUE MA



2018



TRAVIS NISSEN



2017



LAURA-INDIA GARINOIS



2017



HANA SVATOŠ-RAŽNJEVIĆ



2015-2016



CHRISTOPHER MORSE



2016



IROHA ITO



2014-2015



JUAN CARLOS ARTOLOZAGA



2014-2015



RACHEL MEI-LAN TAN



2015



MIN KEUN PARK



2015



SUZANNE LETTIERI



2011-2013



MICHAEL JEFFERSON



2012-2013



PEOPLE



CAROLINE O'DONNELL



PRINCIPAL



Caroline O’Donnell is a licensed architect, writer, and educator. Her work focuses on architecture that is responsive to its environment, often transforming between multiple states, whether by mechanical, human or natural means. She is perhaps best known for winning the MoMA PS1 Young Architects' Program with Party Wall which was built at PS1 in 2013; Urchin chair pavilion, winner of the Cornell Arts Biennial competition in 2016; and for two prize-winning Europan housing schemes.


O’Donnell is the Edgar A. Tafel associate professor and chair of the department of architecture at Cornell University, where she teaches studios and seminars on themes of environmentally responsive architecture and material reuse.


O'Donnell's first book Niche Tactics: Generative Relationships Between Architecture and Site was published with Routldge in 2015. Her most recent book Werewolf: The Architecture of Lunacy, Shape-shifting and Material Metamorphosis with José Ibarra will be published with ORO in 2021. She was the editor-in-chief of the Cornell Journal of Architecture from 2009 - 2017 and founding editor of Pidgin magazine in 2005.


O'Donnell was born in Athlone, Ireland, and grew up there and in Derry, Northern Ireland. She has a B.Arch from Manchester University, England (2000) with a specialization in Bioclimatics and an M.Arch from Princeton University (2004). She has practiced at KCAP, (Kees Christiaanse Architects and Planners), Rotterdam, NettletonWilloughby Williams, Sydney, Australia, and Eisenman Architects, New York.





INSTALLATIONS





THANKS TO



Team: Xiaoxue Ma, Alexander Terry, Isabel Branas Jarque, Christopher Yi, Mwanzaa Brown, Olivier Ducharme, Brian Havener, Poyen Hsieh, Eleanor Krause, Wachira Leangtanom, Hafsa Muhammad, Anbar Oreizi-Esfahani, Dylan Arceneaux, Nicolas Leonard, Vanille Fricker, Lucy Flieger, Isabella Hubsch, Derek Yi, Dillon Pranger, Gretchen Craig, Kashyap Valiveti, Alexandre Mecattaf, Alireza Shojakhani, Shovan Shah, Daniel Torres, Yang Zhao, Ramses Gonzalez, Emma Boudreau, Maureen O’Brien, Jason Lin, Evan McDowell, Eliana Dryer, Tess Clancy, Melanie Monastirsky, Stephen Clond, Heather Mauldin, Joseph Diamond, Edward Aguilera Perez, Sarah Bujnowski, Tianqi Cui, Ximeng Pan, Haoran Wang, Diego Garcia Blanco, Peter Stec,Juan Carlos Artologaza,

Basak Akman / Zahid Alibhai / Kun Bi / Emma Boudreau / Isabel Branas / Mwanzaa Brown / Sarah Bujnowski / Kun Chen / Stephen Clond / Jacob Cohen / George DiStefano / Gary Esposito / Aurelie Frolet / Ramses Gonzalez / Yue (Lancer) Gu /
Jose Ibarra / Ellie Krause / Mark Leskovec / Mark Yu-Chen Lien / Laure
Lochry / Lingzhe Lu / Xiaoxue (Iris) Ma / Alexandre Mecattaf / Jamie Mitchell / Brad Nathanson / Sophie Nichols / Travis Nissen / Ye Chen (Daniel) Park / Leroy Patterson / Max Piersol / Zelmira Rizo-Patron / Alireza Shojakhani / Alex Terry / Haoran (Henry) Wang / Derek Yi / Linjun Yu / Maggie Zou. Luke Erickson, and others

,Stephen Clipp, Jimmy Hong Ji Chen, Joseph Kennedy, Lucas GrecO Daniel Salomon, JerrY LAI, Giffen Ott, Jessica Levin, Le Luo, Yeung Shin, Siobhan Lee, Noah Ives, Chris Ray, Jessica Tranquada, Leslie Mignin, Sarah Haubner, Courtney Jiyun Song, Nathan C. Friedman



CODA

Ithaca, NY, 14850
607-379-9373
cod@co-da.co