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I|K studio is the office co-founded by Mariana Ibanez and Simon Kim. Interested in a destabilized practice of design, where dynamic networks replace the single authority, I|K studio was established in 2005 in London, England. The principals met at the Architectural Association where they both received thesis honors. After working for Zaha Hadid, IK studio re-located to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mariana Ibanez is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and Simon Kim is a Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Research Associate at MIT's Design Lab.
Recent designs include a house in Inner Mongolia and a light field exhibition at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Experimentation into electronic art and interactivity generated an operable clothing/cladding system for the Museum of Science in Boston and a digital navigation device. The studio continues to investigate the issue of responsive environments, adaptive structures, networked energy distribution and robotic architecture. The premise of the practice focuses on clean geometries and strict systems that are corrupted in every effort to find the true nature of technique and its relationship to design.