NEW YORK—When Richard Cameron shows up at a meeting with a portfolio full of handmade drawings, people are almost flabbergasted. The drawings almost take on a magical quality in a world dominated by pixilated images and mass production.
“One of the terrible problems of architecture now is that it is a profession without its core—which is an artistic practice, first and foremost. If architecture is not an art, it is nothing,” Cameron said in his architectural design firm, Atelier & Co. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Cameron co-founded Atelier & Co. with Jason Grimes in 2009 intending to bring artistry back into architecture. They collaborate with architects and artisans to work on a range of projects, from residential to commercial buildings, as well as interiors and preservation projects, like their proposal to restore the original Penn Station designed by Charles McKim.
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