Author; eliliebenow

Since The World Has Been Numb My Body Has Become More Alive While Dreaming And A Way For My Mind To Reach Climax

2020 Top 30 – The Charette “Alternate Realities” My current relationship and COVID has changed how I view intimacy. My reactions to social situations are different from when it once was. I actually feel safer in some ways because of how careful most people are. Moving around in the world has changed. Now, I use […]

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What If We Have Love Instead Of Concrete

2020 Shortlisted Submission to Combo Competition’s “Emotions, Architecture, Opioids” Here is a place to grow. Surrounded by colors and materials that want us to be feel happy, confident, and balanced. It’s about feeling free from judgment. The plan consists of a Reception Area, Clinical Areas, Administration Spaces, and Building Support Rooms. When you look out […]

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Dreaming Milwaukee

2018 This project embodies acts of discovery from 9 am to 9 pm with 35mm Velvia slide film. Resulting in a photographic adventure, the viewer walks around in a flurry of images organic to the underground city, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Whether the viewer might recognize a small portion or most portraits, this is only a surface layer. The creator […]

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Made Labs Workshop

Made Labs Workshop | MAIO Architects Siracusa, Italy | 27 July 2019 – 4 August 2019 Furthering MAIO Architects’ extensive research on communal kitchens, we were tasked to create pieces of furniture that held a specific task. I had heating and lighting while the other groups had Service, Storage, Watering, Eating, Preparing, and Refreshing & Shadowing. […]

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It’s All About the Legs

2019 House In Forest Submission Definitely Not Architecture (Eli Liebenow & Cameron Kursel) This artificially forested area is ripe for the possibility of Architectural intervention. The conditions of the site include the presence of an unrelenting grid system of trees and seasonal flooding of up to 15 feet. With these site specific challenges questions arise 1. From the […]

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What’s the Safe Word?

2019 Refworks “9^3 Squares” Submission Definitely Not Architecture (Eli Liebenow & Cameron Kursel) Sex is a poorly taught subject in western culture; yet, our exposure to sexually explicit content is continually increasing through the media and the internet. We are a hyper-sexualized but sexually-repressed society. With this sexual overexposure, we must usher an area of Sex Positivity and […]

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Soul-ection

2016 Cemetery Design sited at the Reed Street Yards in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Chapter 1 – “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was lying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he […]

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