TUNA is a practice as project. The work shown here in not an end but a means towards defining TUNA as a brand. The realities of a small architecture practice are such that the type and source of work is unpredictable and, indeed, we are more defined by the work itself than our own definitions. With that acknowledgement, TUNA utilizes intuition and experimentation, with the anticipation that a body of work will emerge which reflects what exactly TUNA is. Thus also, the name “TUNA” itself which has no real source of inspiration other than feeling appropriate to our type of work. TUNA is content not “knowing” but rather “pursuing”, and whatever circumstances may have brought you here may be what makes a project happen.
Feel free to reach out: crg@t-u-n-a.com
TUNA ARCHITECTURE
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Christopher R. Gardner RA is an architect and educator based in New York City. He is an adjunct professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and has experience in all phases of design from previous time at the offices of Workshop/APD and Bade Stageberg Cox.
Chris earned his Bachelor’s of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation where he received the William Ware Prize/Saul Kaplan Fellowship and the inaugural Buell Center Paris Prize.
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