NEWS

  • 2025 US Pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale

    2025 US Pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale

    February 2025
    Peoples Architecture Office and Plugin House have been selected as a finalist for PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity, the U.S. Pavilion exhibition at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

  • Archigram Ten

    Archigram Ten

    December 2024
    PAO contributed ‘Megacity Plugins’ to Archigram Ten, edited by Peter Cook.

    https://www.accartbooks.com/us/book/archigram-ten/
  • Interrogative Design

    Interrogative Design

    October 2024
    James contributed ‘The Practice of Interrogative Design’ and ‘People’s Canopy’ to the publication about Krzystof Wodiczki’s art practice, edited byIan Wojtowicz.

    https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048651/interrogative-design/

  • Time Pieces at Frieze LA 2024

    February 13, 2024
    Time Pieces will be exhibited together with Gordon Matta Clark’s ‘Clockshower’ at the ‘Inhabiting Time’ exhibition curated by Somi Sim from February 29 - March 3.

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  • LA County Parks and Recreation selects our designs for Public Art Park Benches

    January 25, 2024
    PAO collaborated with artist Jennifer Tran to design Cursive LA and Folded LA, public art benches for 9 parks across LA County.

  • Long Beach City Council Approves PAO's Covid-19 Memorial

    January 16, 2024
    We are pleased to announce that our design for the Long Beach Covid-19 Memorial to be located in Lincoln Park in downtown Long Beach was approved by city council tonight.

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  • Governor Newsom gives State of the State address in front of Plugin House

    March 16, 2023
    Governor Newsom announced plans to build 1200 emergency sleeping shelters for people experiencing homelessness. The Governor was very excited to tour our unit.

  • Published Paper for Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies

    July 2023
    James Shen co-authored the Pew Cheritable Trust sponsored paper with Chris Herbert and Chad Reed comparing the costs of manufactured and site-built housing.

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  • Learning Landscape Elementary School project Topping Out Ceremony

    December 13, 2023

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  • Plugin House at the 2023 Lisbon Architecture Triennale

    February 1, 2023
    Excited that Plugin House is included in Multiplicity, curated by Tau Tavengwa and Vyjayanthi Rao. On view at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale.

  • Esperanza Community Plugin Houses and gathering spaces for people suffering from homelessness complete

    September 12, 2022

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  • Liminal City featured in 'Do You Miss the Future?' exhibition for Hyundai Motorstudio Busan

    December 9, 2021

ABOUT PAO

Los Angeles-based PAO is led by James Shen. With offices also in Beijing and Shenzhen, PAO is a multi-disciplinary practice working at the intersection of architecture, art, product design and urbanism. PAO believes that design is for the masses, and focuses on social impact through design.