Natalia  Colasurdo speaks with Greg Melitonov, Partner and Director of both  Taller KEN and the FUNdaMENTAL Design Build Initiative.

Having  met while working for Renzo Piano in Italy, Greg and his partner Ines  Guzman founded Taller KEN as a New York and Guatemala based architecture  practice focused on playful design with social and cultural relevancy.   Find out what sets them apart from other design firms and how they  approach design.

Greg  is an award winning architect having been awarded one of five 2019  MacDowell Colony Fellowships in Architecture, one of ten chosen for the  2018 Art OMI Architecture Residency, one of six chosen for the 2019 NY  Architectural League Prize.  As a firm Taller KEN has being recognized  as one of six AIA New Practices New York winners for 2016, and Interior  Design Magazine has named Taller KEN one of their 40@forty emerging  designers.