Combining a host of experience from the worlds of starchitecture, academia, corporate architecture, and even the entertainment industry, Solid Objectives Idenburg Liu is a small studio with a global reach. Founders Florian Idenburg - ex-SANAA and well-established architectural educator - and Jing Liu - ex-KPF - set up their Brooklyn-based studio to be a creative catalyst, involved at all scales and all stages of the architectural process. Partners in and out of the office, their work is necessarily intense and highly worked. Recent projects include a scheme for a house for designer Ivan Chermayeff. He talks here with the architects about the design. www.so-il.org