Yonathan Moore is a Brooklyn-based designer and architect whose practice is organized around a guiding question: how can a fabrication process become a language that tells narratives through objects.
Before studying architecture, Moore studied cinema, drawn to how images carry collective ideas and archetypical narrative that precede language. He kept exploring this idea through the lens of architecture while studying at the Architectural Association in London and Columbia University GSAPP in New York. The workshops became his primary site of thinking and architecture models had an inexplicable tendency to become lights.
After several years in large architecture practices, he received the Future of Work Fellowship, a yearlong fabrication residency during which he developed his first series of sculptural lights, subsequently shown at Design Miami, Salon Art+Design, and NYCxDESIGN through Tuleste Factory.
His current project was born from a long obsession with aluminum extrusion: a process omnipresent in the built environment: The cross-sections of extruded aluminum profiles in curtain wall frames, intricate and unintentionally beautiful, as well as the flowering heat sinks inside electronic devices, are almost always hidden from sight as hidden utility. Moore set out to flip that logic: using extrusion not just for its industrial efficiency, but also as a medium for drawing in metal. Flux Metal Drape, the proprietary system he developed, uses two custom interlocking extrusions to generate continuously rippling metal surfaces of varying wave frequency, rhythm, and proportion across lighting, objects, and spatial installations.