'Political' Organic Architecture

This is what it says on the website of Chicago architecture practice Qua'Virarch:

Founded May 2003 in Los Angeles, Qua'Virarch is an award-winning practice committed to producing political works of architecture, art and urban design which produce new feelings about the limits of atmosphere.

Sounds a bit ephemeral, right? But when you look at the recent works (most unrealized), it becomes clear that Qua'Virarch founder Paul Preissner is developing an esthetic which echoes something very solid, muscular and most definitely organic.

Here's what was written about the 2nd-place entry for the competition to design the Gyeonggi-Do Jeongok Prehistory Museum in South Korea:

The given site for the Museum is situated on a naturally steep terrain. For that reason, the design arose as the spatial continuation of the landscape and its organic (somewhat monstrous) metamorphosis into the building.

The site of the building occupies the negotiation between extremes in topography. This allows for the landscape to appear uninterrupted by the project and to appear as though site and building are beautiful confluences of natural forces.

It's a shame that their entry didn't win.

Link to the Qua'Virarch website
Link to an article about their entry for the Gyeonggi-Do Jeongok Prehistory Museum competition (scroll down for English)