Empty
Tim Gudgel serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Empty since May 2024, focusing on assembling a top-tier team for museum, exhibition, and architectural projects. Previously, Tim Gudgel held the position of Senior Director of Global Retail Development at Lucid Motors from December 2018 to July 2022, where retail expansion initiatives were led. Tim Gudgel contributed as an Advisory Board Member at Roost House during the same timeframe. Prior roles include Vice President and General Manager at Samsung Electronics America, overseeing North American development efforts from December 2013 to May 2016, and Director of Design at Apple from March 2008 to November 2013, managing retail store design and development in the US and Europe. Tim Gudgel also served as Director of Architecture at Novartis, overseeing a significant corporate office expansion project, and worked as an Architect at Gehry Partners from January 2001 to February 2007. Tim Gudgel holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Washington State University.
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Empty
The activity of Empty is centered on the development of unique projects that must satisfy complex objectives, where the attention to the different aspects of design and material execution occupy a prominent place, so the work is always developed in highly demanding and stimulating contexts in terms of creativity and innovation. The brand Empty is associated to the guaranteed fulfillment of objectives of quality, deadlines and costs that must be kept in mind for every project. And as a company, its attitude is that of a close collaborator that is involved in the integral development of the process with rigor and professionality. The aim of Empty is to be an effective means to materialize complex projects that demand mobilizing and orchestrating a broad range of human and technical resources, where each challenge is undertaken with enthusiasm and sensitivity, endeavoring to bring to every result the satisfaction of things done well. Empty's history began in 1991 with the desire to create a company that did things differently in the construction and architecture world. Since then, the company has always acted with a clear calling for excellence in each and every environment it has contributed to. Today, Empty is a benchmark company in its sector, having worked with countless designers and architects on many different projects, some of which have received prestigious national and international awards such as the FAD Ephemeral Spaces Awards and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.