During their years as Project Managers at Rafael Viñoly Architects, Studio AI co-founder Mateo Paiva served as the architect coordinating the installation of Richard Serra's "The Hedgehog and the Fox" (2000) directly with Serra himself — managing the complex logistics of siting and installing one of the most significant works of public sculpture on any American university campus.

The work consists of three serpentine sheets of Cor-Ten weathering steel, each 94 feet long and 15 feet high, installed between Peyton and Fine Halls adjacent to Princeton Stadium. Commissioned by Princeton graduate Peter Joseph in honor of his children, the sculpture was designed to adapt itself to the curves of the stadium in the background — creating what Serra described as a visual continuum between art and architecture.

Coordinating a Serra installation demands an unusually close working relationship between architect and artist and the University. Serra's practice — no grinding, no painting, no digital measurement, each piece bearing the marks of its own making — requires the kind of precise logistical and spatial thinking that bridges architecture and sculpture.

For Mateo, the experience of working directly with Serra on the installation of a work at this scale was formative — an early lesson in how art and architecture can occupy the same space without one subordinating the other.