April 15, 2022
The Canadian Center for Architecture’s exhibition A Section of Now and accompanying publication includes work by Associate Professor Anna Puigjaner (MAIO), Faculty Karla Rothstein (LATENT Productions, DeathLAB), Nahyun Hwang and David Eugin Moon (N H D M), Associate Professor Andrés Jaque (Office for Political Innovation), and Professor Mario Gooden (Mario Gooden Studio: Architecture + Design). The exhibition “looks at today, at the society in which we currently live, with a focus upon expanding notions of family, property ownership, activism, work, technology, and life expectations. How can architecture and urbanism better understand our contemporary conditions, and how might they adapt to better address the challenges these conditions present?” The show runs through May 22, 2022.
Visit the Canadian Centre for Architecture to learn more.
Professor Jorge Otero-Pailos, Director of the Historic Preservation Programs, is exhibiting his work in two shows: The Ethics of Dust: Alumix at the Museion of Bolzano in Italy (March 25 through September 18, 2022) and Regeneration at the American Academy in Rome (April 13 through June 12, 2022). Otero-Pailos works in latex casts, a conservation method used to remove dust and debris from historic monuments. The casts preserve the topography of historic structures along with the dust that has settled on them, re-presenting the longitudinal history of a building and its environment.
Visit the Museion of Bolzano and the American Academy in Rome to learn more.
The exhibition “Reset: Towards a New Commons,” featuring work by GSAPP Faculty and Alumni including Alessandro Orsini, Ignacio G. Galan, Karen Kubey ‘09 MArch, Nick Roseboro '23 MSCCCP, and Sharon Egretta Sutton '73 MArch, is on view at the Center for Architecture from April 14 through September 3, 2022. The exhibition aims to open dialogues that foster more diverse and inclusive solutions to building community. Rather than designing specific spaces for specific needs, the exhibition considers how spaces may be designed for all, addressing the importance of barrier-free environments and practices rooted in “Universal Design.”
Visit the Center for Architecture to learn more.
Associate Professor Andrés Jaque (Office for Political Innovation) as well as Adjunct Assistant Professor Sharon Ayalon and Assistant Professor Lola Ben-Alon were recently announced as participants in the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale: Edible; Or, The Architecture of Metabolism. The program “aims to empower architects, planners, and environmental designers to take a proactive stance on architecture’s expressive capacity to perform circular operations, to generate resources – food and energy – and to self-decompose.”
Visit the Tallinn Architecture Biennale to learn more.
“Laminated Earth” by artist Sharon Ayalon, Adjunct Assistant Professor at GSAPP, and curated by Lola Ben-Alon, Assistant Professor at GSAPP, is on view at the ZAZ10TS Gallery through April 28, 2022. The site-specific installation includes mud paintings, sculpture, and video art performance. The gallery states, “In her work, Yavo Ayalon makes references to her childhood landscapes at the Israeli Kibbutz while contemplating land histories and her relocated housing experience in the USA. The soils used in the exhibition were extracted by the artist from Goshen, a village in upstate NY that is named after the Biblical Goshen in Israel.”
Visit the ZAZ10TS Gallery to learn more.
Lindsey Wikstrom, Adjunct Assistant Professor at GSAPP and founding principal of Mattaforma, is hosting an online discussion series titled Material Words at the Museum of Modern Art’s Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment. The series “gathers together experts and scholars who transcend the typical boundaries of expertise to posit new viewpoints on the equitable and resilient sourcing of building materials, not only to envision the future but also to better understand the past and present of humanity’s impact on the nonhuman world.”
Visit the Museum of Modern Art to learn more.
The work of Stephen Burks, Adjunct Assistant Professor at GSAPP and founder of Stephen Burks Man Made, will be surveyed in the upcoming exhibition Stephen Burks: Shelter in Place at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta on view from September 2022 through March 2023. The museum states, “In the wake of several global crises, designers have responded by redefining our relationship to our homes, including interrogating the modernist trope of better living through design. Stephen Burks: Shelter in Place explores ideas concerning domesticity—namely asking how we can design our interiors to enable joyful living while empowering creativity.”
Visit the High Museum of Art to learn more.
Professor Hilary Sample’s firm MOS is currently exhibiting their work as part of the exhibition (662) MOS ARCH on display through April 22, 2022 at Princeton School of Architecture’s North Gallery. The curatorial statement reads, “MOS makes a lot of stuff, all the time, many times without clients, on many platforms, through various media. We ourselves are constantly reaching out, in the hope of finding a common ground within our fragmented attention. We produce spam architecture. And perhaps paradoxically, as much as we spam, architecture’s physicality, collaboration, and use (both functional and cultural) make it unlike spam.”
Visit the Princeton School of Architecture for more information.
Professor Juan Herreros’ firm EstudioHerreros opens the exhibition “Lambda Files. The project of the Munch Museum in Oslo” at the CentroCentro Cibeles in Madrid on April 21, 2022. The show documents the twelve years of work that EstudioHerreros dedicated to the design and construction of the Munch Museum in Oslo. The exhibition “shows how the new ways of doing architecture are the result of intense processes of political and social dialogue, of long-term collaborations between diverse agents.”
Visit the CentroCentro Cibeles to learn more.
Associate Professor Anna Puigjaner’s firm MAIO Architects has designed the architectural work inside the Spanish Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, featuring the work Correction by artist Ignasi Aballí. The pavilion, curated by Bea Espejo, is open from April 23 through November 27, 2022.
Visit the announcement on e-flux and the Venice Biennale website to learn more.
Professor Mario Gooden’s performance Black Holes Ain’t So Black (2021 - 2022) was recently presented at SCI-Arc on March 1, 2022. The performance overview states, “At this present moment in history and the global social revolution of Black, indigenous, and people of color against the forces of systemic oppression, Hawking’s description of the event horizon takes on particular resonance. However, the fugitivity and futurity of a black hole is also evocative of the ways in which Black bodies have moved through space and manipulated space-time to create flows and spaces of liberation. The Blackness of a black hole is elusive and illegible; yet it produces a dark matter that transforms existence, knowledge, and culture.”
Watch a recording of the performance on the SCI-Arc Channel.
Adjunct Assistant Professor Lexi Tsien’s firm Soft-Firm recently designed a reconfigurable outdoor theater, Drive-Thru, that featured a series of videos and performances by Brooklyn artists and cultural organizations over eight weeks. “Inspired by the classic drive-in movie experience, Drive-Thru comprises a reconfigurable outdoor theater that incorporates light through rear projection, serving as an outdoor cinema visible from the highly utilized intersection of Flatbush and Lafayette Avenues.” Drive-Thru is the second public art installation to be unveiled at The Plaza at 300 Ashland, and is supported by the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership (DBP) and Van Alen Institute in partnership with Two Trees Management,
Visit the Downtown Brooklyn website to learn more.