M5 Ornament
Flipping through this month's Architectural Record, I noticed a blurb on an architecture exhibition called Ornament, being held at M5 from March 5-26. The magazine describes it as:
Unfortunately M5's web page provides no further information, and a quick google search yields little to nothing, though SCI-ARC does have a press release (pdf) with details.
Participants include:
The exhibition is located at 216 W. Chicago, 2nd floor, is curated by Melissa Urcan, and sounds worth checking out.
An exhibition of architects working with new materials and fabrication processes that push the boundaries of conventional wisdom. The show aims to examine and reveal the contemporary understanding of ornament in present architectural design, allowing for a new perspective on historical precedent.
Unfortunately M5's web page provides no further information, and a quick google search yields little to nothing, though SCI-ARC does have a press release (pdf) with details.
Participants include:
Hernan Diaz Alonso(Xefirotarch)
Ammar Eloueini (Digit-all Studio)
Doug Garofalo (GarofaloArchitects)
Mark Goulthorpe (dECOi)
Lisa Iwamoto/Craig Scott (Iwamoto Scott Architecture)
Anders Nereim/Paul Preissner (Qua‘Virarch)
Ali Rahim (Contemporary Architecture Practice)
Blair Satterfield/Marc Swackhamer (SLV)
Nader Tehrani/Monica Ponce de Leon (Office dA).
The exhibition is located at 216 W. Chicago, 2nd floor, is curated by Melissa Urcan, and sounds worth checking out.
I got a gander at that one last weekend. There's some interesting stuff, little of which appears to have practical application as architecture. For instance there's a charming peice consisting of a folded polycarbonate wall rigged up with servos so that it continuously jiggles.
ReplyDeleteThat was the first time I've been to the space, which is wonderfully suited to the exhibition. Its artfully unfinished rawness provides a nice background for the works.
Anders Nereim and Paul Preissner do not work together.. Quavirarch is Paul Preissners practice. Anders Nereim practices under his own name.. which is why it was shown as such in the publication.
ReplyDeleteI will admit that the Nervous Wall System is shy and easily overwhelmed into general jiggliness during party, gallery opening, or dark late night situations. It is SUPPOSED to respond to shadows passing over it by closing up a bit, and to nice sunny situations by opening up a bit.
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