Exhibition of experimental architecture
An exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery in London running June 15, 2006 - September 17, 2006.
From extraordinary houses and incredible towers, to fantasy cityscapes and inhabitable sculptures, Future City showcases the most radical and experimental architecture to have emerged in the past 50 years.
From the visionary artist-turned-architect Constant Nieuwenhuys, to 1960’s giants Archigram and SuperStudio, to deconstructivists Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid and contemporary digitally inspired work by Nox and Decoi, this is the most comprehensive survey of experimental architecture to be held in the UK.
Link: Barbican - Future City
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and the Canada Council for the Arts have announced the winners of the Governor General's Medals in Architecture for 2006.
An exhibit at the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona running September 9, 2006 - January 27, 2007.
Nearly two years ago we were inundated with traffic after featuring the work of Brave Space Design. Specifically, it was their Tetris shelving that ignited the firestorm... people were like, freaking out. Totally.
Sense of Place is a UK design shop that creates furniture and cabinetry using both contemporary and traditional methods. I discovered Sense of Place after browsing the portfolio of a photographer that photographed their furniture catalog and was impressed both by his work and SoP's craftmanship. Their one-off piece, "The Table", is featured at right.
London based artist Joanna Sands bridges the realms of art and architecture by creating contextual sculptures which challenge and inform the perception of space. She began making large temporary sculptural installations in abandoned buildings in 1993, often using found materials. The use of dilapidated structures as a canvas brings to mind the work of Gordon Matta-Clark - the appropriation and investigation of cast off places. By making visually simple alterations to found spaces, Joanna subverts the spatial expectations of the viewer. These early pieces were ephemeral: constructed, documented, experienced as the venue for a "viewing" party, and then dismantled.
San-Francisco-based designer Galya Rosenfeld has created a system that uses fabric scraps which can be attached and configured without glue, stitching, buttons, etc. to create a wide variety of objects. One of her creations from this ingenious system are Modular Pillows. The beauty of the system is that there are practically infinite configurations of colors and forms - damaged pieces can be replaced and the entire object can be disassembled and recycled.