09.20.08 through 11.30.08
Diller Scofidio + Renfro – Arbores Laetae (Joyful Trees)
As part of the 2008 Liverpool Biennial arts festival, Diller Scofidio + Renfro designed an installation consisting of 17 hornbeams planted in a grid pattern with rotating trees. The site is a former brownfield close to the Liverpool Cathedral. Intended to be a playful reinvention of a public park, the architects want people to “view nature at its most unnatural.” Fifteen art works were commissioned for the month-long festival to be exhibited in public spaces.

2008 Liverpool Biennial
Parliament Street, Liverpool, England

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09.25.08 through 11.22.08
Matters of Sensation
This exhibition contains projects by 14 American architecture studios exploring design through digital rendering. Unaligned in their interests, this group of young architects produce work that attempts to answer no questions, solve no problems, and broach no oppositions. It is, rather, about a fascination with architectural forms that induce sensation — about fantasy, intimacy, sci-fi, and experiencing pleasure. Exhibiting architects are davidclovers with C.E.B. Reas, Emergent, Gage/Clemenceau Architects, Gnuform, Hirsuta, Höweler+Yoon Architecture, IwamotoScott Architecture, mod, MOS, murmur, Ruy Klein, Sotamaa, SU11, and Xefirotarch.

Artists Space
38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor, NYC