Through 04.05.10
Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary
Peter Matthews, 11 Hours in the Pacific Ocean (detail), December 2007. Ink, water from Pacific Ocean and rust on paper.
Courtesy of the artist
This exhibition explores the fundamental role of drawing in the work of Greek avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001). Trained as a civil engineer, Xekakis became an architect while working with Le Corbusier. Comprised of nearly 100 documents created between 1953 and 1984, this is the first North American exhibition dedicated to Xenakis’s original works on paper. Included are hand-rendered scores, architectural drawings, conceptual renderings, pre-compositional sketches, and graphic scores.
The Drawing Center
Main Gallery, 35 Wooster Street, NYC
Through 04.11.10
Diseño Mexicano: Mexican Design
Don Shoemaker X chairs.
Courtesy Sebastian + Barquet
Sebastian + Barquet’s first New York retrospective of Mexican 20th- and 21st-century design includes works by some of the era’s most significant designers. The exhibition showcases six chairs in sabino wood and leather from the Casa Prieto Lopez in El Pedregal by Luis Barragán; a loveseat in Cocobolo and leather from Morelia by the Nebraskan émigré Don Shoemaker; a butterfly mosaic coffee table by Juan O’Gorman; and a prototype “Flex” coffee table made from undulating strips of maple plywood by Emiliano Godoy.
Sebastian + Barquet
544 West 24th Street, NYC
Through 04.17.10
Landscapes of Quarantine
Storefront for Art and Architecture
This exhibition features new works by a multi-disciplinary group of 18 artists, designers, and architects, each of whom was inspired by one or more of the physical, biological, ethical, architectural, social, political, temporal, and even astronomical dimensions of quarantine.
Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street, NYC
Through 05.05.10
Envelopes
“Wanderings,” from environmental design office Weathers founder Sean Lally’s Climate Design series. The work is an exterior infrastructure that can be purchased for private gardens, gardens, public parks, and landscapes to enhance and change the local climate of the site.
Courtesy of Weathers
This exhibition explores new and sustainable potentials of the architectural surface in terms of the skin of a building and also as a sensorial space that envelops the body. On view are full-scale, interactive models accompanied by architectural renderings, computer animations, and process documentation from eight international firms and designers.
Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street, 2nd Floor, NYC