Through 12.20.08
Fashioning the Modern French Interior: Pochoir Portfolios in the 1920s

Over 70 prints selected from four French interior design portfolios produced in the 1920s are on view. Using a technique known as pochoir, highly skilled artisans manually colored the prints with the aid of carefully cut stencils. Organized by The Wolfsonian-Florida International University in Miami Beach, the exhibition promotes the Style Moderne, later known as Art Deco. A complementary photography exhibition entitled Art Deco New York will be on view in the school’s anterior gallery space as well.

The New York School of Interior Design
170 E. 70th Street

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10.02.08 through 10.14.08
Architects Draw — Freeing the Hand

To celebrate the launch of Architects Draw and to honor Sue Ferguson Gussow, professor at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union, a symposium on the subject of drawing in architectural education will be held in The Great Hall of The Cooper Union on 10.02.08 at 6:30 pm. Following the panel discussion, the Architects Draw – Freeing the Hand exhibition opens and will feature many original illustrations from the book.

The Cooper Union, Houghton Gallery
7 East 7th Street, 2nd Floor

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10.02.08 through 12.31.08
Tadashi Kawamata: Tree Huts

Japanese-born artist Tadashi Kawamata’s public installations, also known as “displacements,” transform the spaces they occupy; complex and chaotic architectural growths of raw lumber, found objects, and construction scraps bloom around existing aspects of the urban landscape. Tree huts are a crystallization of Kawamata’s interest in the architecture of shelter and the insertion of private objects into public spaces as a method of renegotiating the meaning of both. This marks the artist’s first exploration of this theme on a North American site. Check out the Tree Huts blog [http://madsqhuts.wordpress.com/] for daily updates and images.

Madison Square Park
Fifth Ave. at 23rd Street