Center for Architecture Gallery Hours and Location
Monday-Friday: 9:00am-8:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday: CLOSED
536 LaGuardia Place, Between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets in Greenwich Village, NYC, 212-683-0023
On view February 17 — May 1, 2010.
On view April 8 — May 3
On view April 15 — July 3, 2010.
Through 04.10.10
Two Decades: Envisioning Space
Courtesy of School of Visual Arts
Selected works by current students and alumni from the BFA Interior Design Department over the past 20 years. Divided into six sections — prototypes, renderings, models, and drawings — the exhibition provides a “behind the scenes” glimpse into the creative process of students in the department.
Westside Gallery, 133 West 21 Street, NYC
Through 04.23.10
Ouroboros: The History of the Universe
This 3-D visual installation tells the story of cosmic evolution.
Courtesy Ise Cultural Foundation
Video artist Ali Hossaini teams up with artists Blake Shaw and Bruno Levy, aka SWEATSHOPPE, to present the story of cosmic evolution from the Big Bang to Lady Gaga in an immersive 3-D video environment generated by SWEATSHOPPE’s own software.
ISE Cultural Foundation [http://iseny.org/usr_helio1/index.php]
555 Broadway, NYC
Through 05.07.10
Operators’ Exercises: Open Form Film and Architecture
Game on an Actress’s Face, one of nine sequences of Open Form film, February 8-14, 1971.
Collaboration between students and graduates from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, students of the Faculty for Camera Operators and Faculty of Acting, ód Film Academy, courtesy Columbia University
This exhibition explores the surprising and productive relationship between Polish experimental film and architecture in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It traces the evolution of Polish architect Oskar Hansen’s theory of Open Form from its origin in Hansen’s own architectural projects to its application in film, multi-slide projection, visual games, and performative practices.
Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Buell Hall, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, NYC
Through 05.09.10
Ralph Bakshi: The Streets
Canal Street, Mixed-media on wood panel.
©Ralph Bakshi, 2010. Courtesy of Animazing Gallery
Ralph Bakshi’s new series of mixed-media construction/paintings was inspired by the gritty and colorful neighborhoods of his youth in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.
54 Greene Street, NYC
Center for Architecture Gallery Hours and Location
Monday-Friday: 9:00am-8:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday: CLOSED
536 LaGuardia Place, Between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets in Greenwich Village, NYC, 212-683-0023
On view February 17 — May 1, 2010.
On view February 17 — March 31, 2010.
On view January 30 — March 27, 2010.
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
Center for Architecture Gallery Hours and Location
Monday-Friday: 9:00am-8:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday: CLOSED
536 LaGuardia Place, Between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets in Greenwich Village, NYC, 212-683-0023
On view February 17 — May 1, 2010.
On view February 17 — March 31, 2010.
On view January 30 — March 27, 2010.
03.02.10 – 03.08.10
TIMESSQUAREARTS
“Black Sun” by Alexandre Arrechea. Illustration by Arrechea. Ten-minute animation of wrecking ball bouncing of the building. Video runs on NASDAQ screen at 11:50 PM.
Times Square Alliance
As part of the Public Art Program of the Times Square Alliance, several installations will grace Times Square, including: Sofia MalDonado’s “42nd Street Mural,” a 92 x 12 foot mural mounted on a construction fence (through 04.30.10); Alexandre Arrechea’s “Black Sun,” a 10-minute animation of a wrecking ball on the giant NASDAQ screen; and David Ellis and Roberto Lange’s Kinetic Sound Sculpture, a pile of real trash that moves and make sounds.
Times Square Alliance
Times Square, NYC
Through 03.20.10
Olafur Eliasson
Multiple shadow house (2010). Wood, metal, fabric, spotlights, color filter glass, halogen bulb, projection foil and transparent projection foil. Installation view Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, NY, 02.11-03.20.10.
Photo by Jean Vong, courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
This exhibition consists of a series of rooms, each lit with a bank of lights. The individual lights are different colors, but they create white light when blended on a single wall. As visitors walk in front and block the light sources, colored shadows are revealed.
Tonya Bonakdar Gallery
521 West 21st Street, NYC
Through 03.27.10
Konstantinos Stamatiou: Refused Reused
Konstantinos Stamatiou
An installation, collages, and light boxes made from non-traditional materials create a multilayered labyrinth of social issues and various forms of physical interaction between the art and the viewer.
Black and White Gallery
636 West 28th Street, NYC
Through 04.04.10
Design USA: Contemporary Innovation
LTL. Fluff Bakery, New York, NY, 2004.
Michael Moran
Celebrating the winners honored during the first 10 years of the National Design Awards, this exhibition features the work of the more than 75 award winners for outstanding contemporary achievements in architecture, landscape, interiors, product design, communication design, corporate design, interactive design, and fashion.
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street, NYC
Event: Modernism at Risk: Modern Solutions for Saving our Modern Landmarks and Back on the Map: Revisiting the New York State Pavilion at the 1964/65 World’s Fair exhibition openings
Location: Center for Architecture, 02.17.10
Speakers: Anthony Schirripa, FAIA, IIDA — 2010 AIANY President; Bonnie Burnham — President and CEO, World Monuments Fund; Frank Matero — Professor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania; Rick Bell, FAIA — AIANY Executive Director
Organizers: World Monuments Fund; Center for Architecture
Sponsors: Knoll, Inc.; Oldcastle Glass
Kent Memorial Library (1972) in Suffield, Connecticut. Architect: Warren Platner (1919-2006).
Photo by Andrew Moore
“It’s the next great idea, the next big problem for preservation,” according to Frank Matero, former chair of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania. “It” is a rapidly aging collection of Modernist landmarks. When major repairs become necessary, many historic buildings are destroyed due to technical challenges of their restoration, their perceived obsolescence, or simple public apathy. “While modern buildings face the same physical threats as ancient structures, they are too often overlooked as insignificant, not important enough to preserve. We launched our Modernism at Risk initiative to advocate for these often ignored buildings and to address their special needs,” stated Bonnie Burnham, president of the World Monuments Fund, the organization that organized the traveling exhibition, Modernism at Risk, currently on view at the Center for Architecture.
To counter these forces, the “Modernism at Risk” exhibition makes the case for design advocacy, encouraging architects to speak up for the importance of preserving our built heritage. Wall text celebrates how advocacy swayed public opinion to preserve Edward Durell Stone’s Conger Goodyear House; Marcel Breuer’s Grosse Point Public Library; Warren Platner’s Kent Memorial Library; and the ADGB Trade Union School in Germany, by Bauhaus architects Hannes Meyer and Hans Wittwer.
Other projects fared less fortunately: a scale model and several large photographs of Paul Rudolph’s Riverside High School make poignantly clear what was lost when the school was demolished last year. For added urgency, an “At Risk Now!” section calls attention to threatened works by Breuer, Rudolph, Walter Gropius, Eero Saarinen, and Carlos Raúl Villanueva; visitors are encouraged to send one of several free postcards to the organizations that are petitioning to save the buildings.
Back on the Map, on display simultaneously in the Helfand Gallery, presents Philip Johnson’s New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, built for the 1964-65 World’s Fair. The structure is itself an example of design advocacy. Photographs, articles, postcards, drawings, and a wall-length map and timeline bring to life the excitement that initially surrounded Johnson’s design, as well as the ongoing, still tenuous, efforts to conserve the pavilion and restore it to active use.
“These buildings are documents of a period that is no longer our ethos,” stated Matero. Their preservation is vital, but, he cautions, “the public is not behind it yet.” However, according to 2010 AIANY President Anthony Schirripa, FAIA, IIDA, “Preserving Modernist landmarks should be a goal not only for the design community, but for all communities that want to celebrate the diversity and richness of modern architecture in their midst. I hope these exhibitions will begin a dialogue amongst New Yorkers.”
Center for Architecture Gallery Hours and Location
Monday-Friday: 9:00am-8:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday: CLOSED
536 LaGuardia Place, Between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets in Greenwich Village, NYC, 212-683-0023
On view February 17 — May 1, 2010.
On view February 17 — March 31, 2010.
On view January 30 — February 27, 2010.
Through 03.13.10
The Great White Whale is Black
Study for a Cable City, Ink on Rice Paper, 2009.
Tony Candido
Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Professor and painter/architect Tony Candido presents his visionary idea of the interplay between humanity and the contemporary environment and what the future of architecture could be. The exhibition focuses on Candido’s calligraphic brush and ink paintings and drawings, which have been an important part of his output since 1967.
The Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, The Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street, 2nd floor, NYC
Through 03.21.10
Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks
Bronx River, New York Botanical Garden, autumn.
Copyright Joel Meyerowitz, Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, NY
Joel Meyerowitz’s expansive study of NYC’s parks, throughout all five boroughs, comprises an installation that includes large photographic prints, some as large as the gallery walls themselves. The images document the untamed and wild nature of the city’s open spaces, as well as bucolic and pastoral landscapes.
Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue, NYC
Through 04.03.10
SNØHETTA: architecture — landscape — interior
The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet.
Jens Passoth
The work of Snøhetta is featured offering insight into the design and construction of the firm’s most important works. Included are: Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt; the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, Norway; and the planned National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion in NYC. On view are films, photographs, drawings, models, and interactive learning devices.
Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America
58 Park Avenue, NYC
Through 04.28.10
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum
Julien De Smedt Architects (JDS), Brussels, Experiencing the Void, 2009.
Artwork © Julien De Smedt Architects (JDS)
The central void of the Guggenheim’s rotunda has elicited many unique responses over the years, which have been manifested in both site-specific solo shows and exhibition designs. For the building’s 50th anniversary, the museum invited more than 200 artists, architects, and designers to imagine their dream interventions in the space.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, NYC
Center for Architecture Gallery Hours and Location
Monday-Friday: 9:00am-8:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday: CLOSED
536 LaGuardia Place, Between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets in Greenwich Village, NYC, 212-683-0023
On view December 18 — February 10, 2010.
On view January 30 — February 27, 2010.