Category: Architecture
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hMa recommends writer/designer Shonquis Moreno and her website shonquismoreno.com
Here is a short profile on Shonquis, excerpted from her website:
Brooklyn-based journalist Shonquis Moreno has served as an editor for Frame, Surface and Dwell magazines and writes on a freelance basis for publications such as T The New York Times Style Magazine (travel and design), Whitewall, Wallpaper, Metropolis, American Craft and Interior Design, among others. The lead author of Marcel Wanders: Behind The Ceiling, the designer's first monograph, Forefront, a book surveying international window display design, Eat Out! Restaurant Design & Food Experiences and Out of the Box: Brand Experiences Between Pop-Up & Flagship, she has also contributed to books published by Gestalten, Birkhauser and Frame on subjects ranging from architecture, interiors and furniture to product and packaging design.
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David Teeple: Dialogue with a Collection "Thinking Water: Poetry, Systems and Politics"
February 1 – March 16
Tuesday – Friday, 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM, Saturday/Sunday 2 – 5 PM Closed Mondays and Spring Break
freeUniversity Museum of Contemporary Art
Fine Arts Center University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003Exhibition view: David Teeple "Mississippi River with Border, Farms and Triangles", 2012
This exhibition is a series of exhibitions at the University Museum of Contemporary Art in which artists are invited to integrate their own works with pieces they select from the museum's works-on-paper collection, which includes over 2600 contemporary prints, drawings, and photographs. It features work by David Teeple alongside works he has selected and placed in direct dialogue with his own sculptures and works on paper.
Exhibition view: (L) David Teeple "Mississippi / Louisiana Border 2", 2010 (R) David Teeple " Verb/Noun List – Emotions", 2012
Teeple’s works will reference rivers, aquifers and the hydrologic cycle in context to systems of economy, society, nature and science. It will include the construction of glass tanks containing water, video images, sculptural pieces derived from bathymetry, vector drawings based on satellite imagery, and laser cut objects. Moreover, the exhibition will include paintings and silk-screens of river systems to create interwoven patterns and structures.
David Teeple has been a practicing artist since 1980, and has created dozens of mid- and large-scale projects. His work can be found in public, private, and corporate collections both nationally and internationally. From 1996 until 2008 he was founder and president of Atelier Lumiere Inc., an art and architectural design, consulting, fabrication and installation firm. Teeple’s most recent work, Water Music, spans a rail-road bridge in downtown Northampton, MA.Related Event:
March 2, 7 PM – Walking Water, a performance by David Teeple and seminal Fluxus work Drip Music by George Brecht, performed by members of Switch. -
Ward Shelley, People of the Book, Ver.1, (Detail), 2011, Oil and toner on mylar, 22 x 55 inches
WARD SHELLEY "Unreliable Narrator" Gallery 1 & 2
DATES | 17 February – 18 March 2012
LOCATION | Pierogi @ 177 North 9th St. (between Bedford & Driggs Aves)
DIRECTIONS | Take the L train to Bedford Ave stop. Walk 2 blocks to N. 9th St.
www.pierogi2000.comPRESS RELEASE
Unreliable Narrator is about believers. In this exhibition of timeline paintings, Ward Shelley proposes that believers are people who depend on a collection of narratives to explain the world around them.
Facts are like dots on a graph. The narrative is the curve that connects them, that gives isolated data points meaning, and gives meaning shape. This graphical epistemology emerges naturally from the way Shelley creates timelines, which he considers pictures of narratives.
As actors in the world, according to Shelley, we need a world view, and a world view requires some construction. Narratives are what we construct — they are the basic building blocks for organizing our outlook and interpreting the world. Yet they are shaped more by belief than by fact.
We are all believers; it seems there is no way around it. But the voice in our head is that of an unreliable narrator.
To explore the structure of narrative, half of Shelley's paintings are being shown naked, stripped of the text. Words are like magnets for the eyes and in Shelley's text-laden images, they crowd to the front of the viewer's attention to tell the story. Beneath is a structure — and this structure is also information, as well as informational architecture. Is there a necessary structure to narrative?
We use different parts of our brains for reading and looking. Is it possible that legible graphics, which utilize very conventional forms, rely on some pre-existing structure for thought, a pre-existing structure not unlike the innate cognitive structures in the brain that linguists believe precedes language and make it possible? This exhibition suggests that the shapes of information carry messages.
The subjects of the works included in this exhibition range from teenagers and the history of science fiction, to a diagram of the fluxus movement, among others. This will be Shelley’s fifth one-person exhibition at Pierogi. His performance, installation, and timeline works have been shown widely in Europe and the US. He is the recipient of numerous prizes and residency fellowships including the Priz de Rome and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award.
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Brian Greene (pictured) in an scene from the PBS series "The Fabric of the Cosmos"
PBS is showing episodes hosted by physicist Brian Greene. Professor Greene teaches mathematics and physics at Columbia University, and is also a best-selling author of several books, including 'The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos', published in 2011.
hMa's work makes several references to science and mathematics, and we hail Dr. Greene for bringing these materials to the public in a very profoundly readable format. The PBS episodes are fantastic, and we plan to purchase downloads for our i-Pads!
Click here to visit The Fabric of the Cosmos page on PBS.org
Infinity Chapel by hanrahan Meyers architects, developed in conversation about infinity, hypercubes, time, and light click here to view all images of Infinity Chapel on www.hanrahanmeyers.com -
Xenakis Simposium_Victoria Myers from BXMC on Vimeo. Victoria Meyers architect
Architect Victoria Meyers presents the work of hanrahan Meyers architects, and discusses the influences in the work from Iannis Xenakis. In particular, Ms. Meyers' talk focused on the firm's DWiP (Digital Water Pavilion), designed for Battery Park City's North Neighborhood, and scheduled to open in 2012. hMa is a firm that specializes in designing public buildings and masterplans for cities and campuses, incorporating state of the art green technologies, while also fostering collaborations with artists from around the world. hMa has collaborated with Michael Schumacher, David Teeple, and Jane Philbrick on various projects in the past. Jane Philbrick's latest site specific installation opened at Mass MoCA in September 2011.
About the Program: Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary explores the fundamental role of drawing in the work of avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001). One of the most important figures in twentieth-century music, Xenakis originally trained as an engineer and was also known as an architect, developing iconic designs while working with Le Corbusier in the 1950s. This North American premiere of Xenakis's visual work is comprised of samples of his pioneering graphic musings, architectural plans, compelling preparatory mathematical renderings, and pre-compositional sketches—in all, nearly 100 documents created between 1953 and 1984. The exhibition is accompanied by an exciting schedule of public programs, concerts, and symposia around New York City. Co-curated by Sharon Kanach and Carey Lovelace, the exhibition traveled to the Canadian Centre for Architecture (June 17 – October 17, 2010) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (November 7, 2010 – February 13, 2011).
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Between 8:30 and 10 a.m., enough people stand still, some in groups, to make the floor of the Grand Central Terminal look like an Italian piazza photo: Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
Excerpt from the article:
By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
Published: August 31, 2011"Every city has its own choreography, formal or informal. The composer John Cage loved to point out how any street corner is theater of a kind; the dance critic and poet Edwin Denby wrote ardently of how daily life was full of things to see; and when one of Merce Cunningham’s dancers asked what a piece was about, he took her to the window, showed her the view of the sidewalk and said, “That.”
To observe large numbers of people moving and coexisting in complex simultaneity, I chose to make two visits to Grand Central Terminal in August. Its main concourse is among the city’s spectacular locales, giving you the chance to observe the complex patterns made by arriving and departing passengers. Its vast, tall rectangular block of space is framed by high windows, a ceiling embellished with constellations, and double staircases at either end. With its many arches leading to other parts of the station and its central, four-faced clock, it is more than the sum of its exits and entrances: it adds heroic drama to the very thought of travel."
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A new type of financing will pay for a solar array at this California development. Photo: Peter DaSilva for The New York Times
Excerpt from the article:
By JUSTIN GILLIS
Published: September 19, 2011"A business consortium that includes Lockheed Martin and Barclays bank plans to invest as much as $650 million over the next few years to slash the energy consumption of buildings in the Miami and Sacramento areas. It is the most ambitious effort yet to jump-start a national market for energy upgrades that many people believe could eventually be worth billions.
Focusing mainly on commercial property at first, the group plans to exploit a new tax arrangement that allows property owners to upgrade their buildings at no upfront cost, typically cutting their energy use and their utility bills by a third. The building owners would pay for the upgrades over five to 20 years through surcharges on their property-tax bills, but that would be less than the savings.
The consortium is led by a company called Ygrene Energy Fund of Santa Rosa, Calif., which has already won an exclusive contract to manage a retrofit program for a half-dozen communities in the Miami area, with the city expected to join in a few weeks. It is in the late stages of completing a contract with Sacramento, and is seeking deals in other cities."
Click here to read the full article on www.nytimes.com
Green Design by hanrahan Meyers architects : hMa's Digital Water Pavilion (Battery Park City Community Center) will acheive a Platinum LEED rating click here to see more of DWiP on www.hanrahanmeyers.com
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Pratt Pavilion by hanrahan Meyers architects plays a fun game of inside/ outside. Pratt Pavilion is a small pavilion with big ambitions, on the main Pratt campus in Fort Green, Brooklyn. The pavilion floats in the air, above a glass entry vestibule. The pavilion is a single room, which is used as the main teaching gallery for Pratt's Design Center, which houses all of the main design programs at Pratt Institute.
Victoria Meyers architect
The plan above shows the plan of the Pavilion, to the south of a new courtyard, to the north. The courtyard and the Pavilion Gallery were designed to occupy approximately the same area, with similar shapes: to be mirror images. 'Mirror' – meaning – that we include the distortions inherent in the reflection.
I would argue that the Courtyard could be seen as 'Inside-Out'; and that the Pratt Pavilion Gallery is 'Outside-In' – as a spatial experience.
Outside-In: hanrahan Meyers Pratt Pavilion Courtyard Victoria Meyers architect
Inside-Out: hanrahan Meyers architects: Pratt Pavilion Gallery Victoria Meyers architect
These dispositions and juxtapositions of what is normally outside, being inside, and, vice-versa, what is normally inside being outside, have a history in architectural design projects. This would include the vestibule at Michelangelo's Laurentian Library, which is very much an Inside-Out space, through its extreme height, and its details.
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