Cinematographer: Evan Leed

SUPERFRONT LA’s first exhibit of 2011 considers Detroit both as a specific city and as a set of circumstances. Detroit: A Brooklyn Case Study invites not so much a comparison of Detroit and Brooklyn but a calculated misreading. How and where might the logics or circumstances of Detroit operate in Brooklyn?  At what scale of intervention or performance could Detroit and Brooklyn become indistinguishable?

This exhibit aims to investigate Detroit as not only a given typology – the shrinking city, abandoned city, reclaimed city – but also as an everyday environment, as a specific place with specific moments. To reconfigure the relationship between typology and specificity, we welcome Detroit studies of Brooklyn and Brooklyn studies of Detroit. Through a range of works from multiple disciplines, the exhibit aims to produce a case study (an empirical inquiry that investigates a phenomenon within its real-life context) of a Detroit that may or may not exist.

Artists (visual and performance), architects, planners, urban designers and other practitioners are invited to submit investigations, research, and existing work in any medium.

Call for entries – please submit work for consideration in any format. By email: submit links, text description, or attached files no larger than 2 MB to detroit@superfront.org . By hard-copy, submit to SUPERFRONT BK, c/o Chloë Bass, 476 Jefferson Street #202, Brooklyn, NY 11237.  Please do not send original work. If you request that materials be returned, please include a self-addressed stamped envelope.   For consideration, all materials must be received by November 22nd.

Architects, artists, urban designers, and planners selected for exhibition will be notified November 30th.

Detroit: A Brooklyn Case Study will open at SUPERFRONT LA at the Pacific Design Center in January 2011 (exact date TBA), and will be on view for 4 months.

This exhibit will also include submitted proposals for 25 sq in of real property.  See that Request For Proposals (RFP) here: http://losangeles.superfront.org/25inchRFP.htm

photo of Caracas, courtesy "Landscapeofaztlan's Weblog"

The call for entries is closed.  Thank you for submitting.

SUPERFRONT LA’s first exhibit of 2010 will address the urban scale.  The group exhibit will span architecture, urban design, and urban planning to present emergent urbanism, “wild building”, and other alternatives to conventional modes of planning cities.  Dealing with urban topics from derelict construction sites to refugee camps, favellas, temporary housing and other contemporary spatial phenomena, the exhibition will confront the current economic crises and larger issues of globalization.  Work will be exhibited in multiple formats, from physical models to drawings, animations, video games or experimental formats.

Call for entries – please submit work for consideration in any format.   By email: submit links, text description, or attached files no larger than 2 MB to unplanned@superfront.org . By hard-copy, submit to SUPERFRONT BK, 1432 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11216.  Please do not send original work.  If you want your materials returned, include a self-addressed stamped envelope.   For consideration, all materials need to be received by November 30th.

Architects, urban designers, and planners selected for exhibition will be notified December 8th.

Unplanned will open at SUPERFRONT LA at the Pacific Design Center in February 2010 (exact date TBA) and will be on view for 3 months

Please post any questions as a comment to this page, rather than emailing.  Thank you.

projector at SUPERFRONT LA

Calling architects and urban designers – submit your DVDs to SUPERFRONT for consideration in Architecture Live!, an exhibit opening at SUPERFRONT LA next month (mid November – exact date TBA)

Submit DVDs showing your own animations or live film of your own work in architecture or urban design – from a few seconds to 10 minutes.  The work may be animation or live film, but should address contemporary architecture at this moment.  The work may involve material experiments, color, time-lapse or other themes that relate to the medium of film and animation.  Highly rendered fly-through animations of complete projects will not receive much attention.  The focus is on experimental work.

Two DVDs will be selected for exhibition for 6 weeks at SUPERFRONT LA at the Pacific Design Center.  The architects or urban designers chosen for exhibition will be announced on the SUPERFRONT website November 3rd. 

To submit your work for consideration, please send one DVD for consideration, formatted to “auto-play” and labelled with your name and contact information to:

SUPERFRONT BK, 1432 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11216

If you wish the work returned, include a self-addressed stamped envelope.  Please do not send DVDs to the Los Angeles location.   

Deadline for receipt of DVDs is October 27th.  Please post any questions as a comment to this page, rather than emailing.  Thank you.