Thursday, May 26 · 5:30pm – 8:30pm

Film has influenced architecture since the dawn of the modern era. The creative process for entertainment as well as spaces for life and work share common ground. Perhaps film influences the profession of architecture through its speculative spaces which are removed from the constraints of reality. These instances serve as inspiration in the creation of the architecture of tomorrow. Timeless looks at designers (filmmakers, architects, media artists) dealing with the mode and processes of “blurring the threshold of both spatial and temporal constructions.”

Visiting Curators: Ralph Spencer Steenblik & Martin Roy Mervel

Curatorial Team: Naomi Scully, Tiffany Shaw Collings, Chris Martin, Adriana McElwain, Christian Contreras, Henry Dominguez

[Image: Animation still from "24X7ATPHL: Codify" by Robert B. Trempe Jr., 2009]

opening September 15th 5pm – 8:30pm
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surprise performance September 23rd 5:30pm – 8:00pm
==========September 15 – November 12, 2010
Pacific Design Center (PDC) Suite B208 | West Hollywood, CA | 90069

In the last century a new Modernist culture of architecture and design selected Rio de Janeiro as laboratory: a mythical paradise where the testing of a metropolitan lifestyle and its attendant architecture could be pursued as a collective experiment.  This exhibit considers Rio today as not just a beautiful city, but a place where we discover novel values and aesthetic conditions: the estranged, the exceptional, the surprising or the terrifying.

The title of the show refers to the surrealist game “exquisite corpse”.  Each of the contemporary artists and architects has contributed an an independent yet sequential idea about the city of Rio de Janeiro.  The second opening reception on September 23rd will feature a surprise live performance.

Including works by:
Hisako Ichiki
Berenika Boberska
Martha Read
Silvia Rigon
Chino Soria
Analia Zalazar

Luciana Vidal was born in Rosario, Argentina where she obtained her diploma on Architecture, Planning and Design UNR followed by a Masters in Architectural Design at UCLA. Prior to establishing an independent practice Luciana joined Frank Gehry’s office in LA where she worked as a Designer till 2007. In 2008 she joined Jerde Partnership’s Landscape and Urban Planning team with projects in Asia and the Middle East.

Also, order the 156 page catalog paperback or hardcover here

All photos courtesy of WENDY GILMARTIN.

The exhibit features Paul Schuette, an architect and artist who was a fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program in 2005.  Schuette’s work, Hydroloops, is comprised of living sculptures – live plants and light systems – that generate diagrams of their own behaviors and environment.

Architecture Live! also presents filmic pieces by two young Brooklyn-based architecture practices: Fake Industries Architectural Agonism and Decker Yeadon.  ”Ay Caremelles”, a short live film, documents Fake Industries Architectural Agonism’s subversive approach to a municipal commission to activate a fenced-off square in Barcelona.  ”Smart Screen” by architects Decker Yeadon is a brief painterly video of live footage of the architect’s thermo-responsive screen prototype opening and closing in response to ambient room temperatures.

Architecture Live! opens November 19th with reception 5pm – 8pm.  On view through December 16.

Ay Caremelles!, still image of live film, by Fake Industries Architectural Agonism

Photo of Hydroloops, installation by Paul Schuette

SmartScreen, video of a thermo-responsive screen that opens and closes in response to ambient room temperatures, designed by Decker Yeadon