Installation drawings, budget, correspondence and construction photographs
SATURDAY DECEMBER 5, 1992 – FRIDAY JANUARY 15, 1993 The Art of Copy is an exhibition of works of Los Angeles-based architect Dagmar Richter. It explores alternative readings of cultural and urban patterns. Via understandings of extreme conditions of cities - the fragmentation of Los Angeles, the Stasi of Berlin, and the destruction of Beirut - Richter's work introduced horizontal interconnections, imploding boundaries, and attempts to stitch environmental wounds. Richter’s intent was to...
Topics: City, Los Angeles, Stasi, Berlin, Beirut, Environmental, Urban, Feminist
2 photographs and 1 printed image
Source: folio
Exhibition Photos Notes THURSDAY JULY 18, 2002 – MONDAY AUGUST 5, 2002 ENDCOMMERCIAL® was a study of the subtle relationships that inform day-to-day life in New York City’s urban fabric. Both an index and a story of urban phenomena and street life, ENDCOMMERCIAL® portrayed usually marginalized but ubiquitous layers and patterns that define the city’s behavior. A selection of over 1,000 informal and candid photographs was organized into a multivalent classification system, from main...
Topics: Florian Böhm, Luca Pizzaroni, Wolfgang Scheppe
TUESDAY JANUARY 11, 2005 – SATURDAY FEBRUARY 19, 2005 For their first solo exhibition in New York City, Torolab explores the concept of “emergency architecture.” This work is not a response to a singular catastrophic event but rather a means to address the widespread struggle for basic necessities that characterise daily life in cities such as Tijuana. Tijuana is the fastest growing city in Mexico, at the heart of a trans-border metropolitan region that stretches from Los Angeles in the...
Topics: Emergency Architecture, Tijuana, Mexico, Migration, Carmen Duran Ponce, Lagunitas, Building...
11 photos; 4 photo prints.
5 Project Atlas statements
Photographs by Jerrilynn D. Dodds and Ed Grazda with Khader Humied, Khidir Abdalla, Leila Bahbahani, Numreen Qureshi, Justin Weiner SATURDAY NOVEMBER 23, 1996 – WEDNESDAY JANUARY 29, 1997 The Mosques of New York is a collaborative project aims at documenting each of the Muslim communities' mosques. Its goal was to highlight the ways in which these buildings reflect and create identities for Muslims under a dense urban fabric. The project reflects a desire to disrupt the image of Islam as...
Topics: Mosque, Muslim, Community, Identity, Testimony, Spatial Analysis, Photo, Documentation
TUESDAY OCTOBER 8, 1996 – FRIDAY NOVEMBER 15, 1996 In collaboration with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Storefront initiated a competition to redesign the Lt. Petrosino Park, a wedge-shaped open space at the intersection of Lafayette, Centre and Kenmare Streets, and Cleveland Place. Like Storefront itself, Petrosino Park is an offcut of urban space, measuring approximately 160 feet in length and 40 feet at its base. The redesign intends to turn this under-used traffic island into an...
Topics: Craig Abel, Arch. Inc.: Azin Valy and Suzan Wines, Alberto Kalach, Studio E: Patricia Owen, Sound...
THURSDAY APRIL 2, 1987 – SUNDAY APRIL 26, 1987 Mexican Visions presents the work of painter and writer Russell Epprecht. The exhibition features Epprecht's paintings inspired by a sojourn in Huautla, near the Sierra Mazateca mountains of Mexico. The paintings, which were completed in New York, combine figural abstraction with emotional intensity. These works formed what Epprecht refers to as ‘an incomplete post-modern Tarot deck’. Titles of the works include “Fire God,”...
Topics: Painting, Huautla, Sierra Mazateca, Mexico, Abstraction, Emotion
SATURDAY MAY 15, 1999 – SATURDAY JUNE 26, 1999 The exhibition Zuppa Inglese - or “English soup,” a popular Italian dessert - explores the ideas, approaches, and inspirations of eight British designers whose disciplines range from architecture, fashion, and graphics to furniture and product design. Featured designers include Dunne & Raby, Tom Dixon, Sebastian Bergne, Nick Crosbie, Nigel Coates, Wayne Hemingway, Morag Myerscough, and Ron Arad. The exhibition provides insight for...
Topics: British, Designers, Fashion, Graphic Design, Furniture Design, Product Design, Inspiration, 1990s,...
How can one begin to speculate on the negotitation between commercialism and design? To what extent can architecture and design begin to address commercial trends and mass production? These and other questions are central to Servo's investigations into urban inhabitation and development in the 21st Century
Press release; an email from Anselm Franke to Robert Thill
O: 10.02 Dragan Ilic
Topics: Storefront for Art and Architecture, Performance, Performance A to Z
X: 10.11 RL Seltman
Topics: Storefront for Art and Architecture, Performance, Performance A to Z
M: 9.30 Hugh Levick
Topics: Storefront for Art and Architecture, Performance, Performance A to Z
SATURDAY MAY 19, 1984 – SUNDAY JUNE 10, 1984 Architecture and Consciousness is Dan Coma's second solo architecture exhibition at Storefront. J uxtaposited of oriental and occidental elements, the exhibition was largely influenced by the culture of Dan's native Transylvania (Romania). The exhibition was constituted primarily of drawings of unrealized projects, with critical essays that address architecture as a form of spiritual flight and a means of redemption.
Topics: Oriental, Occidental, Transylvania, Romania, Drawings, Essays, Unrealised Projects, Spiritual,...
CONSIDER: Missile silo as ANCHOR Proposal: The 12 abandoned silos surrounding the Plattsburgh Air Force Base as the first such anchors for: GLOBAL TENSION RINGS. A cable, suspended 20 feet in the air, is wrapped around the world as a 3-dimensional meridian or parallel. It is supplemented periodically by cable support stations. Each TENSION RING becomes a heuristic device that denotes mental and physical distance and position. Symbolically, it affirms man’s desire toward survival: a gesture of...
Topics: Missile silos, Plattsburgh Air Force Base (N.Y.)
THURSDAY JANUARY 21, 2010 – SATURDAY FEBRUARY 27, 2010 Applying their keen eyes to architecture’s everyday use, filmmakers Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine create intimate portraits of iconic contemporary buildings, giving backstage access to their inner lives and hidden workings. This was recently epitomized by their celebrated documentary, Koolhaas HouseLife , which received its UK Premiere as the opening film of the London Architecture Foundation’s Architecture on Film series of...
Topics: Film, Documentary, Housekeeping, Window Cleaners, Experience, Koolhaas HouseLife, Pomerol, Herzog...
THURSDAY JANUARY 21, 2010 – SATURDAY FEBRUARY 27, 2010 Applying their keen eyes to architecture’s everyday use, filmmakers Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine create intimate portraits of iconic contemporary buildings, giving backstage access to their inner lives and hidden workings. This was recently epitomized by their celebrated documentary, Koolhaas HouseLife , which received its UK Premiere as the opening film of the London Architecture Foundation’s Architecture on Film series of...
Topics: Film, Documentary, Housekeeping, Window Cleaners, Experience, Koolhaas HouseLife, Pomerol, Herzog...
Drawings Notes TUESDAY NOVEMBER 15, 2005 – FRIDAY DECEMBER 23, 2005 Modernity in YU is Marko Lulic’s first solo exhibition in New York City. Modernity in YU includes video works and sculpture, and revisits the modern movement as it played out in communist Yugoslavia during the Titoist era. Modernism, as an artistic expression, was embodied in an ambitious series of monuments littered throughout the country. Lulic worked from the 1978 catalog Spomenici Revolucije 1898-1937-1977, which...
Topics: Yugoslavia, Sculpture, Monument
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 1990 – SATURDAY OCTOBER 13, 1990 Launched shortly after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the consequent disintegration of the Eastern Bloc, Project Atlas is an international design competition soliciting proposals for the reuse and transformation of one of the iconic architectural artifacts of the Cold War - the Atlas nuclear missile silos. The site of the competition is a group of twelve newly-decommissioned silos located in the region surrounding Plattsburg Air...
Topic: Project Atlas, Kyong Park, Missile Site, Berlin Wall, Eastern Bloc, Reuse, Transformation,...
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 2006 – SATURDAY OCTOBER 28, 2006 A commission by Storefront for Art and Architecture Curated by Yasmeen M. Siddiqui Opening reception: Tuesday, September 19, 6:30—8:30 pm DESCRIPTION Fascia refers to the body’s connective tissue to a sheath or the protective membrane surrounding wheat or bodily organs, a collection of objects that give the appearance of a band or a stripe, an opening or doorway, or the layered surface that creates the illusion of dividing...
Topics: Yasmeen M. Siddiqui, Body, Tissue, Performance, Videos, Drawings, Façade, Device, Face,...
Performance A to Z celebrated the opening of the Storefront for Art and Architecture at 51 Prince St. in New York City in 1982. The series of performance was coordinated by Arlene Schloss and RL Seltman. Each of the 26 participating artists, performers and musicians was assigned a letter of the alphabet; every evening at 8pm, from Sept. 18 - Oct. 13, for 26 consecutive nights, a different artist carried out a performance in the gallery space or the nearby sidewalk. All performances were free...
Press release; exhibition card; exhibition opening flyer; poster; benefit auction/ party card & mockup;
press release, text of "Blackouts", content of exhibitions, artist bio, Sketch of Gallery Layout, and 2 drawings
press release, project statement
Source: folio
Exhibition text: "People without Liberty", 4 postcards and 1 print, 12 plates
Source: folio
15 original submissions
Source: folio
2 photographs and 3 contact sheets
Press release, artist portfolio
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 20, 2009 – TUESDAY MARCH 31, 2009 ” The architecture …/… will be a means of modifying present conceptions of time and space… It will be a means of knowledge and a means of actions.” Gilles Ivain alias Ivan Chtcheglov, 1958 We act to defend architecture that is plural, used, complex, diverse, real, and alive; architecture that is about action and interaction, formation and deformation, transformation, and appropriation. Situation Room as a playground for [re]...
Topics: Playground, Everyday, Furnishing, Domestic, Experiment, Boxes, Urban Infrastructure,...
Press release, 1 image, 2 Gallery sketches and 1 wall elevation
documents: press release, call for proposals, project description, list of works, invitation, selected proposal research list
Video shows interviews with landscapers, developers, city officials, and Phoenix residents to address the relationship between the desert and the urban community that inhabits it. Notes THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 2001 - SATURDAY OCTOBER 13, 2001 Movers and Shapers was a critical overview of contemporary housing developments in the city of Phoenix. It examined how landscape has been employed and exploited in the definition of Phoenix's urban identity. The show included a series of filmed interviews...
Topics: Phoenix, Arizona, desert, housing, landscape, urban identity, cactus
A micro-exposition inside EXYZT’s Situation Room, documenting Robert Venturi’s 1969 Lieb House with drawings, photographs, movies, and interviews to mark its relocation from Barnegat Light, NJ to Glen Cove, NY on Long Island. The opening event featured a presentation by the organizers of the relocation, architect Frederic Schwartz and filmmaker Jim Venturi.
Topics: Lieb House, Moving, Long Island, Venturi
Kyong Park joined Harold Szeemann, Richard Koshalek, Sung Wan Kyung, Bernard Marcedes as the commissioners of Kwangju Biennale 97, which consists of five subthemes -- Hybrid/Wood, Space/Fire, Power/Metal, Speed/Water, and Becoming/Earth -- each curated by a commissioner. Kyong Park curated Space/Fire. Notes Video of exhibition
Topic: Kwangju
Press release; Exhibition description; Thread Waxing Space pamphlet; postcard; "Architects for a Really Socialist Environment" pamphlet, "Remembering Architecture's Dream Team" review on Wall Street Journal;"From the 60's, Paper Dreams That Reflect the Modern City" review on NYTimes; "Instant City: Retrospective Celebrates the Urban Context" review on Landscape Architecture;
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This proposal suggests that the site of this contemporary ruin be excavated and transformed to commemorate a perpetual present. The excavation is limited to two gestures: first, a slot is cut into the earth in which a stair travels from the surface again. The slot allows light and people to exist in the silo in unanticipated ways. Secondly, two thirds of the way down, the stair widens to reveal a quarter of the silo's form and to expose the tunnel (to the Launch Control Center) in the air as a...
Topics: Project Atlas, Kyong Park, Missile Site, Berlin Wall, Eastern Bloc, Reuse, Transformation,...
A SOLAR ELECTRIC POWER PLANT, NATURAL ENERGY FOR PEACE The abandoned nuclear missile silos will serve as foundations for large photovoltaic panels which provide direct current to drive electric generating turbines installed inside the existing buried structures. The high-voltage alternating current thus produced is fed to a new switchyard extending from the power plant, where it is branched into underground electric cables serving the entire region with clean energy for peaceful development....
Topics: Project Atlas, Kyong Park, Missile Site, Berlin Wall, Eastern Bloc, Reuse, Transformation,...
FRIDAY MAY 9, 2003 – SUNDAY AUGUST 3, 2003 Launched to coincide with the gallery’s 20th anniversary, The Archive Project was the first time an entire set of Storefront’s newsprints was publicly exhibited. The installation was based around a set of suspended sleeves containing newsletters, as well as a shelf of corresponding binders for each of Storefront’s 120 exhibitions. A timeline illustrating the gallery’s history was applied to the façade. Together, these materials constituted a...
Topics: Storefront, The Archive Project
A micro-exposition inside EXYZT’s Situation Room, documenting Robert Venturi’s 1969 Lieb House with drawings, photographs, movies, and interviews to mark its relocation from Barnegat Light, NJ to Glen Cove, NY on Long Island. The opening event featured a presentation by the organizers of the relocation, architect Frederic Schwartz and filmmaker Jim Venturi.
Topics: Lieb House, Moving, Long Island, Venturi
TUESDAY JANUARY 11, 2005 – SATURDAY FEBRUARY 19, 2005 For their first solo exhibition in New York City, Torolab explores the concept of “emergency architecture.” This work is not a response to a singular catastrophic event but rather a means to address the widespread struggle for basic necessities that characterise daily life in cities such as Tijuana. Tijuana is the fastest growing city in Mexico, at the heart of a trans-border metropolitan region that stretches from Los Angeles in the...
Topics: Emergency Architecture, Tijuana, Mexico, Migration, Carmen Duran Ponce, Lagunitas, Building...
Architectural proposal for the Gowanus Area Submitted to the Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation
Exhibition Diagram Notes SATURDAY MARCH 12, 1994 – SATURDAY APRIL 16, 1994Laura Kurgan’s You Are Here: Information Drift was a computer-based multimedia installation that sought to question the relationship between digital environments and built spaces by playing on orientation and disorientation in this interaction. Using what were at the time new technologies primarily for military applications, such as satellite-based real-time mapping, early implementations of the Global Positioning...
Topics: Multimedia, Digital, Orientation, GPS, Military, Mapping
exhibition photos Notes "FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 2000 – SATURDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2000 Questioning the traditional relationship between interior and exterior, Dutch designer Petra Blaisse developed a new vocabulary for experimental interior and landscape environments, frequently introducing movement into otherwise stable architecture. The instability of space, of architecture, is not only questioned; it is embraced. Movements: Introduction to a Working Process,"" the first exhibition...
Topics: Petra Blaisse, Inside, Outside, Textile, Facade, Experimental interior, Landscape, Movement,...
TUESDAY MARCH 25, 2008 – SATURDAY MAY 3, 2008 1. Mock-Ups in Close-Up March 25 2008 – April 5 2008 Architectural Models in Cinema 1927 – 2007 A video project by Gabu Heindl and Drehli Robnik, 2008 (105′, running on loop) 2. Come to Israel: It’s hot and wet and we have the Humus April 8 2008 – April 19 2008 Role Playing in Military Practices, Sexual Practices and Videotaping Video works by Ruti Sela & Maayan Amir and Yossi Atia & Itamar Rose Curated by Joshua Simon 3....
Topics: Joshua Simon, Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine, king Vidor, Housing Problems, The Fountainhead, Peter...
THURSDAY JANUARY 13, 2000 – SATURDAY FEBRUARY 12, 2000 Tony Feher makes sculptures from everyday consumer detritus such as polyethylene shopping bags and plastic soft drink bottles, Feher employed one of his favorite materials – molded Styrofoam used for packing electronics – to create a site-specific installation at Storefront. Arranged in a grid on the floor, sometimes singly, sometimes stacked, these white forms, designed to fill negative space, became positives resembling...
Topics: Sculpture, Styrofoam
Documents: press release, project description, curatorial text, cv/bio
press clipping (Oculus Vol 63, No. 9, May/June 2001. P.15)
TUESDAY APRIL 14, 2009 – SATURDAY MAY 23, 2009 May 20, 2009 7pm Discussion with Dan Wood and Amale Andraos of WORKac and Michael Webb from Archigram. Author’s Note: “What was the proposed population of Superstudio’s Continuous Monument? What would the density of Rem Koolhaas’ Exodus plan for London have been had it ever been realized? How would they compare in scale to Kenzo Tange’s Tokyo Bay project, or to Corbusier’s Ville Radieuse? Which of the two would have contained more...
Topics: Discussion, WORKac, Michael Webb, Archigram, Superstudio, Rem Koolhaas, Kenzi Tange, Tokyo Bay,...
The New American Ghetto was a collaborative, multi-media project that addressed the crisis in public housing and urban community development in North American cities. Based on the extensive research and documentation of photojournalist Camilo José Vergara and including contributions by the Municipal Art Society, the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University and the staff of Storefront itself, the joint exhibition demonstrated how the legacy of urban development, undertaken in...
Topic: The New American Ghetto
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 1990 – SATURDAY OCTOBER 13, 1990 Launched shortly after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the consequent disintegration of the Eastern Bloc, Project Atlas is an international design competition soliciting proposals for the reuse and transformation of one of the iconic architectural artifacts of the Cold War - the Atlas nuclear missile silos. The site of the competition is a group of twelve newly-decommissioned silos located in the region surrounding Plattsburg Air...
Topics: Project Atlas, Kyong Park, Missile Site, Berlin Wall, Eastern Bloc, Reuse, Transformation,...
3D of exhibition project with annoted details; 3 photos of the exhibition at Storefront
press release; exhibition plan and artist statment
1982.09.19 Performance A to Z - B: Billy Bell
Topics: Storefront for Art and Architecture, Performance, Performance A to Z
Press release, flyer, 3 photographs
The Gowanus site is a collision of four simple grids. Intersections of these grids allow for development of more complex evolution of form, without alienating the present brownstone row houses.
1 photo of the façade of Storefront by Warren Neidich; 4 photos of the exhibition by Anthony Hamboussi
Exhibition Install Images Notes FRIDAY FEBRUARY 12, 1999 - SATURDAY MARCH 13, 1999 BIG SOFT ORANGE featured the work of four young Dutch architectural offices - Crimson, Max.1, NL Architects and One Architecture all participating in the development of Leidsche Rijn, a planned community of over 30,000 houses in the Netherlands.
Topics: Dutch, Leidsche Rijn, Netherlands
N: 10.01 Sandra McKee
Topics: Storefront for Art and Architecture, Performance, Performance A to Z
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 1992 – SATURDAY OCTOBER 31, 1992 Pressure Buildings and Blackouts is Mark West's site-specific installation that engages with Storefront’s gallery space, its façade, and the street. Employing a technique in casting concrete with tension membranes, West created a series of sensual, organic concrete forms that extended onto the street via specially-carved openings in the gallery’s façade. These experiments allude to an entirely new, unexplored territory of...
Topics: Installation, Façade, Street, Membrane, Concrete, Organic, Drawings, Collages, Photographs
Published by New York, N.Y.: Storefront for Art and Architecture, 1994. Printed Book, p. 235 : ill. ; 28 cm
TUESDAY DECEMBER 12, 1995 – SATURDAY JANUARY 27, 1996 Jean Nouvel’s Architecture Shop attempts to recreate the creative energy of Jean Nouvel’s Parisian atelier into a gallery setting . Racks of postcards, plastic tubes of posters, packets of slides, and books on Jean Nouvel’s buildings occupied Storefront’s gallery space during the exhibition. Beyond highlighting Nouvel’s architectural work, the show frequently referenced Storefront's surroundings - SoHo’s shopping...
Topics: Shop, Consumption, Paris, Atelier, Postcards, Posters, Slides, Books, SoHo
THURSDAY MARCH 5, 1987 – SUNDAY MARCH 29, 1987 Existence is an exhibition of drawings and models by three New York architects: Gordon Gilbert, Taeg Nishimoto, and Kyong Park. The architects explored the phenomenological potential of architecture with different approaches. The common impetus of the three was the abstract concept of existence, with further discussions on the dynamic relationships between the seen and the unseen and between participation and experience. By looking at...
Topics: Drawings, Models, Phenomenology, Existence, Philosophy
TUESDAY DECEMBER 18, 1990 – SATURDAY JANUARY 19, 1991 Sculptor Yukinori Yanagi’s installation at Storefront takes advantage of the gallery’s triangular shape by hanging mirrors on the converging two walls to create the illusion of a circular space. The reflection was layered with colored light reflected from red panels installed on half of the floor and ceiling to symbolize the rising sun.
Topics: Triangular, Circular Space, Reflection, Colored Light, Red, Sun
meeting agenda; correspondence with Archigram archive and Storefront concerning Kyong Park's visit to London for a talk and meet with Cedric Price, Ronald Gault (Park's assistant) letter to Dennis Crompton on Park's visit to Europe
J: 9.27 Phoebe Legere Phoebe Legere used the people inside the gallery to chat "no more war" under her direction. The sound of the chant, travelling outside, awoke the curiosity of the neighboring people, establishing the performance's direct contact with the community.
Topics: Storefront for Art and Architecture, Performance, Performance A to Z
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