TUESDAY OCTOBER 2, 2007 – SATURDAY NOVEMBER 24, 2007 BIG is a Copenhagen based group of over 80 architects, designers, builders and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research, and development. BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes. In their projects, BIG tests the effects of size and the balance of programmatic mixtures on the triple bottom line of the social, economic, and ecological...
Topics: Social, Economic, Ecological, Mix-Use, Programs, Residential, LEGO, Copenhagen, Neighborhood,...
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From November 14 2006 – January 31, 2007, Storefront for Art and Architecture hosted the exhibition Clip, Stamp, Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines, 196x – 197x , curated by Beatriz Colomina, Craig Buckley, Anthony Fontenot, Urtzi Grau, Lisa Hsieh, Alicia Imperiale, Lydia Kallipoliti, Daniel Lopez-Perez, and Irene Sunwoo from Princeton University, in collaboration with Olympia Kazi. At the time, there had been a resurgence of international interest in the architecture of...
Topics: Publication, Magazine, Architecture, Archigram, Peter Cook, Hans Hollein, Robin Middleton, Ugo La...
Correspondences between Eyal Weizman and Sarah Herda (Storefront's director), and Herda and a staff member. The correspondences are about the exhibition space, what would be presented such as images, maps, texts, as well as information about the research developed by Weizman and Segal, and the situation in the addressed territories
Exhibition photos Notes FRIDAY MARCH 22, 2002 – SATURDAY APRIL 20, 2002 Wannaville was created by Megan Sullivan in Berlin over the course of one year, from September 1998 to September 1999. The project was produced by taking five to seven rolls of film per week, recording daily activities throughout the city, processing the film at a drugstore, organizing the images into a series of sequences, and color-copying each sequence to create a booklet. This process resulted in a set of 102...
Topics: German, culture, aesthetics, Berlin, Book, Film
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 OCTOBER 2, 2008 – TUESDAY NOVEMBER 4, 2008 In January 2008 Storefront presented an international call for ideas: “What if the White House, the ultimate architectural symbol of political power, were to be designed today? On the occasion of the election of the 44th President of the United States of America, Storefront for Art and Architecture, in association with Control Group, challenge you to design a new residence for the world’s most powerful individual.” As a symbol...
Topics: Call for Ideas, Beatriz Colomina, Stefano Boeri, Liz Diller, John Maeda, Geoff Manaugh, Mark...
"Superstudio: Life Without Objects" exhibition plan sketches, early proposal
Curated by Jean-François Chevrier At 7.15pm the exhibition’s curator, Jean-François Chevrier, gave a brief introduction to the exhibition and contextualization of Marina Ballo Charmet’s work. The work of photographer and artist Marina Ballo Charmet, whose formal training is as a psychoanalyst, is centered on what she describes as “inattentive, unintentional observation, irrational and without direction”. This retrospective exhibition, curated by critic and writer Jean-Francois...
Topics: Jean-François Chevrier, Marina Ballo, Charmet Photography
H: 9.25 Des Refuses
Topics: Storefront for Art and Architecture, Performance, Performance A to Z
press release and pamphlets
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 2000 – SATURDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2000 Video of Petra Blaisse's work. 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 devoted to...
Topics: Fabric, architecture, movements, experimental, environments
THURSDAY JUNE 12, 1997 – SATURDAY AUGUST 2, 1997 In this exhibition, Storefront presents ten speculative architectural projects by Op’s, a cross-disciplinary collaboration between Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurnamaki, and David Lewis. Works in the exhibition range from realized designs, such as the “Pull of Beauty” installation, to conceptual urban projects. Seemingly banal and overlooked architectures such as movie theaters, health clubs, and video stores formed the centerpieces of their...
Topics: Design, Pull of Beauty, Urban, Banal, Convention, Irrational, Rational
Between War and Peace was an exhibition dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. In 1945, at the end of the war, and at the beginning of the U.N. era, a final meeting between Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Josef Stalin convened. The exhibition was inspired by an old photograph, taken on this occasion, of the world’s leaders posing for history’s camera. Fifty years later, Komar and Melamid returned to the image and incorporated it in their plans for a...
Topic: Between War and Peace
I: 9.26 Teching Hsieh Teching Hsieh was the only performer that completed his performance at another location, opening the door and entering his house to end his one-year performance of living outdoor in New York City. This performance showed the flexibility of the A to Z event.
Topics: Storefront for Art and Architecture, Performance, Performance A to Z
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 18, 1989 – SUNDAY FEBRUARY 12, 1989 The Norwegian artist Bente Stokke’s choice of material is ash from a combustion plant. He wrote: “my motive for working / lies in the uncovering / of a space / which reveals itself / in shifts and layers of reality.” Stokke’s installations emerged from a found space and the idea that history is concealed in it. At Storefront, Stokke’s approach resulted in The Ship, a dramatic reappraisal of the gallery’s iconic wedge form....
Topics: Plant, Installation, Found Space, Ash, Ship, Wood, Craft, Shipbuilding, Scandinavian
postal card (back and forth), photos
TUESDAY MARCH 8, 2005 – SATURDAY APRIL 30, 2005 For the first time, Air Architecture presented Yves Klein’s architectural projects and theories, with particular attention to his idea of "the void" as an immaterial architecture. Relying upon the four elements — air, water, fire, and earth — Klein envisioned a world in which man lives in harmony with the four natural elements through Air Architecture . Famous for his blue-themed monochromes and performances, Klein had a...
Topics: The Void, Immaterial, Four Elements
Kyong Park letter; Coop Himmelblau letter on exhibition statement; Dennis L. Dollens' text "Coop Himmelblau's Storefront Manifesto"; "Space/Text Machine" review by Dennis in STROLL.
Video show interviews with Detroit residents, planners, and officials. SATURDAY MAY 20, 1995 – SATURDAY JULY 1, 1995 The exhibition Detroit is Everywhere was a collaborative inquiry by Camilo José Vergara, Richard Plunz, Dan Hoffman, and Storefront for Art and Architecture. It consists of urban studies and proposals for the city of Detroit. As an example for North American city in transition, Detroit was o nce hailed as the model of urban productivity and later maligned as an example...
Topics: Detroit, Urban Study, North America, Urbanism, Urban Regeneration
E: 9.22 Tzvia Stein
Topics: Storefront for Art and Architecture, Performance, Performance A to Z
THURSDAY OCTOBER 7, 1999 – SATURDAY NOVEMBER 13, 1999 (A)way Station was a traveling exhibition that investigates the physical and psychological dimensions of migration in relation to the domestic space and the city. Compressing migrants and immigrants' experiences into one architectural exhibition, the artists expressed migratory inhabitation at the scale of architectural representation. The installation is comprised of freestanding plywood structures that housed domestic possessions,...
Topics: Migration, Architecture Representation, Plywood, Domesticity, Clothing, Furniture, Resin, Refugee,...
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,...
documents: press release, invitation, project descriptions
Between War and Peace was an exhibition dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. In 1945, at the end of the war, and at the beginning of the U.N. era, a final meeting between Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Josef Stalin convened. The exhibition was inspired by an old photograph, taken on this occasion, of the world’s leaders posing for history’s camera. Fifty years later, Komar and Melamid returned to the image and incorporated it in their plans for a...
Topic: Between War and Peace
Q: 10.04 Richard Hambleton
Topics: Storefront for Art and Architecture, Performance, Performance A to Z
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,...
proposals, images and 2 contact sheets
The structure of the missile silo itself reveals that it is a product of a curious, inverted reasoning: the silo is thickest at its top, becoming thinner as it goes deeper into the earth. Yet we know that all structures built in the earth's gravity, even those underground, endure the greatest stresses at their bottoms. It is only the fear of attack from above that justifies this unusual manner of building. And so the peculiar inversion again becomes evident--the sky, the source of...
Topics: Project Atlas, Kyong Park, Missile Site, Berlin Wall, Eastern Bloc, Reuse, Transformation,...
documents: press release, curatorial text, descriptions of works
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
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
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.)
2 photographs and 1 printed image
Source: folio
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,...
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, flyer, 3 photographs
N: 10.01 Sandra McKee
Topics: Storefront for Art and Architecture, Performance, Performance A to Z
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
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;
Source: folio
WEDNESDAY JUNE 28, 2006 – SATURDAY AUGUST 5, 2006 Organized by Yasmeen M. Siddiqui, Associate Curator, Storefront Ganjian, Holleman, and Sauvaitre use the languages of sculpture, installation, and landscape photography to represent points of intersection, where landscapes (urban and rural) and nomadic architectures meet. Ganjian builds utopian cities on jewel case-like velvet pedestals and carpets. Ganjian‘s carpets are inspired by icons from her childhood: the urban landscape surrounding...
Topics: Sculpture, Installation, Landscape Photography, Nomadic, Urban and Rural, Utopian Architecture,...
3 press release; 3 press release; 2 Makovez text;
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 22, 1989 – SUNDAY MARCH 19, 1989 Speed ’89 showcased selected drawings, models, and texts from Michael Webb’s selected projects, including “Just a House” (1989), “Rotating Garage House” (1988), “Temple Island” (1977– 78), “Drive-in House” (1970s), “Up and Over House” (1966), “House of Doors” (1964), and “Sin Palace” (1962–89).
Topics: Drawings, Models, Texts
7 photos; also includes Dan Hoffman's notes with sketches
TUESDAY MAY 13, 2008 – SATURDAY JUNE 28, 2008 May 13, 2008 7pm Storefront inaugurated a solo exhibition of French artist and architect Didier Fiuza Faustino and his Paris-based practice Bureau des Mésarchitectures (Mathieu Herbelin, Cláudia Martinho, Tony Matias, Guillaume Viaud). Faustino’s large-scale onsite installation (G)HOST IN THE (S)HELL, designed specifically for Storefront for Art and Architecture, occupies the entire gallery and engages its iconic façade by temporarily...
Topics: Installation, Façade, Public/Private, Body, Performance, Immersive
TUESDAY DECEMBER 11, 2007 – SATURDAY DECEMBER 22, 2007 There are more than 300 Chinatowns around the world today. Many have disappeared, with new ones are born each year. Storefront for Art and Architecture, in association with Chinatown Film Festival New York, offered a tour of the Chinatowns around the world. Despite clichés, Chinatowns are defined by their differences as much as their similarities. Some are rundown ghettos; others are modern sites for recent development. From large and...
Topics: Chinatown, World, Chinatown Film Festival, New York, San Francisco, London, Dubai, Glasgow,...
FRIDAY OCTOBER 14, 1988 – SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12, 1988 Poseidon is an installation designed as a direct response to Storefront’s architectural space. The artist took inspiration from the long triangular shape of the gallery as a scaled image over distance. The installation included a series of works referred to by Steve Barry as “mechanical performances”. The arrival of a visitor would trigger sequential movements, cinematic images, and audio effects from the installation.
Topics: Installation, Space, Triangular, Scale, Kinetic
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 1991 – SATURDAY OCTOBER 26, 1991 As questions concerning human's relationship with nature took on a surging urgency in the early 1990s, Storefront embarked on a series of ecology-themed exhibitions. T wo triangular spaces were created within the gallery space t o accommodate Mel Chin’s installation The State of Heaven . At the west end of the gallery, a large hand-knotted carpet floated above the heads of the viewers. Its condition represents the global meteorological...
Topics: Nature, 1990s, Ecology, Carpet, Meteorology, Ozone Layer, Monitors, Fractal Program
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 20, 1986 – SATURDAY DECEMBER 27, 1986 November to December 1986: To celebrate its fifth year of programming and its relocation to 97 Kenmare Street, Storefront for Art and Architecture presents a comprehensive review of its past projects, exhibitions, performances, and other programs hosted at its former space at 51 Prince Street. The exhibition features Homeless at. Home, Adam’s House in Paradise, After Tilted Arc, and Centers by Lebbeus Woods, among many...
Topics: Fifth Year, Programming, Relocation, 97 Kenmare, 51 Prince, Group Exhibition, Lebbeus Woods
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...
press release; announcement from Goethe House NewYork; woodcut print; info card; program schedule; announcement, postcard from Nobert Stuck.
SATURDAY MAY 8, 1993 – TUESDAY JUNE 8, 1993 This exhibition presents models, drawings, and other materials from four architectural projects: Suspension at La Guardia Airport, Altered Residence for a Neurobiologist, Imperfect Utopia: A Park for the New World, and Un-Occupied Territory: An Economic Ecology. The spatial arrangement within the gallery was intended to raise questions around issues of contingency, interval, and discontinuity.
Topics: Models, Drawings, Projects, Contingency, Interval, Discontinuity
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 1997 – SATURDAY OCTOBER 18, 1997 Landscape Urbanism seeks to redefine urban infrastructure as a category of landscape design in its own right. The exhibition examines landscape architecture under the context of the urban environment, as opposed to being defined as an art historical genre, environmental science, or applied art. As such, traditional disciplinary distinctions between architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design were suspended in favor of an...
Topics: Landscape, Urbanism, Infrastructure, Architecture, Art History, Applied Art, Environmental Science,...
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 18, 2006 – SATURDAY FEBRUARY 18, 2006 Ault and Beck’s exhibition Information investigated the production of poverty within the U.S. Based on governmental data referring to measures of poverty over the last forty years as well as the increasing income gap, Information focused on systemic parameters for what constituted poverty as a socio-economic condition, with particular emphasis on the “poverty line.” In this context, the poverty line is understood as a...
Topics: Poverty, Governmental Data, Income Gap, Poverty Line, Economic
Work in Exhibition: Kinney Plywood House (pending permission)
invitation to participate, memorandum, curator's text
TUESDAY MARCH 26, 1991 – SATURDAY APRIL 20, 1991 In response to Operation Desert Storm, the US-led war that broke out in the Persian Gulf, Pearson Post Industries (a group specialized in ‘defense entertainment technologies’) inaugurated Operation Desert Cloud at Storefront. The group called for a ‘special deployment of an unmanned, automated gallery and a multimedia low-definition broadcast-quality music video.’ The main components of Operation Desert Cloud are the...
Topics: Operation Desert Storm, Persian Gulf, War, Technology, Video
press release; Webb's "Drive-In House" text; "Into the arc of a diver" text.
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,...
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
Press release, alternative design solution to NYCHA and project information package
Possible collaboration with NIAE, publication plans, list of shipment from The Art Institute of Chicago, and closing report of the exhibition
Discussion with Um Huyk and Mo Bahc
Neologisms: Collects new works on surface phenomena. 1. bench node: between signal and noise 2. touch 3. highdefinition
proposal; "Mosquitoes" project description.
press release, installation proposal
exhibition announcement, statement and correspondence
Project text, and photo prints
Live Music Archive
Librivox Free Audio
Metropolitan Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Internet Arcade
Console Living Room
Books to Borrow
Open Library
TV News
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