As one of the first alternative spaces in New York dedicated to presenting innovative, provocative work at the intersection of art and architecture, Storefront has accumulated an archive documenting its diverse and influential program of over 280 exhibitions and events dating from its founding in 1982. Featuring the work of 1,500+ architects, artists and designers, this material includes a collection of original artwork and over 115 cubic feet of proposals, correspondence, photographs,...
As one of the first alternative spaces in New York dedicated to presenting innovative, provocative work at the intersection of art and architecture, Storefront has accumulated an archive documenting its diverse and influential program of over 280 exhibitions and events dating from its founding in 1982. Featuring the work of 1,500+ architects, artists and designers, this material includes a collection of original artwork and over 115 cubic feet of proposals, correspondence, photographs,...
This exhibition, the second by Lebbeus Woods at Storefront, included over 50 pen and ink drawings that aimed to focus public and critical attention on the concept of centrality as it applies to architecture and social existence. Among the works shown were Citylimit, QUAD, Geomechanical Tower and Neomechanical Tower
Topics: critical attention, centrality
Large-format, newsprint newsletters designed and produced by Storefront staff for nearly every exhibition since 1982. In 2009, all existing newsletters were digitized for Storefront Newsprints: 1982-2009, a large-format book produced by the organization’s staff.
Since 1985 Storefront has occupied a unique ground-level space on Kenmare Street, a major downtown thoroughfare between New York City’s Chinatown/Little Italy/Soho neighborhoods. Storefront’s innovative program and its dynamic façade attract a highly diverse audience of over 40,000 annual visitors. Designed in 1993 by artist Vito Acconci and architect Steven Holl, The Façade Project resulted in a striking series of rotating panels that create a porous border between Storefront’s narrow...
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...
Topics: public housing, community development, North America, Municipal Arts Society, Neighborhoods, Decay,...
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 28, 1989 – SATURDAY DECEMBER 23, 1989 Too Close: Cosmos Mechanicool presents works by Los Angeles-based practice COR-TEX Architecture led by Neil Denari. The selected projects include a theoretical world library, a design proposal for the Los Angeles Gateway Competition, and one for the Tokyo International Forum Competition. On view are Denari's drawings , models, photographs, and texts.
Topics: Library, Competition, Drawings, Models, Photographs, Texts
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...
An extensive Storefront project aimed at addressing from an architectural standpoint the effects of conflict by proposing alternative spatial strategies in relation to the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Taking the DMZ as an exemplification of political, military and economic polarization, the project called for the use of design strategies rather than military force to initiate paths toward reunification of the Korean peninsula and its people. Project DMZ was structured as an open forum that...
824
824
1993
1993
by
Steven Holl, Vito Acconci
texts
eye 824
favorite 1
comment 0
In 1992, architect Steven Holl and artist Vito Acconci were commissioned by co-directors Kyong Park and Shirin Neshat and curator Claudia Gould to transform Storefront for Art and Architecture’s aging facade through a collaborative architectural intervention. Seeking to introduce improbability and to puncture the façade, Acconci and Holl inserted a series of hinged panels arranged in a puzzle-like configuration into the façade. When the panels are locked in their open position, the façade...
Topic: The Facade
On the last evening of Didier Fiuza Faustino’s installation (G)HOST IN THE (S)HELL Storefront hosted a summer closing party and officially launch the Facade Restoration. On July 1, construction work began on the restoration of Storefront’s famed facade designed in 1992 by Vito Acconci and Steven Holl. In late September, the gallery reopened with a newly-restored exterior and an exciting new season of exhibitions and events.
Topics: Facade, Restoration, Storefront
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...
Exhibition Photos Notes THURSDAY NOVEMBER 7, 1985 - SUNDAY DECEMBER 1, 1985 In response to the controversy surrounding Richard Serra's Tilted Arc, Storefront invited 29 artists and critics to address the issue of public art in relation to the Federal Plaza site. The exhibition was an attempt to bridge the gap between the intellectual elite and the public, as well as to constructively reframe the debate surrounding the sculpture. While the highly emotional public debate focused on whether the...
Topics: Public Art, Richard Serra, Federal Plaza, Policy, Plaza, Public Space, Architecture, Legality
909
909
Nov 13, 1993
11/93
by
Kyong Park, Shirin Neshat, Claudia Gould, Steven Holl, Vito Acconci
image
eye 909
favorite 0
comment 0
The storefront section of the gallery eventually became a crucial part of each exhibition and performance, even prior to the current facade of the institution. From 1982 to 1986 the gallery was located in 51 Prince Street. In 1986, the organization was moved to the current site in Soho area, in a former tire shop on 97 Kenmare Street. In 1992, architect Steven Holl and artist Vito Acconci were commissioned by co-directors Kyong Park and Shirin Neshat and curator Claudia Gould to transform...
Topic: The Facade
THURSDAY MARCH 24, 1988 – SATURDAY APRIL 23, 1988 The Dissipation of Our Bodies Into the City is the first gallery exhibition in the United States by the Austrian architecture office Coop Himmelb(l)au. Their work incorporated criticism, sculpture, prose, poems, urban planning, manifestos, projects, actions, statements, sketches, and commentary to support experimentations in space. The exhibition included photographs of their three previous projects, a series of large photocopy-based...
Topics: Coop Himmelblau, Urbanism, City, Manifesto
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 6, 1993 – FRIDAY MARCH 19, 1993 John Bennett, George Bennett, Chien-Ming Chao, Adonis Cleanthous, Irena Ivanovich, Ray-Han Jin, Andrea Ljahnicky, Chung-Ting Lo, Senhiko Nakata, Jordan Parnass, Astrid Perlbinder, Eric Worcester Distraction/Surveillance is an installation created by final-year students from the Graduate School of Architecture at Colombia University under the supervision of Hani Rashid. The exhibition was to question the role of architecture and image-making...
Topics: Installation, Student, Columbia University, Image-Making, Information, John Bennett, George...
P: 10.03 Yoshiko Chuma Yoshiko Chuma's group invaded the street with dancing movements, jumping over passing cars and trucks. They utilized the stop-and-go sign traffic to compose and direct their spontaneous movements.
Topics: Storefront for Art and Architecture, Performance, Performance A to Z
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 19, 1994 – SATURDAY DECEMBER 31, 1994 Domestic Arrangement , Andrea Blum’s first solo show in New York City, presents a group of works that use furniture to explore the relationship between public and private space. Moving away from large public projects that have a direct sociological and/or historical relationship with the site, Blum investigates sites and their audience on a more intimate scale. She chooses to examine the psycho-social behaviors through the iconography...
Topics: Solo Show, Furniture, Public and Private, Intimate, Scale, Design
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.” Notes Joint...
Topics: Call for Ideas, White House, Presidency, Power, Politics, Architecture, West Wing, Control Group,...
THURSDAY APRIL 16, 2009 Spacebuster is a mobile inflatable structure – a portable, expandable pavilion – designed to transform public spaces of all kinds into points for community gathering. A new iteration of a past Raumlabor project, the Küchenmonument (presented in Europe in 2006-8), this marked the first appearance of the Spacebuster in the US as it traveled throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn for 10 consecutive evenings hosting various community events. The pavilion is comprised of an...
Topics: Berlin, Germany, Urbanism, 1999, Europe, Mobile, Inflatable, Structure, Pavilion, Community,...
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,...
TUESDAY MAY 2, 2006 – SATURDAY JUNE 10, 2006 Opening Reception: Tuesday, May 2, 2006. 6.30-8.30 pm Gower explores modernity in the context of cities and buildings. His past projects have explored how architecture is represented through movement, the effects of color on modernist architecture, and the internationalist aspect of its design using video projections, site-specific digital prints, and a pavilion built on the grounds of the Jumex Factory in Mexico City. Shown as a digital video...
Topics: Cities, Buildings, Modernism, Jumex Factory, Mexico City, Ciudad Moderna, Despedida de Casada,...
264
264
Nov 1, 1998
11/98
by
Kyong Park, Cathleen Crabb
image
eye 264
favorite 0
comment 0
Project DMZ was an extensive Storefront project aimed at addressing from an architectural standpoint the effects of conflict by proposing alternative spatial strategies in relation to the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Taking the DMZ as an exemplification of political, military and economic polarization, the project called for the use of design strategies rather than military force to initiate paths toward reunification of the Korean peninsula and its people. Project DMZ was structured as an...
Topics: Project DMZ, Korean Demilitarized Zone
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 MARCH 31, 1999 – SATURDAY MAY 1, 1999 Co-curated by Linda Pollak and landscape architect Paula Meijerink, Landscape Architect presents an overview of Yves Brunier’s collages of landscape architecture proposals. Throughout his brief career, curtailed by his sudden death at age 29 in 1991 , Brunier reinvented the notion of the garden in the city, illustrating his ideas with imaginative collages .
Topics: Landscape, Collage, Garden, City, Imagination
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...
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 MARCH 26, 1991 – SATURDAY APRIL 20, 1991 In response to Operation Desert Storm, the US-led war that had recently broken out in the Persian Gulf, Pearson Post Industries (a group specialized in ‘defense entertainment technologies’) inaugurated Operation Desert Cloud at Storefront and called for the ‘special deployment of an unmanned, automated gallery and multimedia low-definition broadcast-quality music video.’ The main components of Operation Desert Cloud were the...
Topics: Desert Storm, Persian Gulf, Art, Architecture, War, Politics
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 1999 – SATURDAY OCTOBER 2, 1999 Six Square is a site-specific dance performance conceived by Brooklyn-based experimental arts company J Mandle Performance. It turned Storefront inside-out. Dancers manipulated the positions of the rotating façade panels as they navigated between the threshold of the gallery. This spatial investigation was also prevalent in the multi-layered costumes worn by the dancers. Similar to the panels, the dancers' costumes were also...
Topics: Performance, Inside/ Outside, Panels, Façade, Threshold, Costume, Interior/ Exterior
Postcards from exhibition 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...
Topics: Petra Blaisse, Inside, Outside, Textile, Facade, Experimental interior, Landscape, Movement,...
Homeless At Home: A Public Project (1984 – 1986): "Homeless at Home," a collaboration between Mojdeh Baratloo, Clifton Balch, Rebecca Martin, Glenn Weiss and Kyong Park, began in 1984 as a collective endeavor to attract attention to the plight of the rapidly-growing number of homeless people in New York City. This group of artists and architects participating in Homeless at Home undertook to use artistic practice as a means of social action and engagement.
Posters: exhibition, and benefit
Topics: Adam’s House in Paradise, Architecture, Diller + Scofidio, Eric Owen Moss, Lebbeus Woods, Neil...
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,...
THURSDAY APRIL 25, 1991 – SATURDAY MAY 25, 1991 the Empty Pedestals Project is an experimental forum aimed at examining the role of late-twentieth-century public art in the urban environment. The project focuses on ‘predesignated public art sites’ - spaces that were designated by the government as spaces for art. Four of these sites in New York City served as the sites for the new proposals. Empty Pedestals Project Ron Baron, Karen Bermann and Jeanine Centuori, Karl Chu, Curtis...
Topics: Forum, Late-Twentieth-Century, Public Art, Urban Environment, Proposal, Ron Baron, Karen Bermann...
Exhibition photos Notes THURSDAY NOVEMBER 18, 1999 - THURSDAY DECEMBER 23, 1999 Hell's Kitchen South: Developing Strategies illustrated how a collaborative design model involving a variety of parties from different disciplines could creatively manage the development of a neighborhood facing increased market pressure.
Topics: Hells Kitchen, Development, Urbanism, Damon Rich, Jason Anderson
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.” Notes First...
Topics: White House, America, US Government, Architecture, Folklore, Fairytale, Prose, Poetry, Speculative
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
WEDNESDAY JUNE 28, 2006 – SATURDAY AUGUST 5, 2006 Images of Kim Holleman's Trailer Park 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...
Topics: Sculpture, Installation, Landscape Photography, Nomadic, Urban and Rural, Utopian Architecture,...
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1, 1986 – SUNDAY FEBRUARY 23, 1986 Across various media such as performance, video, photography, film, models, and constructed environments, Dan Graham’s works investigate space and perception, actor and the audience, as well as the mechanism of vision in shaping public and private life. His projects do not conform to the paired distinctions of art and architecture, public and private, but take them to a new inquiry. As the first to be held at Storefront’s new gallery...
Topics: Environment, Space, Perception, Mechanism of Vision, Public and Private, 97 Kenmare, Mirror,...
Exhibition Photos Notes THURSDAY MAY 16, 2002 – SUNDAY JUNE 9, 2002 Designed to float along the California coastline, Wave Garden, a proposed 480-acre membrane made of 11,734 piezoelectric tiles, was intended to function as an alternative power plant Monday through Friday, oscillating with the ocean waves and generating energy. During the weekends, Wave Garden would be transformed into a publicly-accessible landscape whose availability to the public would be inversely proportional to the...
Topics: Wave Garden, Yusuke Obuchi
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 5, 1987 – SATURDAY FEBRUARY 28, 1987 Luca Pizzorno’s installation centers around composed cut-outs wrought from discarded tin pieces and sheet metal. The shape of the figures referenced figures in Egyptian, Mayan, African, and Etruscan mythologies with an elegant and simple style. Like many other works of urban primitivists, Pizzorno’s installations call for a re-examination of the role of ancient archetypes play in contemporary psychic landscape.
Topics: Cut Out, Collage, Egyptian, Mayan, African, Etruscan, Mythology, Primitivism, Installation,...
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...
Topics: public housing, community development, North America, Municipal Arts Society, Neighborhoods, Decay,...
Exhibition Images Notes TUESDAY FEBRUARY 24, 2004 %u2013 SATURDAY APRIL 3, 2004 Small Works, 1994-2004 presents a selection of over thirty small-scale works displayed inside three vessel-like vitrines which the artist created for the exhibition at Storefront. Made of cardboard and other found materials, the works resemble architectural models and are both referential and purely formal; precise and raw.
Topics: Architecture, Modelmaking, Models, Urbanism
Installation drawings, budget, correspondence and construction photographs
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 2005 – SATURDAY OCTOBER 29, 2005 Can Buildings Curate is curated and designed by Shumon Basar, Joshua Bolchover, and Parag Sharma of the London-based practice Newbetter (www.newbetter.co.uk /mail@newbetter.co.uk). The modern gallery remains a contentious, inspirational, and problematic cultural battleground. It’s under this backdrop where a fascinating love/hate triangle between artists, architects, and curators interact. Sometimes egos compete. Occasionally envy is...
Topics: Modern Gallery, Curators, Collaboration, Neal Rock, Vito Acconci, Steven Holl, Drabble + Sachs, Isa...
Over the past five years, during the course of his travels in the former Soviet Union, French photographer Frederic Chaubin has documented an extensive collection of startling architectural artifacts born during the last two decades of the Cold War. Architects in the peripheral regions of the Eastern Bloc countries, working on governmental commissions during the ‘70s and ‘80s, enjoyed a surprising degree of creative freedom. Operating in a cultural context hermetically sealed from the...
Topics: Photography, Societ Union, Eastern Bloc, Cold War, Russian Suprematism
Administrative material including general correspondence, organizational profiles, photos, gallery and façade maintenance records, general operation files, realia and files for Storefront’s former directors.
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 FEBRUARY 13, 1996 – MONDAY APRIL 8, 1996 Martine Bedin, Constantin Boym, Joel Fisher, Tom Joyce, Beth Katleman, Raimund Kummer, Laurene Leon, Ted Muehling, Martin Puryear, Pino Signoretto, Richard Tuttle Curators: Victoria Milne and Kiki Smith Exhibition designers: Operatives, Inc. (Paul Lewis, Peter Pelsinski, Marc Tsurumaki) The Pull of Beauty , curated by Victoria Milne and Kiki Smith, examines the role of decoration and ornament in modern design. It posits the existence of...
Topics: Martine Bedin, Constantin Boym, Joel Fisher, Tom Joyce, Beth Katleman, Raimund Kummer, Laurene...
THURSDAY APRIL 28, 1988 – SATURDAY MAY 28, 1988 From Destruction to Construction presents an overview of the work of Japanese-born artist Tadashi Kawamata, known for using scrap wood to build precarious scaffolds around vacant lots and buildings. The projects included in the exhibition respond to the history of human interaction with sites around New York. From a median strip between Grand and Broome Streets to a group of semi-demolished buildings in Harlem. Often shaped like twisters,...
Topics: Wood, Scaffolds, Vacant Lots, New York, Broome Street, Harlem
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
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 20, 1990 – SATURDAY MARCH 17, 1990 The exhibition Western Objects Eastern Fields presents architects Peter Wilson and Julia Bolles' projects in Europe and Japan. The two's work situated in between theory and practice in architecture. Works exhibited included their first-prize entry for the Munster New City Library, which questioned the role of the library in the age of electronic information.
Topics: Theory, Practice, Library, Electronic Information
315
315
Oct 1, 1994
10/94
by
Michael Sorkin
image
eye 315
favorite 0
comment 0
In Suburbs of Utopia , Michaels Sorkin explored possibilities for new forms of cities grown from pure suburban habitats. He exhibited projects conceived for four sites—Brooklyn Waterfront, the Souks of Beirut, Tokaj, and Weed, AZ—in which four diverse understandings of utopia were proposed. These proposals were largely inspired by the history of the people and the land they inhabited.
Topic: Suburbs of Utopia
501
501
May 1, 1992
05/92
by
Jan Kaplicky, Amanda Levete
image
eye 501
favorite 0
comment 0
Headed by Jan Kaplicky and Amanda Levete, London-based architecture practice Future Systems explored the application of advanced and adaptive technology in architecture. Influenced by the automotive, marine, aviation and space industries, Future Systems envisaged a new generation of ecological architecture defined by its versatility, efficiency and performance. Merging technology with organicism, their projects utilized advanced industrial materials such as satinised light-reflectors, PVC...
Topic: Future Systems
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
THURSDAY JULY 15, 1999 – SATURDAY AUGUST 7, 1999 Smoking Buildings was a retrospective of Dutch artist Jos Vulto, curated by Adrian Dannatt. Photographs, paper-based works, and smoke-imprinted shrouds documented Vulto’s processes of “smoking” or “rooking” buildings. "Rooking" is a labor-intensive process normally applied to Dutch food production. Vulto’s projects often include securing a site, sealing off its orifices with cloth and burning sawdust in its interior....
Topic: Adrian Dannatt
TUESDAY OCTOBER 8, 1996 – FRIDAY NOVEMBER 15, 1996 Images are from the winning projects: Craig Abel (Photo 1), Alberto Kalach (Photo 2-3), Ted Sheridan (Photo 4), Suzan Wines (Photo 5-9), Mas Yendo (Photo 10) 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...
Topics: Craig Abel, Arch. Inc.: Azin Valy and Suzan Wines, Alberto Kalach, Studio E: Patricia Owen, Sound...
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...
189
189
Oct 15, 1986
10/86
by
Lebbeus Woods
texts
eye 189
favorite 1
comment 0
Images to accompany Lebbeus Wood's text written on October 15, 1986 title STOREFRONT: Iconoclasm, Invention and the Ideal
Topics: Storefront for Art and Architecture, Lebbeus Woods
newsletter, press release, annoucements, program and project 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,...
Artist Sandra Binion's performance at Storefront. The artist is seated on a chair behind the window, surrounded by six tin pails filled with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple paint, forming a semi-circle around the chair. She paints herself and the chair. The painter becomes the painting. Musician Butch Morris plays cornet as a street musician during the performance.
Newsletter
Topics: Eyal Weizman, Rafi Segal, The Politics of Israeli Architecture
After a six year hiatus from presenting his work publicly, Lebbeus Woods returned with an exhibition proposing a manifesto for the citizens of Sarajevo who on a daily basis were confronted by the destruction of the built environment they inhabited. Woods’s manifesto proposed methods of incorporating change into daily routines and embracing transition as an unavoidable force in daily life.
Topics: Sarajevo, citizens, architecture, urbanism, manifesto
FRIDAY OCTOBER 19, 1990 – SATURDAY NOVEMBER 17, 1990 Dan Hoffman's works on view at the Storefront shows a recurrent concern with material processes in architectural constructions, the increasing separation of the architect from the site, and the conditions of buildings. Hoffman’s concern about reestablishing body’s relation to building activities was reflected in six studies of building formwork, each contains and directs liquid materials such as concrete, resin, lead, and wax. The...
Topics: Material Process, Body, Construction, Liquid Material, Formwork, Inversion
SATURDAY JANUARY 15, 1994 – SATURDAY FEBRUARY 26, 1994 The exhibition highlights Peter Noever's various projects in Burgenland (Breitenbrunn, Austria). Such as The Pit and The Tower and the Terrace-Plateau , which is an intervention at MAK in Vienna. This exhibition was the first show after Acconci and Holl's completion of the Storefront facade.
Topics: Austria, Vienna
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
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
THURSDAY APRIL 26, 1990 – THURSDAY MAY 24, 1990 In 1986, the Art Commission of the city of New York forged a partnership between the Public Art Fund and the 14th Street-Union Square Local Development Corporation in an attempt to solicit new design proposals for the city’s newsstands. In an effort to provide the City with innovative design alternatives, the Public Art Fund’s Project Committee decided to sponsor a design competition involving artists and architects. The goal of the...
Topics: Public Art Fund, Design Proposal, Newsstands, Competition, Boxes, Waste, Garbage, Public Space
TUESDAY JANUARY 16, 1990 – SATURDAY FEBRUARY 10, 1990 Three Projects 1985–90 presented works of Barcelona-based architects Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós, two designers well known in Europe at the time but were relatively unfamiliar to the American audience. The show includes a series of drawings, models, and photographs of the two's recent works.
Topics: Barcelona, Drawings, Models, Photographs
Storefront for Art and Architecture Archive - Exhibitions
168
168
Nov 14, 2006
11/06
by
Beatriz Colomina, Craig Buckley, Anthony Fontenot, Urtzi Grau, Lisa Hsieh, Alicia Imperiale, Lydia Kallipoliti, Olympia Kazi, Daniel López-Pérez, Irene Sunwoo
texts
eye 168
favorite 0
comment 0
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...
1 Newsletter
Source: folio
338
338
Feb 8, 1992
02/92
by
James Keyden Cathcart, Frank Fantauzzi,Terrence Van Elslander
image
eye 338
favorite 0
comment 0
In Unprojected Habit , James Keyden Cathcart, Frank Fantauzzi and Terrence Van Elslander installed five functioning portable toilets directly into Storefront’s facade. Normally used at construction sites and fairgrounds, these prefabricated metal units were accessible from the street, while their bodies, together with the fragments of the removed facade, projected into the exhibition space. The role of the gallery was inverted: the general public became the user/ viewer, while the...
Topic: Unprojected Habit
Notes WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 12, 2003 – SUNDAY APRIL 20, 2003 Throughout the last century, a different kind of warfare has been radically transforming the landscapes of Israel and Palestine. The mundane elements of planning and architecture have been conscripted as tactical tools in the Israeli state strategy, seeking national and geo-political objectives in the organization of space. The landscape becomes the battlefield in which power and state control confront subversive and direct resistance....
Topics: Eyal Weizman, Rafi Segal, The Politics of Israeli Architecture
Live Music Archive
Librivox Free Audio
Metropolitan Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Internet Arcade
Console Living Room
Books to Borrow
Open Library
TV News
Understanding 9/11
