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Storefront for Art and Architecture presents Measure: Opening August 13th
United States Architecture News - Jul 29, 2015 - 15:47 3580 views
“Aesthetics/Anesthetics,” 2012. Interboro Partners, +/- SF. Storefront for Art and Architecture.
Measure
August 14th, 2015 – September 12th, 2015
August 13th Exhibition Opening:
Press and Members’ Preview: 6 to 7 pm
Opening Reception: 7 to 9 pm
To measure, to quantify the physical and intangible dimensions of a place, is to articulate facts in order to construct values. The pleasure and pressure to measure and be measured has become increasingly present in contemporary life. Access to growing data sets and new sensing technologies is widespread, and the role of public and private domains of information and space are being redefined.
On Thursday, August 13th, Storefront for Art and Architecture opens Measure, an exhibition of 30 drawings by 30 international architects presenting 30 edifices of thought. Drawings are of Storefront for Art and Architecture's gallery space on 97 Kenmare Street in New York. The exhibition will include original works by emerging and renowned voices such as:
The Architecture Lobby
Barozzi / Veiga
Víctor Enrich
Fake Industries Architectural Agonism FleaFollyArchitects
FIG Projects Formlessfinder
Michelle Fornabai
Steven Holl
Bernard Khoury
Kohn Pedersen Fox Assoc. Kutonotuk
Erika Loana
MAIO
m-a-u-s-e-r (Mona Mahall, Asli Serbest) MILLIØNS
Nicholas de Monchaux
Anna Neimark
Para-Project
pneumastudio (Cathryn Dwyre + Chris Perry) + POOL
James Ramsey, RAAD Studio
Reiser + Umemoto
Mark Robbins
Selldorf Architects
Malkit Shoshan
Nader Tehrani / NADAAA
Urban-Think Tank
Ross Wimer
James Wines
The process of creating standards and guidelines of representation allows innovation to enter the realm of the establishment. What can be measured can be capitalized, historicized, and sold. While architectural representation conforms to a system of standards and guidelines that allows for the production of buildings, architecture is also the practice of giving form
to thought. In the process of creating edifices that house social, political, and spatial relations, architects make visible the functions of society in operational and aspirational terms. In this sense, architecture is constantly innovating new forms of measurement and representation. The 30 drawings presented at Storefront unveil the challenges of representation and extrapolate them onto the architect's table and the gallery walls.
The third iteration of Storefront's drawing show seeks to find measures, resist measurement, and measure the immeasurable by presenting from the real to the fictional and from the functional to the symbolic. Measure positions the medium and the act of drawing as a process by which we seek coherence in data and representation, and shows that it is the making of facts that is the basis for the production of futurity beyond existing norms.