POETIC LIGHT
Poetic Light Installation
GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL, NYC
Poetic Light, a light and video installation located in a storefront within Grand Central Terminal, explored the possibility of creating a momentary pause for art within a hectic urban landscape. It was an attempt to make the path of the New York city commuter a bit more vital. The installation addresses the inherent contradiction of encountering poetry, which by its very nature is an intimate experience, in a 45 foot long glass enclosed public space within Grand Central Terminal. It was meant to be viewed up close as well as at a distance.
MAPS + MOVIES
Maps + Movies Installation
GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL, NYC
Maps + Movies explored the interface of function and fantasy at Grand Central Terminal through its display of interwoven layers of information. The site for this installation was the area behind six glass storefronts on the 42nd Street façade of the Terminal. Juxtaposing utilitarian railroad transit maps with cinematic stills filmed at the Terminal, Maps + Movies spoke to Grand Central Terminal’s role as a cultural place in the lives of New York City pedestrians.
2021 VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE
OPEN THE BOX
2021 Venice Architecture Biennale
Experiencing art creates the capacity for an insightful, aesthetic, and aspirational curated life that can touch people from all strata of society, potentially moving their existence to a better place. Architecture designed for the arts can amplify this impulse, constructing connective tissue across seemingly intractable boundaries. Open the Box, displayed at the Time Space Existence Exhibit at the 2021 Venice Biennale, challenges those in the art world to break down the barriers that separate diverse people from the potential threshold that art can create in their lives. The environmental installation is composed of a brickwork pattern of closed recyclable cardboard boxes interspersed with open boxes depicting images, audio/video, and text of architecturally accessible cultural sites. It is a clarion call to cultural stakeholders to encourage critical thinking, shared conversations, and public participation. Art silos are now a part of the past
2018 VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE
PLACES WHERE CONVERSATION CREATES SOCIAL FABRIC
Hyperloop Suburb
2018 BIENNALE TIME SPACE EXISTENCE EXHIBIT IN VENICE
Suburbs are sometimes thought of as dystopian, insulated places. The Hyperloop Suburb, a speculative, experiential installation at the 2018 Time Space Existence biennial exhibition on display during the 2018 Venice Architectural Biennale, explores whether innovations in transportation can breathe new life into these liminal spaces. Bringing airplane speed to ground level travel, a hyperloop is a high-speed system capable of closing the distance between the city and its rural periphery. Situated between the urban and pastoral, suburbs can potentially be at the center of an impending regional re-think, raising the critical question “How do we want to live”.
The exhibit rejects the binary view of the polarity between city and suburb. It speaks to a 21st century re-look at the regional environmental continuum, the productive penetrable neighborhood and the permeable ecological cluster. Toward that end we offer the Hyperloop Suburb as a wake-up call to all involved in the transportation arena to simultaneously consider the broader civic implications of current technological exploration.
2016 VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE
Active Voice
2016 VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE
Taking into consideration the particulars of time and place, architects today must engage in active conversations with communities to help give definition to their existence. Active Voice, a three-dimensional video installation at the Time Space Existence exhibition at the 2016 Venice Biennale, is a snapshot of one such conversation. A six-year dialogue produced a series of architectural projects that were integral to the creation of a charter school in a community in Staten Island, New York where the families of 86% of the students live below the poverty line.
2014 VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE
Architectural Essence
2014 VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE
Buildings embody architectural essence when they are both situated and experiential. The spirit of our search to create architectural essence by embedding our art museum, Centro de Artes Nadir Afonso, within its locale, both temporally and spatially, is the focus of our architectural installation in the Time Space Existence exhibition at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale.
2012 VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE
Kigutu in Formation
2012 VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE
Kigutu in Formation was an environmental installation within the Traces of Centuries & Future Steps exhibition of the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale. Depicting our architectural teamwork with Village Health Works and the Kigutu community to rebuild their off-the-grid site after many years of overwhelming civil strife in Burundi, Africa, the installation portrayed the interwoven relationship between the East African cultural and natural landscapes in the context of aesthetics, sustainability, and societal advancement. Fabric wrapped cylinders intertwined with images and video enhanced by the urgent sound of African drumbeats created a collage of the collaboration that will craft this community.
