WHITE COLUMNS

FIVE NEW SHOWS OPENING

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 6 - 8 PM

GALLERY: 179 CANAL / ANYWAYS
– an exhibition organized by Margaret Lee

Anicka Yi
Josh Kline
Caitlin Keogh/Graham Anderson
Gregory Edwards
Alisa Baremboym
Michael Caputo
Nolan Simon
Thomas Torres Cordova/Charles Mayton
Andrei Koschmieder
Yemenwed
Jared Madere
Devon Costello
Trevor Shimizu
Antoine Catala
K. Mustermann
Liz Wendelbo
Stewart Uoo
Margaret Lee

THE BULLETIN BOARD: STEPHEN FOWLER

WHITE ROOM: EMMA SPERTUS

WHITE ROOM: FREDERICK LOOMIS presents Edward Mathew Taylor
"The Third Testament Project: The Genesis of The Coming Race of Human Computers"

PROJECT: RVNG

ALL WELCOME

OCTOBER 29 - DECEMBER 4, 2010

TUESDAY - SATURDAY, NOON - 6PM

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door

new squares hanging in michael johnsons's studio

just hooked up the printer and was testing it out. it is fun to mix contexts, in this case my work (photos of oakland details) camped in michael's paintings.

we have a history of working in relation. see my piece of his piece.

last batch of quotes from "four walking tours of modern architecture in nyc" by louise huxtable

-The appearance of the building is the direct visual expression of this structural grid, which creates an all-over pattern of equal horizontal and vertical emphasis -- here abstract geometric design of relatively pleasant proportion and color.

-This striking, even stark simplicity was meant to emphasize the revolutionary character of the new modern style.

-it is experimental and the results is on the garish side ...

-there is, however, unfortunate lack of design integration...

-The lobby confuses with a multiplicity of inadequately related details ... achieve only a conflicting fussiness legitimate neither as structure nor as decoration.

sculpture/naked

getting started

nothing like a little experimentation...

thanks to photoshop.

quotes

"four walking tours of modern architecture in new york city" by louise huxtable, 1961

-unparalleled visual drama

-it is a system of design and assembly that has proved eminently exploitable, producing an unimaginative set of cliches

-The pre-eminent client for this new architecture has been the large corporation for whom modern design a Park Avenue address are prestige factors of the first order.

-large open pedestrian areas

-trend setting tower

-extravagant and exuberant

-Although this calculated unconventionality often stretches creative imagination to the breaking point, the results are notable in a field marked by increasing standardization of design.

-trend toward impressively designed business building lobbies

-the design is an efficient but routine solution

-If the insistence on this bare simplicity was overstrict, it succeeded in its purpose of re-establishing sensitivity to the important basic elements of architecture -- the wall, the frame, the nature of materials, and the proper relationship of the essential parts of the whole.

getting down to business in the new new studio

thanks to raphael taylor, austin willis, michael johnson, for letting me carve out some space in their studio.

imainged top elevations of auto dealerships

A new exercise for graphic perspectives.

pop-up stairs

the esthetic itself

More great tidbits from the 80's about 80's architecture in the nytimes.

ARCHITECTURE VIEW; MODERNISM REAFFIRMS ITS POWER
By PAUL GOLDBERGER
Published: November 24, 1985

The moral force of modernism, its determination to see the world in a new way and remake it accordingly, had ebbed; what was left was the esthetic itself, stripped of its ideological baggage. [...]

The neo-modernism of the mid-1980's does not look like the modernism of an earlier generation. Consistent with its interest in esthetic matters over social meaning, it is more mannered, more complex visually than most earlier modernism: the work of Richard Meier is sufficient testament to that.

externally applied decoration

In my hunt for the connections between 80's architecture styles and the (modernist) International Style has come this frank perspective from the nytimes.

ARCHITECTURE/DESIGN; Skycrapers Shouldn't Look Down on Humanity
By MOSHE SAFDIE
Published: May 29, 1988

Today we come full circle to post-modernism only to discover that this reaction to modernism was also primarily stylistic. The spice of life, missing in modernist designs, was to be achieved through externally applied decoration. [...]

A great alliance was forged between the world of real estate developers, advertising and corporate merchandising with a new breed of architects who could respond with memorable, eye-catching, novel tall buildings. The merchandisers were quick to realize how easy it was to achieve a readily marketable product of great promotional value by means of a skin-deep styling treatment of buildings. [...]

With minimum investment - decorative skin patterns, elaborate tops and sometimes bottoms - one could achieve the appearance of a varied and rich architecture. [...]

Beyond its own form, the tall building challenges us with a problem of how it fits into its urban setting with little precedent to go on. [...]

Big alcove with ramp

smashed pool and others

love the stairs!

One always needs an alcove with ramp.

containters and an entry

bent pics

Endless possibilities

in my new temporary home, lobot, in West Oakland.

Pre-move productive studio activiites

Mini platform made for friend.


The mini platform enteres the photograph for a photoshop collage effect.



inner chamber or ante room

thank you suzi for doing a long distant studio visit!

ceiling engagement

I can't get enough of those illusions created by bent photographic interiors. These are a couple of the latest.