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John Hejduk: Double Poetics – Architecture and Inhabitation
- Curators: Yung Ho Chang, Ge Ming, Weiling He
- Venue: Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
- Collaborator: The Canadian Centre for Architecture
As one of the most influential thinkers and educators of Architecture in the 20th century, John Hejduk (1929-2000) represents both the realism and idealism prevalent in the discipline from the 60s to the 80s. He explored a myriad of architectural ideas through radical and thought-provoking drawings and design proposals. When peer architects focused on the medium of building, Hejduk claimed “architecture doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s the final form of a complete building.” He never embraced market economy, never gave up the investigation of an architecture he believed in, built or unbuilt.
John Hejduk: Double Poetics, the first exhibition on Hejduk’s work in China, will revisit his selected drawings and models from Formalism to Architectural Pessimism. The exhibition is a response to today’s Architecture, dictated by market and media, and an urgent call for rekindling the spirit of idealism, so that architecture can be once more autonomous in the way we think and in the way we work.
The exhibition is composed of two categories of contents: original work and inspired work. Hejduk’s original work includes original artifacts, such as drawings, physical models, and photographs of original work. Inspired work includes projects in search of the understanding of Hejduk’s idealism, such as analytical drawings, 1:1 scale installation, physical models, as well as John Hejduk: Building Worlds by Michael Blackwood Productions.
Source: Power Station of Art
AFTER FORM: The 36th National Conference on Beginning Design Student
The 36th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student is dedicated to a critical inquiry of the idea of form. The title &em; AFTER FORM &em; intends a meaning of the term “after” in at least three senses: 1. in the sense of pursuit, when indicating a target, as in the claim that we are after something significant; and 2. in the historical sense, as in the question of what will happen after this; which 3. may be seen also as a kind of critical negation. In beginning design education, form has long been the object of a believing game and a confirmation bias. We call for presentations of papers and projects that subject the idea of form to a rigorous doubting game and to the possibility of refutation.
Light Echo II Debuts at the Austin Trash Makeover Challenge 2016
Light Echo II is an continuation of Light Echo (2016) and Milky Way (2015), reusing the milk jug pieces from the previous projects. It integrates interactive light and projections to reflect the audience's proximity. The backdrop for the green carpet, Light Echo II was exhibited at Austin Trash Makeover Challenge 2016, the event organized by the Texas Campaign for the Environment, where people around the nation celebrate the beauty of “waste.”
'Milky Way' Lights up Christmas Atmosphere
Milky Way, designed by Weiling He, negotiates a trapezoid-shaped space at the Brazos Valley African American Museum in Bryan, Texas, USA. A parasitic structure, Milky Way makes an ambivalent statement: at once invading the space with plastic waste and bringing ethereal qualities to the space by the varying degrees of translucency in the layering of the material. Cecilia Giusti and Wayne Sadberry curated the project. John Nichols provided structural engineering for the installation. Jim Titus managed the initial processing of milk jugs and additional mechanical needs for the installation. The College of Architecture Diversity Council at Texas A&M University supported the project financially and provided logistic support at all stages. The opening was held on December 4, 2015.
