Link to Noguchi Museum.
Moerenuma Park, Sapporo, Japan
I hoofed it around Chelsea for an hour and concluded that the mortgage crisis had hit the galleries.
The Storefront for Art & Architecture in Soho had a giant Lego model by the Danish design consortium "Big". The small exhibit was concerned with ideas of modular architecture, and the synthesis of architectural systems and social order in regards to housing. The fallacy of all of the models was that if architecture becomes more modular, cheaper, faster and more user-directed, that the results will resemble crystal formation, and not something messier, more chaotic and provisional. However, the Lego model was a playful and impressive depiction of the kind of society described in E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops".
Vito Acconci's design of the facade of the gallery is really engaging. Embedded in the outside wall are several interlocking, rotating panels. This makes the gallery an extension of the street, which creates the need for the gallery attendant to continually go from model to model cleaning them of street grime and particulate pollution with a can of compressed air and a brush; An amusing consequence of the design, if you're not the one cleaning.
Link to the Storefront for Art & Architecture.
2 comments:
I'm glad to know that the future will have Batmobiles!
I do enjoy the slope like design of the whole thing though. Unfortunately, the other fallacy of this model is that I want to be able to see EVERYONE naked via transparent cube walls...
Oh, the Lego sculpture is super-cool, to be sure! I addressed it as an architectural proposition because it was presented as one. Good sculpture, not so great architecture.
The Lego model was more symbolic than schematic. They had plans of the modules on the walls, and they thankfully included doors and bathrooms.
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