2024-05-05T12:59:19-04:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150132757/behind-the-scenes-of-coachella-s-colossal-cacti-with-andrew-kovacs Shane Reiner-Roth 2019-04-19T16:18:00-04:00 >2019-04-22T06:53:01-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/45/45557b824f5b952390a8ceac6a70865e.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>As long as it has been known as a world-class music festival, <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150132015/francis-k-r-office-kovacs-and-others-unveil-installations-at-coachella" target="_blank">Coachella</a>&nbsp;has also been dedicated to the installation of artwork at the scale of architecture. This year, artists and architects including <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150132455/a-closer-look-at-francis-k-r-s-colorful-coachella-installation" target="_blank">Francis K&eacute;r&eacute;</a>, Peggy Noland and Dedo Vabo boasted impressive works during the festival. But it was <em>Colossal Cacti</em>, the project by Office Kovacs,&nbsp;that most skillfully referenced both the desert landscape of Indio Valley and the postmodern tradition of the architect's Los Angeles home base.&nbsp;</p> <p>We interviewed <a href="https://archinect.com/features/article/150085656/archinectmeets-archiveofaffinities" target="_blank">Andrew Kovacs</a>, the <a href="https://archinect.com/ucla" target="_blank">UCLA</a> professor that leads Office Kovacs, about the fabrication process (beautifully photographed by <a href="https://archinect.com/features/article/150095274/archinectmeets-phdonohue" target="_blank">Phil Donahue</a>) and public reception of Colossal Cacti, while also discovering that the film's intention is always to bring architecture to the people.</p> https://archinect.com/features/article/150085656/archinectmeets-archiveofaffinities Shane Reiner-Roth 2018-09-13T10:29:00-04:00 >2018-09-18T19:08:30-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0e/0ef9ea0490c420dc6dc33d099762b535.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/features/tag/1198457/archinectmeets" target="_blank">#ArchinectMeets</a> is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram&rsquo;s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has affected their practice.&nbsp;</p> <p>Social media has undeniably affected the way we perceive, interpret and share opinions about architecture today. Using our own account, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/archinect/" target="_blank">@Archinect</a>, as a site for image curation and news content, we wanted to ask fellow Instagram users how they navigated the platform.</p> <p>We begin the series with Andrew Kovacs (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/archiveofaffinities/" target="_blank">@archiveofaffinities</a>),&nbsp;a professor of architecture&nbsp;at UCLA and owner of&nbsp;the blog Archive of Affinities. Kovacs has treated this blog - divided between Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr - as his own personal&nbsp;strategy for "making architecture from architecture" against a field of notoriously uncompromising budgets, clients and deadlines. History often lays bare architecture t...</p>