2024-12-21T22:17:01-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/117976955/white-space-the-architecture-of-the-art-fair Nicholas Korody 2015-01-13T09:30:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e3/e3ln3ixgs4a3xku9.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>In his 1942 short story &ldquo;<a href="http://hyperdiscordia.crywalt.com/library_of_babel.html" target="_blank">The Library of Babel</a>,&rdquo; Jorge Luis Borges describes a universe consisting of a potentially infinite library of adjacent hexagonal rooms. Convinced that the library contains every imaginable ordering of twenty-five orthographic symbols, the inhabitants of this universe search incessantly, and futilely, for meaning amid the endless shelves. While an individual art fair is never actually infinite, its labyrinthine rows of cubicles can appear endless.</p> https://archinect.com/features/article/74170538/art-basel-comes-to-hong-kong Evan Chakroff 2013-05-30T15:20:00-04:00 >2017-01-24T18:44:26-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/cm/cmvtzw8850p7dw1y.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>During the yearly art fair in Basel, Switzerland, the city is activated and reconfigured, and art is brought to the forefront of civic discourse. What, if any, impact could the fair have on daily life in a city of 7 million? How would this art world mega-event translate to the Hong Kong context?</p>