2024-12-22T02:50:27-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149994910/mass-market-alternatives-at-pinkcomma-gallery johnszot 2017-03-07T20:33:00-05:00 >2017-03-07T20:34:13-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/6e/6e19lwjynhr5ab3w.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Starting Wednesday, March 8, the <a href="http://pinkcomma.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pinkcomma Gallery</a> in Boston will be showing a collection of drawings, models, and videos documenting a collection of algorithmically-generated suburban homes by John Szot.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/vz/vz6pcq78e55krqmj.jpg"></p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/na/nabzahcp3dwm2lsj.jpg"></p><p>conceptual statement:</p><p>Industrialization has had a profound effect on the American suburb. Only American audacity could have concocted and executed the formula for mass-produced homes that dominates the suburban real estate market in the United States. And only in America could such a formula become an economic and political juggernaut, making places where matters of personal taste are amplified into cultural bulwarks.<br>&ldquo;Mass Market Alternatives&rdquo; seeks to exploit the economic leverage and aesthetic principles of&nbsp;mass-market suburban housing in order to diversify its potential customer base and challenge the reputation of the suburbs as enclaves of conservatism and political conformity.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/1x/1xu6zp09u2ejm10i.jpg"></p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/n4/n4odd6du1lra2vwe.jpg"></p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/3g/3gtvjzhdoaxqvijy.jpg"></p><p>about the architect:</p><p><a href="http://johnszot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">John Szot</a> is an award-winning architect living in New York, and his work related to...</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/69018801/bracket-goes-soft-boston-book-launch OpenWorkshop 2013-03-08T09:52:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/l8/l8gznp47xhyavbc9.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> [bracket] is an annual publication documenting issues overlooked yet central to our cultural milieu that have evolved out of the new disciplinary territory at the intersection of architecture, environment and, now, digital culture. It is no coincidence that the professional term architect can also now refer to information architects, and that the word community can also now refer to an online community. [bracket] is a publishing platform for ideas charting the complex overlap of the sphere of architecture and online social spheres.</p> <p> [Goes Soft] investigates responsive, indeterminate, flexible and immaterial systems that operate through feedback, organization and resilience. Edited by Neeraj Bhatia and Lola Sheppard of Infranet Lab, this second volume in the impressive [bracket] series &ldquo;examines the use and implications of soft today &ndash; from the scale of material innovation to territorial networks.&rdquo;</p> <p> Free and open to the public, no RSVP is required.</p> <p> Bracket [Goes Soft] Boston Bo...</p>