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Following a Frank Gehry overhaul, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is hiring an exhibition designer

2024-04-24T17:28:00-04:00

Following last week’s look at an opening for a Deputy Director, Occupancy Management - Real Estate at the MTA Metropolitan Transportation Authority, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for an Exhibition Designer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The role calls for an individual who will design special exhibitions, gallery projects, and gallery furnishings for the display of works of art in the museum. Specific tasks may include managing the design and documentation process for exhibitions, creating technical drawings and models of objects and spaces, and developing schedules for construction and object installation. Among the requirements for the role are model-making skills, design training and experience, and preferably a degree in art, architecture, or art history.

The museum's North Entrance, for the first time in decades, was restored to public use in 2019. Steve Hall © Hall + Merrick Photographers, 2019, cour...

LA's La Brea Tar Pits project picks Kossmanndejong to lead exhibition design

2023-01-31T19:32:00-05:00

Amsterdam’s Kossmanndejong (KDJ) has been announced by the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County as the lead exhibition designer for the La Brea Tar Pits overhaul following a competitive international search process.

In tandem with WEISS/MANFREDI and Los Angeles-based Gruen Associates, the studio will be tasked with handling the schematic design for the project, which will “reimagine” the 13-acre campus located nearby LACMA and the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures inside Hancock Park over a seven- to ten-year construction timeline.

Image: Weiss/Manfredi, courtesy NHMLAC

“We have been building toward a reimagined La Brea Tar Pits for several years now, as we plan for a visitor experience equal to the promise of sharing discoveries from a research site unique in the world,” the Museums’ Director Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga said in a statement. “Our goal is to highlight the vital relevance of the Tar Pits to our own era of climate change, provide facilities that better support ...

Squint/Opera announces merger with Journey as the industry-leading experience designers look to scale up digital production

2022-11-02T13:54:00-04:00

3D experience pioneer Squint/Opera has been acquired by the digital agency Journey in a move announced on November 1 by the newly-formed entity.

The merger will enable both to pursue an expansion of their services at a time when the industry is seeing an increase in demand thanks to the advent of metaverse design and other forms of media.

“The opportunity to join Journey was momentous.” Julius Coke, the CEO of Squint/Opera, explained in a statement. “Over the last few years Squint has experienced significant growth, as the demand for immersive 3D experiences grows and new platforms and technologies enable a new level of creativity tapping into our storytelling, virtual production and creative media skills.”

Previously on Archinect: BIG and UNStudio's investment in co-working platform SpaceForm signals a tide-change in architectural practice

Founded in London in 2021, Squint/Opera has since then, it has garnered a reputation through groundbreaking projects like The Observatory at The ...

Gensler’s Jackie Robinson Museum project finally debuts after a 14-year saga

2022-08-05T15:57:00-04:00

Last week was opening day for the new Gensler-designed Jackie Robinson Museum in Lower Manhattan. Luminaries, including Spike Lee and Mayor Eric Adams were on hand to inaugurate the museum, which was first announced by Major League Baseball and the Jackie Robinson Foundation to observe the 61st anniversary of his Dodgers debut in 2008.

Occupying a space on Varick Street that is now landmarked by the city, the 20,000-square-foot museum focuses as much on Robinson’s multisport athletic career and rise to baseball’s pinnacle as it does on his progressive social activism and lifelong fight against racism.

Years of delays meant the project has been put off its intended 2019 opening until this year.

Having opened its doors last Friday, the Jackie Robinson Museum seeks to bring people from all walks together to commune and appreciate each other’s humanity and diverse experiences. Enjoy a glimpse of the ribbon cutting ceremony led by Emmy Award winner @RobinRoberts pic.twitter.com/QyNcQVhW...

Designing for The Met: How hiring the right exhibition designers impacts the changing nature of museums

2022-03-30T20:00:00-04:00

New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art has made several big announces these past few months: From news of a $500 million wing expansion designed by Frida Escobedo, an upcoming rooftop installation from artist Lauren Halsey, to the museum's Ancient Near East and Cypriot Art gallery renovation led by NADAAA and Moody Nolan, The Met is setting its sights on what 2022 and beyond will bring.

Learning from the pandemic and the socio-economical events of 2020 and 2021, museum and exhibition design continues to evolve and change, hopefully for the better. As cultural institutions across the globe continue to reopen and prepare for another year of exhibitions, many dare to ask what the future of exhibition design will look like. Who are the future exhibition designers? What does it take for motivated individuals to work for one of today's leading museums?

The Met's "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion" exhibition. Depicted is a dress designed by international fashion designer and design a...

OMA takes exhibition design to new levels at the reopened Denver Art Museum

2021-10-26T17:06:00-04:00

As part of the newly reopened Denver Art Museum renovation project, OMA has transformed the design galleries of the iconic Martin Building in order to better display, exhibit, and communicate the museum’s robust holdings in architecture and design.

The remade space features two new galleries and an educational studio named for designer and art collector Ellen Bruss.

Photography by James Florio

OMA’s Shohei Shigematsu described the opportunity to work within Ponti’s seminal work as “an exciting exercise,” offering his opinion that “Much like his design philosophy, the role of design seems to grow and diversify exponentially. A direct consequence of design ubiquity is accessibility and literacy, and we wanted the galleries to react to these changes.”

Photography by James Florio

“The three spaces pose new ways of seeing as well as interacting with objects and materials,” he continued. “They present different spatial and programmatic identities but work collectively as a platform for s...

Elizabeth Diller is drawing personal lessons from her design for the Jewish Museum's Edmund de Waal exhibition

2021-10-18T16:40:00-04:00

The personal has never been a hallmark of Diller’s work in architecture and design. But working with de Waal’s emotionally charged travelogue, she said, had a transformational effect. “Seeing the world of his family through Edmund’s eyes,” she said, “I saw my family history also.” “Edmund dug into his past,” Diller added. “I didn’t. I couldn’t bear it.” Designing an exhibition based on de Waal’s book has changed that.

Six rooms designed by Elizabeth Diller give viewers a glimpse into de Waal’s inner world informed by his relatives, the Ephrussis, who, like the architect’s own Polish family, was forced into exile during the Holocaust. Diller said she wanted the exhibition spaces to reflect the displacement felt by the storied art-collecting family and chronicled by de Waal in his fiction. The author referred to Diller as “the great dramaturge of space.”

Diller had previously designed a 2016 exhibition at the museum which focused on the lifework of French architect Pierre Chareau.

The exhibition "The Hare with Amber Eyes" goes on view starting November 19th. More information can be found here.

Construction completes on Renzo Piano's long-awaited Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in LA

2021-03-10T20:42:00-05:00

Archinect's last report of the highly anticipated Academy Museum of Motion Pictures reported the Museum's planned opening and potential delay due to Covid-19 concerns. Today, The Academy Museum announces its inaugural programming and the official public opening, which will occur on September 30, 2021. To kick start its public debut, the Museum kicks off with its virtual programs in April.

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Exterior Rendering by Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Set to be "the largest institution in the United States devoted to the arts, sciences, and artists of moviemaking," the Museum will be another architectural feat to add to the city. With Renzo Piano and his team at the helm of the 300,000 square-foot museum campus, the general public was able to keep tabs on its progression over the years, especially with its giant spherical-shaped auditorium.

Featured on Archinect: Academy of Motion Pictures releases new construction photos of Renzo Piano-designed museum Image b...

Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Portugal reopens with new SO-IL-designed architectural intervention and exhibition

2020-06-15T11:30:00-04:00

After a delayed opening originally scheduled for March 27th, the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (maat) has begun its new chapter with a museum-wide architectural intervention designed by New York-based studio SO - IL.

Titled Beeline, the project is an ephemeral work that transforms the Amanda Levete-designed building into a series of spatial encounters that take guests through elevated pathways, stage areas, and workshop zones. "This not only transforms the way visitors enter and experience maat, but also challenges the implied hierarchies of spaces in a traditional museum and provide flexibility for an ever-evolving organization," said SO - IL co-founder Florian Idenburg in a statement.

The design studio also designed an exhibition for the museum called Currents - Temporary Architectures, in which the practice displays 12 projects it has created over the past decade, exploring both temporary and built works. The exhibit includes 1:1 mock-ups, ephemera, models, and books...

Academy of Motion Pictures releases new construction photos of Renzo Piano-designed museum

2020-04-17T19:48:00-04:00

Despite many construction projects being put on hold across the U.S., some regions, including Los Angeles, have continued on with business as usual. Word of the LACMA demolition came to light during the second week of April, while a neighboring project is also making progress. In the weeks since Archinect's last coverage of Renzo Piano's Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, new photos and exhibition renders have been released.

With the museum set to open in December 2020, museum director Bill Kramer shares in a press statement that the programs and exhibitions featured will "illuminate the complex and fascinating world of cinema—its art, technology, artists, history, and social impact—through a variety of diverse and engaging voices."

Image by wHY architecture © Academy Museum Foundation

Image by Joshua White JWPictures © Academy Museum Foundation

Kramer also addresses the museum's construction progress during a global pandemic. "We are keenly aware that we’re working towards the openin...

Four university architecture exhibitions to kick off 2020

2020-01-10T17:00:00-05:00

With the new year (and new semester) just getting under way, now is as good a time as any to take in a good architecture exhibition.

We have collected a few of the most interesting exhibitions currently (or soon-to-be) on view at four university campuses across the country, highlighting curatorial efforts by firms that include NEMESTUDIO and Architecture Office. Model-lovers will find much to love about the exhibitions developed by these two firms, while the other two highlighted exhibitions focus on environmental and urban planning initiatives.

Remember, the Spring semester moves fast, however, so don't wait to check these exhibitions out!

Installation photo from 74 Things by NEMESTUDIO at the Knowlton School of Architecture. Image courtesy of Philip Arnold / The Ohio State Knowlton School of Architecture.

Knowlton School of Architecture

74 Things by NEMESTUDIO

San Francisco Bay Area-based practice NEMESTUDIO is presenting 74 Things, an exhibition that positions the Knowlton Hall Banv...

2018 World Interior of the Year awarded to JAC STUDIOS' Yumin Art Nouveau Collection

2018-11-30T19:30:00-05:00

The Yumin Art Nouveau Collection by Danish practice JAC STUDIO was crowned the 2018 World Interior of the Year, marking the end of another INSIDE World Festival of Interiors. The last two days saw this year's nominated designers face off in a live competition at RAI Amsterdam in hopes to be named one of the 10 category winners.

After one final round of presentations by the category winners, the jury awarded the coveted grand prize to the Yumin Art Nouveau Collection for “its crafted sensitivity, to both the building and the Gallé glass to which the museum [is] dedicated”.

Photo credit: Yoonsung Choi, Jeongyoun Hong, Mathias Kromann Rode.

The Yumin Art Nouveau Collection is housed inside the elegant interiors of the Tadao Ando-designed Genius Loci building, which is located on the coastal landscape of Phoenix Jeju in South Korea. The Collection is a permanent exhibition of delicate glass produced during the Art Nouveau movement between the 1870s to 1940s by prominent artists like Émi...

Showing off: 10 inspiring exhibition spaces for your Friday inspiration

2018-06-08T12:59:00-04:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles.

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Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the NEW board Exhibition Spaces.

↑ Studio Roel in Mexico City by Dellekamp Arquitectos + Andrés Palomino; Photo: Sandra Pereznieto

↑ Abdullah Gul Presidential Museum and Library in Kayseri, Turkey by EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture

↑ Dom-Ino Pavilion in Shenzhen, China by Benyuan Design and Research Center with Future + Academy; Photo: Zhang Chao

↑ Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT by Ennead Architects

↑ 798 BRIC Gallery in Beijing, China by maison h; Photo: Martijn de Geus

↑ Multi-lattice Art Museum Renovation in Beijing, China by AntiStatics Architecture Design

↑ SculptureCenter in Long Island City, NY by Andrew Berman Arch...

Morphosis reveals design for new Orange County Museum of Art in California

2018-06-04T15:57:00-04:00

Morphosis recently unveiled their design for the new Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) in in Costa Mesa, CA. The design features a 52,000-square-foot building, nearly doubling the OCMA's current exhibition space and expanding access to museum's permanent collection of modern and contemporary art.

In the entrance lobby, light-filled atrium space is crossed by bridges to educational hall and mezzanine gallery spaces. Image: Morphosis Architects.

A grand outdoor public stair joins the building to Arts Plaza to the north, creating an inviting gathering space for pedestrians and visitors
to the museum and adjacent performing arts venues.

OCMA’s ground floor and mezzanine hold open, flexible galleries for permanent collection installations and temporary exhibitions. Image: Morphosis Architects.

The main floor of the new museum building will be dedicated to reconfigurable, open exhibition space supported by the mezzanine, black-box, and jewel-box galleries which will accommodate temporary a...

Steven Holl's Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU to open April 21

2018-04-17T15:14:00-04:00

Steven Holl Architects' new Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) will open to the public on April 21, 2018. The ICA's new building named the Markel Center will debut with its inaugural exhibition Declaration, an exploration of contemporary art’s power to respond to pressing social issues. This will be Virginia's first art institution dedicated exclusively to exhibiting contemporary art.

Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU Markel Center at night. Image: Iwan Baan.

Aerial view of the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU. Image: Iwan Baan.

The building features dual entrances opening to the city’s arts district on one side and VCU’s Monroe Park campus on the other, providing a connection between the two.

View of the Royall Forum at the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU. Image: Iwan Baan.

Steven Holl Architects activated the 41,000 square feet of space with an open design to create flexibility. With an inviting 33-foot-high central forum, ...

10 exhibition spaces from around the world for your Friday inspiration

2017-10-13T19:57:00-04:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles.

(Tip: use the handy FOLLOW feature to easily keep up-to-date with all your favorite Archinect profiles!)

Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the NEW board Exhibition Spaces.

↑ Grand Louvre Modernization in Paris, France by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

↑ Museum of Design Art and Architecture [MODAA] in Culver City, CA by SPF:a - Studio Pali Fekete architects

↑ Ghost Gallery in Oklahoma City, OK by Elliott + Associates Architects; Photo: Scott McDonald, Hedrich Blessing

↑ Design Republic Design Commune in Shanghai, China by Neri&Hu Design and Research Office; Photo: Pedro Pegenaute

↑ Archaeological Pavilion, Elisengarten in Aachen, Germany by kadawittfeldarchitektur; Photo: Jens Kirchner

↑ The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA by Selldorf Architects; Photo: Mike Agee

↑ Museum o...

New approaches to material, fabrication, and design on display at CCA's "Designing Material Innovation"

2017-09-27T19:18:00-04:00

Beginning tomorrow, the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, will host Designing Material Innovation, an exhibition being held on the College's Back Lot—soon to be converted into their new campus by Studio Gang—which will put on display new approaches to material, fabrication, and design. Created through collaborations between architects and industry partners, the works combine technological innovation in materials research and fabrication with aesthetic and ethical approaches to form and appearance.

"Confetti Urbanism" by Clark Thenhaus.

"Thinness" by Aptum Architecture.

The exhibition, and accompanying symposium, has been organized by Taubman's new dean Jonathan Massey and will feature five full-scale architectural prototypes and pavilions by CCA Digital Craft Lab, APTUM Architecture, Matter Design with M.I.T. Architecture, and T+E+A+M. Design of the exhibition has been carried out by Clark Thenhaus of Endemic Architecture and features a “confetti urbanism” that rearrang...

Dig into more photos of BIG's “invisible” Tirpitz Museum

2017-07-13T16:19:00-04:00

The BIG-designed Tirpitz Museum in the Danish coastal town of Blåvand recently had its grand opening and already appears to be attracting plenty of visitors to the historic site. Unlike its heftier neighbor, the German WWII Tirpitz bunker, the museum finely cuts into the dune landscape and appears to be hidden.

The project's distinct form has already drawn a quirky comparison to a “freshly sliced hot potato” from Bjarke Ingels himself. On the flip side, the museum is designed to serve as a “portal to the Danish West Coast's treasure trove of hidden stories”, says Claus Kjeld Jensen, the Director of the Varde Museum. The Tirpitz Museum intends to take visitors on a scenic journey through the light and dark chapters of the region's history.

Photo: Mike Bink

Photos: Mike Bink

Photo: Colin John Seymour

The 2,800 m2 museum complex consists of concrete, steel, glass, and wood — four materials and elements that are also found in existing structures and landscape of ...

Bjarke Ingels compares the shape of the just-opened Tirpitz Bunker Museum to a freshly sliced hot potato

2017-07-07T15:20:00-04:00

Due to the surrender of German forces in WWII, the Tirpitz Bunker's construction was never completed leaving the dugout as a dark presence on the sandy coast of Denmark. The 3.5 meter thick concrete fortification is the country's largest bunker and was intended to be part of Hitler's Atlantic Wall defenses. Due to its strategic position near the coast, the bunker would've helped protect the sea route to the Port of Esbjerg, a major intermodal hub for the Nordic region. While the Allies blew up many of the bunkers in the region, the Tirpitz was saved. The site has been used as a small museum since 1991 and has previously held concerts and art shows within the moss-covered bunker walls. In 2012 as part of a 7,500-square foot development, it was decided to expand the museum.

Today, hidden under the dunes, the new Tirpitz Museum, designed by Bjarke Ingels, has finally been transformed with four distinct galleries alongside the original bunker. The museum will explore both the lighter an...

Bjarke Ingels' Tirpitz bunker hill museum in Denmark to open on June 30

2017-06-28T18:33:00-04:00

The elegant new museum [...] is the antithesis of its hefty, imposing neighbour [the Tirpitz, part of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall]. A series of incisions appear in the sand dunes, leading to a hidden, airy square from which the exhibition spaces radiate [...] Visitors embark on a “daylight” journey and a “darkened experience” that tell the story of how the tides brought wealth and stability to the area on the one hand, and took lives on the other.

Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group, the new Blåvand bunker hill museum in Denmark's West Jutland region will be opening to the public on June 30. Integrated into a historic sand dune next to the Nazi-era Tirpitz bunker, the elegant museum is a “light antithesis to bunker architecture”, BIG describes. The museum will feature three exhibitions designed by Tinker Imagineers that explore both the lighter and darker chapters of the region's history.

Artists and researchers of “Seeds of Time” exhibition join forces to rethink approaches to sustainability

2017-06-07T17:27:00-04:00

Organized into the three “zones” of Field, Sequence, and Rooms, the exhibition will bring together the minds of artists and designers like Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Yoko Ono, and Olafur Eliasson and researchers such as the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, who will propose solutions and approaches to the ever-pressing issues of environmental and social sustainability.

As Chapter 2 of the Shanghai Project, the “Seeds of Time” is a cross-disciplinary exhibition designed by Hong Kong- and Madrid-based COLLECTIVE studio and curated by Dr. Yongwoo Lee and Hans Ulrich Obrist. The exhibition is at the Shanghai Himalayas Museum until July 30.

Photo: Katja Lam / COLLECTIVE.

“We're All Water” by Yoko Ono. Photo: Katja Lam / COLLECTIVE.

Step inside the first U.S. exhibition of Pierre Chareau, co-architect of the Maison de Verre

2016-11-08T13:01:00-05:00

Pierre Chareau was a French architect and designer best known for the groundbreaking Maison de Verre in Paris that he designed with Dutch architect Bernard Bijvoet. However, Chareau's diverse body of work has received hardly any exposure in the U.S. Thanks to a collaboration between Diller Scofidio + Renfro and the Jewish Museum in New York City, Chareau's work made its U.S. debut last Friday in the exhibition, “Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design”.

Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet, Maison de Verre, 1928-1932.

After Chareau fled Paris from German occupation during World War II, his own designs and his vast art collection were scattered when he sold them, as he tried to rebuild his career in New York. The exhibition attempts to piece together parts of Chareau's life and works during those trying times, while integrating in-vogue media and technology that can appeal to today's broader audience.

The exhibition still dedicates much of itself to Chareau's seminal work, the Mais...

SHL's Shanghai Cloud Pavilion is a stunning glass and steel extrusion of a cartoon cloud

2016-08-18T12:44:00-04:00

Intended as both a counterpoint to the heavy industrial cranes that line Shanghai's West Bund as well as an art/exhibition space, SHL's new Cloud Pavilion is the permanent version of the wildly successful 2013 Shanghai biennial installation, which was intended only to last for two months.

While the first iteration's ephemeral 20,000 white ropes have been replaced by steel rods and a glassed-in viewing area, the hope is that the initial free-floating feeling remains.

As Schmidt Hammer Lassen design partner Chris Hardie explains, "The new pavilion creates a singular space in the form of an extruded glass cloud. The cloud shape in plan directly relates to the cartoon like form associated with how a child would draw a cloud, and how clouds are often seen depicted in traditional Chinese prints. The cloud is considered a symbol of luck in ancient Chinese painting."

Here's a video showing the Pavilion and the context of its site:

Zaha Hadid transforms Zurich gallery in homage to artist Kurt Schwitters

2016-06-17T14:03:00-04:00

Upon first glance, the “Kurt Schwitters: Merz” exhibition is an enticing haven of artistic talent. The retrospective opened earlier this week at the Galerie Gmurzynska in Zurich. An exhibition involving Zaha Hadid is sure to be a visual treat, whether it's her work that is on display or if she designed an exhibition's setup. Hadid's design for this particular exhibition...is the late architect's homage to Kurt Schwitters' famous Merzbau.

See more photos of the exhibition on Bustler.

The first US exhibition on Pierre Chareau coming to the Jewish Museum

2016-05-05T13:38:00-04:00

This fall, the Jewish Museum will present what it’s billing as the first United States exhibition devoted to the work of Pierre Chareau, a French Modernist who for decades fell out of the mainstream history of art and architecture [...] Chareau (1883-1950) was a prolific designer and art collector in France, and best known for his Maison de Verre (“Glass House”), a landmark building in Paris created in 1928 in collaboration with the Dutch architect Bernard Bijvoet...

The exhibition, entitled "Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design", is the third exhibition in a trilogy of design exhibitions, following surveys of the work of Isaac Mizrahi and Roberto Burle Marx.

The French architect and designer also had an impressive collection of art, which will be on view in the exhibit.

The exhibition will be designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

You Want a Piece of Renzo Piano

2015-07-23T11:32:00-04:00

He’s Mr. Lifestyle of the rich and famous, do you want a piece of him? No not Britney Spears, but rather world-renowned architect Renzo Piano. Visitors to the recent Piece by Piece: Renzo Piano Building Workshop at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai were engaged in the evolution of the famous architect’s key works through multi-media presentations. Various study models made of wood, foam, morphed plastic, and even pantyhose provided insight into the limitless and unpredictable avenues of the architectural creative process. Suspended models of various scale and detail hovered above viewers as informative construction process documentaries played on the wall.

The entire the exhibition space pulsed with creativity. It was as though visitors were inside Piano’s brain. The display workshop tables the neurons. Visitors the receptors. The exploratory exhibit is now closed, but like a catchy American pop-song, piece by piece Renzo Piano’s ingenious design ingenuity has already trick...

The now-open Milan Expo U.S. pavilion salutes to the future of food, the American way

2015-05-06T13:17:00-04:00

Since breaking ground last summer, the U.S. Pavilion -- titled “American Food 2.0: United to Feed the Planet" -- has opened to the public at the Milan Expo 2015, which is now in its first week. The U.S. joins the more than 140 participating countries that prepared exhibitions and pavilions that respond to the Expo's overall theme of "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life", which addresses the global issue of food security, access, and the ideal goal to nutritiously feeding more than 9 billion people by 2050.

Designed by New York-based Biber Architects, the pavilion puts on display America's pivotal role in the future of food that emphasizes "openness, transparency and accessibility" in an exhibition designed by Thinc Design. The open barn-inspired structure includes a harvestable hydroponic vertical farm and "uniquely American" (if not consumerist-enticing) features like an expansive boardwalk and a series of food trucks.

Check out photos of the fully constructed pavilion and more detai...

Thinc Design's USA Pavilion exhibition presents America's role in the future of food for Milan Expo 2015

2015-02-23T21:02:00-05:00

New York-based Thinc Design revealed their exhibition design for the USA Pavilion in the upcoming Milan Expo 2015 this May. Collaborating with Friends of the USA Pavilion, Thinc Design's exhibition highlights America's role in the future of the global food system, as a response to the Expo's overall theme, "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life."

The food-related topic challenges the Expo's 140 participating countries to showcase their technological solutions on how to provide healthy, safe, and sufficient food for all, but through sustainable methods that won't disrupt the Earth's equilibrium.

Thinc Design's exhibition will be located inside a 26,000 sq.ft space of the USA Pavilion, designed by Biber Architects. Through a series of immersive presentations and with multilingual college-aged student "ambassadors" as guides, the exhibition will include interactive features and digital media that aim to p...

The "Bigger than a Breadbox" competition is accepting proposals!

2014-12-23T14:57:00-05:00

Bigger than a Breadbox is a current open international competition that examines the role of installation design and its hybrid artistic-spatial qualities that have made it an increasingly popular investigative medium in contemporary architecture practice.

Recently launched by organizers and Khôra exhibition curators Robert Trumbour and Aaron Willette, participants will explore the use of installation design specifically through the lens of the design-research process. Participants will be required to submit the following:

"A past built installation project that used the medium to engage a topic (disciplinary or not) external to the installation itself."
"A proposed installation for the Boston Society of Architects' BSA Space lobby at 290 Congress Street that builds upon the work done in the first project." The 290 Congress Street lobby proposals should be presented as a continued deeper exploration of the past built installation, and not simply be a re-applied concept.

An overall idea ...

Wild architecture makes German cinema come alive at LACMA

2014-09-24T14:05:00-04:00

Movies can be great. Art can be great. But put them together in a museum exhibition, and the combination can be not-so-great. [...] A new exhibition of early 20th-century cinema at the L.A. County Museum of Art (LACMA), however, rethinks that equation. [...] Designed by Amy Murphy, a professor of architecture at USC, and Michael Maltzan of Michael Maltzan Architecture, the exhibition design is the antithesis of the traditional framed-stuff-on-a-wall model.