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Anna Neimark fills SCI-Arc gallery with "Rude forms"

2020-01-31T17:09:00-05:00

Anna Neimark, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) Design Faculty and co-founder of architecture firm First Office, is presenting Rude forms among us, an architectural installation and exhibition taking place at the SCI-Arc Gallery in Los Angeles.

The exhibition is presented in collaboration with Frédérique Gaillard, PhD, Curatorial Assistant and Head of the Photo Library at the Natural History Museum in Toulouse, France, the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Toulouse, and The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Alliance Française de Los Angeles.

According to exhibition text, the installation offers "a slight release from the present" and will highlight a collection of photographs on loan from the Natural History Museum in Toulouse taken by 19th century photographer Eugène Trutat of the Dolmen de Vaour, a "stone monument" arranged out of four rocky slabs. Inside the exhibition hall, Neimark has created a Dolmen of her own, this one "blank and...

First Office + Ultramoderne among MoMA's 2016 Young Architects Program finalists

2015-12-02T15:30:00-05:00

Joining an eye-popping list of previous entrants and winners, the five finalists for the 2016 PS1/MoMA Young Architects Program (YAP) have been announced, and they are:

• Ultramoderne (the Providence, Rhode Island-based firm whose 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosk winning wood pavilion you may remember),

• Cobalt Office (based in Houston, Texas)

• First Office (L.A.-based authors of Nine Essays in the Graham Foundation's published series Treatise),

• Escobedo + Solis (hailing from Mexico City, Mexico)

• and Frida Escobedo (from Anzures, México)

As with YAP's previous 15 editions, the finalists submit proposals for a temporary summer installation to the program that must meet certain requirements. In the past, these requirements have included designs that provide water, seating, shade, as well as meeting environmental and sustainable guidelines. The winner will be announced likely in early 2016.

Next Up Mini-Session #4: Andrew Atwood and Anna Neimark of First Office

2015-11-02T16:30:00-05:00

If you couldn't join us during our first-ever live-podcasting series, "Next Up", held at Jai & Jai Gallery in Los Angeles' Chinatown and at the opening weekend of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, then good news – you can still listen to the over four hours of live interviews we recorded. Leading up to the premiere of Archinect Sessions' second season on Thursday, November 5, we'll be releasing them as individual "Mini-Sessions". We'll also be launching another brand new podcast soon. You can listen to past Mini-Sessions here.

So please enjoy our fourth Next Up Mini-Session, an interview with Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood of First Office. More Mini-Sessions will be released in the coming days, and remember to subscribe to Archinect Sessions to not miss an episode!

Listen to the "Next Up" interview with Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood of First Office:

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