at the School of Architecture
Works by Yale alumni from Japan, Eyebeam Atelier's international competition for a new museum and the Arverne project of the Architectural League of New York are the subjects of three exhibits opening on Monday, Feb. 11, at the School of Architecture.
All three shows will be on display through March 8 in the gallery of the Art & Architecture Building, 180 York St.
"Yale Japan: Revealing New Ground" examines how the wedding of their education at a Western university and the cultural influences of their homeland in the East has influenced the work of 11 designers who studied at the School of Architecture and now practice in Japan.
Using a wide range of media, from sketches and computer images to models and aerial photographs, the exhibition will shed new light on such issues as context, concept and cultural expression.
The featured architects and their years of graduation from the School of Architecture are: Tukasa Yamashita '64, Kazuhiro Ishii '74, Yukihide Numaguchi '78, Jun Mitsui '84, Norihiko Dan '84, Hirohisa Hemmi '87, Hiroshi Miyakawa '89, Koichi Yasuda '89, Hidetoshi Kawaguchi '89, Tomoaki Tanaka '91 and Kazutaka Watanabe '92.
"Open Source Architecture: Building Eyebeam" will showcase the 13 finalist schemes from Eyebeam Atelier's international competition for a 90,000-square-foot media arts center to be located in New York's Chelsea arts district. The building, which is expected to begin construction in 2003, will house exhibition spaces, offices, archives, studios, multimedia classrooms and a 500-seat theater.
Eyebeam, founded in 1996 by filmmaker John Johnson, is devoted to exploring ways that new media and technologies can influence society and support the arts. The exhibition, organized by Yale graduates Craig Newick and David Hotson, reveals the innovative techniques that contestants use to promote interaction between artists, students and visitors. It also invites viewers to imagine the impact of today's new media on New York's architectural future. The show consists of project panels with computer images and descriptive texts of each artist's design. Each firm represented includes a video of its project from a screen inserted into the panel.
"Arverne" is a display of projects solicited by the Architecture League of New York in an attempt to bring the ideas of academic researchers, theorists and critics into the realm of actual development and public policy.
The league enlisted teams from four leading centers of architectural innovation to devise a plan for Arverne, a 308-acre strip of derelict land along the Atlantic Ocean in Queens, New York. The planning and design teams from Columbia and Yale universities, the nonprofit planning organization CASE and City College were asked to design innovative housing addressing environmental, infrastructure and economic issues. The projects on display suggest alternative bench-mark standards for large-scale housing developments on vast urban sites.
An open roundtable discussion related to the "Arverne" exhibition will take place at the School of Architecture on Thursday, Feb. 14, 6:308 p.m. Rosalie Genevro, executive director of the Architectural League of New York, will moderate the discussion with James Lima, assistant commissioner of New York City's Department of Housing Preservation and Development; the architects selected for the Arverne project; and representatives from the four design teams. The roundtable is the third in a series on the Arverne project that began in the spring of 2001.
In conjunction with the opening of the three exhibits, architect Yung-Ho Chang will deliver a lecture at 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 11 in Hastings Hall, located in the basement of the Art & Architecture Building. Admission to the talk is free; doors will open to the general public at 6:15 p.m.
In his talk, titled "In Situ Architecture: A Chinese Practice," Chang will consider three themes common to the three exhibits -- urbanism, contextualism and the cultural environment.
Chang, who studied and taught for many years in the United States, is principal of the Beijing-based Atelier FCJZ. He is also the director and professor of architecture at Peking University Graduate Center for Architecture.
He is particularly concerned with architecture's role in expressing and reflecting indigenous cultures, and advocates the wide use of bamboo as a building material in Chinese urban design. He has won numerous international awards, including the 2000 UNESCO Prize for Arts.
Information about other public talks this spring at the School of Architecture will appear in the Calendar section of this newspaper.
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