New ways of envisioning future urban landscapes are explored in "3D City," the first of the School of Architecture's fall exhibitions.
The show, a multi-media installation featuring the projects and mission of the innovative Rotterdam-based design firm MVRDV, opens Wednesday, Sept. 4. The exhibition will run through Oct. 25 and will continue a world tour after leaving Yale.
The first comprehensive exhibition of MVRDV's work held in the United States, "3D City" will highlight the firm's signature use of complex architectural information and data to invent new ways to visualize cities.
Winy Maas, a principal of the firm, is a well-known proponent of density in urban planning, advocating concentration and verticality as a guiding principal of urban development. The projects of MVRDV range from buildings and urban plans to publications and installations. These include The Dutch Pavilion for the World Exhibition 2000 in Hanover, Germany; an apartment complex, WOZOCO, in Amsterdam; and the futuristic installation "Metacity/Datatown." The latter, a projection of moving images of diagrammatic "cities" synthesized from demographic and urban data information, forms the core of the exhibition "3-D City."
The creators of the exhibition challenge the two-dimensional idea of the city, which still dominates urban design, and they hope to inspire creative alternatives to conventions -- which, they say, are inadequate to address the realities of modern life.
"Winy Maas and the other designers at MVRDV are among the most provocative young architects on the scene today," says School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern. "Their point of view is not limited to one aesthetic, but is open to the best ideas they can find to address problems of urban development and redevelopment."
Stern adds, "The work and ideas in this exhibition, coming as it does one year after the disaster of
"Dense-Cities: An American Oxymoron?" a symposium in conjunction with the exhibition, will take place Friday-Saturday, Sept. 20-21, at the School of Architecture. As part of the symposium, Maas will face influential architecture, environmental and urban planning professionals -- including Terence Riley, James Corner and Phil Aarons -- in a debate on fundamental issues of urban planning and design. To open the symposium, Maas will present his firm's studies of Vienna. Following the presentations of other speakers, he will engage them in a talk-show-format discussion about density in America. The symposium is open to the public, but pre-registration is required. For more information, call (203) 432-2288, or visit the website at www.architecture.yale.edu.
Later this fall, the School of Architecture will also present "Krier/Eisenman: Two Ideologies," a homage to architectural theorists Peter Eisenman and Leon Krier, Nov. 4-Feb. 7.
The exhibitions will be held at the gallery of the Architecture Building, 180 York St. Hours for the gallery are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. Admission is free, and the public is invited.
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