Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 11, 2005|Volume 34, Number 11

In Studio/Gang's "A Sport Stadium: Baseball in the City," part of the new exhibition at the School of Architecture, fans watch the action on the diamond from nearby rooftops.

Innovative architectural visions
showcased in 'Transcending Type'

The innovative visions of American architecture featured in the installation at the U.S. pavilion of the 2004 Architecture Biennale in Venice are the focus of the School of Architecture's second exhibition this academic season.

The exhibition will be on view Nov. 14- Feb. 3, 2006 in the landmark Art & Architecture (A&A) Building, 180 York St.

Titled "Transcending Type," the exhibition was curated by the editors of Architectural Record for the ninth International Venice Architecture Biennale held in September 2004. To fit the Biennale's title "Metamorph," alluding to landmark changes in architecture largely fueled by the digital revolution, the curators invited six inventive young architects to share their unique visions of characteristically American building types.

"Transcending Type" features their designs, which range from the "humanized" highway interchange by the firm Reiser + Umemoto to the installation by Predock_Frane for a contemplative space, made up of 5,000 barely visible green and white suspended filaments meant to evoke the sea.

The show also features ideas for a parking garage of the future envisioned by Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis; a high-rise apartment building composed of transformable, customized "pods" by Kolatan MacDonald Studio; a multi-level shopping center combining retail units with terraced residential apartments and public parks by George Yu Architects; and an urban sports stadium, which is integrated into the city streetscape when in use and folded up when not in use, by Studio/Gang. Jeanne Gang, founder and principal of Studio/Gang, is the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture during the fall 2005 semester.

This exhibition, supported in part by Autodesk Inc., is the sole display of "Transcending Type" outside of its original installation in Venice.

In conjunction with the exhibition, the School of Architecture will host a panel discussion titled "Against Type" on Thursday, Jan. 12. The discussion will be moderated by Suzanne Stephens, deputy editor of the Architectural Record. The discussion will take place in Hastings Hall, the basement of the A&A Building, at 6:30 p.m. A reception will follow.

The hours for the gallery are Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. For more information, contact the School of Architecture at (203) 432-2288, or visit the website at www.architecture.yale.edu.

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