Toshihiro Oki architect “tree wood”
Socrates Sculpture Park
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Socrates Sculpture Park and The Architectural League of New York presents the selection of Toshihiro Oki architect for tree wood as the winner of this year’s “Folly” competition – an extraordinary opportunity for emerging architects and designers to experiment and build large-scale projects for outdoor exhibition.
Socrates Sculpture Park and the League launched “Folly” in 2012 as a residency and exhibition program to explore the intersections between architecture and sculpture. “Folly” has grown from a pilot initiative to a highly anticipated competition – submissions increased by 40% from last year - for emerging architects and designers to conceive, design, build, and exhibit original works in the public realm.
tree wood will be a rigid yet airy geometrical wooden structure placed within a grove of trees – a lush and dense area at Socrates Sculpture Park. Visitors will peer into the structure through the floor beams where a formal, ornate chandelier will be suspended. The installation creates a dialogue between built structures and systems with the irregular and organic.
Toshihiro Oki architect – consisting of team members Toshihiro Oki, Jen Wood and Jared Diganci - was selected from over 150 submissions by a jury of architects and artists who reviewed over 150 submissions, including Michael Arad, Architect, Partner, Handel Architects; Orly Genger, Visual Artist; John Hatfield, Executive Director, Socrates Sculpture Park; Granger Moorhead, Architect, Principal, Moorhead & Moorhead; and Billie Tsien, Architect, Principal, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects.
“Folly” is an interpretation of the architectural folly. Especially popular among the Romantics of the 18th and 19th centuries, architectural follies are small-scale structures, which often have no discernible purpose, that are placed within a garden or landscape as a means to draw the eye to specific points or to frame a view. The folly is a perfect subject for architects to investigate materiality, spatial interaction, and concepts about our urban and natural environment.
Visit the Architectural League for more information on the winning project and detailing the competition process, including prominent architectural themes woven throughout proposals: Read more at www.archleague.org.
The winner of the 2012 “Folly” competition was Curtain, a project conceived by architects Jerome W. Haferd and K Brandt Knapp. Curtain, which closed on March 31st, combined minimal structural framing with a mutable plastic chain that bisected the landscape from multiple angles, creating a voluminous whimsical interior space.
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Schedule
from May 12, 2013 to August 05, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-05-12 from 14:00 to 18:00