NYAB Event - “POP: Protocols, Obsessions, Positions” Exhibition

“POP: Protocols, Obsessions, Positions” Exhibition

Storefront for Art and Architecture

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POP: Protocols, Obsessions, Positions, investigates what constitutes a position in architecture today and how that might be generated through the architect’s drawing. The exhibition presents 30 original drawings of the Storefront gallery space at 97 Kenmare Street by an international group of architects asked to go “from protocols, to obsessions, to positions.”

As an image based on codes and systems of representation that establish a space of legibility between inherited and new forms, the architectural drawing tends to operate either as a technical tool of communication based on protocols and codes or in a diametrically opposed spectrum as an artistic device completely detached from the constraints of architectural practice. While one end of the spectrum is overcharged by the need to communicate, the complex or mysterious beauty of illegibility haunts the other. While protocols engage with a disciplinary temporality and obsessions are usually atemporal, positions address timely, current issues beyond those typically addressed in the discipline of architecture or an architect’s body of work.

POP presents thirty drawings by thirty architects that address both ends of the architectural drawing spectrum, understanding its codes and protocols and deploying the personal obsession of each architect in the articulation of a position now. Architects include: Ada Tolla & Giuseppe Lignano | LOT-EK [New York]; Adam Frampton [Hong Kong-New York]; Alex Maymind [Ann Arbor/Los Angeles]; Amale Andraos | Work AC [New York]; Ania Jaworska [Chicago]; Arturo Scheidegger & Ignacio García Partarrieu | UMWELT [Santiago]; Bernard Tschumi [New York]; Caroline O’Donnell | CODA [Ithaca]; Eric Owen Moss [Los Angeles]; Fernando Romero | FREE [Mexico-New York]; Filipe Magalhaes & Ana Luisa Soares | Fala Atelier [Oporto]; Form_ula [New York]; Gia Wolf [New York]; Hayley Eber | EFGH [New York]; Hedwig Heinsman | DUS [Rotterdam]; James Wines [New York]; Juan Herreros [Madrid]; Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates [New York]; Lola Sheppard | Lateral Office [Toronto]; Luis Callejas & Melissa Naranjo | LCLA Office [Medellin-Cambridge]; Marcelo Spina & Georgina Huljich | P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S- [Los Angeles]; Mark Shepard [Buffalo]; Michel Rojkind [Mexico DF]; Michele Marchetti | Sanrocco [Milan]; Neil Spiller [London]; Norman Kelley [Chicago-New York]; Odile Decq [Paris]; Rafi Segal [New York]; Ryan Neiheiser, Giancarlo Valle & Isaiah King | another pamphlet [New York]; Stan Allen [New York]; Veronika Valk [Tallinn]; Viviana Peña | Ctrl G [Medellin]; Yansong Ma | MAD [Beijing]; among others.

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