SCI-Arc Gallery Exhibition
Greg Lynn FORM
Blobwall Pavilion
05.30.08 – 07.13.08
Opening reception: 05.30.08 from 7–9pm
Exhibition Discussion: 06.04.08 at 7pm
The SCI-Arc Gallery is pleased to present Blobwall Pavilion, a site-specific installation designed by Greg Lynn, UCLA Professor and principal of Greg Lynn FORM, that examines one of architecture’s most basic units of building – the brick.
Blobwall Pavilion is a collaboration between Greg Lynn FORM, Machinous, who manufactured the bricks, and Panelite who produced and distributed the architectural material. Blobwall Pavilion is an innovative redefinition of the brick – architecture’s most basic building unit – into a lightweight object made of colorful plastic and reinterpreted into modular elements. Blobwall Pavilion is a freestanding, indoor/outdoor wall system built of a low-density, recyclable, impact-resistant polymer. The blob unit, or “brick,” is a robotically cut, mass-produced, hollow tri-lobed shape formed through rotational molding, which is then assembled with interlocking precision to form the wall.
The Blobwall Pavilion is a contemporary wall system that recovers the voluptuous shapes, chiaroscuro and grotto-like textures of Baroque and Renaissance architecture in pixilated gradients of vivid color. On three walls of the installation, custom fabricated acrylic Bubble Cabinets will be installed to display small objects.
Though Blobwall Pavilion is designed in stock shapes totaling over 500 individual bricks in ten different colors, it can also be configured to custom shapes and color combinations. The varied yellow hues composing the body of the installation in the SCI-Arc Gallery celebrate the material qualities and colors of the roto-molded plastic and are arrayed as if bathed in a warm light so the highlights are not white, but instead crimson, plum and pink.
In September 2008, the Blobwall Pavilion will travel to the Venice Biennale as part of the 11th International Architecture Exhibition, Out There: Architecture Beyond Building.
Greg Lynn
Greg Lynn earned combined BA degrees in philosophy and architecture from Miami University of Ohio, and later an M.Arch from Princeton University. Involved with the combination of the realities of design and construction with the speculative, theoretical and experimental potentials of writing and teaching, Lynn authored six books combining contemporary and popular culture with the rigors of architectural theory and history. His firm, Greg Lynn FORM, was founded in Venice, California, and continually evolves alongside his teaching. The firm has a 10-year working relationship with Panelite and has worked with Vitra on the Ravioli Chair, Alessi on the Supple Cups, and Materialise on the Kraken Lamp. In 2002, he became University Professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, occupying the chair previously held by Hans Hollein. For several years he has served as a Studio Professor at UCLA and is the Davenport Professor at Yale. Greg Lynn was recently recognized in Time Magazine’s 2008 Design 100. A monograph of Lynn’s work is forthcoming from Rizzoli in Fall 2008. www.glform.com
Public Programs
Opening Reception for Greg Lynn FORM: Blobwall Pavilion
05.30.08 from 7 - 9pm in the SCI-Arc Gallery
Free
Exhibition Discussion with Eric Owen Moss & Greg Lynn
06.16.08 at 7pm in the SCI-Arc Gallery
Free
In this discussion, Eric Owen Moss and Greg Lynn will review the exhibition Blobwall Pavilion and argue the success of the exhibition’s investigation of the brick as a modular wall system. Discussion will range across topics of inspiration, creation and execution, including specific explorations into specific choices regarding form and representation.
About SCI-Arc
Since 2002, the SCI-Arc Gallery has invited internationally recognized architects to fabricate and install site-specific installations with a team of SCI-Arc students. Exhibitions are open daily from 10am to 6pm. Admission to the SCI-Arc Gallery is free.
SCI-Arc is located at 960 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013. The building entrance and parking lot are located at 350 Merrick Street, between 4th Street and Traction Avenue. For additional programming information, please visit www.sciarc.edu or call 213.613.2200 x328.
SCI-Arc, an independent, accredited degree-granting institution, offers undergraduate and graduate programs in architecture. An educational laboratory, SCI-Arc tests the limits of architecture in order to transform existing conditions into the designs for the future. With its location in a quarter-mile-long former freight depot in the intensely urban Artist District in downtown Los Angeles, SCI-Arc provides a uniquely inspiring environment in which to study architecture. An integral part of the emerging cultural hub of a city with a tradition of architectural experimentation, the school is devoted to finding radically new responses to the real needs and aspirations of today's world. It is distinguished by the vibrant atmosphere of its studios, where some 500 students and 80 faculty members—mostly practicing architects—work together in a fluid, non-hierarchical manner, re-examining assumptions and exploring and testing new ideas through making.
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