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Fashion, infrastructure, and retrofuturism collide in new shows at L.A.'s A+D Museum

The Architecture of Five Exhibitions

Fashion, infrastructure, and retrofuturism collide in new shows at L.A.'s A+D Museum

The Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles is debuting five exhibitions that together engage architecture from a multiplicity of perspectives. (Courtesy A+D Museum)

This weekend, the Architecture and Design Museum (A+D) in Los Angeles launched The Assembly, an event marking the opening of five simultaneous exhibitions at the museum that engage with a variety of architectural perspectives. The wide-ranging exhibitions deep-dive into the work of local architects and disciplinary concerns, like the relationships between plan, section, and elevation.

See below for a breakdown of the various exhibitions now on view.

 

Cycle & Pattern. (Courtesy A+D Museum)

With Cycle & Pattern

For With Cycle & Pattern, A+D has partnered with Otis College of Art and Design to create an exhibition of student work from the school’s Fashion Design department focused on the “playful interaction between the elegance of the celestial and whimsy of the mortal and material.” The horoscope-inspired works have been created by junior and senior students studying under Jose Fernandez of Ironhead Studio and costume designer Louise Mingenbach, two top Hollywood costume designers. The works are organized as four dioramas that can be experienced individually as well as in a group.

 

3 Ways. (Courtesy A+D Museum)

3-Ways

Billed as A+D’s inaugural Guest Curator Program exhibition, 3-Ways is organized by A+D Chief Curator Anthony Morey and Guest Curator Program members Ivan Bernal and Ryan Tyler Martinez, and aims to create a “platform for plan, section, and elevation to communicate with each other at a 1:1 scale.” Organized as a “series of conversations,” the exhibition pulls together work from over 30 architects, designers, and artists to explore the interrelationships between different viewing and drawing modes.

 

Sunset 2050. (Courtesy A+D Museum)

Sunset 2050

Sunset 2050, a collaboration between Craig Hodgetts’s SUPRASTUDIO at the University of California, Los Angeles and students from the ArtCenter College of Design Transportation Design program, posits a master plan for L.A.’s Sunset Strip that fully embraces autonomous vehicle technologies. By championing the “innate charm” of the Strip, the collected research project interrogates the ever-escalating “congestion” of urban street life, a territory that now demands space for digital, geo-location, and soon, autonomous technologies. The exhibition is supported by the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Gensler, Matt Construction, and BuroHappold Engineering.

 

Doppelgängers. (Courtesy A+D Museum)

Dopplegänger

Dopplegänger is a view into the inspirations that lie behind the “architectural mind” of Los Angeles-based Patrick Tighe Architecture. The exhibition presents a collection of recent work that has been reinterpreted through digital and physical collages that circle back to each project’s original sources of inspiration in an effort to “retrospectively reinvigorate” the firm’s work. By presenting each project with dueling collages and model assemblies, the firm seeks to “catalyze the intentions” behind these projects.

 

Back to Front. (Courtesy A+D Museum)

Back to Front

StereoBot & Oasys are collaborating on Back to Front, an examination of advances in building technology, zoning, and city planning with regards to affordable housing in Los Angeles. The “urban activation” installation will create a 400-square-foot backyard unit at AplusD. The structure will be used as a community forum that will host a series of community workshops focused on recent trends in affordability innovation. The installation will be on view until September 30, 2018.

See the A+D museum website for more information.

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