ABOUT CLOSED WORLDS: STOREFRONT ENCOUNTERS THAT NEVER HAPPENED Storefront for Art and Architecture is committed to the advancement of innovative and critical positions at the intersection of architecture, art, Organized by Lydia Kallipoliti and Storefront for Art and design. Storefront’s program of exhibitions, and Architecture, in collaboration with The Irwin S. events, competitions, publications, and projects Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. provides an alternative platform for dialogue and collaboration across disciplinary, geographic and CLOSED WORLDS EXHIBITION ideological boundaries. Through physical and digital Curator and Principal Researcher: platforms, Storefront provides an open forum for Lydia Kallipoliti experiments that impact the understanding and Research: future of cities, urban territories, and public life. Alyssa Goraieb, Hamza Hasan, Tiffany Montanez, Since its founding in 1982, Storefront has presented Catherine Walker, Royd Zhang, Miguel Lantigua-Inoa, the work of over one thousand architects and artists. Emily Estes, Danielle Griffo and Chendru Starkloff Graphic Design and Exhibition Design: Storefront is a membership organization. If you would Pentagram / Natasha Jen like more information on our membership program with JangHyun Han and Melodie Yashar and benefits, please visit www.storefrontnews.org/ Feedback Drawings: membership. Tope Olujobi Lexicon Editor: For more information about upcoming events and Hamza Hasan projects, or to learn about ways to get involved with Special Thanks: Storefront, contact us at: Bess Krietemeyer, Andreas Theodoridis, Cecilia Ramos, Alex Miller Web: www.storefrontnews.org Email: [email protected] 42ND PROTOTYPE, SOME WORLD GAMES Phone: +1 212.431.5795 Installation Design, Concept, Instagram and Twitter: @storefrontnyc and Fabrication: Farzin Farzin (Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Sharif Anous, John Arnold) Fabrication Assistance: Joseph Vidich, Kin & Company STOREFRONT Lighting Design Assistance: Christopher Adam Architectural STAFF Illumination Engineering

SUPPORT Executive Director, Chief Curator Closed Worlds is supported by the Graham Eva Franch i Gilabert Foundation and the New York State Council for the Arts. Director Of Development and Outreach The research for this exhibition has been supported Jinny Khanduja by Syracuse University School of Architecture and Associate Curator Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Carlos Mínguez Carrasco Associate Curator Of Archives 42nd prototype 3D printing resources provided Chialin Chou by MakerBot. 3D printing provided by Voodoo Gallery Manager And Project Coordinator Manufacturing. Max Lauter Development And Outreach Associate General support for Storefront exhibitions is provided Alexandra Axiotis by the New York State Council for the Arts, the New York Interns City Department of Cultural Affairs, Arup, KPF, Sciame Amna Ahmed, Mariam Abd El Azim, Construction, DS+R, and ODA. Kumju Bae, Elizabeth Berridge, Livia Calari, Katerina Kulanova, Audrey Watkins Closed Worlds is dedicated to the memory of Michael- Angel Kallipolitis (1982-2016), who lived in a closed world and left ours too soon on January 5, 2016. CLOSED WORLDS: ENCOUNTERS THAT NEVER HAPPENED

The image of Earth from outer space was highly anticipated throughout the 1960s, emphasis on solar and climatic experiments right after World War II. He is leading and inspired a great deal of wonder in the general population. This iconic image a research group on Climate and Architecture for the Global Architectural History reached the apex of its symbolism in 1968, through the famous Earthrise series Teaching Collaborative. His book A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar taken by Apollo 8. Energy in the Cold War is coming out this summer.

Portraying mankind entrapped in the finite space of a sphere, the image of Earth Andrés Jaque, PhD Architect (ETSAM) and Alfred Toepfer Stiftung’s Tessenow as perceived from space may be accountable, in part, for a feeling of anxiety in our Stipendiat, is Professor of Advanced Architectural Design at the collective cultural imagination. It resulted in the development of broad literature that GSAPP and Visiting Professor at SoA. He is the founder of the projected plans for our future survival within what Buckminster Fuller famously called Office for Political Innovation, an international architectural practice that has won our “spaceship earth.” awards for projects such as Plasencia Clergy House, House in Never Never Land, TUPPER HOME, ESCARAVOX, and COSMO at MoMA PS1. They have been awarded Reyner Banham, with an environmental bubble; Hans Hollein, with a pill illustrating with the SILVER LION to the Best Research Project at the 14th Venice Biennale, the that “all is architecture”; Jacques Cousteau, with the Conshelf project that explored Dionisio Hernández Gil Award, London Design Museum’s Designs of the Year Selec- the inner space of the ocean; Walt Disney, with EPCOT as a reconstruction of a minia- tion, the Mies van der Rohe Award (finalist), and Architectural Record’s “Designers of turized and idealized world, and many others have contributed substantially and in the Year” selection. various ways to the discourse of closed worlds. is the Co-Founder of Terreform ONE and an Associate Professor

Encounters That Never Happened is presented in conjunction with Closed Worlds, BIOS PARTICIPANT of Practice at NYU. Formerly, he was an architect at the offices of Frank Gehry and an exhibition on view at Storefront for Art and Architecture. Organized in the format INTRODUCTION I.M. Pei. He is a TED Senior Fellow and has been awarded fellowships with Moshe of three panels (Loops and Arrows, Outerspace/Innerspace, and Miniaturized Earth), Safdie and Martin Society for Sustainability. He was chosen by Wired magazine for the conference will explore historical and modern debates regarding the environ- “The Smart List” and selected by Rolling Stone for “The 100 People Who Are Chang- ment and the exploration of outer space, as well reflections of such debates on ing America”. Mitchell has won many awards, including the AIA New York Urban architectural discourse. Design Merit Award, 1st Place International Architecture Award, Social Design Award, Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability, History Channel Contemporary historians, critics, and practitioners will participate through imper- Infiniti Award for City of the Future, and Time Magazine’s “Best Invention” with MIT sonations of historical figures, bringing to life texts, images, and theories that have Smart Cities Car. He’s featured as “The NOW 99” in Dwell Magazine and “50 Under shaped architectural discourse over the past five decades. The reanimated encoun- 50 Innovators of the 21st Century” by Images Publishers. He co-authored the books, ters between these figures, portrayed by contemporary voices whose work reflects Super Cells: Building with Biology and Global Design: Elsewhere Envisioned. His theirs, will shed light upon a transformation in the field of ecology, from the purity of design work has been exhibited at MoMA and the Venice Biennale. He earned a PhD nature as a realm outside of the “manmade,” to a technologically mediated science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MAUD at , and an of instrumentation. MArch at Columbia University.

Eva Franch is a New York based architect, curator, educator and lecturer of exper- imental forms of art and architectural practice. With Masters degrees from ETSA Barcelona (UPC) and Princeton University, Franch specializes in the making of alter- native architecture histories and futures. Since 2010, Franch has been Chief Curator and Executive Director of Storefront for Art and Architecture. In 2014, Franch was selected by the US Department of State to represent the United States at the XIV Venice Architecture Biennale, presenting the project OfficeUS. Franch has taught at Columbia University GSAPP, the IUAV University of Venice, SUNY Buffalo, and Rice University School of Architecture. In 2004, she founded a solo practice, OOAA (Office of Architectural Affairs). She has received numerous awards and fellowships, and her work has been exhibited internationally, including at FAD Barcelona, the Venice Archi- tecture Biennale, the Vitra Design Museum, and the Shenzhen Architecture Biennale, among others. SCHEDULE

Peder Anker is a historian of environmental sciences, specializing in the history INTRODUCTION of ecology and ecological architecture and design. Anker is currently an associate 12:00 Welcome and Introduction by Nader Tehrani professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at . Anker 12:10 Encounters That Never Happened Overview by is also honorary professor at the University of Oslo. He is the co-author of Global Lydia Kallipoliti and Carlos Mínguez Carrasco Design: Elsewhere Envisioned (Prestel, 2014) together with Louise Harpman and Mitchell Joachim. He is the author of From Bauhaus to Eco-House: A History of Ecolog- PANEL 1 - LOOPS AND ARROWS ical Design (Louisiana State University Press 2010), which explores the intersection of 12:15 Hans Hollein / Christina Ciardullo architecture and ecological science, and Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the 12:30 Howard T. Odum / Anna Dyson British Empire, 1895-1945 (Harvard University Press, 2001), which investigates how 12:45 John McHale / Anthony Vidler the promising new science of ecology flourished in the British Empire. 1:00 Walt Disney / Lydia Kallipoliti in conversation with Hans Hollein, Howard T. Odum, and John McHale Michelle Addington​, educated as both an architect and engineer, ​is ​​Hines Profes- sor of Sustainable Architectural Design ​and also holds a joint appointment with the 1:30 Lunch Break Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies​. ​Her teaching and research explore energy systems, advanced materials, and new technologies. Ms. Addington’s articles PANEL 2 - OUTERSPACE / INNERSPACE and chapters on energy, system design, HVAC, lighting, and advanced materials have 2:30 General Dynamics / Bess Krietemeyer appeared in several journals, books, and reference volumes. She coauthored the 2:45 Neil Armstrong /

book Smart Materials and Technologies for the Architecture and Design Professions BIOS PARTICIPANT 3:00 NASA / Michelle Addington Emerging Technologies and just recently published . Her engineering background SCHEDULE 3:15 Jacques Cousteau / Janette Kim in includes work at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and she spent a decade at conversation with General Dynamics, Dupont as a process design and power plant engineer. Neil Armstrong, and NASA

Janette Kim is an architectural designer, researcher, and educator based in New 3:45 Afternoon Break York City. Her work focuses on design and ecology in relationship to public represen- tation, interest, and debate. Janette is an assistant professor at the Syracuse Univer- PANEL 3 - MINIATURIZED EARTH sity School of Architecture, principal of All of the Above, and editor and founder of 4:00 Buckminster Fuller / Mark Wigley ARPA Journal, a digital publication on applied research practices in architecture. 4:15 Victor Olgyay / Daniel Barber 4:30 Charles and Ray Eames / Andrés Jaque Mark Wigley is an accomplished scholar and design teacher. He is the former 4:45 Peter Van Dresser / Mitchell Joachim Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia 5:00 Reyner Banham / Eva Franch i Gilabert in University, and has served as curator for widely attended exhibitions at the Museum conversation with Buckminster Fuller, of Modern Art, New York; The Drawing Center, New York; Canadian Centre for Victor Olgyay, Charles and Ray Eames, Architecture, Montreal; and Witte de With Museum, Rotterdam. Currently, Wigley is and Peter van Dresser the Curator of the Istanbul Design Biennial with Beatriz Colomina. He has also written extensively on the theory and practice of architecture. He is the author of Constant’s 5:30 Closing Remarks by Lydia Kallipoliti New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire (1998); White Walls, Designer Dresses: and Eva Franch i Gilabert The Fashioning of Modern Architecture (1995); and The Architecture of Deconstruc- tion: Derrida’s Haunt (1993). Wigley also co-edited The Activist Drawing: Retracing Situationalist Architectures from Constant’s New Babylon to Beyond (2001).

Daniel A. Barber is the Barron Visiting Professor in Environment and Humanities at the Princeton Environmental Institute and School of Architecture. He is also a Humboldt Fellow at the Center for Environment and Society, and an Assistant Professor at PennDesign. His research examines the relationship between architecture and global environmental politics across the 20th century, with an PARTICIPANT BIOS:

Nader Tehrani is Principal of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of Christina Ciardullo holds the current Ann Kalla Professorship in Architecture at design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an intensive dialogue with the Carnegie Mellon University where she focuses on architecture and systems for construction industry. He is also the Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architec- outer space. Ciardullo has a background in astronomy and philosophy and has held ture at the Cooper Union in New York. He was previously a professor of architecture research positions at Columbia University GSAPP’s former Space Architecture Lab at MIT, where he served as the Head of the Department from 2010-2014. As the (JSEARC) and the Habitability Design Center at the NASA Johnson Space Center. principal and founder of Office dA, Tehrani’s work has been recognized with notable Her terrestrial practice focuses on an interdisciplinary research approach integrating awards, including the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture (2007), the built and natural worlds, and has included award winning pavilion designs with the United States Artists Fellowship in Architecture and Design (2007), and the her practice CO, Green Guidelines for NYC Department of City Planning, an award American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture (2002). He has also winning resilient waterfront development for Far Rockaway with Ennead Lab, and received the Harleston Parker Award for the Multi-faith Spiri- the Shanghai Planetarium with Ennead Architects for which she received a grant to tual Center (2002) and the Hobson Award for the Georgia Institute of Technology continue research from the Middle Atlantic Planetarium Society. In her work off the Hinman Research Building (2012). planet, she has consulted in the extraterrestrial endeavors of Foster+Partners, and is founding member of SEArch, a consortium of architects designing for habitats for life Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer, and scholar, currently an Assistant Professor in other atmospheres, which recently took first prize in NASA’s Centennial Challenge of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to teaching at RPI, Kallipoliti to 3D print a martian habitat with their design “Mars Ice House.” was an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University and an Assistant Adjunct Professor at Columbia University GSAPP and at The Cooper Union, where she also served as Anna Dyson teaches design, technology, and theory at the School of Architecture at

a Senior Associate at the Institute for , and as the Feltman Chair BIOS PARTICIPANT BIOS PARTICIPANT Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Since 2007, she has been the Founding Director of in Lighting, leading an off-grid lighting installation for the New Museum’s Ideas City CASE, which hosts the Graduate Program in Architectural Sciences / Built Ecologies. Festival and the World Science Festival in New York. Her research, published and Anna has been recognized with multiple awards for her designs and innovations, and exhibited internationally, focuses on recycling material experiments and the inter- her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Museum of Modern section of cybernetic and ecological theories in the twentieth century. Kallipoliti is Art (MoMA), the World Future Energy Summit (WFES), the Center for Architecture, the principal of ANAcycle, a think tank based in Brooklyn [www.anacycle.com] and and Postmasters Gallery. Dyson holds multiple international patents for building the founder of EcoRedux, an innovative online open–source educational resource systems inventions, and is currently directing interdisciplinary research to develop documenting the history of ecological experimentation in the twentieth century new building systems that integrate advances in science and technology from diverse [www.ecoredux.com]. She holds a Diploma in Architecture and Engineering from research fields. A.U.Th in Greece, a SMArchS in design and building technology from M.I.T, as well as a Master of Arts and a PhD from Princeton University. Anthony Vidler is an architectural historian and critic. Mr. Vidler is the former Dean of The Cooper Union School of Architecture, and has taught at Princeton and UCLA. His Carlos Mínguez Carrasco is a New York based architect and curator. He is Associ- most recent books include The Scenes of the Street and Other Essays (Monacelli Press, ate Curator at Storefront for Art and Architecture and Chief Curator of the Oslo 2011), James Frazer Stirling: Notes from the Archive (Yale Press, 2010), and Histories of Architecture Triennale 2016, together with the After Belonging Agency. In 2014, he the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism (MIT Press, 2008). was Assistant Curator of OfficeUS, the U.S. Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. Previously, he co-founded PKMN, a renowned architecture collective based Bess Krietemeyer is an architectural designer and researcher whose expertise lies in Madrid. Trained as an architect at ETSABarcelona and TU Delft, he received a at the intersection of advanced sustainable building technologies, interactive archi- Master of Science in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture at tectural systems, and building performance simulation. She holds a PhD in Architec- Columbia University GSAPP. Mínguez has organized a wide range of exhibitions and tural Sciences from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Center for Architecture Science events focusing on the ways in which pressing social, cultural, and political issues and Ecology (CASE), and has practiced with Lubrano Ciavarra Architects and with influence contemporary architecture, includingInterpretations (2010), Storefront’s Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill (SOM) on the design of international projects that incor- 30th Anniversary project BEING (2013), Letters to the Mayor (2014), and the platform porate next-generation building technologies. Bess leads the Interactive Design and World Wide Storefront (2014). He is an editor of two forthcoming publications entitled Visualization Lab at the Syracuse Center of Excellence for Environmental and Energy OfficeUS Manual and Sf30 (Lars Müller Publishers). Mínguez has been an Adjunct Systems (CoE), where her research focuses on hybrid-reality simulations for inter- Assistant Professor at Columbia University GSAPP, and has lectured at various univer- active design and energy analysis. She currently teaches technical and integrative sities in Europe and the U.S. sustainability studio courses at the Syracuse School of Architecture.