Souvenirs Gallery Guide

Souvenirs: to relate to form, matter, affect, New New York Icons representation, and agency. Visitors to the exhibition September 16th to will be asked to cast a vote for the November 18th, 2017 object that best represents their visions and values of the city. The As a contemporary form of three chosen souvenirs will be commercialized nostalgia, souve- presented to the Mayor of New nirs are the ultimate cliche in the York City Bill de Blasio as new representation of a city. Pocket- icons for the city. sized, acritical, and cheap, they populate tourist sites all over the About the world with a patina of innocence. Model Show Producing collective imagi- naries made up of lines that follow Following a trilogy of drawing the profiles of superlative sculp- shows, Storefront’s second tures, buildings, and stories, annual group model show exam- souvenirs have become the refer- ines three-dimensional methods ence points that anchor a partic- of representation in architec- ular culture in time, representing ture, with the city of New York (consciously or not) political, as its experimental ground. Each cultural, and social values. edition of the show invites partic- Souvenirs: New New ipants to reflect upon a specific York Icons, the second itera- topic that encapsulates crit- tion of Storefront’s model show, ical conversations in design and commissions 59+ objects that contemporary culture. In each redefine New York’s iconic iteration, architects, artists, imagery. Inspired by each of the and designers interrogate the City’s Community Districts, more model as a method and means than 59 artists, architects, and by which notions of representa- designers have reimagined the tion and production can be under- referential images that constitute stood, from aesthetic cliches the global perception of the city, to disciplinary obsessions to proposing new understandings of data visualization, in order to the urban experience. unveil the power of architecture Challenging the symbols and its relationship to the poli- that have permeated the gift tics of the city. The first edition shop, Souvenirs presents critical of the model show, Sharing approaches to the shifting and Models Manhattanisms, exam- complex iconography of the city. ined growing anxieties behind the The exhibition introduces new sharing economy and its untapped objects and, with them, new ways potential for public collectivity. Souvenirs 1 About the & Innavisions Installation BK07 Agency—Agency BK01 Al-Hamad Design Storefront’s Iconic facade, (Nanu Al-Hamad / Kaeli designed by Steven Holl and Streeter) Vito Acconci in 1994, has BX03 Alan Ruiz become a referent for the archi- Q02 Ania Jaworska with Lucia tectural community worldwide. Lee The facade project, consisting Q04 Antonas Studio of a series of pivoting panels Q03 Architensions opening the gallery walls onto BX08 Atelier Van Lieshout the sidewalk, was build with BK14 Caroline Woolard an innovative concrete panel BX10 Charlap Hyman & mixture, disrupting preconceived Herrero notions of heaviness attached BX07 Frank Benson to concrete. Taking this notion BK14 Future Expansion of postmateriality to its extreme, BX11 Hayley Eber MOS architects has produced M03 Huy Bui a series of operations that open Q13 Ibañez Kim up the facade and the gallery Q04 Jenny Sabin Studio: space (through literal holes and Jenny E. Sabin, material and textural transfor- Jingyang Liu Leo mations) to a new conversation M11 Jerome W Haferd and with its urban and architectural K Brandt Knapp context. With a series of trans- M02 Kwong Von Glinow fers (material, formal, and spatial) Design Office between concrete, stone, glass, BK18 Leigha Dennis wood, plastic, and air, the instal- BK06 Liz Phillips lation brings the logic behind the Q06 Local Projects aesthetics of recycling into a new BX01 Lydia Xynogala formal language that invites us M07 Medium to reflect upon notions of signifi- M01 Michael Wang cation and legibility in the build Q07 Michelle Chang environment. BK02 Midnight Commercial BX02 Miguel Robles-Durán Participants Q06 N H D M / Nahyun Hwang + David Eugin M06 IIIII Columns Moon BX09 Abruzzo Bodziak Q14 Naomi Fisher Architects BK12 NEMESTUDIO M05 adamo-faiden M08 New Affiliates BK05 Afaina de Jong / AFARAI BX06 Oana Stanescu Souvenirs 2 Family NY Interns: Estefania Acosta, Asia BK10 Office III Bazdireva, Kate Chen, Lafina Q09 Office Kovacs Eptaminitaki, Yuki He, Yu-Yang SI03 Ogrydziak Prillinger Huang, Juan Carlos Javier, Architects (OPA) Grace Ng, Amela Parcic, BK02 Once–Future Office Luca Smith Senise, Yuki Tori, Q12 ONTOPO Ann Mirjam Vaikla BK16 P.R.O. - Peterson Rich Office Project Team BK05 Patrick Meagher & Lenka Ilic Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, SI01 QSPACE John Yurchyk, Stefan Klecheski, BK11 Rafael de Cárdenas / Mark Acciari, Nile Greenberg, Architecture at Large Fancheng Fei, Michael Abel, Q11 SIKI IM Paul Ruppert, Mark Kamish, Q10 Slash Projects Jiahe Chen, Lafina Eptaminitaki, SI02 Slow and Steady Wins Stephen Froese, Tommy Kim, the Race Marc Mascarello, Owen Nichols, BK13 SOFTlab Kig Veerasunthorn, and James BX12 Sonia Leimer Brillion. M04 Studio Christian Wassmann About MOS Q08 Studio Meem BK17 Talbot & Yoon MOS is arguably the best, BX04 Ultramoderne smartest, healthiest … most BK15 WELCOMEPROJECTS interesting, most playful, most BX05 Young & Ayata and composed, most hands-on … iheartblob well-organized, well-maintained, BK08 ZUS [Zones Urbaines well-tempered … most radical, Sensibles] most practical, most poetic, most economical, most widely Exhibition Team published, most historically aware, most generic, most Exhibition Design: MOS ground-breaking, most Architects contextual, most autonomous, Graphic Design: Studio Lin most imaginative, most diagram- Curator: Eva Franch matic, most futuristic … best Associate Curator: Carlos practicing, best theorizing, best Mínguez Carrasco calculating, best fabricating … Project Producer: Max Lauter craftiest, funniest, clearest … Development and Outreach: most technologically advanced, Jinny Khanduja most socially conscious, most Souvenirs 3 objective, most absurd, most typical, most unique, and most influential architecture firm in the world. They are award-winning. They are located in Harlem. www. mos.nyc About Studio Lin Studio Lin is (just) a graphic design practice in New York City. We create books, identities and websites for local and interna- tional clients. Our work applies a visual language that is thoroughly researched yet easily assimilated. Our transparent work process, and the fact that many of our clients are engaged with art and design, often means that projects are more collaborative than commissioned. www.studiolin.org Support Souvenirs: New New York Icons features Marmoreal by Max Lamb, made possible through the generous support of Dzek and Bendheim. Material for this exhibition is generously provided by: Dzek (Marmoreal) Bendheim (glass) Vycom (plastic) Shapeways Souvenirs 4 M06 IIIII Columns PLACETOWN Cleared of industry, Manhattan’s CB6 became a breeding ground for towers of red brick. The island’s standard I morphed into +, t, T or L, and rapidly reproduced in formation along midtown’s eastern shore. Despite having been bestowed with distin- guished local names gratified by “town,” “city,” and “village,” the walls echo the occasional outsider’s suspicions. “I had brunch once near there, but…” oh, the rare power of a non-site to remain “so strange” and simultaneously “so indistinguishable!” For their drowsy citizenry returning from outside sources of work and leisure, all is softened by sleeping flesh. All are intent to join in warm harmonic breath. Finding her designated coordinates, as with every night before, she promptly fell dormant and dreamt of a hidden portal. Souvenirs 5 BX09 Abruzzo Bodziak Architects Light and Air The Bronx leads the city’s five boroughs in In New York City, a room for sleeping is sheltered homeless. Housing a population legally defined by very little: basic dimen- of over 19,000 people, the Bronx has three sions and the presence of natural light and times as many shelters as Manhattan and air, which come through a window. The twice as many as Brooklyn. window is here seen as the architectural expression of home: 1 window = 1 room. While the area of BBX-09 has fewer shelters than surrounding neighborhoods, it has This model contains 2,520 windows, a among the highest use of cluster housing number that may equal those homeless indi- (privately-owned apartment buildings used viduals in BX-09 at any one time, but only a to house homeless families), with 25 clus- fraction of the citywide homeless popula- ters currently in use. While this makes sense tion, most recently measured at 60,856. given the makeup of the Bronx’s homeless population (the Bronx contains five of the The lens of the window is a time-hon- citywide communities with the highest inci- ored way to look at NYC, a city famous for dences of family homelessness, including its views. But a window, which qualifies a Soundview in BX-09), the Mayor’s recent space as a room, is not afforded to all New homelessness plan will eliminate cluster Yorkers. This window souvenir highlights sites, which are inconsistently maintained a modest window, one that makes a home and could otherwise contribute to the city’s possible, and that the city must be viewed (theoretically) affordable housing supply. through in order for it to become a more equitable, viable place to live, work, play, The need to build new housing—both for and raise a family. the homeless as well as for those at risk of displacement—is urgent. Souvenirs 6 M05 adamo-faiden Fluxefeller Center Emerging from the rocky substrate of Manhattan is a complex of 19 buildings that aims to install itself as the new economic epicenter of the island. A conglomerate of mixed uses that pursues an idea of a city whose density and diversity make possible an infinite multiplicity of exchanges. A complex that aspires to be a city within another city. The Fluxefeller Center stands as a possible materialization of this city–a materialization where the fluxes are manifested and evinced in its system of organization.

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