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Guy Nordenson has left the building. The New York-based structural engineer, who 00 03 I— also holds an associate professorship at BETTER SKATE Princeton University, quietly left the Freedom LU Tower project in December. THAN NEVER The question of authorship has run through the entire WTC process and takes no back• O 04~ seat here. While Daniel Libeskind won the RPA DISCUSSES LMDC-organized competition to redesign FAR WEST SIDE the site, the twisted shape of Freedom Tower has been largely attributed to David Childs. At the building's public unveiling on rT ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE NAMES WINNERS OF YOUNG ARCHITECTS FORUM December 19'", Childs himself said SOM EXPERIENCING developed the tower's torque as an architec• DONALD JUDD tural reiteration of the deformation of Lower THE NEXT GENERATION Manhattan's street grid. He did not reference 03 EAVESDROP Nordenson's input, although the engineer 12 DIARY was a member of the conceptual design The Architectural League that interpret social and Architects award showcases 14 SHOPTALK of New York recently pragmatic concerns." The talents who are ju.st begin• team hired by Larry Silverstein and, more 15 CLASSIFIEDS announced the si.x winners wiimers were chosen among ning to build. For this rea• importantly, had developed a remarkably of its 23"' Annual Young 93 submissions. son, the architects'portfolios similar twisting tower scheme for The New Architects Forum competi• The competition is open are filled with theoretical York Times Magazine's September 2002 tion, which is accompanied to architects who have been projects. story featuring alternatives to the designs by a lecture .series and exhi• out of .school for less than On May 6"' the first two then being developed by Beyer Blinder bition at the Urban Center. ten years. Whereas the winners presented their Belle for the LMDC. , This year's contest asked League's Emerging Voices work. Tom Wiscombe of who produced the story, wrote: "[Norden• entrants to address how competition identifies firm Emergent son's proposal] is not a formal design but an they produce "symbols of archilects whose buih work is no stranger to New York. idea for how a skyscraper could be torqued cultural value and .spaces articulates a unique, com- Last summer he won the to make it structurally sound, even at very lor culturiil production... peUing language, the Young "Urban continued on page 4 great heights." continued on page 2

FAR WEST VILLAGE SAYS NO TO LEERS WEINZAPFEL'S RENOVATION MORE GLITZY TOWERS LIGHTENS UP JOSEP LLUIS SERT'S SCIENCE CENTER P.S.I NAMES WINNER OF 5^" ANNUAL YOUNG ARCHITECTS CONTEST Village Voice SPLICING SERT Waving signs and chanting "The Village MADE IN is not for sale," several hundred people Josep Lluis Sert designed three buildings on gathered at the corner of Charles and West Harvard University's campus while dean of streets on Sunday April 18'" to protest new tlie Graduate School of Design from 1953 to THE SHADE highrise projects in the Far West Village, 1969. His final project was the 291,000-square- Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang of New York an area increasingly popular among foot Science Center (begun in 1968,completed firm nARCHITECTS beat out four other developers and their big-name architects. in 1972). Last month, Boston-based Leers finalists—Griffin Enright Architects (Los Protesters expressed fears that the area, Weinzapfel As.sociates completed a $22 million Angeles), Michael Meredith (Toronto), which reaches the waterfront and falls just renovation of the building, aimed at alleviat• SERVO (New York, Los Angeles, Stockholm, outside the landmarked Greenwich Village ing its serious overcrowding problems. Zurich), and DegreZero Architecture and Gansevoort Market Historic districts, Over 38,000 square feet of Sert's blocky (Brooklyn, )—to win MoMA and P.S.I is in danger of morphing into a Miami- original underwent renovation. The building Contemporary Art Center's fifth annual style strip of glitzy glass condominiums. also gained 27,000 square feet in three addi• Young Architects Program competition. "Since 1995 sixteen new highrises have tions, which were planted on its .stepped roof. Addressing the consistent "urban beach" been built," Greenwich Village Society for New dimensions for 40-year-old Sent "Siting the project was easy because the site theme of the competition, nARCHITECT's Historic Preservation continued on page 2 building at Harvard University was full," said partner Andrea Leers. "Vertical $60,000 project. Canopy, proposes an was the only way to go." Each segment of the undulating lattice that will create plays of building's E-shaped plan received an addition shadow across the museum's courtyard and of one or two stories in height, designed to define roofless rooms for summer leisure. preserve the variegated roofscape of Sert's "nARCHITECTS' design is both extravagant architecture. in form and light in conception," said Terence Riley, Philip Johnson Chief Curator The additions are skinned in translucent of Architecture and Design at MoMA. On cast channel glass, contrasting sharply with view from June 27* through September 5'^ the weightiness of Sert's concrete structure Canopy is made of fresh-cut bamboo that while bringing light within. The additions are will fade from green to tan over the course defiantly independent yet duly respectful of of the summer, DEBORAH GROSSBERC Sert's , JAMES WAY CO f\l 3 O LU

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VILLAGE VOICE continued from front page PUBLISHER CO The International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) has become Diana Darling (GVSHP) executive director Andrew the most important trade tair for contemporary home furniture and Berman announced to the crowd, "and CDITORS o we're aware of five new ones [in the Cathy Lanq Ho furnishings in the United States. But following the more established M works]." These include a planned 12-story William Menking and larger fairs in Stockhohn, Paris, Cologne,and most importandy building at 423 West Street and a luxury ART DIRECTOR LU —all held in the months just preceding ICFF—why do more condoto be built on the site of the Martin Perrin than 450 exhibitors and 17,000 design professionals still come to the Superior Printing Ink Company, a 33,000- square-foot lot at Bethune and West 12'" ASSISTANT EDITORS lavits every May? By now, the latest and edgiest designs have already Deborah Grossberg Street. Another example of what Berman James Way made their dramatic debuts. ICFF's attendees can't be coming just for calls the "domino effect" of "inappropriate"

ADVERTISING SALES the parties (though they are lively enough; see page 10 for our picks). development in the area is Zaha Hadid's Jonathan Chaffin The city's role as a media and design center is a major draw, as is planned project for art dealer Kenny Schachter, which will replace the 1830s INTERN the sheer size of the American market, attracting high-level players Christina Ficicchia house at 163 Charles Street—a site that from around the world. Even the masters of furniture design—the directly abuts another controversial develop• TECHNICAL CONSULTANT ment, a third Richard Meier tower. Keith James Italians—arrive in force. They might introduce their exciting new Although Costas Kondylis' Morton MEDIA CONSULTANT prototypes in Milan, but when their objects are in production, they Square drew boos and hisses, the crowd Paul Beatty want to sell to America. reserved special ire for Meier's buildings, There is an undeniable curiosity about what American designers which many say are out of context with have to offer. Many American furniture designers work within the surrounding 19"'-centurY brick townhouses. Though Berman described himself as a tradition of Charles and Ray Fames, true design originals who, Meier fan, he said the West Street tow• along with George Nelson, Harry Bertoia,and the others at Herman ers' rear facades "literally and figuratively Miller and Knoll in the postwar years, ushered in the golden era of turn their back on the neighborhood." Resident Alan Strauss summed up the American furniture design. One gets the sense at ICFF that the con• sentiment of the protesters with a sign CONTRIBUTORS temporary American furniture scene is filled with boutique opera• that read "Richard Meier, Go Away." PHILIPPE BARRIERE/ARIC CHEN/ The protest, organized by the GVSHP, MURRAY FRASER / RICHARD INGERSOLL / tions, coundess small makers who produce goods in small batches, the Greenwich Village Community Task JOE KERR/LIANE LEFAIVRE/JAMES PETO/ often in garage/workshop types of settings—all in pursuit of the same LUIGI PRESTINENZA PUGLISI/ Force, and the Federation to Preserve the KESTER RATTENBURY/D.GRAHAME SHANE/ valid (and elusive) goals that motivated the Eameses: simplicity, Greenwich Village Waterfront and Great ANDREW YANG/PETER ZELLNER beauty, affordability. Port, was a call for zoning changes and historic landmark protection. "The West EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Lacking the small and mid-sized craft-based factories that fortify Village is a great place to live because it's PAOLA ANTONELLI/RAUL A. BARRENECHE/ the furniture industries in , , and Scandinavia, American M. CHRISTINE BOYER/PETER COOK/ lowrise, human-scaled, and historic," WHITNEY COX/ODILE DECO/TOM HANRAHAN/ designers are left either to produce their designs themselves (hence State Senator Tom Duane orated. "Mayor SARAH HERDA/CRAIG KONYK/JAYNE MERKEL/ their fresh-off-the-workshop-floor feel and hefty pricetags) or to Bloomberg, we won't let you ruin it!" LISA NAFTOLIN/SIGNE NIELSEN / Local activists have already had some JOAN OCKMAN / HANS ULRICH OBRIST/ hope for a licensing agreement with a large company. The latter is the KYONG PARK / ANNE RIESELBACH / success. On April 20"', the Department of TERENCE RILEY/KEN SAYLOR / primary ambition of most ICFF exhibitors, which perhaps explains Buildings overturned last year's ruling why so many of them seem to be moonlighting from other jobs that would have permitted the construc• GENERAL INFORMATION: [email protected] (like architecture!). Indeed, a fair percentage of first-time exhibitors tion of a 32-story tower by Jean Nouvel EDITORIAL: EDIT0Rt5iARCHPAPER.COM at 848 Washington Street. DIARY: [email protected] at ICFF base their decision to participate on a single product design, Rachaele Raynoff, press secretary for ADVERTISING: [email protected] SUBSCRIPTION: [email protected] a breakthrough (to them) invention. Often their companies didn't the Department of City Planning, said that her agency has not received an appli• PLEASE NOTIFY US IF YOU ARE RECEIVING exist before the product was designed; only a few will continue to DUPLICATE COPIES. exist after it sells (or doesn't). cation to rezonethe area, although it is aware of the issue.

THE VIEWS or OUR REVIEWERS AND COLUMNISTS DO NOT Is it any surprise that many of these small makers turn out to be Organizers are planning a second rally NECESSARILY REFLECT THOSE Of THE STAfr OR ADVISORS OF THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER. architects? Ever meet an architect who didn't have a chair or some on the steps of City Hall on May 23"'. furniture design bursting to come out? In this issue, we feature the ABBY RABINOWITZ VOLUME 02 ISSUE 08, MAY II, 2004 THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER IS PUBLISHED 20 TIMES A YEAR. BY THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER. LLC, P.O. BOX 937. NEW YORK, NY 10013. dabblings of Frank Gehry, Winka Dubbeldam, Laurinda Spear, Dean PRES0RT-5TAH0AR0 POSTAGE PAID IN NEW YORK, NY. POSTMASTER, SEND ADDRESS CHANCES TO; THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER, CIRCULATION Maltz, Jennifer Carpenter, Rob Rogers, and Jonathan Marvel, among GUY WALKS continued from front page OCPARTMCHT. P.O. BOX y37. NEW YORK. NY 10013. FOR SUBSCRIBER SERVICE: CALL 212-e«6-0»30. FAX 2I2-9M-0633. S3.95 A COPY. The press release issued by the LMDC at S3V.O0 ONE YEAR. INTERNATIONAL SI60.00 ONE YEAR. INSTITUTIONAL others. ICFF has grown in the last 15 years to provide an important 5M9.00 ONE YEAR. ENTIRE CONTENTS COPYRIGHT 2003 BY THE the December unveiling of the Freedom ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED platform for these efforts, WILLIAM MENKING AND CATHY LANG HO Tower also makes no mention of Nordenson. It states: "The idea of creating the world's tallest tower was first proposed by Daniel Libeskind in his plan for the World CO OOPS CORRECTIONS Trade Center site, Memory Foundations, It was good to see the recent In Issue 4.20.2004, we misspelled the The Architect's Newspaper is sold at: and given form by design architect David LU name of landscape architecture firm Abel M.Childsof SkidmoreOwingsand Merrill." article "Glass Goliath" MoMA SoHo However, the SOM press release of the (3.23.2004). There was one Bainnson Butz (not Bannison). 81 Spring St., Manhattan small item that was not accurate, same date mentions the contributions of LLI St. Mark's Books however. I would like to point In the EavesDrop column of Issue Childs, Nordenson, and the current engi• 31 3" Ave., Manhattan neer of record. Cantor Seinuk: "As it rises, out that there is no relationship 4.20.2004, we reported that "Laurie the building torques to meet and disperse between the silicone sealant Hawkinson could not be reached for com• Urban Center Books the ever-present prevailing winds off the used in the wall and the cable ment" in reference to our item on Columbia 457 Madison Ave., Manhattan Hudson, a structural response to the con• sizes or the overall structural University's dean search. Hawkinson was, Micawber Books ditions of this site begotten by the collab• stability of the wall. in fact, reached after our deadline. The sen• 110-114 Nassau St., Princeton oration between Childs and renowned tence should have been corrected to read JAMES CARPENTER AIA Philadelphia Bookstore structural engineers Guy Nordenson and JAMES CARPENTER DESIGN ASSOCIATES that she referred us to the school's provost, 117 South 17th St., Philadelphia the Cantor Seinuk Group." as the search process was confidential. Prairie Avenue Bookshop SOM and Cantor Seinuk declined com• 418 South Wabash, Chicago ment. Because of the delicacy surround• RIBA Bookstore ing current negotiations with Silverstein, [email protected] 66 Portland Place, Nordenson, too, preferred to remain silent. EVA HAGBERG 00 m 3 O

2 LU ZAHA REVEALS SOFT SIDE JZ Zaha Hadid, who's been known to address her employees with a colorful array O of expletives, seems to have an equally charming relationship with her proteges

^\ at Yale. A chuckling onlooker reports that, at a recent open studio, the firebrand l-l designer and Yale visiting professor was so unhappy with her students' progress <.! that she informed her teaching assistant that "he should be shot." And then, • • "I saw her dealing with this pair of students," the source continues. "They were COSENTINI Q. pointing to the bathrooms in their project's plan, and she was like, 'I don't need O to know where the bathrooms are. Next you'll be telling me how to use the bathrooms!'" We're told the same students then wound up casually sitting at ASSOCIATES Hadid's feet (by choice, we assume) before asking if they could move to a more CO comfortable spot. "Comfortable? I'm not here to make you comfortable," Hadid LU > snapped. "I'm here to make you uncomfortable!" An also-present Yale insider < confirms that Hadid was a bit harsh that day, but chalks it up to pedagogic LU tough love. "She's so devoted to her students that, afterwards, on her way back from a lecture at Harvard, she made an impromptu visit," the associate says, "just to see how they were doing."

IT'S GREAT, BUT..." intesratins Before everyone gets too excited, we've learned that doubts are indeed being raised about the recently unveiled $325 million plan by Liz Diller, Rlcardo Scofidio, and their recently elevated partner Charles Renfro to redesign parts of Lincoln Center. At issue among preservationists are the proposed upheavals form of Dan Kiley's early 1960s North Plaza and Pietro Belluschi's 1969 Juilliard School. "In general, we feel positive about the approach that Lincoln Center and the architects are taking," says Kate Wood, executive director of Landmark West, the organization that recently got Lincoln Center listed as eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (read: lengthy review process). "But I do and concede the alterations they're proposing are pretty radical," she adds. Groups like Landmark West, DOCOMOMO, and the Historic Districts Council are still reviewing the plan and members we spoke with stress they don't necessarily have problems with DS+R's design. However, "two things are being lost here," one member explains, "and that's not to be taken lightly." function MOSS GROWS IN SOHO, SOHO GOES APE Murray Moss is at it again. The highly influential SoHo retailer is adding another 1,800 square feet to his eponymous 7,000-sguare-foot design emporium on Greene Street. Moss tells us the new space-in an adjacent Beyer Blinder Belle-designed building now under construction-is going to be a venue for MECHANICAL experimental works and installations that will be mounted in rotating five-week exhibitions, much like an art gallery. The expansion. Moss's second since 1999, ELECTRICAL is scheduled to open this fall and will boast "theatrical lighting, newly created by FLOS" and probably a "signature wall" installation by the Brazilian designers PLUMBING Fernando and Humberto Campana...Meanwhile, the fashionable Tokyo designer Masamichi Katayama has been tapped to design a boutigue, also on Greene FIRE PROTECTION Street, for the hyper-trendy Japanese street clothier A Bathing Ape. The three- level, 3,100-square-foot shop, which is the first U.S. venture for both the label COMMISSIONING and architect, is also set to open this fall.

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Master plan by Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum THE FAR (WEST) SIDE Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his deputy or criticize the stadium, expressed concern mayor for economic development, Daniel that a focus on the Javits Center and the Doctoroff, are aggressively pushing forward stadium would divert attention from the with their plan to redevelop Manhattan's more pressing need to expand the subway. Far West Side, which is scheduled to begin "Extend the 7 line west and the Far West early next year. But if the mood at a confer• Side will flourish," he said. ence held last month by the Regional Over the past two years, much of the crit• Planning Authority is any evidence, they are icism of the mayor's plan has come from the still a long way from selling it to the public. Hell's Kitchen Neighborhood Association, Designed by Dieter Rams in 1960 for Vitsoe and The all-day conference, which drew more which has argued that a stadium in Midtown 146 Greene Streel produced continuously ever since. Add more New York, NY 10012 than 200 people to the Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan was unfeasible. State Assembly moss dna T 212.204.7105 when you need. Take it with you when you move, viisoeOmossonllne.com www.vitsoe.com focused on the four key elements of the Member Richard Gottfried, who represents mayor's plan: extension of the subway's 7 the neighborhood, presented an alternative line; rezoning for high-density residential plan that, he said, would provide for the and office space roughly between 31°' and same amount of development while leaving 43™ streets and between 8"' Avenue and the out "the fantasy of a football stadium." Hudson River; a 400,000-square-foot Lucite models of both plans were on display Up Down House by Gail Peter extension of the Javits Convention Center; at the conference. and a $1.4 billion stadium which will house An afternoon panel, moderated by the New York Jets and, when not in use as Parsons dean and architecture critic Paul a sports facility, provide additional conven• Goldberger, focused on the stadium itself, tion space. or what he called the "gorilla in the room." Doctoroff, who sat on a morning panel, Thad Scheely, the Jets' vice president for presented the plan for the Far West Side— development, noted that "all the leading alternately known as the Hudson Yards— Iconvention] show producers have lined up as a development panacea, one that both behind" the stadium. In contrast, Jonathan addressed the city's needs and provided new Bowles, research director for the Center for opportunities. "As we transition to an office- an Urban Future, said that the convention based economy, we project a need for center and stadium would attract only a 68 million square feet of new office space marginal number of new conventions, not between now and 2025," he said. "The nearly enough to justify the cost. Hudson Yards is the only area where we The most interesting comments of the can do that." At the same time, he said, the day came from Brian Hatch, former deputy plan would help the city attract bigger con• mayor of Salt Lake City who oversaw its ventions, premier sporting events, and the 2002 Winter Olympics. Hatch said New 2012 Olympic Games. York's bid, by emphasizing big-budget facil• THE NEXT GENERATION the Immigration Museum Keith Mitnick, Mireille But virtually every other speaker expressed ities and infrastructure construction, was continued from front page and a competition-winning Roddier,and Stewart Hicks skepticism over one or several elements counterproductive in light of the International Beach" contest at P.S. 1 with entry for the International of Mitnick, Roddier, Hicks, of the plan. The keynote speaker, former Olympic Committee's newfound interest in his aiuminum-and-siL-i.-! Holocaust Museum. based in Ann Arbor, International Herald Tribune chair Peter conducting lower-cost, sustainable games. canopied Light Wing. His The second forum, on Michigan, will lecture Goldmark, asked whether spending the $5 "The dream of the IOC is to hold the recent work includes the May 13"', features Anthony together about their work, billion necessary to implement the plan was games in Africa or South America," he said. MicroMuJtiple House in Los Piermarini and Hansy Better including their winning a good idea in the face of so many other The stadium, in that respect, "harms our bid entry in the competition to Angeles, which explores pre• Barraza of Boston-based pressing needs. And luncheon speaker Sen. by being costly, multiples more than any design the Spertus Institute fab construction methods. Studio Luz. Their design for Charles Schumer, though refusing to endorse other lOlympic] stadium ever." CLAY RISEN of Jewish Studies in (Chicago. Fernando Romero of the Diva Lounge, a bar now They will also present their Mexico City-based LCM under construction in design of the 3,000-square- Lucini Italia offices in Miami. lectured the same night, Somerville, Massachusetts, who was recendy granted an Also lecturing on the 20"' foot LL House in Yellow will be Tobias Lundquist, who Its current projeas includes showing a conceptual project features a bubble-wrapped artist's residency at the Springs, Ohio, which begins founded Miloby Ideasystem a 6,000-square-foot house in from 1999, UFO, a site-less room with free-floating Chinati Foundation in construction this spring. in 2001 with Milana Kosavac. East Hampton. spherical salellitelike house. restroom pods. The tlrm is Marfa, Texas. His firm is now working to partner with a The firm is the only New York A catalog on the 2003 He is currendy working on currently designing a 13,000- The series concludes on nonprofit housing organiza• winner, and recent recipient Young Architects Forum will four projects in Mexico square-foot fellowship center May 20"' with a lecture by tion and construction firm in of the 6"' Annual Solutia be published by Princeton City, including the Mu.seum in Leominster, Massachusetts, Gail Peter Borden, of the Raleigh to build six affordable Design Award (in the interiors Architectural Press this for Juan Soriano and two and an orphanage school Borden Partnership in single-family homes. category) for its design of the summer, jw projects in El Paso, Texas— and clinic in Haiti. Raleigh, North Carolina, CO in 3 O LU

LU ADJAYE IN HIGH TIME FOR THE landmarks such as City Hall and Gracie Mansion. The show premiered on April The Museum of Contemporary Art in HIGH LINE M 20'" and airs every Tuesday at 10 p.m. —1 Denver selected English architect David After receiving 52 responses to a March- Adjaye of Adjaye/Associates to design its issued RFO, Friends of the Highline and new building. While the museum does not the City of New York announced that COLUMBIA DEAN SAGA L

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Taking some time off from titanium, Frank Gehry has For the past several years, the organizers of ICFF have been dabbling with some new materials. Collaborating commissioned hot designers to spruce up the 110,000 simultaneously with two notable furniture manufac• square feet of the Javits Center during the four-day event. turers, the blockbuster architect has created distinctly This year, in addition to displays by 450 exhibitors, visi• different designs. For Emeco, he has designed the tors will see a newsstand designed by New York indus• all-aluminum Superlight Chair, which is super-strong, trial and interior designer Harry Allen; a bar by industrial super-flexible, and super-comfortable. Inspired by Gio designer Sergei Hasegawa of Brooklyn-based pure- Ponti's Superleggera Chair, Gehry's simple design, a kitchen; and the "ICFF Connector," a passageway link• bent sheet draped on tubular frame, weighs in at 6.5 ing showroom floors, designed by multidisciplinary pounds. Since both skin and frame are light and slight, design firm Magna Magler Wiggen (MMW) of Oslo. there is no way around his straightforward intent that Allen's newsstand, a bulbous 16-foot-tall, 18.5-foot- "the sitter activate the chair." Productions experts at wide heptagonal pavilion—dubbed "the igloo" by his Emeco, best known for its indestructible aluminum studio—will be constructed out of expanded polystyrene Navy Chair, enjoyed the challenge of making the foam panels Allen spotted at Home Depot. He picked material as light and flexible as possible while main• the panels for their high strength-to-weight ratio as well taining its strength—three times that of steel. For those as their humble origins as wall insulation. "The form interested in collecting a set, the Superlight is stack- followed the material and the function," he said. "The able in an unconventional sense: the skin/seat unclips structure needed to have six stations for magazine sales from the frame and can be piled, like Pringles potato reps to interact with the public and a door to get inside, chips. The chair will retail for about $350. hence the seven sides." Allen's construction methods Gehry's line of furniture for Heller, meanwhile, is were also straightforward. The panels are light enough almost the inverse of Superlight in appearance. Ultra- to be hand-carried through the front entrance and struc• sculptural and monolithic, the seven-piece collection tural enough to require a minimum of joinery—only follows both the heft and curving fluidity of his recent tape and biscuit joints will be needed for its assembly. buildings, while referencing their materials. Heller's Meanwhile, Hasegawa has designed a bar with a founder and CEO Alan Heller touts the line as "archi• countertop made of Richlite, a paper-composite board tecture as furniture," pointing to the recognizable with a high recycled material content. The board is shapes and lines carried over from projects like Bilbao sturdy enough to be used in boats and skateboard and the Disney Concert Hall. ramps. Hasegawa's design incorporates a curved sur• Made of metallic silver resin, the roto-molded sofa, face, echoing a skater's beloved halfpipe. easy chair, bench, coffee table and three different sized MMW took a jet-set prefab approach in its design for cubes are designed to be used either indoors or out. the ICFF Connector. The firm created a white wormlike The sleek surface of the hollow forms has been formu• form made of fabric and ringed with orange pneu• lated so that the sofa and the easy chair will have more matic pipes. Shaped by air pressure, the three-piece give than the twisted cube units. Heller explained structure knocks down easily—so easily, in fact, that the that both the company and the architect were "very designers report that they will transport the structure's interested in process and working with the newest three pieces from Norway in their personal luggage. technology to determine what you can invent, just as The special textiles workshop of outdoor clothing Frank does with his buildings." manufacturer Helly Hansen provided the material— Both Emeco and Heller displayed prototypes of a watertight canvas typically used for offshore diving Gehry's designs at Milan's 2004 Salone Internazionale suits—and will fabricate the structure's sections. "The del Mobile, and will present them at ICFF. The real project's concept derives from Per Gynt, Henrik Ibsen's articles will be available to design-hungry consumers play about travel," said Hallstein Guthu of MMW. Each this summer of the structure's three sections has a sound and light• A documentary on the design process of the ing theme inspired by the play.

Superlight Chair, Ping Pong by Eames Demetrios, will DEBORAH CROSSBERC IS AN ASSITANT EDITOR AT AN. be shown on Friday, May 14'^ at 8:30 p.m. at the Center for Architecture, 536 La Guardia Place. TRACEY HUMMER IS A NEW YORK-BASED WRITER AND EDITOR.

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Architecture morphs into furniture in a roof renovation In past years, furniture at ICFF has been available in a Dune, a contemporary furniture design collective founded by Graftworks Architecture and Design, a New York firm range of flavors—cotton candy-colored, crunchy granola, in 1996 with a showroom in Manhattan and a manufactur• founded in 1999 by Lawrence Blough and John Henle.The spicy and Brazilian, stark and Swedish. This year, add BBQ ing studio in Brooklyn, will introduce an all-female line-up architects skinned the 1,100-squ a re-foot roof of this West to the list. On May Iff", Moss in SoHo unveils the exhibition for its 2004 collection. Wonder Women. The ensemble, on Village brownstone with strips of cedar slatting that peel up Where There's Smol

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TWO VIEWS Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec with texts by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, ON MINIMALISM David Toppani, Claude Ai'ello, and Giulio Cappellini Donald Judd (Phaidon, 2003), $49.95. Tate Modern, Bankside, London Closed April 25 Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): The elusive Bouroullec brothers—dubbed Art from 1951 to the Present "the newly crowned princes of design" by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York Harper's Bazaar and heirs to Philippe Starck's Through May 19 throne by the London Times magazine—will seem a little less enigmatic as a result of their newly published monograph and retrospec• tive at the Los Angeles Museum of Contem• porary Art, set to open in June. Though both book and exhibition might seem premature in these young French designers' careers— Ronan is only 33 and Erwan is 29—the two have been startlingly prolific since their proj• ect, the iconoclastic Disintegrated Kitchen, caught the eye of Giulio Cappellini at the Salon du Meuble in Paris in 1997. Cappellini became their first client, to be followed by Issey Miyake and Rolf Fehlbaum of Vitra. Their designs for this powerful trio, whom they acknowledge as mentors, are collected in the book, along with dozens of prototypes and conceptual projects that, in fact, compose the bulk of its contents. The book, organized and designed by the brothers, comes across just as they (and their work) do: honest, earnest, and restrained.

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The designers demonstrate their interest in user-autonomy in their easy-to-assemble Between 1971 and his death in Texan town overlooking the Museum's Singular Forms Enameled aluminum and galvanized Polystyrene House (2002). 1994, Donald Judd bought Chihuahua desert. The slowing (Sometimes Repeated): Art iron (above) and anodized aluminum almost half of the properties in down is encouraged by the from 1951 to the Present, which and Plexiglas (below), both untitled works from 1990. Marfa, Texas, including a bank, positioning of Judd's works and explores the minimalist impulse a supermarket, an old ice factory, enables the proper contempla• in contemporary art, is not about Armageddon, a 12-by-9-foot a hotel and an army barracks, tion of them. One needs time to slowing one's pace for the carpet of dead houseflies and adapted each space for site- appreciate this exacting artist's contemplation of space. Instead, amassed as if caught in specific installations and single subtleties, whether it's the velvet visitors are impelled past the molasses, a dark and pungent purposes such as sculpture, print- texture of a piece of Corten steel, show's 161 pieces, drawn large• commentary on mortality. making, sleeping, and reading. the resonance between two adja• ly from the museum's collec• Nearby, in a darkened corner, is cent sections of colored enameled The journey to the remote tion, by the downward slope of an eerily "moonlit" mountain• aluminum, or the relationship town—200 long desert miles the Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral- ous landscape by Koo Jeong-a, of a work to the wall, the floor, from the nearest airport—is an ing ramp. This is no fault of cura• composed of crushed aspirin. and the room. important part of the experience. tors Nancy Specter and Lisa Instead of space, then, this This slowing down, compounded Tate director and curator Dennison, just a phenomenon show emphasizes the physicality by waiting at a crossing for the Nicholas Serota has attended of the space. The show was and sensuousness of the mate• HIGHLY colored freight containers of carefully to Judd's many forth• conceived to ascend the rotunda, rials used to make the works. the Southern Pacific Railroad right views on the topic of instal• but the majority of Guggenheim From Wolfgang Laib's yellow to clatter past, is necessary for lation. When installing the show's visitors begins at the top and piles of hazelnut pollen and Meg looking at and thinking about CHARGED 40 pieces, which include paint• descends. Seeing this chrono• Webster's enormous cone of Judd's work. Using boxes as his ings as well as the three-dimen• logically organized show in salt to Felix Gonzalez-Torres' principal form and industrially sional works, Serota has reverse order means that one heap of continued on page 14 machined sheet metal, plywood, SPACES considered the importance of has to seek out the introductory and Plexiglas as his primary mate• symmetry in Judd's oeuvre, panel for each section only rials, Judd's sculpture explores the way his boxes correspond after having completed it. Get Off! Exploring the Pleasure Principle volume, space, and time. to and articulate the dimensions For better or worse, the show Through September 15, 2004 of a room, and the alignment of Those unable to go to Marfa is completely reversible. Instead Sex Among the Lotus doorways to afford framed Through January 2005 can make the relatively easier of beginning with a postwar glimpses of pieces in neighbor• Museum of Sex, 233 Fifth Ave. hop across the pond to experi• prologue to minimalism, includ• ing rooms. In one instance, four ence the artist's work. The Tate ing the reductivist paintings and Modern in London has mounted boxes, made out of clear and sculpture of Ellsworth Kelly, The Museum of Sex recently unveiled two the first substantial retrospec• colored anodized aluminum and Robert Rauschenberg, Ad new exhibitions. Get Off! Exploring the tive on Judd since 1988. (The Plexiglas, are positioned to Reinhardt, Tony Smith, and Pleasure and Sex Among the Lotus, as show will open at the K20 reproduce as exactly as possible Frank Stella, and proceeding well as a complete gallery renovation by Kunstsammlung Nordrhein- an installation Judd oversaw in through the minimalist, post- AMP Urban Studios. AMP's founder Preeti Westfalen, Dusseldorf, in June.) Baden-Baden in 1989. It's this minimalist, and conceptual The sensitively installed show at rigorous attention to detail that Sriratana, who worked with Cleanroom artists, most of us, then, begin the Tate manages to distort the makes Donald Judd ar\ on the museum's 2001 fa?ade design, was with the works that reinterpret viewer's sense of time to some• immensely satisfying exhibition commissioned to renovate the facilities tak• minimalism's legacy. This group how approximate the stillness to behold. ing the new exhibitions into consideration. includes a lesser-known piece of an afternoon in the small The exhibition Get Off!, about sexual By contrast, the Guggenheim by Damien Hirst called expression in continued on page 14 <

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The exhibitions Metal- and their morphosis installation bring out the voyeur in us all. Installation of Judd's work at Tate Modern. Exhibition designers created a dark intimate spaces to present the exhibition MorphoGenomics: The Milgo Sex Among the Lotus Experiment in Shaping Surfaces JUDD SQUARED continued from page 11 peek through the cracks to see, for exam• The Urban Center wrapped candies and stacks of paper, to HIGHLY CHARGED SPACES continued from ple, Karim Rashid's Karimsutra, a bulbous 457 Madison Avenue. Closed April 30 Dan Flavin's and Douglas Wheeler's page 11 contemporary society, features vinyl day bed accompanied by a poster orchestration of neon light, to Lawrence disparate objects and media such as with a matrix of sexual positions. Weiner and Joseph Kosuth's dimension• three massive bronze sculptures by Tom A comprehensive historical survey of al wielding of language—it's substance Otterness and a small collage by perform• Chinese erotica, Sex Among the Lotus is What happens when an architect attempts to rather than subtraction that intrigues. ance artist Carolee Schneemann. Rather located in the upstairs gallery, which is determine the genetic codes of The principles Also surprising in this exhibition of sup• than frame objects, the architecture rein• devoted to annually changing scholarly guiding architectural structure, form, and posedly nonreferential works is the poet• forces the works' in-your-face sexual exhibits. The gallery was transformed from fabrication, and then applies them to product ic narratives that surround their making. attitude. One enters the gallery through a bombastically lit, sterile white box to a design? Architect Haresh Lalvani has attempted Though only three works by Judd a shadowed corridor that turns to face a darker, more intimate space that is more to find out, and his results were on view at the appear in the Guggenheim show—includ• video projection of a larger-than-life vagina. appropriate to the materials on display, Urban Center last month. According to Lalvani, ing an opulent horizontal six-unit wall This welcomes visitors into the 2,000- which include erotic paintings, antique the architectural forms displayed—ceiling and piece made from light-conducting brass square-foot temporary gallery, which is sex toys, and even an X-ray of a mummi• wall systems, doors, column covers, and and red fluorescent Plexiglas (L/nf/f/ed, given dimensionality by a 250-foot-long fied bound foot (a sexual fetish). The walls trusses, in full and scaled models and draw• February 1,1973)—his presence is perva• wall that hovers off the ground and undu• are fitted with niches, reminiscent of ings—differ from other architecture being sive. His work is referenced in nearly every lates to create three nooks. One of the 25-cent video booths, displaying porno• generated on the computer Most computer- explanatory text in the show, and his more surprising moves is the unveiling graphic films. Grey vitrines with red and born architecture, he believes, is designed influence evident in most of its offerings. of previously shaded street-facing win• blue highlights (references to prostitution "top down," by designers applying their own For conditions that enable what Judd dows. AMP designer Dora Kelle created districts) contain stone-carved penises, aesthetic sensibility to the creation of forms. termed "extended looking," try to catch a louver effect, applying bands of translu• bound-foot slippers, and other artifacts. By contrast, Lalvani's designs begin with a Serota's curatorial feat. cent vinyl of varying widths to the now The exhibitions and their installation mathematical proposition—say, for example, open window, allowing more natural light bring out the voyeur in us all. force diagrams in a structural beam—which ALICE TWEMLOW IS A BROOKLYN-BASED in the space and provoking passersby to is rigorously and systematically modelled with DESIGN WRITER AND CURATOR. JAMES WAY IS AN ASSISTANT EDITOR AT AN. a computer, allowing forms to grow out from their own inherent physical logic. The result, he believes, is a type of architectural When I founded TRUCK this relationship. The negligible in designing The first table TRUCK and distributors, I've nanotechnology, liberated from the designer— Product Architecture in end user is unknown, custom furniture for brought to a trade learned that many a new type of cyber-organic architecture. 2001 with Rob Rogers so I'm designing for an architectural clients show was made of think designers are and Jonathan Marvel imaginary friend whose can make big differ• solid aluminum, birch difficult and not worth The models in the exhibition were fabricated of Rogers Marvel needs and desires are ences in production: A plywood, and recycled the money. We've had in the East Williamsburg metal factory of the Architects, our inten• similar to mine. To box that costs TRUCK leather—beautiful to to convince them of Milgo Bufkin Company and funded by the first tion was to go beyond get my design to this five dollars can end up look at but completely the value of a good architecture grant ever awarded by the New the typical role of the consumer, I must per• costing the consumer impractical to produce. designer, and not just York Office of Science, Technology, and architect in furniture suade a manufacturer more than twenty. When you believe in one with a celebrity Academic Research, This research has pro• design—the custom that my product will When shipped, that democratic design, it's name. The good news duced some compelling architecture products. piece—and design for sell. Then the manufac• box gets thrown on tough to stand behind is that the country is The powerful full-scale Hy^perlA/a//model a wider audience. We turer has to convince trucks, piled under a $2,000 coffee table. becoming more and shows the limitless possibilities of formed wanted to apply the wholesale buyers of other cargo, rolled up I wanted TRUCK to more design savvy metal to create supple architectural surfaces. design principles we the same thing. Even stairs. Even with high- make products that my and successful com• Column Museum is a fantastic collection of used in architecture to if the pieces land in quality, well-padded friends could afford. panies recognize that small-scale models that hint at the endless make furniture and showrooms and boxes, damage hap• So we pulled in help good design is essen• possible configurations using Lalvani's tech• products that we our• stores, lots of people pens with alarming where needed. In tial, no matter what niques. His prototype of a drop-box for a private selves want to buy: need to choose them frequency. Needless addition to distribu• they make. Not only mail courier company is more beautiful than < essential, but afford• any on the streets. Though Lalvani's use of algo• I— well-detailed and over the competition. to say, it hurts to eat tion, we needed help Q. practical, yet also At each step of this those costs. Even with production. We able: If a designer is rithms and genomes as sources of inspiration O unexpected. It seemed process, I rely on sales worse, annoyed recipi• used what we have— compensated in can be baffling, the results are stunning. An IE logical that good archi• teams and the product ents of the damaged inventive design royalties, the risk for exhibition catalog will be available later this year CO tects would make good itself to communicate goods may not want informed by an archi• manufacturers is very WILLIAM MENKING IS AN EDITOR AT AN. furniture designers. with the client/con• to take a chance on tectural sensitivity low. And everyone— After all, we know how sumer. 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