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 Columbia University collective cultural imagination. It resulted in the development of broad literature that GSAPP and Visiting Professor at Princeton University 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. Mitchell Joachim is the Co-Founder of Terreform ONE and an Associate Professor Encounters That Never Happened is presented in conjunction with Closed Worlds, PARTICIPANT BIOS 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, Victor Papanek 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 Harvard University, 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 New York University. 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