Ongoing

Wonderbrands

A strong visual identity is the key to presenting your brand successfully. Once again, Metropolis will gather design professionals to discuss the ever-evolving secrets to the language of branding. Is architecture is becoming the next Wonderbrand? Stay tuned for details…

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Through March 14

Quicktake: Rodarte

Cooper-Hewitt, New York City

Founded in 2005 by Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Rodarte is widely acclaimed for its daring and conceptual collections. The exhibit offers a glimpse into the Mulleavys’ unique process and inspiration at an important point in their career. Rodarte’s creations feature complex manipulation of materials and other meticulous techniques evocative of haute couture through an American lens. www.cooperhewitt.org

March 18

Eric Sanderson: The Mannahatta Project: Sustainability and Original Ecology

New York City

At 6 p.m., Sanderson will speak at the City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, 141 Convent Ave. at W. 134th St., as part of the school’s spring lecture series. csauth.ccny.cuny.edu/prospective/architecture

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Through April 18

Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism

The Institute of Visual Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

This exhibition brings together an international, multi-generational array of artists—with an emphasis on artists living in France—whose work contends with idealism, utopian thinking and, in counterpoint, the cynicism that follows failed revolution and the retreat of optimism in the face of pragmatic reality. The exhibition is inspired by the theoretical architecture of Yona Friedman, whose ideas were disseminated in the aftermath of World War II and have influenced subsequent generations. arts.uwm.edu/inova; www.frac-platform.com

May 14—July 31

Tomás Saraceno: Lighter than Air

Blaffer Gallery, Houston

Showcasing Saraceno’s installations, sculptures, and photographs made since 2003, this touring exhibition is the artist’s first large-scale museum presentation in the United States. By reexamining the conventions of art and architecture, Saraceno suggests imaginative solutions to complex questions about how we populate and coexist in the world. His architectural proposals use the interdependencies of systems to ponder ecological questions that go beyond the natural world. www.class.uh.edu/blaffer/exhibit_tomas_saraceno.html

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Through March 19

Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now

Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon

In Signs of Change, hundreds of posters, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and ephemera bring to life over 40 years of activism, political protest, and campaigns for social justice. Curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee, this important and timely exhibition surveys the creative work of dozens of international social movements. www.pnca.edu/exposure/calendar.php?event_id=1455&list_type=2&cat=1&year=2010

Through March 26

How Many Billboards? Art In Stead

MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles

This large-scale urban exhibition debuts new works by leading contemporary artists, presented simultaneously on billboards throughout Los Angeles. Twenty-three artists working in the vein of California’s conceptual art movement have each been commissioned to create a new work that critically responds to the medium of the billboard, interpreting its role in the urban landscape. Investigating art as both an idea and media for critical intervention, the exhibition highlights the interaction of Pop, conceptualism, and architecture in Los Angeles since the late 1960s. howmanybillboards.org

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March 20—May 7

Animal Architecture

Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris

This solo show from Daniel Arsham features a series of drawings depicting kangaroos, owls, and donkeys staring at or interacting with floating architectural forms. The animals appear both perplexed and intrigued with these human objects and seem to be lost in contemplation. “Animals have a unique relationship with architecture because it is not built for them,” Arsham says. “When we are confronted with the animal’s ambiguous connection to a world designed for humans, we are better equipped to ask questions about our own relationships to architecture.” www.galerieperrotin.com/

April 8—September 6

Other Space Odysseys: Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, and Alessandro Poli

Canadian Centre for Architecture

This exhibition presents three projects dealing with the idea of an adventurous journey that started 40 years ago, after the mission to the moon in 1969: the now legendary project by Alessandro Poli and Superstudio for a highway to connect the earth and the moon; Los Angeles-based architect Michael Maltzan’s design of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Administration Building for NASA that challenges existing models for housing scientific research and proposes a new type of physical environment to facilitate a collaborative research process; and Los Angeles-based architect Greg Lynn’s research and design project for new terminals on both the earth and the moon, which will connect travelers between the two locations. www.cca.qc.ca/en/exhibitions

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Submission Deadline: March 31

Personal Infrastructures: SMIBE 2010 Short Film Competition

SMIBE welcomes moving-image stories that investigate, explore, and entertain our communities about social, environmental, political, technological, and economic issues that designers of the built world should be discussing. SMIBE invites creative professionals, college and university students from architecture, landscape, art, industrial design, interior design, motion graphics and film to produce a three-minute, engaging, and entertaining moving-image story about about memorable characters and the infrastructures in their lives. Submissions should not exceed three minutes in duration and can be produced in any motion image medium. Entry is free. Ten finalists will be chosen. www.smibe.org

Submission Deadline: April 16

Suburbia Transformed, One Garden at a Time: An Exploration of the Aesthetics of Landscape Experience in the Age of Sustainability

Through a juried competition, Suburbia Transformed, One Garden at a Time will assemble contemporary projects achieving the goal of exploring green technologies within the context of the aesthetics of human landscape experience on small residential sites. The emphasis is on how emerging sustainable strategies and tactics are used to create human landscape experiences that are beautiful, inspiring, perhaps profound; and which might serve as examples for transforming the suburban residential fabric, one garden at a time. jamesrosecenter.org/competition/index.html

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March 24—March 26

GLOBE 2010

Vancouver Convention Center, Canada
Every two years, over 10,000 professionals from 70+ countries come together at GLOBE for three days of sessions presented by world-renowned sustainability experts. The conference works to survey leading-edge environmental innovations and participate in unparalleled global networking opportunities. Topics explore environmental goals such as corporate sustainability, climate change, carbon management, clean energy, sustainable finance, and greener cities. Special subthemes for GLOBE 2010 include: clean technology, water, a spolight on retail, and Auto FutureTech.
www.globe2010.com/

March 24—March 27

Interior Design Educators Council 2010 Annual Conference

The Westin, Atlanta

IDEC is the one place that everyone gathers to talk about teaching, research and service in the interior design field. The conference will include informational lectures, teaching workshops, networking events and a student design competition.
www.idec.org/events/2010.php

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