The Center for Architecture introduced a film series last Thursday that takes the audience up close and personal with four world-renowned architects. Daniel Libeskind headlined the series, Films and Conversations with the Architects,  with the showing of Daniel Libeskind: Denver Art Museum, Frederic C. Hamilton Building. Peter Eisenman, Steven Holl, and Thom Mayne follow in Libeskind’s footsteps and will take you on a guided tour of their latest projects via the silver screen. Stay later for the conversation!

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When you think of mobile homes, the words “green” and “artist studio” don’t necessarily jump to mind. But artist Paul Villinski, using found materials and a discarded trailer manages to do just that. Complete with nine solar panels, a 10-foot wide skylight, and a 40-foot high mast, it is purely incidental that the entire thing resembles a UFO, albeit, an inviting one.

Villinski conceived of his traveling artist studio while visiting a post-Katrina New Orleans in the summer of 2006. He found himself scavenging the streets, longing to transport his New York studio so he could settle in and get to work grappling with the devastated city. His solution? Salvaging a FEMA-style trailer, the formaldehyde-ridden government response to temporary shelter, and reinventing it as the Emergency Response Studio (ERS).

Emergency Response Studio on view at Rice University Art Gallery
(Photo: Rice Gallery Staff)

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