ARCHITECTURE AND
URBAN DESIGN
Recently completed projects by
lecturer Neil Denari include the Endeavor Talent Agency offices and Endeavor Theater in Beverly Hills. Denari is included in “Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture,” an exhibition on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through mid-January 2005.
Lecturers David Erdman’s and Marcelyn Gow’s firm, Servo, studio professor Greg Lynn, and professors Thom Mayne and Dagmar Richter were represented at the 9th International Venice Architecture Biennale exhibition, “Metamorph,” which took place this fall in Italy.
The new shell and stage area for the Hollywood Bowl, designed by professor Craig Hodgetts and Ming Fung ’80 of Hodgetts + Fung Design and Architecture, was unveiled to the
public in June.
The Hollywood Bowl, courtesy Hodgetts + Fung Design and Architecture
The Getty Research Institute has named chair Sylvia Lavin as the Getty Consortium Scholar for 2004-2005. She will be on sabbatical for the year. Professor Richard Weinstein is acting chair. Lavin’s book, Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture (MIT Press) will be published in January 2005. | | Models, drawings, and photographs of 10 building projects by studio professor Greg Lynn were included this fall in an exhibition of work by international avant garde architects at the 1st Architecture Biennial in Beijing, China.
Morphosis, the Santa Monica based architectural firm of professor Thom Mayne, has won the competition for the design of a new Olympic Village that will be part of New York City’s bid for the 2012 Olympic games.
Professor Barton Myers is developing a master plan in Suzhou, China for a one-square-kilometer site with plans for 10,000 housing units and commercial components, including retail units and a clubhouse.
ART
“100 Artists See God,” an exhibition co-curated by professor John Baldessari, opened at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco last spring and traveled in the summer to the Laguna Art Museum. The show included work by professors Chris Burden, Mary Kelly, Catherine Opie, Nancy Rubins, James Welling, and professor emeritus Paul McCarthy.
Professor John Baldessari has been elected a Fellow of The American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Election to the Academy is one of the highest honors in the United States and recognizes world-renowned leaders in scholarship, business, the arts, and public affairs.
Earlier this year, work by professor Chris Burden was included in “Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight” at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; and “Chris Burden: Urban Light” was on view at Gagosian Gallery, New York. | | Work by Manuela Friedmann,
assistant to the chair, was included earlier this year in “The Next Wave: New Abstract Painting in Los Angeles,” an exhibition at the Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles.
Professor Roger Herman was represented in a group show at Wallraff-Richartz-Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany this fall. Earlier this year, he had a solo exhibition of ceramic work at Galerie Schmidt, Innsbruck, Austria.
A solo exhibition by professor Mary Kelly was on view last summer at Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes, Mexico City.
Mary Kelly, “Circa 1968” (2004), detail, compressed lint and projected light, overall dimensions 101" x 105"
The 2004 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, included work by professors Mary Kelly, Catherine Opie, and professor emeritus Paul McCarthy.
“Surfers,” a solo exhibition by
professor Catherine Opie, was on view earlier this year at Gorney Bravin+Lee, New York; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. |