“Out from Under” - off the reservation
We have just found out that exhibition “Out from Under” launched in March 2007 in San Francisco and curated by Anthony is still moving. After touring San Francisco then Seattle, it was taken over by the AIA international to be shown in Hong Kong, although we have not seen it since it left the US.
However, a random call from a speech writer for the Federal Minister for Trade Simon Crean alerted us to the fact it was in Kunming and being opened by said minister. Great! Now its at the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou being opened by the Australian Consular General in Kunming, Sean Kelly, and part of a conference where other Australia practices, not initially in the exhibition, seem to be speaking to potential trade partners.
See this link here for an article we came across in the Life of Guangzhou website.
Credit to the Austalian Institute of Architects International for picking up the itinerary after the US, but finding out what’s happening has been impossible. If anyone has news, or better, photos of the exhibition, please send to us. The 16 exhibitors as well as ourselves would love to know what’s become of the exhibition and who’s standing in front of it.
Also reminds me of the black hole I found myself looking into when initially approaching the Australian Embassy’s in SF and NY to take an interest. It was clear that if it wasn’t indigineous painting or South Australian wine, there would be no place for architecture as a cultural export. Funny to see the dignitaries in front of it now drumming up business in China.
As we are just beginning to plan the next exhibition, lets see how ready the Australian Government is this time to help!!
image from Life of Guangzhou article
Transclimatic exhibition
As part of the 13th International Design Festival, Sydney Design, Offshore is very happy to have been invited to participate in Transclimatic, an exhibition at Customs house in Sydney 1-16th August curated by Frank Minnaert.
The exhibition will feature works by: AMID* [cero9], Emergent Architecture, Greg Lynn, Frank Minnaert, MVRDV, An Te Liu, Novague, NOX / Lars Spuybroek, Offshore studio, Alexandre Orion, Paul Curtis, Phooey Architects, R&Sie(n), Andrew Ross, Sasja Saptenno, Tomas Saraceno and Semiconductor.
Check HERE for more.
Offshore goes to into RE:HAB
Offshore has been invited to speak at this years architecture student conference in Canberra RE:HAB being held from the 5th - 10th July. Anthony will be speaking on Tuesday morning in a session with our friends Dave Pigram from Supermanoeuvre and Tim Schork of Mesne. We’ll also be doing a workshop with Chris Bosse of LAVA
Structuring Complexity - AR Interviews
Structuring Complexity article published in AR 09/06/09. As the by-line reads,
“Complex curvature, cascading geometries and agent based swarms – is architecture finally on the verge of embracing an idiom and methodology truly representative of our post-machine age?”
Check out the online version here featuring work from our UTS students. Also, see my interview with Tristram Carfrae and Philip Cox part one and part two.
CAADRIA 2009
At CAADRIA 2009 Between Man and Machine Integration, Intuition, and Intelligence, in Yunlin, Taiwan earlier this year, Anthony won best presentation for his “competing intelligences” paper presentation. Thanks to all Caadrian’s especially Marc Aurel Schnabel of CUHK for a great time. Next CAADRIA 2010 New Frontiers is getting into gear already.
WE’RE BACK ///
Its been a while since we’ve posted, but we haven’t gone away, we’ve just been busy. Mostly because Anthony was Acting Head of School at UTS for the semester, Ben was working on big projects in Malaysia with friends from Foresite, and Tom Wiscombe of Emergent has been visiting again which means we’re all in recovery. We’ll catch you up… More posts coming
Even better than the real thing
A nice post of some of the work that was on show here at Super Colossal (thanks Marcus). About 800 people on the opening night went through and the gallery floor was in something of a state the following morning… Congrats again to the Street as Platform masterclass led by Dan Hill, (City of Sound) and Mitchell Whitelaw (theteemingvoid), for the courtyard almostrealtime sensor feed and visualisation. Harris st
Updating towers research page
We’ve been developing the arquine towers work through the year, mainly from the inside organisational aspects of circulation, structure and social zoning that the open towers suggest. These are two newer images of the developed tower research. See full details in the
(im)material processes
We posted a few months ago that Offshore was invited to exhibit at the 2008 Beijing Biennale. Its taken a while but we’ve got around to posting some images from the trip to the opening. (im)material processes: New Digitial Techniques for Architecture, curated by Neil Leach, also produced two books to coincide with
UTS Exhibition 04.12.08
The UTS end of year exhibition Opens tonight. “Even Better than the real thing.” The work on show ranges through the three themes Urban, Process and Material. The exhibition will be up for a week in the UTS gallery and lvl 5 Studios, Building 6.