All Exhibitions

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Airport Landscape: ORD: Documenting the Definitive Modern Airport

October 30, 2013–December 19, 2013 Charles Waldheim, curator In the second half of the twentieth century, Chicago’s O’Hare Airport was the biggest and busiest facility of its kind in the world. Characterized by a seamless integration of transportation infrastructure and architectural expression, O’Hare…

exhibition dates: OCT 30 – DEC 19, 2013

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Airport Landscape: Airplot and Other Aerial Obsessions

October 16, 2013–December 19, 2013 Luis Callejas, curator Pamphlet Architecture 33. "Islands and atolls" by Luis Callejas / LCLA The competition for Pamphlet Architecture 33 asked previous authors in the series to nominate the architects and theorists whose work represents the most exciting design…

exhibition dates: OCT 16 – DEC 19, 2013

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Airport Landscape: Altitudes of Urbanization

From 10,000 metres below the sea, to 35,000 kilometers in orbit above the surface of the earth, the infrastructure that supports urban life has reached unimaginable extents below ground, in the water, and across outer space. Re-profiling the conventional contours of the cities we live and the spaces…

exhibition dates: OCT 16 – DEC 19, 2013

Pierre Bélanger, Curator

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Airport Landscape: The Jetport Landscape

October 30, 2013–December 19, 2013 Sonja Dümpelmann, curator In the 1950s and 1960s, landscape architect Daniel Urban Kiley (1912–2004) was commissioned to provide landscape designs for two of the first jetports built in the United States, Dulles International Airport…

exhibition dates: OCT 30 – DEC 19, 2013

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Airport Landscape: Urban Ecologies in the Aerial Age

Airport Landscape claims the airport as a site of and for landscape. Airports have never been more central to the life of cities, yet they remain peripheral in design discourse. In spite of this, landscape architects have recently reasserted their historic claims on the airfield…

exhibition dates: OCT 30 – DEC 19, 2013

Charles Waldheim and Sonja Dümpelmann, Curators

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Sensitive to Water, Sensitive to Change: On Building a Little Wooden Boat

A group show on design in and for water, exploring the sensitivity and responsiveness to shifting environmental conditions brought on by living in water. This exhibition puts in dialogue photography from student research on floating informal settlements in Thailand, an architecture student’s reflections on living…

exhibition dates: NOV 4 – DEC 15, 2013

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Transformative Mobilities: Porto & Medellín

Recipients of the Eleventh Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design: Metro do Porto by Architect Eduardo Souto de Moura Acknowledging the transportation authority Metro do Porto Northeastern Urban Integration Project by the City of Medellín Acknowledging the government agency Empresa de Desarrollo…

exhibition dates: AUG 26 – OCT 13, 2013

Rahul Mehrotra, Curator

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The Generic Sublime: Utopioids

August 9, 2013–October 4, 2013 Ciro Najle, Curator   Professor Ciro Najle Assistant Pablo Barría Urenda Georgios Athanasopoulos  Men in Retreat  Alessandro Boccacci  La Ville Tropicale Elle Gerdeman  Neon Sector  Parsa Kamali  Shukovoids Jielu Lu  In-between Helix Héctor…

exhibition dates: AUG 9 – OCT 4, 2013