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CLOG: Brutalism

Curators Michael Kubo, Chris Grimley, and Mark Pasnik published a piece in the February 2013 edition of CLOG on Brutalism. The piece is rooted in research first started for the exhibition HEROIC at pinkcomma in 2009.

Boston’s High Spine

Mark Pasnik participated in an event dedicated to Boston’s High Spine sponsored by the Boston Preservation Alliance on November 10, 2012 at the Boston Architectural College. Panelists included Ed Glaeser, Henry Moss, Anthony Pangaro, Jean Carroon, David Hacin, Tunny Lee, and Tad Stahl.

Projections at WUHO

A version of pinkcomma’s Projections exhibition appeared in the WUHO gallery in Los Angeles in October and November of 2011.

ArchitectureBoston

The curatorial team published an article on galleries as a medium of dissemination in the Winter 2011 issue of ArchitectureBoston.

pinkcomma to Curate BSA Space

The pinkcomma curatorial team was selected to design the first exhibition at the Boston Society of Architects’ new BSA Space in Atlantic Wharf.

We Talk About Architecture, Architecture Talks Back

Michael Kubo participated in a discussion at the Community College of Rhode Island on Thursday, April 14, 2011 as part of the Knight Campus Art Gallery’s “We Talk About Architecture, Architecture Talks Back” event. The panel examined the Knight Campus building, a concrete megastructure completed in 1972 by the architect Howard Juster. Details are available here.

HEROIC Project at BU Conference

Chris Grimley, Mark Pasnik, and Michael Kubo presented research from the Heroic Project at Boston University on April 8, 2011. The discussion was the opener for the “Architecture + Philosophy” conference hosted by BU’s philosophy department.

Design Research

Chris Grimley published a review of the book Design Research: The Store That Brought Modern Living to American Homes in the February 2011 issue of ArchitectureBoston

Two Articles Published in Celeste Magazine

Two articles the gallery’s curators (“Tough Love” and “Concrete Ideology”) as well as drawings and photography from the Heroic Project appeared in the Pyramide Insert of Celeste Magazine in the Fall of 2010.

On Curating

On September 17, 2010, Chris Grimley and Mark Pasnik joined Praxis editors Amanda Reeser Lawrence and Ashley Schafer as part of MIT’s BOS lecture series. The discussion was entitled “On Curating.”

Architectural Artifacts

Megan Panzano

Vision and cultural imagination are shaped by how we represent the world. Representations on repeat can perceptually trap us into seeing-only-conventionally. Architectural Artifacts critiques specific limits posed by conventional linear perspective, unlocking different information about the spaces described. The project experiments with the perspective view as an unusual point of origin with architecture as an artifact, or byproduct, of its close read. The exhibit displays three new representational artifacts and their accompanying fresh architectural forms created by pushing perspective’s limits through contemporary tools and new design methodologies. The three dimensionality of the revamped representations establishes new codes of engagement and offers curious perceptual content with real-time effects—their reading intentionally resides between representation and reality, image of a thing or ‘thingness’ itself. The project inverts the trope ‘a room with a view,’ instead designing new views, with rooms.

Portrait/Landscape: Revisiting Kaneji Domoto's Lurie House

Lynnette Widder and Thad Russell

Japanese-American architect and landscape architect Kaneji Domoto (1912–2002) built five houses in Usonia, a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed community that was developed in a wooded enclave just outside New York City in the late 1940s. Beginning in 2015, architect Lynnette Widder and photographer Thad Russell collaborated on the documentation of the de- and reconstruction Widder undertook on Domoto’s 1949-50 Lurie House there. Methodically chronicled using both film and digital photography over the course of two and a half years, ‘Portrait/Landscape: Revisiting the Lurie House’ captures the architecture of this era and its remaking in the present.

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