Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood of First Office present recent work on exhibitions and display, including a temporary screening room installed at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles. Presented as part of Displaying Architecture, a CCA series that looks at the relationship between architecture and spaces of display.
22 October 2015 , 6pm
Displaying Architecture: First Office
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Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood of First Office present recent work on exhibitions and display, including a temporary screening room installed at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles. Presented as part of Displaying Architecture, a CCA series that looks at the relationship between architecture and spaces of display.
The exhibition Industrial Architecture: ÁbalosHerreros selected by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen presents a precise reading of the industrial approach to architecture in the work of ÁbalosHerreros, a firm that operated in Madrid from 1984 until 2008. Diverse objects are presented: CAD drawings, photographs of archival material taken by Stefano Graziani, a replica(...)
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, OFFICE, KGVDS, Ábalos, Herreros, Ábalos&Herreros, out of the box
12 March 2015 to 17 May 2015
Industrial Architecture: Ábalos&Herreros selected by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen
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The exhibition Industrial Architecture: ÁbalosHerreros selected by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen presents a precise reading of the industrial approach to architecture in the work of ÁbalosHerreros, a firm that operated in Madrid from 1984 until 2008. Diverse objects are presented: CAD drawings, photographs of archival material taken by Stefano Graziani, a replica(...)
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, OFFICE, KGVDS, Ábalos, Herreros, Ábalos&Herreros, out of the box
The architectural practice OFFICE was founded in Belgium in 2002 by Kersten Geers and David Van Severen. They have contributed to past CCA exhibitions including Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture (2011). The series They want to speak with you invites design and architecture professionals to discuss their most recent projects.
13 November 2014 , 6pm
OFFICE wants to speak with you
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The architectural practice OFFICE was founded in Belgium in 2002 by Kersten Geers and David Van Severen. They have contributed to past CCA exhibitions including Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture (2011). The series They want to speak with you invites design and architecture professionals to discuss their most recent projects.
Health is a focus of contemporary political debate in a moment of historically high anxiety, but are architects, urban designers, and landscape architects seeking a new moral and political agenda within these concerns? Imperfect Health examines the complexity of today’s interrelated and emerging health problems juxtaposed with a variety of proposed architectural and urban(...)
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imperfect health, giovanna borasi, mirko zardini, kersten geers, david van severen, office, kgdvs
25 October 2011 to 15 April 2012
Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture
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Health is a focus of contemporary political debate in a moment of historically high anxiety, but are architects, urban designers, and landscape architects seeking a new moral and political agenda within these concerns? Imperfect Health examines the complexity of today’s interrelated and emerging health problems juxtaposed with a variety of proposed architectural and urban(...)
Main galleries Keyword(s):
imperfect health, giovanna borasi, mirko zardini, kersten geers, david van severen, office, kgdvs
Paul Desmarais Theatre
30 March 2006
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Architects are traditionally uncomfortable with acknowledging their dependence on other actors, so My Invisible Friend invites them to present projects made with non-architects and to reveal the invisible friends without whom their work would be impossible.
YouTube and Instagram
29 July 2020 to 30 July 2020
Video release and next-day live Q&A: My Invisible Friend: Galo Canizares and Stephanie Sang Delgado on “office ca” and a theatre director
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Architects are traditionally uncomfortable with acknowledging their dependence on other actors, so My Invisible Friend invites them to present projects made with non-architects and to reveal the invisible friends without whom their work would be impossible.
YouTube and Instagram
Docu-Dramas, Wolff Architects, KOSMOS Architects, Al Borde, People’s Architecture Office
2020 to 2021
Docu-Dramas, Wolff Architects, KOSMOS Architects, Al Borde, People’s Architecture Office
What role can history play in contemporary architecture practice? Rather than adopting a postmodern attitude or evoking past discussions and historical architectural forms, Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, and David Van Severen address contemporary issues in their work while remaining in dialogue with history. Even with distinct pasts and contexts, affinities emerge in shared(...)
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Besides, History, Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, Office, KGDVS, Bas Princen
10 May 2017 to 15 October 2017
Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
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What role can history play in contemporary architecture practice? Rather than adopting a postmodern attitude or evoking past discussions and historical architectural forms, Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, and David Van Severen address contemporary issues in their work while remaining in dialogue with history. Even with distinct pasts and contexts, affinities emerge in shared(...)
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Besides, History, Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, Office, KGDVS, Bas Princen
DR1994:0013:008:032 R/V
ca. 1934-1946
Various documents and drawings including furniture design and office renovation: File G
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ca. 1934-1946
Various documents and drawings including furniture design and office renovation: File G 692
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