Measure

Aug 13 – Sep 12, 2015

Storefront for Art/Architecture97 Kenmare St, Nolita

Measure is an exhibition of 30 drawings by 30 international architects presenting 30 edifices of thought. Drawings are of Storefront for Art and Architecture’s gallery space on 97 Kenmare Street in New York. Architectural representation, which draws upon the diagram as a conceptual and abstract component, has historically been criticized as obscure and self referential. The proliferation of data visualization in popular media today, however, allows us to engage a much larger audience in conversations about measurement and representation. The 30 drawings presented at Storefront unveil the challenges of representation and extrapolate them onto the architect’s table and the gallery walls.

Storefront’s third annual drawing show seeks to find measures, resist measurement, and measure the immeasurable by presenting drawings that range from the real to the fictional and from the functional to the symbolic. Measure positions the medium and the act of drawing as a process by which we seek coherence in data and representation, and shows that it is the making of facts that is the basis for the production of futurity beyond existing norms.

Participants include:

The Architecture Lobby

Barozzi / Veiga

Víctor Enrich

Fake Industries Architectural Agonism (Urtzi Grau, Cristina Goberna) and Georgia Jamieson

FIG Projects

FleaFollyArchitects

Formlessfinder

Michelle Fornabai

Grimshaw Architects

Steven Holl

Bernard Khoury