Exhibit Times and Location
Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday, 8am to 4pm
Location: Architecture and Urban Planning Building 126
Opening Reception
Date: Monday, February 11, 2019
Time: 5:30–6:30 p.m.
Location: Architecture and Urban Planning Building 126
PLAY (things)
Architectural practice is a serious business. It must often contend with the constraints and parameters that govern design and construction. Under a broader umbrella, the discourse on architecture more freely interrogates both norms and their deviations. If the discipline of architecture can be understood as a bridge between theory and praxis, can architects re-think both rules and play?
PLAY (things) explores how rules relate to the production of architecture. Both within and outside academia, architecture is continually confronted with a myriad of constraints: budget, site, program, codes, schedule, structure, clients, accreditation, etc. How can these parameters be mobilized to ends that rethink the role of rules in architecture? Can rules be a form of play? Rather than limiting what we can do, how might rules be rewritten (or recast) to generate new possibilities for architectural production? How can play influence rules, such that the latter operate as part of a speculative enterprise that manifest new forms of expression?
Today, there are seemingly more experimental architectural attitudes and movements than ever. There is also less capital available to test that experimentation on prototypical building typologies. As such, pavilions have become the de-facto medium for built architectural experimentation. Pavilion competitions and exhibitions are pervasive and run the gamut. PLAY (things) is a collection of pavilion proposals by a variety of forward-thinking designers who have critically re-examined the role of the pavilion in contemporary architectural discourse and production.
Pavilion exhibitors include:
MIES.zip : Compressed Constructions
James Lowder
Assistant Professor Adjunct
The Cooper Union
Misako Murata
Lecturer
University of Pennsylvania
The Thrill of Threshold or Circle, Jerk
McLain Clutter
Associate Professor
University of Michigan
Cyrus Penarroyo
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
Pavilion of Fluff
Karen Lange
Professor
California Polytechnic State University
Jackson Bower
Studio 400 18
Ben Clark
Studio 400 18
Studio 400 18
XYYXXY Accessible Restroom Pavilion
Sarah Lorenzen
Professor
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Principal
TOLO Architecture
Peter Tolkin
Principal
TOLO Architecture
Inventory
Ang Li
Assistant Professor
Northeastern University
PLURAL TERRITORIES: No Permission Required
Karla Sierralta
Assistant Professor
University of Hawai’i, Manoa
Brian Strawn
Senior Research Associate
University of Hawai’i, Manoa
Shelf Life
Ellie Abrons
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
Adam Fure
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
Meredith Miller
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
Thom Moran
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
Ground Game
Outpost Office
Ashley Bigham
Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University
Erik Herrmann
Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University
Commodity, Plumpness, Delight
Emily White
Assistant Professor
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Casey Benito
Lecturer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Material Agency
Brian Osborn
Assistant Professor
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
PLAY (things) Curators and PLAY with the Rules Co-Chairs are:
Jasmine Benyamin
Associate Professor
UW–Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning
Nikole Bouchard
Assistant Professor
UW–Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning
Whitney Moon
Assistant Professor
UW–Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning
Kyle Reynolds
Associate Professor
UW–Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning
Mo Zell
Department of Architecture Chair + Associate Professor
UW–Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning
Special Thanks to:
Shana McCaw (Senior Curator, Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum), Bob Greenstreet (Dean, UWM SARUP) and the National Endowment for the Arts
For more information about this exhibition, contact AUP Gallery Curator Kyle Reynolds.
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Need Directions?
Get directions to The School of Architecture and Urban Planning building at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is located at 2131 East Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Questions, comments?
All exhibitions are free and open to the public.
The exhibitions are displayed in the Architecture and Urban Planning Gallery in AUP 126 on weekdays, not including holidays, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, unless otherwise noted.
Additional information about the exhibitions can be found by contacting the main reception at (414) 229-4014.
