SOM Panel Discussion: Art + Engineering
@ Ace Hotel Chicago
311 N Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, November 28th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 7th
Please join us for a panel discussion focusing on collaboration in art and engineering on the occasion of SOM: Engineering x [Art + Architecture], an exhibition produced by Mana Contemporary Chicago in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The panel is presented in partnership with Ace Hotel Chicago.
Moderator: Caitlin Mueller
Panelists: William F. Baker (SOM), Alexander Beghini (SOM), Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Janet Echelman
This panel focuses on the history of collaborations between artists and SOM engineers. A diverse panel of engineers, artists, architects, critics, and curators discuss on how these interdisciplinary collaborations can inform new ideas for art works and architectural projects. The discussion intends to reveal that engineers and artists alike practice a poetry of inquiry, experimentation, and ingenuity. This talk is open to the public and is intended for a general interest audience, artists, architects, engineers, and students.
About the Exhibition:
For more than eight decades, SOM has explored the poetics of structure through continual examination and experimentation. The exhibition SOM: Engineering x [Art + Architecture] reveals the concepts and forms that stem from SOM’s integrated practice of engineering, art, and architecture. Through hand-drawn sketches, interactive sculpture, immersive video, and a lineup of more than 30 structural models at 1:500 scale, the exhibition gives insight into SOM’s practice, past and present, as it seeks to address physical and environmental challenges with concise and honestly expressed solutions.
The exhibition surveys SOM’s long tradition of collaboration with visual artists and showcases models, drawings, and ephemera from projects created by Pablo Picasso, James Turrell, Jaume Plensa, James Carpenter, Janet Echelman, and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle. Presented with Mana Contemporary Chicago in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial, SOM: Engineering x [Art + Architecture] explores the idea that engineers, architects, and artists alike practice a poetry of inquiry, experimentation, and ingenuity.
For more information:
http://www.som.com/news/mana_contemporary_announces_som_exhibition_for_2017_chicago_architecture_biennial
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