Jakob and MacFarlane: ABOUT
03.11.2010 - 12.12.2010
960 E. 3rd Street,SCI-Arc Library Gallery, SCI-ARC, Los Angeles, CA 90013, USA
The exhibition features drawings, renderings, and photographs of two projects currently under construction: the Orange Box in Lyon and the FRAC Centre (Fonds Regional d Art Contemporain) in Orleans, France.Both projects have at once differences and similarities and it was with this in mind that we wanted to present both here, the dialectical and parallel aspects.
Orange Box, essentially a kind of climatic box.Its vocabulary is oriented and configured around different climatic solutions to create a durable environmental response.
Turbulences, the FRAC Architectural Centre.Its merging, mixing and confrontations of three different stories, forming three vertical air conditions or chimneys.
The exhibition by Jakob and MacFarlane will remain on view in the Library Gallery through December 12, 2010.
Jakob + MacFarlane
Jakob + MacFarlane is an architectural firm based in Paris, France. Its work explores digital technology both as a conceptual consideration and as a means of fabrication, using new materials as a possibility to create a more flexible, responsive, and immediate environment. The firm s main projects to date include the restaurant Georges at the Pompidou Centre, Paris (2000), the reconstruction of the Theatre l Eclat of Pont Audemer, France (1999/2000), the Florence Loewy / Books by Artists bookshop in Paris (2001), Maison H project (2001), the Communication Center for Renault (2004), the Fondation d entreprise Ricard for Contemporary Art (2007), City of Fashion and Design (Docks of Paris, 2007, completion in 2010), which includes a fashion and design center, and three buildings for the 100 Apartments in Paris (2008).
Current projects include two buildings in Lyon/the Orange Box and the new Euronews headquarters/the new FRAC Centre in Orleans, a dance and music conservatory in Noisy le Sec, and the Swiss Cultural Center in Paris.
Jakob + MacFarlane regularly participate in invited competitions and recently won first honorable mention of the International Taipei Performing Arts Center Competition, Taiwan. Their projects have been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2003), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2004), Museum of Architecture (Moscow, 2000), Artists Space (New York, 2003), Carnegie Mellon (Pittsburgh, 2001), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2004), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (as part of Skin + Bones exhibition), Pompidou Center, Pavillon de l'Arsenal (Paris), and at the Orleans/ArchiLab International Architectural Exhibitions and Conferences (1999, 2001, 2003), as well as a monographic exhibition at the FRAC Centre (Orleans) in 2005. Jakob + MacFarlane were among the architects selected by France for the 2002 Venice Architecture Biennale and in the International selection in 2004 and 2008.
Dominique Jakob received a degree in art history from the Universite de Paris (1990) and a degree in architecture (1991) from the Ecole d Architecture Paris Villemin.
Brendan MacFarlane received a B.Arch degree from SCI Arc (1984) and an M.Arch degree from the Harvard GSD (1990). On November 5, he will be honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award at SCI Arcs annual Main Event scholarship fundraiser.
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