The Art Space The studio addresses the relationship between art and architecture. The students developed monographic museums dedicated to the specific stances of the following artists: Hans Arp, Ellen Gallagher, Isa Genzken, Dan Graham, Philip Guston, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Pierre Huyghe, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Pipilotti Rist, Wilhelm Sasnal, Roman Signer, and Monika Sosnowska. Each interpretation of the artists’ oeuvres guided the choice of an unexpected building type and the selection of an appropriate site within the city of Los Angeles. The city was also the destination of the field trip—generously funded by the gallery Hauser & Wirth—during which the students visited different art spaces and artist studios. The triad Art, Space, and Type thus defined the frame within which the students developed the tenets of their design for an ideal art space. The results address the tension between art and architecture as impartial disciplines. Furthermore, they tackle the debate around the significance of architecture in the contemporary art world, and the recurring question of the primacy of one over the other.
Studio Instructors Emanuel Christ Christoph Gantenbein Teaching Associate Daniel Quesada Lombó Students William Adams, Rekha Auguste-Nelson, Mohamad Berry, Mingyu Kim, Yixin Li, Yan Ma, Farhad Mirza, Matthew Okazaki, Demir Purisic, Daniel Quesada Lombó, Farnoosh Rafaie, Andrea Soto Morfin, Joseph Varholick, Madelyn Willey Directed Research Victoria Easton Final Review Critics Iñaki Ábalos, Ricardo Bak Gordon, Preston Scott Cohen, Victoria Easton, Kersten Geers, Reto Geiser, Éric Lapierre, Mark Lee, Mohsen Mostafavi, Carles Muro, Camilo Restrepo Ochoa, David Van Severen, Enrique Walker