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11.10.11 IDEA, in collaboration with Carmelia Chiang, has designed an evening dress made from black rubber tubing and silk. Artists, architects and designers were invited by the Architecture and Design (A&D) Museum in Los Angles to make a "wearable creation" for CELEBRATE THE WEARABLE, a gala event to take place at the museum on March 10, 2012. For more information go to the A&D Museum's website (http://aplusd.org/celebrate2012).
11.01.11 The Y House in Saitama, Japan will be featured on Design Milk (http://design-milk.com/category/architecture/). It will also be featured in the forthcoming book, "New Japanese Houses," published by GardenCity Publishing Ltd. in Taiwan.
09.24.11 Eric Kahn has been invited to be the Howard A. Friedman Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture at the University of California Berkeley for the fall semester. He will co-teach an options studio entitled, "Feral Hut" with Wes Jones and Gary Paige.
06.15.11 IDEA has been invited to exhibit the Y House (Tokyo) during the Little Tokyo
Design Week 2011. The exhibition will be located in temporary galleries on the JACCC Plaza
next to the Japan America Theater in downtown Los Angeles. A series of activities and events
are planned throughout the day and evening from Thursday through Sunday (14-17 July).
For more information go to www.LTDESIGNWEEK.com
www.facebook.com/LTDesignWeek,
or www.twitter.com/LTDESIGNWEEK.
04.05.2011 Eric Kahn will exhibit his drawings in a group show at the Wedge Gallery at Woodbury University in Burbank. Along with work by Los Angeles architects Wes Jones and Gary Paige, the exhibition will run through April 22.
02.24.11 Stentorian, an invited installation in the gallery at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) exhibited in 2005 has been published in a new book entitled, SCI-Arc Gallery 2002-10. Published by AADCU Press, the book documents 35 public exhibitions over eight years at the school.
Read more: http://www.sciarc.edu/exhibition.php?id=663
01.27.11 An international competition entry for “A Room for London” by IDEA in collaboration with Jason Payne of Hirsuta (http://www.hirsuta.com/) is featured online at Bustler.
Read more: http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/a_room_for_london_by_ideaoffice_hirsuta
11.24.10 The Y House in Saitama, Japan is featured on archdaily and Archinect. In addition, it will be featured in a seven page spread in the December issue of Home Review, a newly launched journal published in Mumbai, India.
Read articles:
http://www.archdaily.com/89093/y-house-idea-office/#more-89093
http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=102113_0_23_0_C
09.22.2010 Eric Kahn and Russell Thomsen will lecture at the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico on Wednesday, October 13. They are invited speakers in the AIA lecture series entitled, "Vital Tectonics in Our Current Culture."
06.10.2010 Eric Kahn and Russell Thomsen are teaching an advanced options studio at SCI-Arc this summer entitled, Jerusalems. The students are asked to propose and design projects within the environment of the old city that confront a variety of almost intractable issues surrounding and affecting every aspect of life there. The studio spent the first several weeks engaged in scenario planning techniques in order to begin to understand the complexity of the situation, punctuated by lectures from Professor David Myers (UCLA) and Professor Nomi Stolzenberg (USC). The entire studio is currently on an extended tour of Israel, and of Jerusalem in particular.
06.05.2010 A transcript of a conversation between Russell Thomsen and Eric Kahn of IDEA has been published in DIMENSIONSTWENTYTHREE, the annual journal of the School of Architecture at Taubman College at the University of Michigan. The conversation followed the lecture they delivered at the university this past fall. It discusses the power of "dilemmas" to creatively drive the work, and includes reflections on the new directions established by the office. Images of several projects accompany the text.
Read more:
http://www.caup.umich.edu/architecture/publications/dimensions/dimensions23/
06.04.2010 The Architect & the Urn exhibition opened in Seattle on June 3rd. IDEA's submission, entitled, "Death by Rock and Roll," focused on the genre of rock music, chronicling the history of rock stars who have died. As a cultural phenomenon where the celebration of the music, the artist and his/her death are often bound together to achieve mythical status, IDEA (along with collaborators F-lab and Amorphis) proposed a retroactive funeral urn for Kurt Cobain, lead singer of the band, Nirvana. The urn is to be 3-D printed from a composite matrix that includes the rock star's ashes, and is composed of four interlocking parts. The surface of the urn is articulated with texture and saturated with color (shades of blue, black and purple) that recall the "mood" of the Nivana's music. In commemoration of the (inevitable) moment when Cobain is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the parts are to be reunited and permanently entombed there. In conjunction with the exhibition (starting May 13th), an exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum, entitled simply Kurt, will explore the ways in which the grunge movement’s most iconic figure continues to influence modern artists from a multitude of disciplines.
Read the Showcase Feature on ARCHINECT:
http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=99482_0_23_0_M
04.20.2010 IDEA, in collaboration with architects Heather Flood (F-labworks) and Ramiro Diaz-Granados (amorphis) has been invited to participate in a group exhibition of prototypical designs for funeral urns. Sponsored by Lundgren Monuments (www.lundgrenmonuments.com), drawings, models and realized designs will be exhibited at a gallery in downtown Seattle from June 3 – July 18, 2010.
03.10.2010 Eric Kahn and Russell Thomsen will deliver a lecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) entitled, “Driven by Dilemma.” As part of the invited speakers series at the institute, the lecture will discuss a range of work by IDEA in relation to how it is conceived, developed and driven by ostensibly contradictory desires.
12.23.2010 The work of an advanced design studio taught by Eric Kahn at the University of Arkansas has received a planning award by the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA). The work of the studio examined the urban and architectural consequences of the introduction of a light-rail system into rural Arkansas. As one of seven exemplary projects in architecture, planning, landscape architecture, and urban design, the winners of the 2009 Great Places Awards will be honored at EDRA’s 41st annual meeting, in Washington, D.C. on June 3, 2010.
11.14.2009 The Y-House in Tokyo, Japan will be featured on the cover and in the December issue of DWELL magazine. Mimi Zeiger writes the story with images by renowned art photographer, Dean Kaufmann.
READ THIS ARTICLE IN DWELL
11.05.2009 Eric Kahn and Russell Thomsen will deliver a lecture about the work of IDEA at the Taubman School of Architecture at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
10.17.2009 Competing with over 200 entries, the recently completed Y-House in Tokyo, Japan has received an award from Architect magazine. Initiated by the magazine this year, the “Annual Design Review: Celebrating the Best in American Architecture” recognizes work built over the past year in the U.S. or by an American firm. This year’s jury consisted of architects Aaron Betsky, Ellen Dunham-Jones, Carlos Jimenez, Ralph Johnson and Marion Weiss.
READ THIS ARTICLE IN ARCHITECT
09.22.2009 Eric Kahn and Russell Thomsen have been invited to be the Max Fisher Visiting Professors of Architecture at the Taubman School of Architecture at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. They will teach an advanced options level design studio dealing with the topic of the UN-Built. A series of projects will be proposed for the city of Venice, Italy.
07.25.2009 IDEA’s work has been included in the Beyond Media International Festival for Architecture and Media. The festival and exhibition will take place at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence, Italy, from July 9-17, 2009. Organized by Image (www.image-web.org) and curated by Marco Brizzi and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia (SuperStudio), Beyond Media “has been constantly observing, since 1997, the development of the systems of communication in the field of architecture by evaluating their impact on contemporary architectural production and by promoting their understanding and enhancing their quality.” The festival offers its visitors an articulate and rich program of events…(read more)
06.20.2009
Eric Kahn will participate on a panel discussion at the Koplin Del Rio Gallery in Los Angeles…(read more and see photos). Link: www.koplindelrio.com
06.12.2009
Eric Kahn and Russell Thomsen will participate in Rumble at UCLA, a celebration of the final…(read more)
05.20.2009
Sam Lubell blogs about recent show OTHER WORKS, which includes fourteen artworks by Eric Kahn…(read more and see photo