NADAAA PRESENTS SHOEMAKER LECTURE & EXHIBITION AT RISD

Posted on April 24th, 2017 by Jalisa Joyner

Posted under: Installations + Exhibitions, Lectures

Today at 6:30 pm, Nader & Katie will present the RISD Shoemaker Lecture which complements ‘Domestic Tectonic: Translations Across Scales’, an exhibit on view until May 12th in the BEB gallery.  The lecture at Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center will follow the opening reception of the exhibition in the BEB Gallery at 5:30 pm. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

DOMESTIC TECTONIC OCCURS AT A MOMENT IN OUR TRAJECTORY WHEN THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE HAS INTERTWINED, NOT ONLY IN CONFLUENCE, BUT IN MOMENTS OF FRICTION WHEN OUR DESIGN AMBITIONS HAVE NOT ALIGNED WITH THE POSSIBILITIES OF PATRONAGE, CONSTRUCTION NORMS, OR THE FLUCTUATIONS OF THE ECONOMY.  THE SEEDS FOR CURRENT THINKING CAN BE FOUND IN HISTORY, AND MANY OF THE EARLY WORKS OF BOTH OFFICE DA AND NADAAA WERE HOUSES. TAKEN TOGETHER, THE HOUSES REVEAL NOT ONLY SPECULATION ON THE DOMESTIC REALM, BUT ALSO WAYS IN WHICH A SMALL PROJECT MAY BECOME AN ‘AMUSE BOUCHE’ FOR A LARGER CONSTRUCTION.  THUS, WE LINK THE DESIGN AND CRAFT USUALLY RESERVED FOR THE SCALE OF A HOME TO THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE VERY INSTITUTIONS THAT TRAIN THE DESIGNERS.

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