Aesthetics / Anesthetics. Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York
on birds, axonometries, children, green, comics and 30 Storefronts
June 27 - July 28, 2012
What is it that an architectural drawing does and how does it do it? How can we distill beauty from cosmetics? How can new modes of representation produce new architectures and new sensibilities?
Aesthetics/Anesthetics is an exhibition about architectural drawings.
The above is from the press release. There is a clever gif halfway down the Aesthetics / Anesthetics page on the Storefront site.
Frida Escobedo is part of this exhibition. On Site, early early on, maybe issue 5 or 6, published two houses by Perro Rojo, which was Frida Escobedo and Alejandro Alarcon at the time. Young Mexican architects, like Canadian ones, do some very interesting early work, then go off to the GSD or Yale and hook into The Young Architects Forum, Storefront. Escobedo is in the Mexican pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year. There is a kind of new internationalised trajectory for critical practices that are rooted in their own countries and participate in a slate of venues that really have no specifically cultural location, other than their culture of diversity.