Twenty + Change: Emerging Canadian Design Practices

Opening Reception | August 12 2010, 7-10m

Charles H. Scott Gallery | Emily Carr University of Art + Design

The exhibition features twenty-one emerging firms from across Canada working in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. These projects rethink urban infrastructure, propose new models for public space and housing, and examine the unique relationship between the single-family house and landscape.Design firms were selected by a curatorial team consisting of Anne Cormier, Christine Macy, Chris Pommer, Joost Bakker, and Ian Chodikoff.

The design practices include, 5468796 Architecture Inc., AGATHOM Co., Altius Architecture Inc., Campos Leckie, D’Arcy Jones Design Inc., Dubbeldam Design Architects, EVOKE International Design Inc, Gow Hastings Architects Inc., Lapointe Architects, Lateral Office, Marko Simcic Architect, mcfarlane | green | biggar Architecture + Design, _naturehumaine (architecture+design), NIPpaysage, North Design Office, Paul Raff Studio, RVTR, spmb, Susan Fitzgerald Architecture, The Acre Collective, Urban Republic arts society / ph5 architecture Inc.

ps: Since my firm is one of the exhibitors and the exhibition is organized by my professor, i guess i will have to go check it out.

A Project by Campos Leckie Studio on the past Exhibition for the 2010 Cultural Olympiad in Vancouver.

All components in the assembly are joined through interlocking friction connections without the use of fasteners or adhesives. The installation is created using 172 sheets of plywood that were cut using a 3-axis CNC (computer numerically controlled) router. The 288 vertical planes are paired and cut from 144 sheet of plywood. The remaining 28 sheets are used for interlocking horizontal pieces that shape this particular installation.

Images from Campos Leckie Website.

下面是摘抄Kengo Kuma 对于《名所江户百景》中的“大桥骤雨”的描述：

“雨在绘画空间中构成一个空间层面，之后是大桥，再之后是河面、对岸等多重空间。

安腾广重在这个二次元空间里，创造出了极其丰富的重层空间。

他在这里采用的是不同于西洋透视法的散点透视，这种散点透视原理和日本传统建筑空间原理是一致的。

他所特有的是那丝丝雨线般游离在自然与人工界限间模糊又纤细的东西，这东西是西方现代主义中所没有的。”

A house designed by UID of Japan, a interesting play of “inside” and “outside”, “man made” and “nature”. It is a good structural design as well.

Above images from UID’s website.

Wooden Louver facade of a noodle restaurant brings light into the building according to careful design by ISSHO Architects of Tokyo.