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Lesson 6: Artist interviews- Andrés Jaque: COSMO | Young Architects Program 2015
- Gilbert & George: The Early Years
- Cai Guo-Qiang | Borrowing Your Enemy's Arrows
- Richard Serra | Equal
- "Weaving the Courtyard" by Escobedo Soliz | Young Architects Program 2016
- Artists Experiment 2014 | MoMA
- THIS IS ISA GENZKEN | MoMA
- Isaac Julien, Ten Thousand Waves | MoMA
- James Rosenquist, "F-111," 1964-65
- Lee Quinones on graffiti
- Studio Tour: Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt
- Richard Serra, "Intersection II"
- Richard Serra, "Torqued Ellipse IV"
- Richard Serra, "Band," 2006
- Wolfgang Laib, "Pollen from Hazelnut"
- Gabriel Byrne revisiting "The Quiet Man"
- Carolee Schneemann, "Up to and Including Her Limits"
- Dorothea Rockburne: Drawing Which Makes Itself
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"Weaving the Courtyard" by Escobedo Soliz | Young Architects Program 2016
Mexico City–based architects Lazbent Escobedo and Andrés Soliz Paz transform MoMA PS1’s courtyard with a suspended canopy of colorful ropes. Escobedo Soliz Studio is this year's winner of the Young Architects Program (YAP). Learn more about "Weaving the Courtyard" and other finalists' designs: http://mo.ma/yap.
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Video transcript
We've been friends
since the first semester. And from the first semester, you're bombarded with Gehry and you start to get into
the internet and Art Daily. And you see a ton of things
that are really colorful with interesting
or whimsical shapes. But in some way, I think we were always curious and wanted to look for
other kinds of architecture. And we became interested
in other types of architects. I think that if there's a building
and the outside of it doesn't catch your eye
when you pass it on the street, then, you go in and discover
there's another universe inside I think this is an important concept when it comes to
what we want or try to accomplish
each time we design a building. So, this site... a site with lots of strength
like this patio with its walls
that are 4.8 meters high and in such a cool color,
well, not cool, but... - Neutral.
- Really neutral and gray. It was impossible to ignore and it was really important
for us to adapt the irregular shape
of this patio and its walls. To use the walls as a structure. For this process,
the concrete was poured in molds, and the holes remained
completely hollow and that's something we,
don't see often in Mexico. For me, this really
caught my attention... how this sort of “scar”
has been made in the wall. Andrés said,
“We have to use these holes.” So, in order to make a cover
using the holes... the easiest way was with threads. It's only a little taut. We had the idea of mist
from the beginning, even before
we started with the ropes, when we started to think about
creating a refreshing atmosphere. We decided to use the gallery that no one uses
to create the mist there and make the experience more dense,
an atmosphere. Did you take the nozzles out? Good, good, good.
I hope it works. How things work
is important. You can see how they're made. I think there were three models in two weeks before making
the final model. Making a model
helps you realize how complicated or easy it will be
when you actually build it. How do you make an embankment
that will hold, but is also fixed to the ground
and also holds sand and well, you have to do it. You have to try, like weaving,
and say, we're going to weave. And there were a thousand problems. We have a bit –
a piece of wood inside the hole. I don't know how,
but we will remove it. We have the opportunity now to build the installation
with our own hands. We're having fun. I would love it
if everything in life were like this, if you were always involved
in all of the processes, and well,
it never stops being a game. Truly, for us, architecture
is always a game. We want to show you the simplicity
of how things are made, so you have no doubts. Actually, architecture should
give you answers about how to live in the world.