"Air Houses: Design for a New Climate" by Francois Perrin at CAB
28/09/2017.
2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial [Chicago] USA 14.09 > 07.01.2018
metalocus, JOSÉ FABERO
metalocus, JOSÉ FABERO
As we have already published this edition of the Biennial of Architecture of Chicago, presents several locations, we return to the Garfield Park Conservatory, to present this time inside the majestic Palm House the project of Francois Perrin, entitled "Air Houses: Design for a New Weather".
Installation view of Francois Perrin "Air Houses", at the Garfield Park Conservatory, 2017. Photograph is by Tom Harris. Courtesy the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Installation view of Francois Perrin "Air Houses", at the Garfield Park Conservatory, 2017. Photograph is by Tom Harris. Courtesy the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Installation view of Francois Perrin "Air Houses", at the Garfield Park Conservatory, 2017. Photograph is by Tom Harris. Courtesy the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Installation view of Francois Perrin "Air Houses", at the Garfield Park Conservatory, 2017. Photograph is by Tom Harris. Courtesy the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Installation view of Francois Perrin "Air Houses", at the Garfield Park Conservatory, 2017. Photograph is by Tom Harris. Courtesy the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Installation view of Francois Perrin "Air Houses", at the Garfield Park Conservatory, 2017. Photograph is by Tom Harris. Courtesy the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Installation view of Francois Perrin "Air Houses", at the Garfield Park Conservatory, 2017. Photograph is by Tom Harris. Courtesy the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Installation view of Francois Perrin "Air Houses", at the Garfield Park Conservatory, 2017. Photograph is by Steve Hall. Courtesy the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Installation view of Francois Perrin "Air Houses", at the Garfield Park Conservatory, 2017. Photograph is by Steve Hall. Courtesy the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Installation view of Francois Perrin "Air Houses", at the Garfield Park Conservatory, 2017. Photograph is by Steve Hall. Courtesy the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Installation view of Francois Perrin "Air Houses", at the Garfield Park Conservatory, 2017. Photograph is by Steve Hall. Courtesy the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Installation view of Francois Perrin "Air Houses", at the Garfield Park Conservatory, 2017. Photograph is by Steve Hall. Courtesy the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Installation view of Francois Perrin "Air Houses", at the Garfield Park Conservatory, 2017. Photograph is by Steve Hall. Courtesy the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Encompassed within the 2017 Chicago Biennale of Architecture, Francois Perrin’s project, titled Air Houses: Design for a New Climate, is set within the majestic Palm House at the Garfield Park Conservatory, whose tropical microclimate provides an ideal setting for an architectural experiment that proposes new directions for building in relationship to landscape and climate.
Perrin puts forth an alternative to a culture of mass consumerism that has produced buildings disengaged from their context (at ever greater environmental cost).
Perrin puts forth an alternative to a culture of mass consumerism that has produced buildings disengaged from their context (at ever greater environmental cost).
Air Houses: Design for a New Climate looks back to look forward, and references the vernacular traditions that have developed in response to nature throughout most of human history.
The silver fabric structure suspended above the Palm House canopy prototypes a futuristic interpretation of these first principles that have driven myriad chapters of architecture’s performative response to weather and climate.
The main exhibition is free and open to the public from September 16, 2017 through January 7, 2018.
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Venue
300 N Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60624, USA
Dates
September 16, 2017, through January 7, 2018
Francois Perrin
Francois Perrin.- Lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He was born in Paris, France, where he earned his professional degree in Architecture. He has completed several residential, commercial and exhibition designs. Concerned with site specificity, his work is always unique to the immediate environmental context and addresses issues of local and sustainable systems.
His projects have been featured in Artforum, Domus, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wallpaper, Sunset, Dwell, and The Architect's Newspaper. In addition to his work as a designer, he is also an educator and curator. He has organized several exhibitions including "Dialogues" and "Yves Klein-Air Architecture" at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture and "Architectones" in several locations.
Perrin has taught at UCLA, Art Center College of Design, Cal Poly Pomona, Woodbury University, and Sci-Arc and has lectured on his work internationally including the Jan Van Eyck Akademie, MAK Vienna, Columbia University, USC, UCLA, Universite de Montreal and Ecole Speciale d'Architecture.
His projects have been featured in Artforum, Domus, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wallpaper, Sunset, Dwell, and The Architect's Newspaper. In addition to his work as a designer, he is also an educator and curator. He has organized several exhibitions including "Dialogues" and "Yves Klein-Air Architecture" at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture and "Architectones" in several locations.
Perrin has taught at UCLA, Art Center College of Design, Cal Poly Pomona, Woodbury University, and Sci-Arc and has lectured on his work internationally including the Jan Van Eyck Akademie, MAK Vienna, Columbia University, USC, UCLA, Universite de Montreal and Ecole Speciale d'Architecture.
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