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SOM: Engineering x [Art + Architecture] – Panel Discussion: Collaborations...

Nov

28

SOM: Engineering x [Art + Architecture] – Panel Discussion: Collaborations...

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Tue, November 28, 2017

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST

Location

Ace Hotel Chicago, Mahoney Room

311 North Morgan Street

Chicago, IL 60607

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Description

Please join us for a panel discussion on Collaborations in Art + Engineering on the occasion of SOM: Engineering x [Art + Architecture], an exhibition produced by Mana Contemporary Chicago in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The panel is presented in partnership with Ace Hotel Chicago.

The panel will focus on the unique process and history of collaborations between leading artists and SOM engineers.​ Composed of artists, scholars, and engineers, the panel will discuss how these interdisciplinary collaborations can inform new ideas for art work and architectural projects. The discussion intends to reveal that engineers and artists alike practice a poetry of inquiry, experimentation, and ingenuity.​

The panel will be moderated by Caitlin Mueller, Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working at the interface of architecture and structural engineering. Panelists include renowned artists and SOM collaborators Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle and Janet Echelman, and SOM Structural Engineers William F. Baker, Alessandro Beghini, and Nicole Wang.

The exhibition is located next door to Ace Hotel Chicago at 345 N. Morgan Street and will be open before the event from 5:00-7:00pm and after from 9:00-9:30pm.

About the Exhibition

For more than eight decades, SOM has explored the poetics of structure through continual examination and experimentation. The exhibition SOM: Engineering x [Art + Architecture] reveals the concepts and forms that stem from SOM’s integrated practice of engineering, art, and architecture. Through hand-drawn sketches, interactive sculpture, immersive video, and a lineup of more than 30 structural models at 1:500 scale, the exhibition gives insight into SOM’s practice, past and present, as it seeks to address physical and environmental challenges with concise and honestly expressed solutions.

The exhibition surveys SOM’s long tradition of collaboration with visual artists and showcases models, drawings, and ephemera from projects created by Pablo Picasso, James Turrell, Jaume Plensa, James Carpenter, Janet Echelman, and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle. Presented with Mana Contemporary Chicago in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial, SOM: Engineering x [Art + Architecture] explores the idea that engineers, architects, and artists alike practice a poetry of inquiry, experimentation, and ingenuity.

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