My First Post

This semester at school I have quite a class load, or at least that is how it feels. I am taking Calculus, Humanities-Jorge Luis Borges, Structures, History of Modern Architecture, It's all about Light Advanced Seminar, and Studio. Of course Studio is the course that takes up the bulk of my life. This semester my studio is instructed by 3 very interesting and motivating professors. We are doing a formal analysis project in which we are analyzing 20th Century Houses in groups of two. My partner and I are working on Villa Dall'ava designed by Rem Koolhaas in 1991 just outside of Paris.

Aside from the usual rigor of school, I have been actively involved in other ventures on campus. Over the break I worked with Professor Candido and others in the School of Architecture's Archive Department to set up a show exhibiting a very small sampling of the work he has been involved in over his life. The opening of the show was this past Friday night, and the work as well as the show was very well received by those who attended.

Exhibition
Exhibition on view: February 2-March 13, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, February 5, 2010, 6-8 pm
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 1-7 pm, Saturday 12-5pm
Gallery closed: February 12-15, 2010
The Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery
7 East 7th Street, 2nd Floor
Free and open to the general public

Through a selection of work spanning over the past five decades, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Professor and Painter/Architect Tony Candido presents his visionary idea of the interplay between humanity and the contemporary environment and what the future of architecture could be in the exhibition The Great White Whale Is Black. After studying under Mies van der Rohe and working with I.M. Pei, Candido decided in 1957 to work independently in his painting studio, where he continues today. The exhibition focuses on Candido's calligraphic brush and ink paintings and drawings, which have been an important part of his output since 1967. The Great White Whale Is Black, a bold expression of one man's life vision, illustrates Candido's commitment to art and architecture, and includes the following works selected by Candido:

Cable Cities—visionary paintings and drawings of broad sweeping structures which he views as part of the geography, and through which we can regain our landscape;

Asahikawa Heads—large calligraphic brush and ink heads, which will be on view for the first time in the U.S. (previously shown: International Design Forum, Japan in 1988);

Abstract Brush Strokes—for Candido, the brush stroke is the concrete formative element through which a reality far greater than the apparent is realized;

Double Images—paintings and drawings motivated by Candido's sense of what he sees as the duality in man's mind of nature and the abstract.

A selection of student designs for the Urban Farm, a project which Candido conceived and introduced at The Cooper Union in 1998, will be part of the exhibition.

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