Mockups

A group exhibition of work by Woodbury University Architecture faculty, Mockups is a collection of full-scale artifacts fabricated with CNC technology. While some of the projects explore nascent systems, unrefined and charged by material-based research, others are meant to test the physical resistances of digitally conceived orders. The assembly of building fragments in the space creates a new scaled-up landscape of architectural objects that initiate unexpected affiliations and continuities between projects through adjacency, materiality and the shared medium of the mockup. A form of representation ubiquitous in architectural practice, mockups are typically associated with projects destined for construction, built by contractors in order to verify the architects’ design intention at full scale. Part of a disciplinary model that locates building expertise within the realm of the contractor, the status of these pre-construction mockups has been challenged by fabrication technologies that reconnect design and building. Repositioning the mockup as method for exploring the unbuilt, speculating on interfaces between digital and physical, opens up the possibility for new tectonic and spatial agendas to develop outside standard modes of representation such as drawings and renderings. Opening Reception- Tuesday, March 15th 2011, 7-10pm Exhibition Panel Discussion- Sunday, March 20th 2011, 5-6pm Panel Moderators- Chandler Ahrens, Ewan Branda Curator: David Freeland Exhibitors: Kelly Bair, grayarea, http://www.grayarea-la.com Jennifer Bonner, Studio BONNER, http://www.jenniferbonner.com David Freeland & Brennan Buck, FreelandBuck, http://www.freelandbuck.com Jason King, SOMEWHERESOMETHING, http://www.some-some.com Christopher Puzio, http://www.puzio.com Marcel Sanchez-Prieto + Adriana Cuéllar, CRO studio, http://www.crostudio.net John Southern, Urban Operations, http://www.urbanops.org Maxi Spina, MSA, http://www.maxispina.com Location: 6518 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California Open Hours: Thurs – 1pm to 8pm; Fri, Sat, Sun – 1pm to 6pm Sponsored by: Woodbury University School of Architecture More information at: http://wuho.org/mockups