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FredricSnitzer GalleryTHEARTSHOW18- ArtDealersofAmericaAssociationJamesWines- ExhibitionofDrawings& ModelsforSITE
ParkAvenueArmory- ParkAve.&67th Street,NewYorkCityFebruary28toMarch4,2019
DescriptionsofProjectsintheExhibition
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Information on James Wines, President of SITE New YorkProfessor of Architecture at Penn State University
James Wines, winner of the Smithsonian Institution’s 2013 National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement, is an architectural designer, visual artist, and writer. He is also a professor of architecture at Penn State University, with a teaching emphasis on integrative arts. Educated at Syracuse University, he is the founder (in 1970) of SITE New York -‐ a multi-‐disciplinary practice that includes buildings, public spaces, master plans, landscapes, environmental art works, interiors, exhibition designs, video productions, graphics, and product designs. The main focus of his work is on aesthetic, sociological and environmental concerns in the building arts. As SITE’s continuing President and Creative Director, he has designed and built more than one hundred and fifty art/architectural projects in the USA, Italy, France, England, Austria, Canada, Spain, Qatar, Turkey, Dubai, China, and Japan. Professor Wines has delivered lectures at eight hundred colleges, universities, and professional conferences in fifty-‐seven countries and written seven books; including DE-‐ARCHITECTURE (Rizzoli International) 1987 and GREEN ARCHITECTURE (TaschenVerlag) 2000. In addition, there have been twenty-‐two monographs and museum catalogues published on his drawings and projects for SITE. Winner of twenty-‐five art and design awards -‐including the 1995 Chrysler Award for Design Innovation (USA) and the 2011 ANCE Award for an International Architect (Italy), James Wines was honored in 2002 with a large retrospective exhibition at the Centre FRAC in France, jointly sponsored by Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museé des Beaux Arts in Orleans. His graphic work has been shown in more than one hundred and fifty museums and galleries in the USA, Europe, and Asia. The most recent exhibition of his drawings, bridging from 1970 to the present, was on view during the winter of 2013 at the Atrium Gallery, City College of New York. Drawings and models can be found in numerous public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, Centre Pompidou, FRAC, Louvre, Victoria and Albert Museum, Australian National Gallery, Tokyo National Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago and others. Professor Wines lives in the SoHo section of New York City, with his design studio located in the Wall Street area. Among recent projects, he has been working on restaurants in the USA, a business club and Confucian cemetery in Korea, a water science center in Saudi Arabia and a ‘Vertiscape’ tower, composed of multi-‐level public parks, in India. He continues to research the integrative arts, environmental issues in architecture, theories of public space and writes on these subjects for design publications internationally. A book on his collected essays and drawings will be published by Deleyva Editore in Italy, spring of 2017. To contact: e-‐mail [email protected] or [email protected] cell: 917/ 754-‐6748 NYC office tel; 212/ 285-‐0120
Indeterminate Façade Building -‐ BEST Products Co. -‐ SITE New York – Houston, Texas -‐ 1975
SITE is an architecture and environmental arts organization, founded by James Wines in 1970 for the design of buildings, public art works, parks, gardens, plazas, interiors, products and exhibitions. The philosophy of the studio is based on ‘integrative thinking’ -‐ a fusion of art, architecture and context as key elements in a unified vision. In response to the current age of information and ecology, SITE is committed to expanding the interpretation of ‘green design’ by combining energy conservation with improved architectural communication for both urban and suburban situations. To reflect this objective, the firm’s projects include a continuing exploration of social, psychological and ecological sources of ideas in the public domain. Part of this mission is a conceptual approach where buildings and their surroundings are no longer designed as isolated objects sitting in the environment. Instead, they are interpreted more inclusively as the environment.
BEST Forest Building -‐ BEST Products Co -‐ James Wines & SITE -‐ commercial architecture -‐ Richmond, VA -‐ brick, concrete, ground cover and existing forest -‐ 1978 This retail-‐merchandising center was designed as part of a series of BEST Products Company buildings, completed between 1972 to 1984. In this case, the structure preserves and celebrates the natural context by creating an ‘inside/outside’ architectural environment. Located in a densely wooded suburban area, the store is carefully planned to preserve the maximum number of trees, bushes, plants and ground cover by allowing the forest to penetrate and envelop the building. A glass terrarium wall reveals the underground geology of the hillside site. As an ensemble visual experience, these features create the appearance of architecture in the process of being consumed by ‘nature’s revenge.’
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BEST Rainforest Building -‐ BEST Products Co. -‐ James Wines & SITE -‐ commercial architecture -‐ Hialeah, FL -‐ concrete, glass, water, vegetation and landscape -‐1979 This retail center is the sixth in a series of special buildings for the BEST Products Company. It is also one of the first to incorporate the natural environment as an intrinsic element. The exterior is constructed as a microcosm of the surrounding landscape – as a ‘living iconography’ – by enclosing the natural elements behind glass and a continuous flow of water from the roof level. The blurred impressions of the BEST logo and plant life, as seen through the refraction of water, become an example of mutable and evolutionary architecture. The building also represents an early use of vegetation and re-‐cycled water as cooling elements, which led to the SITE studio’s increasing commitment to green design.
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BEST Cutler Ridge (jigsaw puzzle) Building -‐ BEST Products Co. -‐ James Wines & SITE -‐ commercial architecture -‐ Cutler Ridge, FL concrete block. glass and steel -‐ 1979 This retail merchandising center is the fifth in a series of special buildings for the BEST Products Company. The jig-‐saw puzzle-‐like structure is designed for long-‐distance visibility from a nearby highway. The façade is fragmented into four successive reductions that, from certain views, collectively overlap in space to form the standard ‘big box’ store. By allowing customers to relate to these parts at different scale references, the free-‐standing segments also create the appearance of ‘surrealist architecture’ by taking advantage of the contrasting sun and shadow in this region of Florida.
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BEST Terrarium Building -‐ BEST Products Co. -‐ James Wines & SITE -‐ commercial architecture -‐ Daly City, CA -‐ concrete block, glass, steel, earth, rocks and regional vegetation -‐ 1978 This merchandising facility is part of a series of nine BEST Products stores, completed between 1972 to 1984. It is designed for a highly visible plateau, surrounded by mountainous landscape in South San Francisco. The concept proposes installing a full façade enclosure in glass on three sides, filled with the volume of earth excavated during foundation preparations. The intention is to transform the geological strata -‐ plus a roof supporting a mixture of earth and regional vegetation – into a living and constantly evolving iconography for the finished building. .
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Ghost Parking Lot -‐ National Shopping Centers -‐ James Wines & SITE -‐ commercial public space -‐ Hamden, CT -‐ automobiles, concrete, steel and asphalt -‐ 1977 Twenty automobiles are buried under an asphalt parking lot at graduated levels of exposure, from full revelation of the car bodies to slightly visible contours just above the paving surface. Contrary to the conventional installation of ‘sculptural objects’ as decorative accessories to buildings and plazas in the environment, this project interprets public art as the environment. This collage of vehicles takes advantage of people’s subliminal response to the ritual-‐like context of parked cars and shopping mall merchandising. Also, unlike public art conceived from a private art perspective, this totally integrative work cannot be removed or exhibited apart from its surroundings without a total loss of meaning.
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Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art -‐ Frankfurt Municipality -‐ James Wines & SITE -‐ museum architecture -‐ Frankfurt, Germany -‐ brick, steel, glass and concrete -‐1983 The museum concept responds to a triangular site, defined by several partially destroyed buildings from World War II. The solution includes an adaptive re-‐use of existing fragments and their integration into a new structure. Built mainly of glass and masonry. as a rectangular building, it is defined by an intrusion of the triangle. This collision of formal strategies requires cutting away a section of the east façade, allowing the floor planes to break off in space and extending the interior floor surface into the street. These fragmented tiers provide inside/outside galleries and a unique means of displaying outdoor sculpture.
World War II architectural fragments in the site area, integrated with the project
Axon diagram of the concept
Ground floor planIntersection of the steel grid walland a typical interior stairway
Public Administration Town -‐ City of Seoul, South Korea -‐ James Wines & SITE -‐ urban planning, civic architecture and public space (competition entry) -‐ Nam-‐myeon, South Korea -‐ wood, steel, glass, concrete, tile, regional landscape -‐ 2007 The City of Seoul sponsored an international architectural competition to design a master plan and selected public buildings for a new government center in Nam-‐myeon. With the intention of re-‐locating most civic offices and employees, the program designated a town for five hundred thousand inhabitants – eighty-‐eight percent employed in public administration. The SITE project proposes a ‘garden city,’ reflective of the surrounding mountainous terrain and the client’s request for an ‘iconic, networking and integrative place.’
Site area in the Jangnam Plain -‐ Nam-‐myeon
Central city plan -‐ third versionConference Center -‐ Plaza with Sotdae towers
Site plan 3 -‐ inclusion of existing roadways Overview of the town center with civic offices, retail, housing, city park and plaza
‘Inverted mountain’ imagery for civic buildings
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Theater of the New City -‐ TNC Foundation -‐ James Wines & SITE -‐ theater + marquee design + adaptive re-‐use of an existing building -‐ New York, NY -‐ theater seats, track lights. steel and concrete -‐ project model -‐ 1996 The TNC’s three theaters occupy a former retail market building on First Avenue. As part of the adaptive re-‐use of this existing structure, the façade is conceived as an architectural interpretation of Samuel Beckett’s recurrent ‘absence of presence’ theme in his plays. Constructed as a fusion ofbalcony and marquee, multiple rows of seats (including theater-‐goers’ hats, coats. handbags and playbills) transform the spatial vacuum of the missing audience during intermission into an iconic part of the streetscape experience.
Theater seats during intermission – transformed into the TNC façade marquee
Existing market building
Windsor Waterfront Park -‐ City of Windsor -‐ James Wines & SITE -‐ architecture, public space and landscape -‐Windsor, Canada steel, concrete, brick, water, glass, landscape -‐ 1993 The unifying theme for this waterfront park is ‘Gateway to Canada.’ The plan accommodates a scientific/educational center, dedicated to the subjects of environmental responsibility, local history and the variety of Canadian landscape. To celebrate national diversity, the entire length of the site is segmented into a series of interactive, ribbon-‐like, bands that include parks, public spaces, horticultural displays; plus buildings for an aquarium, conservatory, ecological study center, restaurant, theater and general commercial facility. The hillside topography of the waterfront is used to define the shape and function of each banded section. .
GeojaeHotel and Conference Center -‐ Daewoo Shipbuilding Corporation -‐ James Wines & SITE -‐ architecture and landscape design -‐ Okpo-‐Dong in GeojaeCity, South Korea -‐ concrete, brick, glass, wood, steel, funicular transport system and regional landscape -‐ 2009 This resort and business hotel is located near the sea on the lower elevation of a heavily wooded mountainside in the South Gyeongsang Province. Designed as a site-‐specific complex, the shapes of the buildings and outdoor recreational spaces reflect the physical technology of the nearby shipbuilding factories – including piers, cranes, warehouses and cruise liner berths. These maritime inspired elements are integrated with the regional topography, providing a series of ‘woodland piers’ as multi-‐level pedestrian walkways through the heavily forested terrain.
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Daewoo Shipyard and site area Site plan
Isuzu Space Station, Children’s Plaza -‐ Isuzu Corporation -‐ James Wines & SITE -‐ public space -‐ Yokohama, Japan -‐ concrete paving, automobiles & fiberglass castings of people -‐ 1989 Isuzu Motors and Japan Railway sponsored this children’s plaza in front of the Yokohama’s Sakuragicho Train Station. The project was commissioned to celebrate the links between people, ground transportation and space exploration. Since venturing into the cosmos is closely associated with an absence of gravity, the plaza plane supports an inverted world of people and Isuzu vehicles. To achieve this effect, the lower bodies and legs of a large number of Yokohama residents have been cast from life in fiberglass, then installed in a reversed position. The intention is to create the illusion of an invisible walking surface, suspended above the actual plaza level. In order to enhance this surreal dimension, all of the human figures, automobiles, bicycles, street furniture and tree roots are monochrome gray to match the color of the paving.
Example of the in-‐process casting of people’s legs and feet into fiberglass
Gwa-‐cheon Club -‐ Gwa-‐cheon Business Salon -‐ James Wines & SITE -‐ hospitality architecture -‐ Seoul, South Korea -‐wood, steel glass, concrete and regional vegetation -‐2011 This three story building houses South Korea’s most prestigious business club. The structure is designed as a series of five interlocking and rotated architectural units. Each section is based on Buddhism’s five elements of nature -‐ wood, fire, earth, metal, and water -‐ extended to the roof garden plan as well. The unifying material elements are flat horizontal wood beams, with the thin edge facing outward. All windows and entryways are fragmented wall incisions.
Site area in Gwa-‐cheon district Building plan -‐ integration of existing conditions
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World Ecology Pavilion -‐ Expo 92 Seville -‐ James Wines & SITE -‐ Exposition architecture -‐ Seville, Spain -‐ brick, steel, glass, concrete, earth, rock and landscape -‐1992 The intention of this Expo 92 pavilion is to celebrate all nations’ participation in the international environmental initiative. As a response to the Expo's theme of ‘discovery,’ the building is designed as a microcosm of the typical landscape and terrain associated with the seven continents. The configuration is defined by a row of parallel, ribbon-‐like, structures that function as verdant canopies, enclosures for exhibitions, shade cover for a plaza and an acoustical band shell over an outdoor theater. The interior exhibitions show various contexts where visitors can relate to both the surface and interior geology of the earth.
Shinwa Hotel and Ski Resort -‐ Shinwa Corporation -‐ James Wines & SITE -‐ hospitality architecture & landscape -‐Kisokomo-‐Kogen, Japan -‐ concrete, glass, steel, wood, regional landscape -‐1990 This resort hotel, located on a semi-‐circular property in Northern Japan, is designed as a site-‐specific ensemble of radiating entertainment, residential and commercial facilities. The sun ray-‐like configuration, with its large entry plaza and variety of landscaped roof planes, relates directly to the heavily forested mountains and surrounding valley. When viewed from approach roads, the entire ski resort seems to have grown organically out of its context. These buildings also provide summer/winter climate control, as a benefit of their earth-‐shelter insulation. .
Gwa-‐cheon Club -‐ Gwa-‐cheon Business Salon -‐ James Wines & SITE -‐ hospitality architecture -‐ Seoul, South Korea -‐wood, steel glass, concrete and regional vegetation -‐2011 This three story building houses South Korea’s most prestigious business club. The structure is designed as a series of five interlocking and rotated architectural units. Each section is based on Buddhism’s five elements of nature -‐ wood, fire, earth, metal, and water -‐ extended to the roof garden plan as well. The unifying material elements are flat horizontal wood beams, with the thin edge facing outward. All windows and entryways are fragmented wall incisions.
Site area in Gwa-‐cheon district Building plan -‐ integration of existing conditions
Denny’s Flagship Restaurant -‐Denny’s Corporation -‐ James Wines & SITE -‐ restaurant architecture -‐ Las Vegas, NV -‐ aluminum, steel and glass -‐ 2012 The purpose of this project is to re-‐shape Denny’s international image for the 21st Century, without losing the recognizable features of its classic diner history. To achieve a special identity within the Neonopolis shopping center, the restaurant façade is wrapped in an undulating, egg-‐yellow, aluminum sheath – creating both a unique form of Las Vegas signage and a building within a building. The linear elements also include a continuous flow of grid-‐like fragmentation, as a way of visually celebrating Denny’s ‘original social network’ legacy of hospitality in today’s world of digitally connected people.
Serpentine Pavilion -‐ Serpentine Gallery -‐ James Wines & SITE -‐ temporary museum pavilion -‐ London, UK – steel, metal scrim, tile, aluminum, regional vegetation -‐ 2016 This concept for Serpentine Pavilion 2017 treats the entire structure as a site-‐specific extension of its own context. A ‘lifted landscape’ emerges out of the grass-‐covered environment on the east lawn and rises to a height of five-‐plus meters. A unifying steel frame supports a metamorphic, collage-‐like fusion of vegetation covered surfaces, opaque tile and aluminum modules and perforated metal ceiling panels. To enhance the project’s evolutionary qualities, all of these elements gradually mutate into scrim elements as the roof plane reaches its highest point of transparency against the sky.
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Site area -‐Serpentine Gallery façade,with adjacent expanse of lawn
Lifted landscape with metamorphicroof collage
Selection of monographic books and museum catalogues on the work of SITE -‐ 1978 to 2008
SITE, Identity in Density -‐ Images -‐ 2004 SITE -‐ Edilstampa -‐ 2008
Books by James Wines Monographs on SITE -‐ 2004 and 2008
ON SITE • ON ENERGYScribners and Sons - 1974
DE-‐ARCHITECTURE -‐ Rizzoli Intl. -‐ 1987
GREEN ARCHITECTURETaschen Verlag -‐ 2000