November 05, 2013
Troy Curates [NSFW] Lecture Series at MFAH in Houston
Troy curated this Fall Rice Design Alliance lecture series at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
The series titled re: Architecture [NSFW] used the common internet tag to frame conversation about the nature of propriety in contemporary design practice.
Our own Ian Searcy designed the poster and tickets.
As described in the poster:
This lecture series invites a new generation of architects attempting to engage architecture by operating nimbly across scales, methods, techniques and sites of work. Framed by the popular online tag, Re: Architecture [Not Safe For Work] investigates how architects’ assumptions regarding safe boundaries for contemporary disciplinary investigation simultaneously limit and propel their creative practices.
Rather than make a claim for specialization or interdisciplinarity, these practices choose instead to define the responsibilities of the architect broadly – the last redoubt of the generalist professional. In an age characterized by a diffuse lack of definition, modifiers like digital-, urban-, critical-, and green- seem less like challenges and more like desperate attempts to prop up architecture by projecting an image of safe specificity. By refusing to “play it safe,” these architects assume the divergent and distributed field of contemporary professional practice as precisely the locus of architecture’s potential and strength.
