March
2-7, 2005
Shifting
Positions: Petra Blaisse; Inside Outside (Landscape and Interior
Design):
Dutch designer Petra Blaisse works in
a multitude of creative areas, including textile, landscape
and exhibition design. She founded Inside Outside in Amsterdam
in 1991. Inside Outside specializes in the rare combination
of both interior and exterior design, interweaving architecture
and landscape. Not only are her interior projects visual interventions
that are made of soft materials that change their architectural
context and introduce colour, flexibility and movement. They
also solve acoustic, climatic, shading and spatial necessities.The
landscape projects reflect the same fascination with movement
and change, unusual materials and unexpected combinations of
color, structure and form.
Blaisse has received international recognition for projects
including: embossed, liquid gold drapes for the Netherlands
Dance Theatre in The Hague; poured floors for Lille Grand Palais;
PRADA New York's knitted sock and plisse curtain-walls; blackout
curtains and design for IIT McCormick Tribune Campus Center,
Chicago, IL; State Prison gardens in Utrecht; and for her connective
landscape of a new cultural quarter in the city of Seoul, Korea.
She
is working with Michael Maltzan on the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los
Angeles, and the Giardini di Porta Nuova, Milan. A frequent
participant on international design teams, Blaisse will speak
about her collaborative design experiences.
March
2, 2005, 6:30-8:00pm
New
York, NY, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall.
www.arch.columbia.edu
March
3, 2005, noon
Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Museum of Art,
Carnegie Lecture Hall.
www.cmoa.org/programs/exh.asp
March
7, 2005, 6:00pm
Chicago, IL, School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, SAIC Auditorium.
www.artic.edu
