April
1, 2007, 6:30pm
Inside
Outside / Petra Blaisse, booklaunch at Storefront for Art &
Architecture, New York
Storefront
for Art and Architecture invites you to join Petra Blaisse,
Irma Boom and guests for a reception and booksigning to celebrate
the launch of Inside Outside: Petra Blaisse, published by NAI
Publishers and distributed by DAP. Dutch interior and landscape
designer Petra Blaisse, whose work was exhibited at Storefront
in September 2000, is an internationally renowned creator who
over the years has proposed new and more ambitious roles for
landscape and interior architecture. On her own and in collaboration
with city planners and architects such as Tim Ronalds, SANAA/Kazuyo
Sejima, Macken & Macken, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Michael Maltzan.
Blaisse intervenes in important projects in Europe, Asia and
the United States.
Blaisse's
work challenges architecture's rigidity and severity by developing
more mutable and fluid solutions, both inside and outside. This
is how Blaisse turns what is often treated as an afterthought
into an almost overpowering experience. The full range of her
work will be introduced to the public in this book. It contains
documentation of several important projects, a conversation
between the editor Kayoko Ota and Petra Blaisse, and essays
by several renowned authors. The book will be illuminating to
architects, engineers and designers of all disciplines and has
the potential to give new impetus to the whole architectural
field. Kayoko Ota (ed.) en Petra Blaisse (text); essays from
Sanford Kwinter, Cecil Balmond, Renz van Luxemburg, Gaston Bekkers,Chris
Dercon et al.
Contact:
Joseph
Grima
Storefront for Art & Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
New York, NY 10012
Tel.: 212-431-5795
Fax: 212-431-5755
www.storefrontnews.org
