LACMA acquires multimedia works by L.A.–based designers
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) recently announced a new crop of museum acquisitions that includes a variety of multimedia works by several Los Angeles–area architects and designers. One of the workd was created by Jimenez Lai, lecturer in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture Department of Architecture and Urban Design. Another of the recent acquisitions was created by Elena Manferdini, alumna of the department of Architecture and Urban Design.
"The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) recently announced a new crop of museum acquisitions that includes a variety of multimedia works by several Los Angeles–area architects and designers.
Included in the set of new acquisitions, according to LACMA Unframed, is a neon lamp designed by Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular. The so-called Scribble lamp is an outgrowth of the firm’s Tower of Twelve Stories installation at the 2016 Coachella music festival. The fixture is made up of a singular light tube that has been bent and folded to look like a bit of “neon gibberish” drawn by Lai. The circular light is designed so that it touches down at four points, relying on similar structural principles as those explored in the Coachella tower.
Also included is architect and alumna Elena Manferdini’s (M.Arch '00) recent project titled Building Portraits. The multimedia project is an exploration of the digital weaving of architectural elements. The museum is collecting two groups of works associated with a multi-part project, including a set of two physical models, five drawings, a silk scarf, and a rug. For the project, Manferdini utilized digital weaving technologies to create graphic geometric prints that were then converted into the various textile forms and ultimately extrapolated into building facades.
— Antonio Pacheco, Feb. 15, 2018
This post is an excerpt, read the full article at the Architects Newspaper website.
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