June 26, 2021–January 17, 2022
The Fabricated Landscape spotlights the designs of some of the most innovative figures working in contemporary architecture around the world today. Presenting projects from ten international practices, the exhibition reveals how this generation of architects, all of whom were born from 1975 and onward, explore the fundamental role that architecture and design play in our lives. The exhibition celebrates the field’s growing diversity and ingenuity by presenting practices that are responsive and attentive to the communities, localities, and cultures in which they are situated.
On view in Heinz Architectural Center, one of the foremost institutes for the study of architecture in the United States, The Fabricated Landscape features: Anna Heringer, Anne Holtrop, Assemble, Frida Escobedo, Go Hasegawa, LCLA Office, MAIO, OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, SO-IL, and UMWELT.
A publication in three parts is forthcoming in winter 2021, distributed by Carnegie Museum of Art and Inventory Press. Following the release of the first issue this summer, this second issue focuses on the theme of “Civic” and will be released this fall. The Fabricated Landscape is organized by Raymund Ryan, Curator-at-Large, Heinz Architectural Center, and designed by IN-FO.CO in Los Angeles.
From The Fabricated Landscape Issue #2: Civic, contributor Emanuele Coccia writes in “Thoughts About Homes”:
“All cities are nothing but immense stages; open-air sets that allow us to imagine ourselves elsewhere, to hide from us the place where we really are. We all pretend not to know this, but no one really inhabits a city. No one can because cities are literally uninhabitable. We can spend endless hours in them, live sublime or infernal moments thanks to them. We can stay in the office and pilgrimage between stores, wander through the labyrinth of streets and crossroads or close ourselves in theaters and cinemas, sit on the terraces of bars and eat at restaurants, run in stadiums and swim in pools. But sooner or later we will have to return home, because it is always and only thanks to and inside a house that we inhabit this planet.” —Emanuele Coccia
About Heinz Architectural Center
Established in 1990, Heinz Architectural Center enhances appreciation and understanding of architecture and the built environment through exhibitions, lectures, charettes, symposia, and other forms of public engagement. Its collection of nearly 6,000 objects includes drawings, models, photographs, artifacts, games, ephemera, and the world’s third-largest collection of plaster architectural casts. Ranging from the late 18th century to the present, the collection represents work in architecture, landscape design, engineering, and furniture and interior design by architects of international, national, and regional significance.
The programs of Heinz Architectural Center are made possible by the generosity of the Drue Heinz Trust.
General operating support for Carnegie Museum of Art is provided by The Heinz Endowments and Allegheny Regional Asset District. Carnegie Museum of Art receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
