Inverting Neutra is an installation by Bryony Roberts at the Neutra VDL Research House in Silver Lake that offers spatial inversion as a strategy for activating historic architecture. Designed originally by Richard Neutra in 1932 and then rebuilt after a fire in 1965-66, the VDL House is known for its close interlocking of interior and exterior space. Void spaces penetrate the house from the street up to the roof terrace, and in response, Inverting Neutra manifests these voids as luminous blue volumes. With rows of satin blue cords hanging from lightweight aluminum frames, the installation creates the optical effect of the volumes appearing and receding depending on the viewing position. By activating the negative spaces as colorful, dominant forms, the project inverts the positive-negative spatial relationships of the existing building.
Bryony Roberts’ project focuses on the creative interlocking of new and exisitng architecture. Originally trained as an artist, with a B.A. from Yale University in Studio Art and Humanities, Roberts later turned to architecture, earning her MArch from Princeton University and working for the offices of WORKac in New York and Mansilla + Tunon in Madrid. Her practice Bryony Roberts Studio, which is based in Los Angeles, engages projects from the scale of residential architecture to urban design, and her design work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Houston, Berlin, and Rome. For the last two years, she was teaching as a Wortham Fellow at the Rice School of Architecture, and she is currently the Artist-in-Residence at the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences.
The opening reception for Inverting Neutra is Saturday, July 13th from 5-9 p.m. The Neutra VDL Studio and Residences are located at 2300 Silver Lake Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90039
VDL will be open Thursdays 3-7pm, Saturdays 11-3pm, and Sundays 11-3pm for the duration of the show (July 13 - Sept. 7 2013) Admission is $10 on Saturdays, when there are docent-led architecture tours of the house. The suggested donation on other days is $10. Related events are free with donation to the VDL House.
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Inverting Neutra is an installation by Bryony Roberts at the Neutra VDL Research House in Silver Lake that offers spatial inversion as a strategy for activating historic architecture. Designed originally by Richard Neutra in 1932 and then rebuilt after a fire in 1965-66, the VDL House is known for its close interlocking of interior and exterior space. Void spaces penetrate the house from the street up to the roof terrace, and in response, Inverting Neutra manifests these voids as luminous blue volumes. With rows of satin blue cords hanging from lightweight aluminum frames, the installation creates the optical effect of the volumes appearing and receding depending on the viewing position. By activating the negative spaces as colorful, dominant forms, the project inverts the positive-negative spatial relationships of the existing building.
Bryony Roberts’ project focuses on the creative interlocking of new and exisitng architecture. Originally trained as an artist, with a B.A. from Yale University in Studio Art and Humanities, Roberts later turned to architecture, earning her MArch from Princeton University and working for the offices of WORKac in New York and Mansilla + Tunon in Madrid. Her practice Bryony Roberts Studio, which is based in Los Angeles, engages projects from the scale of residential architecture to urban design, and her design work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Houston, Berlin, and Rome. For the last two years, she was teaching as a Wortham Fellow at the Rice School of Architecture, and she is currently the Artist-in-Residence at the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences.
The opening reception for Inverting Neutra is Saturday, July 13th from 5-9 p.m. The Neutra VDL Studio and Residences are located at 2300 Silver Lake Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90039
VDL will be open Thursdays 3-7pm, Saturdays 11-3pm, and Sundays 11-3pm for the duration of the show (July 13 - Sept. 7 2013) Admission is $10 on Saturdays, when there are docent-led architecture tours of the house. The suggested donation on other days is $10. Related events are free with donation to the VDL House.
Tags: Richard Neutra VDL Research House Bryony Roberts Michael Locke Michael Locke, Photographer Treasures of Los Angeles Architecture Silver Lake SILVER LAKE ARCHITECTURE archiref Michael Locke, Realtor
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Competing Utopias is a design collision that should never happen. But somehow, in Los Angeles, in 2014, twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it will. This installation is a 'mash-up' in the most provocative sense of that word. Its force comes from the collision of two design cultures that have been kept apart but have been visually connected in ways yet unexamined. This experimental installation will presents Cold War modern design from East and West in one context accompanied by fictional narratives by Katya and Alexei Tylevich about the house and its inhabitants.
Competing Utopias is organized by two Los Angeles institutions: the Neutra VDL House and the Wende Museum - Archive of the Cold War, and is made possible through a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
The exhibit will run from July 13th to September 13th 2014 and will be open for tours Fridays 6-9:30pm and Saturdays/Sundays from 11am to 3pm. Cost is $10/person. After the exhibition closes, the VDL House will be open on Saturdays only from 11 am to 3 pm.
No need to make an appointment; tours are given as visitors arrive.
Website:www.Neutra-vdl.org
Tags: Richard Neutra VDL Research House Archiref Treasures of Los Angeles Architecture Silver Lake SILVER LAKE ARCHITECTURE Los Angeles Architecture Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument Dion Neutra
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Competing Utopias is a design collision that should never happen. But somehow, in Los Angeles, in 2014, twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it will. This installation is a 'mash-up' in the most provocative sense of that word. Its force comes from the collision of two design cultures that have been kept apart but have been visually connected in ways yet unexamined. This experimental installation will presents Cold War modern design from East and West in one context accompanied by fictional narratives by Katya and Alexei Tylevich about the house and its inhabitants.
Competing Utopias is organized by two Los Angeles institutions: the Neutra VDL House and the Wende Museum - Archive of the Cold War, and is made possible through a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
The exhibit will run from July 13th to September 13th 2014 and will be open for tours Fridays 6-9:30pm and Saturdays/Sundays from 11am to 3pm. Cost is $10/person. After the exhibition closes, the VDL House will be open on Saturdays only from 11 am to 3 pm.
No need to make an appointment; tours are given as visitors arrive.
Website:www.Neutra-vdl.org
Tags: Richard Neutra VDL Research House Archiref Treasures of Los Angeles Architecture Silver Lake SILVER LAKE ARCHITECTURE Los Angeles Architecture Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument Dion Neutra
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Competing Utopias is a design collision that should never happen. But somehow, in Los Angeles, in 2014, twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it will. This installation is a 'mash-up' in the most provocative sense of that word. Its force comes from the collision of two design cultures that have been kept apart but have been visually connected in ways yet unexamined. This experimental installation will presents Cold War modern design from East and West in one context accompanied by fictional narratives by Katya and Alexei Tylevich about the house and its inhabitants.
Competing Utopias is organized by two Los Angeles institutions: the Neutra VDL House and the Wende Museum - Archive of the Cold War, and is made possible through a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
The exhibit will run from July 13th to September 13th 2014 and will be open for tours Fridays 6-9:30pm and Saturdays/Sundays from 11am to 3pm. Cost is $10/person. After the exhibition closes, the VDL House will be open on Saturdays only from 11 am to 3 pm.
No need to make an appointment; tours are given as visitors arrive.
Website: www.Neutra-vdl.org
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