oct 27, 2022, common room curates the exhibition disquietude. architecture and energy in portugal, included in the lisbon architecture trienniale, at the galerias municipais in lisbon, nov 17, 2022–mar 26, 2023.
common room
usa: 383 grand street, #m1002, new york, ny 10002
+1 917 916 1617, email
belgium: schmitzstraat 28 | rue schmitz 28, 1081 brussels
+32 470 56 83 42, email
is an architectural practice with a publishing imprint, and an exhibition space. it is collaborative platform based in new york city and brussels. common room is comprised of architects lars fischer, maria ibañez and todd rouhe; architectural researcher kim förster; and graphic designer geoff han.
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2 – transparent and translucent corrugated plastic panels are used for the walls and roof of the pavilion. (image credit: bertrand cavalier)
3 – exhibition entry. upon entering visitors are faced with a wall of mirrors. (image credit: bertrand cavalier)
4 – ceiling mounted ring and post. a lightweight infrastructure installed throughout the common area. an identity for the programs that overlap and share the lobby space. (image credit: bertrand cavalier)
5 – interior of miguel abreu gallery, 88 orchard street. (image credit: jeff sturges)
6 – facade of sandblasted concrete block. (image credit: amy barkow)
7 – introduction page for public school for architecture website.
8 – artist page for the end(s) of the library.
9 – arts for living release poster.
10 – show guide for nada new york 2012.
news
jan 24, 2020, common room with confusion of tongues and dennis pohl receive subsidies for the project moving membranes.
nov 18, 2019, common room discusses orientation without direction at note, lisbon, nov 22, 2019.
dec 11, 2018, common room and tobi maier are artists-in-residence at carraig-na-gcat the josef and anni albers foundation’s residence program in west cork, ireland. dec 14–dec 19, 2018.
jun 12, 2018, common room writes about ‘transparent and opaque’ in public, private, secret: on photography and the configuration of self, edited by charlotte cotton.
may 31, 2018, common room embraces the contingencies of what a client wants in a-r-p-a journal > issue 05, conflicts of interest.
apr 6, 2018, common room writes some poetry for avery shorts.
oct 14, 2017, common room is short-listed for the pilot-project studenten maken stad.
sep 22, 2017, communist guide to new york city is reprinted and available again through ram publications + distribution.
sep 9, 2017, common room designs archive and bookshop for the common library at the 2017 seoul biennale of architecture and urbanism.
jun 2, 2017, common room ponders over orientation without direction at 019 – museum of moving practice. jun 6, 2017.
oct 16, 2016, common room takes part in the debate architecture and infrastructure, part 1 of spatial series. oct 18, 2016.
apr 20, 2016, common room talks about the problem of collaboration as part of what’s the matter with cooperation at kunstencentrum buda. apr 29, 2016.
press
perspecta 44: domain, sept 2011, pdf
new york times, sept 30, 2011, pdf
a|n blog, aug 12, 2011, link
tarp, spring 2011, pdf
print 65.1, feb 2011, pdf
new york times, aug 10, 2010, link
architect’s newspaper, 12_07.07.2010, pdf
art in america, mar 2010, pdf
artforum, dec 2009, pdf
architect, feb 2009, pdf
e-oculus, feb 10, 2009, pdf
the villager, vol. 78 n. 35, pdf
artforum, dec 2008 (2), pdf
artforum, dec 2008 (1), pdf
afterimage, vol. 35 issue 6, pdf
moscow art magazine, n. 67/68, pdf
time out new york, issue 614: jul 5–11, 2007, pdf
speech, oct 26, 2006, link