may 4, 2012, nada new york designed by common room & francesca grassi/geoff han. may 4–may 7, 2012.
common room
usa: 465 grand street, 4c, new york, ny 10002
+1 212 358 8605, email
belgium: aalststraat 7–11/a3.1 | rue d’alost 7–11/a3.1, 1000 brussels
+32 2 880 82 56, email
is an architectural practice, publishing imprint, exhibition space, and collaborative platform based in new york city and brussels. common room is comprised of architects lars fischer, todd rouhe and maria ibañez, and graphic designer geoff han.
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1 – a history of the communist party usa re-presented on the continuous wall of the barnard college tunnel gallery.
2 – bookshelves mounted between the wood studs create a bookstore and social bar on one side of the partition and a more private archive on the other side of artists space.
3 – axonometric of new museum and garden monument for statens naturhistoriske museum competition entry. the grid structure forms a continuous environment. the context is rendered uniform by technology, culture and other forms of imperial knowledge.
4 – a stack of “communist guides” displayed in common room 2.
news
mar 26, 2012, common room is architect in residence at university gent during jokerweek 2012.
nov 15, 2011, common room will participate in the event ‘on the architecture of extraordinary adjustment’ at the james gallery. tues, nov 15, 6pm.
sep 25, 2011, common room will moderate the talk living design with jeanne van heeswijk and superflex as part of the living as form series of events. sun, sep 25, 1pm at abrons arts center.
sep 24, 2011, living as form, the creative time archival exhibition of socially engaged art, designed by common room. sep 24–oct 16, 2011.
sep 23, 2011, common room will present at the creative time summit: living as form.
sep 5, 2011, construction is complete on the temporary installation in altschul atrium, a student and faculty lounge, meeting space and gallery on the barnard college campus.
dec 19, 2010, common room is included in issue 9/10, the ‘legal/politics section’, of the new city reader, a newspaper on architecture, public space and the city, published as part of the exhibition the last newspaper at the new museum.
nov 28, 2010, common room released common circular 5 and performed a reading at the chrysler series, an occasional evening on the 31st floor of the chrysler building.
nov 28, 2010, common room is included in ‘newsstand’, an exhibition presenting a collection of architecture and design-related broadsheets and newsprint ephemera, at pinkcomma. nov 19–dec 8, dec 15–30.
nov 11, 2010, common room will discuss publications and furniture installations at motto brooklyn. thurs, nov 11, 6pm.
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