may 13, 2013, architecture of refusal is published in pidgin 15.
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 – 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.
2 – in the background, steinberg, saul. the new yorker. new york, 1945–2000. (harold, william, robert, tina, david, eds.), an exhibition curated by robert snowden and scott ponik. (image credit: colin frazer)
3 – exhibition pamphlet. exhibition content is often not recognized as art related. (image credit: phil grauer)
4 – users complete the piece by positioning themselves in a visual alignment with the elements. (image courtesy of ludlow 38, new york)
5 – wall graphics for nada new york 2012
6 – home page for the end(s) of the library.
7 – cover of the “communist guide to new york city.”
8 – arts for living
news
may 11, 2013, common room holds a monologue at architecture and money at storefront for art and architecture. may 11, 2013.
apr 22, 2013, arts for living the second book in the common books series is now available.
oct 28, 2012, the end(s) of the library designed by common room and geoff han opens tues oct 30, 2012 at the goethe-institut new york library. oct 30, 2012–jun 31, 2013.
oct 17, 2012, provisional practices–in conversation with common room is published in oase 88: exhibitions–showing and producing architecture.
sep 29, 2012, common room and geoff han coordinated a student workshop at the werkplaats typografie for the new york art book fair 2012. sep 28–sep 30, 2012.
sep 12, 2012, common room is participating in the “bazaar” at abc–art contemporary berlin. sep 13–sep 16, 2012.
jun 16, 2012, an architecture designed by common room opens at yale union.
may 28, 2012, common room is leading a workshop and giving a lecture at mikser festival 2012.
may 4, 2012, nada new york designed by common room & francesca grassi/geoff han. may 4–may 7, 2012.
mar 26, 2012, common room is architect in residence at university gent during jokerweek 2012.
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