09/23/2014DIRTY GEOMETRIES + MECHANICAL IMPERFECTIONS INSTALLATION BY BRYAN CANTLEY OPENS OCT 10 AT SCI-ARC GALLERY

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SCI-ARC GALLERY EXHIBITION

BRYAN CANTLEY
Form:uLA
DIRTY GEOMETRIES +
MECHANICAL
IMPERFECTIONS
October 10November 30, 2014
SCI-Arc Gallery
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Friday, October 10, 7pm: Discussion with Bryan Cantley and SCI-Arc
Director Eric Owen Moss, followed by an opening reception
LOS ANGELES, CA (September 23, 2014) The Southern California Institute of Architecture
is pleased to present Bryan Cantley/Form:uLAs upcoming exhibition in the SCI-Arc Gallery,
Dirty Geometries + Mechanical Imperfections. The show is an opus in three distinct parts: the
articulation of fallacy and artificial chronology of the architectural drawing; the suggested
operational misalignments of his visionary projects; and the symbolic deconstruction of the
gallery.
Form:uLA has always defied established contexts and criteria. The SCI-Arc installation is no
exception. Challenging the normative current building practices that substantiates the gallerys
lexicon, Cantley will display a more conventional oeuvre of drawings, models and images. Not
a singular materialization, he will present a body of predominantly new work that suggests
alternative spatial discourse. The space itself will be conceptually dissected into a series of
graphical surfaces, with the manifestation of the anti-object serving as both display [backdrop,
organizational maneuver] and spatial delineator [object, anchor].
Cantleys work is regularly divided into two distinct, yet transecting conditions: the experimental
architectural drawing [image], and the mechanical architecture paradigm [building-object]. The
exhibition looks to present both of these archetypes as conjunctive informants.

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The Dirty Geometries portion will house a series of over 30 hand and hybrid drawings that
attempt to enhance the audience as both voyeur and inhabitant, while simultaneously removing
the framework of the recognizable as a tool of navigation. The dirtiness of the geometries refers
both to the unresolved nature of the content, as well as a condition of physical residue left over
from an imperfect and sometimes organic, digitally-infused process of drawing. These graphic
experimentations serve as a proactive mode of research, becoming not so much drawings of
objects, as much as they predict drawings of drawings. The Mechanical Imperfections section
will present 10 conceptual projects that engage a dialogue of imperfect machines struggling to
construct perfect moments of architecture. These visionary projects abandon perceived
mechanical precision in lieu of spatial poetics, political overlay and architectural inquiry.
About Bryan Cantley

Form:uLA is an experimental design practice led by Bryan Cantley, whose work attempts to blur
the undefined zone between architecture and its representation. Cantley has lectured at a number
of architecture schools internationally and locally, as well as the LA Forum for Architecture and
Urban Design. He served as visiting faculty at SCI-Arc and Woodbury and conducted a graduate
architectural drawing seminar at The Bartlett School of Architecture in London, where he also
installed a solo exhibition in 2008. His models and drawings are part of the permanent collection
of the SFMOMA and he was a recipient of a Graham Foundation Grant in 2002. Cantley has
shown work in a number of institutions, including SFMOMA and UCLA, and was featured in
Architectural Designs special issues, Drawing Strength From Machinery in 2008 and
Drawing Architecture in 2013. His first monograph, Mechudzu was published in 2011.
-SCI-Arc exhibitions and public programs are made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles,
Department of Cultural Affairs.
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4th Street in Los Angeles. The SCI-Arc Gallery is open daily from 10am6pm; the Library Gallery is open daily from
12pm-6pm.
About SCI-Arc
Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) is dedicated to educating architects who will imagine and
shape the future. It is an independent, accredited degree-granting institution offering undergraduate and graduate
programs in architecture. Located in a quarter-mile-long former freight depot in the Arts District in Downtown Los
Angeles, the school is distinguished by its vibrant studio culture and emphasis on process. SCI-Arcs approximately
500 students and 80 faculty members, most of whom are practicing architects, work together to re-examine
assumptions, create, explore and test the limits of architecture. SCI-Arc faculty and leadership have garnered more
than 500 national and international design awards and recognitions, including Progressive Architecture awards,
American Institute of Architects (AIA) awards, and the prestigious Jencks and Pritzker architecture prizes. SCI-Arc is
ranked 1st in computer applications and 4th in design in the 2014 Americas Best Architecture Schools survey from
DesignIntelligence. SCI-Arc is located at 960 E. 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013. www.sciarc.edu