Open to the public Tuesdays - Saturdays, 12-6 PM

Open Satellite, in partnership with Henry Art Gallery, is pleased to announce an upcoming lecture by Allied Works Architecture founder Brad Cloepfil.

The lecture will be held at Kane Hall Room 220, University of Washington. Cloepfil’s lecture is a feature program of the exhibition SUPERMODEL. For his lecture Cloepfil will speak about his practice elaborating on the projects included in the exhibition.

Advance tickets: $10 General Admission and $7 Students and Henry Art Gallery Members.

At the door: $15 General Admission and $12 Students and Henry Art Gallery Members.  

Tickets are available at Brown Paper Tickets.

Brad Cloepfil studied architecture at the University of Oregon and went on to earn an advanced degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture. After more than a decade of work and teaching in Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York and Switzerland, Cloepfil founded Allied Works Architecture in his native Portland, Oregon, which now includes an office in New York, New York.

Cloepfil’s earliest influences lay outside the field of architecture. While studying at the University of Oregon, Cloepfil drew inspiration from the vast landscape and monumental works of civil engineering in the Pacific Northwest and looked to the simple yet profoundly resonant gestures of land and installation artists of that time. Cloepfil’s body of work is as informed by the land and the history of place as it is by formal training, and it is one that cuts a clear line through much of the rhetoric surrounding the practice today. His approach to design combines a research-intensive focus on the specific character of each project with an understanding of the profoundly affecting possibilities of building.

Terence Riley, a leading architecture critic and former chief curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, identified Cloepfil as an architect who is “setting the pace for the future” in the compendium of contemporary architecture, 10x10, published by Phaidon Press. Riley believes Cloepfil’s work “has a certain assuredness and grace that comes from an intimate knowledge of materials and constructive possibilities” and that “his natural tendency is to fulfill the potential of any theoretical project, to realize it in such a way as to test and perfect the building art.”

Directions & Parking:The lecture is taking place in Room 220 of Kane Hall, (campus map here). Free street parking is available after 6pm. Paid parking is available in the Central Plaza Parking Garage off 15^th  Detailed directions and parking information here. Avenue NE (entrance just north of Henry Art Gallery), and in other lots on campus.

Open Satellite is pleased to partner with Seattle Architecture Foundation to host a Family Model Making Workshop on the closing day of SUPERMODEL.

Family Model Making Workshop: More Building
Turn 2-D into 3-D in this unique model making workshop! Using a variety of materials and techniques, young architects and their families will build several types of models in this workshop. Participants will learn how architects and designers use models to imagine a building.
 
These workshops are recommended for 8 - 12 year olds. The workshop lasts 3 hours. Bring a bag lunch and an image of a building to share. Model making materials and snacks are provided.

Young architects must register with an adult. Cost: $15 per child and $15 per adult. Scholarships are available for this workshop thanks to the Carolyn Purser Scholarship Fund.

Advance purchase is highly recommended; spaces are filled on a first-come, first-served basis

Register at Brown Paper Tickets.

For more information, please contact Tracy Vicory-Rosenquest, Program Director of Seattle Architecture Foundation at Tracy@seattlearchitecture.org or 206-667-9184.