First Office: Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood, “Exhibits of Models, Models of Exhibits”
2015 CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE MONTREAL, CANADA
CCA Fall Lecture Series Displaying Architecture, curated by Eszter Steierhoffer October 22, 2015
“Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood of First Office present their recent work related to exhibitions and display, including a temporary screening room installed at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles. The lecture considers the possibility for architecture in the museum as a critical practice and describe the capacity of models to behave as exhibits and for exhibits to behave as models. Presented as part of Displaying Architecture, a CCA series that looks at the relationship between architecture and spaces of display.”
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First Office was founded in 2011 by Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood to create a dialog between architectural practice and academic discourse. Their collaborative work spans buildings, exhibitions, and publications, all rooted in the belief that architecture is a form of cultural production.
The practice has engaged with leading institutions, including the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, the Chicago and Venice Biennials, MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Program, and the Architectural League of New York. The projects and essays of First Office have been recognized with awards and compiled in Nine Essays (Treatise Press, 2015), as well as in Andrew’s publication Not Interesting: On the Limits of Criticism in Architecture (Applied Research and Design, 2017).
Anna Neimark
Design Faculty and Visual Studies Coordinator, SCI-Arc
anna.neimark@gmail.com
Andrew Atwood
Licensed Architect and Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
w.andrew.atwood@gmail.com