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Drawing Show

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The Drawing Show, Opening Night at the A+D Museum (Los Angeles, CA).

Year: 2016

Exhibition 1: The Drawing Show, curated by Dora Epstein, Deborah Garcia, Anthony Morey

Location 1: A+D Museum, Los Angeles

Year: 2018

Exhibition 2: The Drawing Show, re-staged by Andrew Benner, Alfie Koetter, Alison Walsh

Location 2: Yale School of Architecture Gallery

First Office Team: Andrew Atwood, Anna Neimark, Alex Spatzier

Photography: Rich House Photography

After Andrew published his essay "Rendering Air," we dreamed of an invitation to work on a project about rendering, about air, and about the background becoming something that was visible, a foreground of sorts. So when Dora Epstein­­ and Debbie Garcia asked us to develop an exhibition concept for a drawing show in the very dark warehouse space of the A+D Museum, we knew that would be the perfect opportunity to put our theories to practical use.

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Rendered light studies.

We began by drawing a reflected ceiling plan of the museum warehouse. It held an electrical track for lights, none of which aligned to any sort of organizing system. Counting the seven parallel tracks and placing six dividers between each one, helped us to demarcate a territory for the show. And while the wall partitions seemed adequately lit by this existing infrastructure, we also added dim box lights that cast specific drawings into focus.

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Plan and Section of the partitions aligned to the electrical tracks above. Box lights are drawn with their respective cables.

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Individual partitions held between one and three artifacts per side.

The Drawing Show depicted animated, printed, drawn, and modeled two-dimensional works by emerging architects including Kelly Bair, David Eskenazi, Zeina Koreitem & John May, Sophie Lauriault, Carrie Norman & Thomas Kelley, and Michael Young, among many other talents.

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More rendered light studies.

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Photograph of the exhibition at the A+D Museum above and a long section through the exhibition layout below, depicting the light track, box lights, and wall partitions.

In 2018, the show moved to the Yale School of Architecture Gallery.

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©Rich House Photography

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Rich House Photography capturing views at the Yale School of Architecture Gallery.

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©Rich House

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Perhaps our favorite box light leaned against the corner of the room. ©Rich House

Drawing Show

First Office

The Drawing Show, Opening Night at the A+D Museum (Los Angeles, CA).

Year: 2016

Exhibition 1: The Drawing Show, curated by Dora Epstein, Deborah Garcia, Anthony Morey

Location 1: A+D Museum, Los Angeles

Year: 2018

Exhibition 2: The Drawing Show, re-staged by Andrew Benner, Alfie Koetter, Alison Walsh

Location 2: Yale School of Architecture Gallery

First Office Team: Andrew Atwood, Anna Neimark, Alex Spatzier

Photography: Rich House Photography

After Andrew published his essay "Rendering Air," we dreamed of an invitation to work on a project about rendering, about air, and about the background becoming something that was visible, a foreground of sorts. So when Dora Epstein­­ and Debbie Garcia asked us to develop an exhibition concept for a drawing show in the very dark warehouse space of the A+D Museum, we knew that would be the perfect opportunity to put our theories to practical use.

First Office
First Office

Rendered light studies.

We began by drawing a reflected ceiling plan of the museum warehouse. It held an electrical track for lights, none of which aligned to any sort of organizing system. Counting the seven parallel tracks and placing six dividers between each one, helped us to demarcate a territory for the show. And while the wall partitions seemed adequately lit by this existing infrastructure, we also added dim box lights that cast specific drawings into focus.

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Plan and Section of the partitions aligned to the electrical tracks above. Box lights are drawn with their respective cables.

First Office
First Office
First Office

Individual partitions held between one and three artifacts per side.

The Drawing Show depicted animated, printed, drawn, and modeled two-dimensional works by emerging architects including Kelly Bair, David Eskenazi, Zeina Koreitem & John May, Sophie Lauriault, Carrie Norman & Thomas Kelley, and Michael Young, among many other talents.

First Office
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More rendered light studies.

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Photograph of the exhibition at the A+D Museum above and a long section through the exhibition layout below, depicting the light track, box lights, and wall partitions.

In 2018, the show moved to the Yale School of Architecture Gallery.

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©Rich House Photography

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Rich House Photography capturing views at the Yale School of Architecture Gallery.

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©Rich House

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Perhaps our favorite box light leaned against the corner of the room. ©Rich House