SO-IL Exhibition

SO-IL / Solid Objectives - Idenburg Liu Exhibition at Institute 193 193 North Limestone Street, Lexington 9 September - 3 October Opening Reception Thursday, 9 September / 6pm The University of Kentucky College of Design and artwithoutwalls are co-sponsoring an exhibition of SO-IL’s award winning work in downtown Lexington’s Instiute 193. This event will welcome Florian Idenberg (one of the founders of SO-IL) as the new 2010 Brown Forman Chair of Urban Design at the University of Kentucky College of Design. Combining a host of experience from the worlds of architecture, academia and the arts, So-IL is a small office with a global reach. Founders Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu set up their Brooklyn-based studio in 2007 to be a creative catalyst, involved in all scales and stages of the architectural process. Recent projects include a house for designer Ivan Chermayeff in upstate New York, a shell-shaped wedding chapel in Nanjing, China, a museum for contemporary art near The Hague, the Netherlands, and a project space for Kukje Gallery in Seoul. SO – IL was finalist in an international competition for student housing in Athens Greece and is the 2010 winner in MoMA’s Young Architects Program to design an installation for the P.S.1 courtyard in Long Island City. SO - IL was also recently chosen as one of the 2010 Sukkah City winners. SO – IL has been featured in numerous publications including the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wallpaper* and Surface. The work has been exhibited in institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, the LA Forum for Architecture and Urbanism, and the Center for Architecture in New York. Florian Idenburg is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School for Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), and a Design Critic at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. Previously he held the position of Visiting Lecturer at the School of Architecture at Princeton University. He is a frequent lecturer, panelist and critic at universities and institutes throughout the U.S. and abroad. His writings appear regularly in magazines such as Abitare, Domus, A+U, and Mark Magazine. In his teaching he has been exploring the role of architecture in different social cultural and economical conditions. Part of this research is the subject of a book Idenburg edited, “Learning from Japan”, published by Lars Mueller Publishers in 2009.