Salon Series: Taking Buildings Down

January 12, 2016 at 7 pm
Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street, New York

With Keller Easterling, Kelsey Keith, Richard Plunz, Jorge Otero Pailos, Nicolai Ouroussoff, and INCA (Curators of the Taking Buildings Down competition). Moderated by Eva Franch.

While building has traditionally been defined as the assembly of parts or materials toward the creation of a whole, our built environment is the product of many forces, reflecting tensions between creation and destruction, addition and subtraction, and erection and demolition.

Next Tuesday, Storefront’s Salon Series will bring together critics and scholars to discuss the implications behind the ongoing competition Taking Buildings Down. Participants will address questions of memory, power, politics, heritage, and city-making to ultimately expand the notion of what it means to build today.

This event also marks the registration deadline for the ideas competition. You may register for the competition here. Winning entries will be published, and three monetary prizes will be awarded to the best submissions.

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, January 12
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, January 20


This event is free and open to the public, with seating available on a first come, first served basis. Storefront members receive reserved seating. To become a member please click here. You may reserve a seat here.