Prof. Okisiuta and arch students show in Poland
Rensselaer Architecture @ Poland.
Architectural Evolutions. Between Art and Science: Zbigniew Oksiuta & students of Rensselaer Architecture.
July 07, 2018 – August 18, 2018.
Galeria Arsenal Elektrownia.
Bialystok, Poland.
Professor Zbigniew Oksiuta recently closed an exhibition in Poland the includes works from various periods of his creative and research production. A significant section of the show includes work from his own students at Rensselaer School of Architecture — where he has been teaching since 2010 — and from other colleagues’ studios such as Lonn Combs, Adam Dayem, Fleet Hower, Carla Leitao, Stefano Passeri and William Virgil.
Students included are Okki Berendoschot, Carolyn Chalfant, Sarah Cimino, Andres de la Paz, Ashley Dotson, Zigi Feng, Wewen He, Emily Klein, Kevin Conlin, Lisa-Christin Laue, Victor Lo, Neha Mevada, Christopher Muscari, Hiroki Sawai, Joseph Skulski, Ariel Smith, Erika Vinson, Jason Wang and Zhe Wang.
Since mid-1970s, Oksiuta’s interest in new areas of architecture led him to experiment with organic materials – working in between art and architecture, and in collaboration with scientists from fields such as biology, chemistry and computer science — on the search for a “biological architecture.”
Works from presenting different periods of Oksiuta’s production are included in the show, including two installations. The first is a polymeric form made in Spatium Gelatum, a liquid technology he developed in the late 90s. The second is the result of a collaborative research between Rensselaer School of Architecture, the Białystok University of Technology, and the University of Bialystok, and examines the possibilities of controlled deformation growth in plants aiming for new vegetal forms.
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