ARCHITECTURE + WATER
Exhibition Design
Van Alen Institute, NYC

Exhibition: 2001

Architecture + Water celebrates the extraordinary design possibilities elicited in the coupling of these apparently contradictory entities. Although typically conceived as opposites - architecture is understood as fixed and stable, while water is seen as fluid and dynamic - the tension between architecture and water can provide the constraints and limitations through which imaginative architecture occurs.

The projects selected for this exhibit negotiate this contradiction as the catalyst for architectural invention. Rather than relegating it to its conventional role as an aesthetic feature, these projects directly incorporate water as a critical component in the orchestration of the design - opportunistically engaging water in its multiple forms, as a functional, physical and transformative medium.