Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art and Collaborative Design
June 14 – August 21, 2013

Opening Reception: June 14, 5:00-7:30pm

Gallery talk with curator Vladimir Belogolovsky at 6:00pm
$3 non-members
Free for BMCM+AC members and students w/ID

This retrospective exhibition illuminates Harry Seidler’s architectural legacy as Australia’s most important modernist architect. Seidler studied with Josef Albers at Black Mountain College in the mid-1940s and became a major proponent of Bauhaus principles of design in his architectural practice.

“As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part of the realm of art as it is of technology; the fusion of thinking and feeling.”   Harry Seidler, 1963 

PRESENTATION
An illustrated lecture about architect Harry Seidler by Vladimir Belogolovsky, curator of Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art and Collaborative Design.
Saturday, June 15, 10:00am
Free 

WORKSHOP
Color Catalogue
Sunday, June 16, 10:00am – 2:00pm
$35 / $30 for BMCM+AC members & students w/ID 
For artists and designers the practice of creating a color catalogue encourages an approach to seeing color and generating new color schemes for one’s studio work. In this half-day workshop taught by SCAD professor Marcia Cohen, we’ll explore a very direct method of color scrutiny and analysis with an emphasis on color organization and color proportion for later application in the studio. Bring a bag lunch. Space is limited! Call 828-350-8484 to register.

PRESENTATION
Modernist Asheville? – a conversation with Jim Samsel and John Rogers. 
Thursday, June 27 – 7:30pm
Suggested donation $10
Two legendary Asheville architects discuss the impact of Modernism on Western North Carolina. 

WORKSHOP
Cutting Spaces: Investigations in Collage and Architecture
Sunday, August 11, 1:00 – 4:00pm – $30 / $25 for BMCM+AC members & students w/ID
This workshop, taught by Nicolle McConville and Travis Medford will investigate architecture through the lens of collage. A brief presentation will be followed by participatory exercises exploring spatial arrangements, fantasy spaces and imagined architecture using found images. Materials and tools will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring their own source material as well. Space is limited! Call 828-350-8484 to register. 

Support for this project has been generously provided by AIA Asheville. 

Special thanks: William Langdon, Asheville Design Center and Susan Rhew Design.

The exhibition was developed by curator Vladimir Belogolovsky of Intercontinental Curatorial Project in New York with Penelope Seidler and Harry Seidler & Associates in Sydney and sponsored by Seidler Architectural Foundation.