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Feathered Edge: Ball-Nogues at MOCA

Marble matters– exploring Carrara’s legacy

Sixteen young international architects took part in two intensive training days in Carrara, organized by FUM Academy and YACademy, featuring visits to the marble quarries and a design workshop focused on the use of the material.

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Feathered Edge: A New Installation by Ball-Nogues Studio is an ambitious site-specific project by the innovative Los Angeles–based design and fabrication firm led by Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues. In this exhibition, curated by Brooke Hodge and coordinated by MOCA Curator Alma Ruiz, over 21 miles of coloured strings configured in catenary curves span the gallery space to form a dynamic environment. The studio works with unusual materials, develops new digital tools, and applies architectural techniques in unorthodox ways to create experimental built environments that enhance and celebrate the potential for social interaction through sensation, spectacle, and physical engagement. Their past projects include Echoes Converge, an installation for the Venice Architecture Biennale (2008), the competition-winning Liquid Sky installation for P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center’s Young Architects Program (2007), and Maximilian’s Schell at Materials + Applications in Los Angeles (2006).

Images: installation view of Feathered Edge: a new Installation by Ball-Nogues Studio at MOCA Pacific Design Center, 2009. Photo by Brian Forrest

Tomorrow's energy comes from today's ideas

Enel extends the date to join the international “WinDesign” contest to August 30, 2025. A unique opportunity to imagine the new design of wind turbines.

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