Jeffrey Sipprell

April 11, 2005

Xefirotarch Wins PS 1 Competition

Xefirotarch has been selected the winner of this year's MoMA/PS1 Young Architects Program and will be building the pavilion for the 2005 WarmUp. He recently sat down with a couple of editors from Archinect to discuss his work and the project specifically in more detail.

"..the project had this kind of cross condition between cartoons, and amateur pornography. It tried to restore the notion of play, and ways of creating multiple scales to be discovered and occupied in multiple ways. There is a very conscious development of the problem of the cartoon which is a steady by-product of techniques that explore the grotesque and the horrific, with a kind of childish, playful attitude..."

Hernan is beginning to explore a compelling discourse into what the generation of these forms begin to mean. Many are seduced by the imagery of these topological surfaces while for others, like myself, it is more so by the implications to conventional methods of fabrication and representation. If Hernan can pull this off come summertime (and I am very interested to see what methods he employs to get this built), he will have cemented his role as a central figure in contemporary arch. and without a doubt elevated the work to a new level. Let's just hope he doesn't become too much of a rockstar after this and start teaching at 4 different graduate schools.

Posted by jsipprell at April 11, 2005 11:57 PM

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