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SITE (American architectural firm, founded 1970)
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Note: American architectural firm and environmental art organization founded in 1970 by James Wines, with Alison Sky, Joshua Weinstein, and Michelle Stone. The group embraced an unconventional approach to architecture, urban and suburban planning, with an emphasis of surprising, witty, eccentric and occasionally humorous designs. SITE first attracted attention in 1971 with a series of designs for the Best Products Company. Challenging the notion of the box-like suburban warehouse store surround by a massive parking lot, SITE's designs such as the Peeling Building project, feature a store front wall that appears to peeling away from the store's exterior. Notches in corners, tumbling bricks, and even a parking lot with parked cars submerged in the concrete became features of Best Stores across America throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. They also designed similarly un-conventional designs for Macy's department store, parks, and squares. Since many of their commissions were for commercial buildings, SITE's work became well known with a wide general public not typically aware of architectural trends. Many SITE projects were given wide exposure in publications and exhibitions, and were dismissed by critics as faddish, and praised by others as a legitimate challenge to the sameness of Late Modernism. Many of the ideas of SITE influenced the Deconstructionist architecture of the early 1990s, as seen in the work of Morphosis.American architectural firm and environmetal art organization founded in 1970 by James Wines, with Alison Sky, Joshua Weinstein, and Michelle Stone. The group embraced an unconventional approach to architecture, urban and suburban planning, with an emphasis of surprising, witty, eccentric and occassionally humours designs . SITE first attracted attention in 1971 with a series of designs for the Best Products company. Challenging the notion of the box-like suburban whearhouse store surround by a massive parking lot, SITE's designs such as the Peeling Building project, feature a store front wall that appears to peeling away from the store's exterior. Notches in corners, tumbling bricks, and even a parking lot with parked cars submerged in the concrete became features of Best Stores across America throught the 1970s and early 1980s. They also designed similarly un-conventional design for Macy's department store, parks, and sqaures. Since many of their commissions were for commercial building, SITE's work became well known with a wide general public not typically aware of architectural trends. Many SITE projects were given wide exposure in publications and exhibitions, and was dismissed by critics as faddish, and praised by others as a legimate challenge to the sameness of Late Modernism. Many of the ideas of SITE influenced Deconstructionist architecture of the early 1990s, as seen in the work of Morphosis. American architectural firm, New York City, 1969-. |
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SITE (preferred,V,display) |
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Sculpting in The Environment (V) |
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SITE, Inc. (V) |
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Inc. SITE (V) |
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Sculpture in the Environment (V) |
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S.I.T.E. (V) |
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SITE (Sculpture in the Environment) (U) |
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| founded by .... |
Wines, James Newton in 1970 |
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(American architect and environmental artist, born 1932) [500018039] |
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Sky, Alison |
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(American architect, 20th century) [500065322] |
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Stone, Michelle |
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(American architect, contemporary) [500066092] |
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Weinstein, Joshua H. |
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(American architect, active late 20th century) [500109065] |
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(American architectural firm, founded 1970) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American architectural firm, contemporary) ..... [AVERY]
(American artist, founded 1970) ..... [MoMA]
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