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The Esther M. Klein Art Gallery (EKG) at the University City Science Center presents the exhibition, Frozen Architecture, a series of photographic prints taken from snow research laboratories of the United States Department of Agriculture.
These images offer a fantastic view into architectural landscapes, rarely seen outside of a microscopic world. Through the use of a Low Temperature Scanning Electron Microscope (LT-SEM), the solid structure of ice crystals becomes visible and reveal an architectural structure comprised of massive forms that are extremely fragile, delicate and highly intricate, and that seem to be impossibly supported.
Frozen Architecture was curated by Robert Krawczyk, Associate Professor, College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology. The images on display were collected and created by the Electron Microscope Unit of the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, United States Department of Agricultural, Beltsville, Maryland.
In conjunction with Frozen Architecture, EKG presents LabStudio*, a new collaboration between PennDesign’s Non-Linear Systems Organization (NSO), and UPenn’s Institute for Medicine and Engineering (IME). This exhibit features recent research projects between the NSO and the IME, detailing how non-linear architectural analysis of biological Surface design, Motility and Networking can generate new paradigms and hypotheses in Biomedicine, resulting in new models for experimental and Dynamic Architecture.
*LabStudio seeks to foster new and ongoing dialogues between architects and biologists. The LabStudio jointly investigates fundamental processes in (patho)biology and medicine at the digital, visual, fabrication, mechanistic and quantitative levels and in turn, explores the potential application of these digital and algorithmic tools in architecture. LabStudio was founded and is co-directed by Jenny E. Sabin, M.Arch. (Lecturer, PennDesign, NSO Lead Researcher, IME Member) & Peter Lloyd Jones, Ph.D., (Associate Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, IME Member & 07’ NSO Fellow). LabStudio is funded in part by Bentley Systems, PennDesign and the University of Pennsylvania Academic Enrichment Fund.
The Esther M. Klein Art Gallery hours:
Monday-Saturday
9:00am - 5:00pm
Free to Public/Wheelchair Access |
