‘Architecture’s Arboretum’ Exhibition Displayed Nov. 5 Through Jan. 21 in Vol Walker Hall

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Shark Senesac, courtesy Princeton University School of Architecture

The exhibition “Arboretum of Architecture”, which can be seen from November 5 to January 21 in the Fred and Mary Smith Exhibition Gallery in the Vol Walker Hall, was created in autumn 2019 at the Princeton University School of Architecture.

The Arboretum of Architecture exhibit will be on view Friday, November 5 through January 21, at the Fred and Mary Smith Exhibition Gallery in Vol Walker Hall on the University of Arkansas campus. This is part of the public exhibition series at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, which is now resuming this fall after the pandemic year.

There will be an opening reception on November 5th at 4:45 pm.

The exhibition is curated by Sylvia Lavin, Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University. The exhibition was created in autumn 2019 as the “Architecture Arboretum” at the Princeton University School of Architecture.

“Arboretum of Architecture” explores the use of trees in architectural design throughout history. Although glass, concrete, and steel are commonly viewed as exemplary modern, trees may have been the first resource to be included in the process of modernizing architectural materials.

Since at least the 17th earth.

The exact way trees were converted into goods varied widely, but 20th century architectural rendering techniques played a central role in controlling the process.

“Arboretum der Architektur” brings together materials from historical representations that heroize the dimensional plasticity of wood, from Fay Jones’ construction sites, which were organized as stages on which construction was carried out, and from a multitude of drawings by architects who are less of a representation Trees as the representation of trees were used to create new types of trees. The aim of the exhibition is to draw attention to the natural cult of modernity and its simultaneous abstraction from something that architects can no longer call nature, with consequences for the current moment of climate change.

This exhibit also includes photographs by James Reed documenting the location and construction of the Fay Jones-designed Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs. All Thorncrown Chapel photos were courtesy of the University of Arkansas Libraries, Special Collections, and Douglas Reed.

Sylvia Lavin, who curated the exhibition, received her PhD from Columbia University’s Department of Art and Archeology after receiving grants from the Getty Center, the Kress Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. Prior to her appointment to Princeton, Lavin was Professor in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA, where she was Chair and Director of Critical Studies MA and Ph.D. Program from 2007 to 2017.

Lavin is the recipient of the Arts and Letters Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her most recently published books include Kissing Architecture (Princeton University Press, 2011) and Flash in the Pan (Architectural Association, 2015). Her curatorial work includes “Everything Loose Will Land: Art and Architecture in Los Angeles in the 1970s,” a Getty Foundation-sponsored exhibition in Los Angeles, New Haven, and Chicago, and “Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernists Myths” at the Canadian Center for Architecture 2018.

The exhibition design comes from Erin Besler / Besler & Sons. Exhibition coordinators are Alexandra Waller, Lecturer in Architecture, and Charles Sharpless, Assistant Professor of Interior Design at the Fay Jones School. Show assistants are Christina Moushoul and Jessica Fraley.

Special thanks to Dean Peter MacKeith, Associate Dean Ethel Goodstein-Murphree, Jason Wright and Modus Studio, Angie Carpenter, Corey Booth, Justin Tucker, Jared Davenport, Austin Phillips, Hunter Craig, Fay Jones School Staff, Christina Rhoades, Cat Wallack and University of Arkansas Libraries, Special Collections.

Admission to the exhibition is free. The exhibition gallery is located on the first floor of the Vol Walker Hall and is open to the public Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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