Materials & Applications: Architecture And Landscape Research

October 5, 2007 entry:
We’re watching the new installation going up. Exciting. The opening is one week away. Text from the M&A website:
“Opening October 12, 2007, an “extreme cantilever” built from aluminum and polypropylene rope will hover over the courtyard of Materials & Applications (M&A) in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. This structure is an outdoor installation created by Sci-Arc professors Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu, called Density Fields. Defying classification as either sculpture or architecture, the piece will flex with a gesture that extends imaginary lines of force beyond the small courtyard, seeming to pierce buildings and features in the neighborhood. “

September 26, 2006 entry:
A sort of indoor-outdoor art installation site. There are really smart, talented people on the planet and some of them set up M&A. This is a real “Happening,” and it makes perfect sense that Silver Lake is its home.