Architectural model?
Architectural model? A very valuable tool for us through the years and we have tried to challenge the concept of spatial, material and representation studies through model building. We have learned that what mind can see hand can build and vice versa. The idea began with this question; what if we can create the sensation…
Introduction by Thom Mayne
“The assertion of individual experience and its inherent therapeutic possibilities, coupled with the search for a transformative method, are the themes that Michele Saee reiterates in his texts and which are apparent in his work. His passion is to find his own affinities among unlikely influences, to make architecture that is receptive to found…
CASA & Design Feb 2008: Did I choose this painful profession of an architect or did it choose me?
“This is one of the reasons I have put the house behind a glass facade. These buildings don’t belong to Beijing they have no reason to be rooted to this place. At the same time, I also want people to see them, because they deserve to be looked at carefully, their visual beauty…
The Big Idea
“In Los Angeles, Eric Owen Moss, Morphosis, RoTo, Daniel Libeskind during his life in L.A. and after, and Michele Saee, prominent among the many, presented architectural strategies that, if not in fact poststructuralist, appeared when annotated by its authors as spatial and literary metaphors of poststructuralism.” Johnson, Scott. The Big Idea: Criticality…
Venice Biennale 2004: Trajectories
“The new architecture of Publicis strongly exerts its new character while engaging the existing structure with a mutual respect and crafts a dynamic connection with the city and the celebrated site of the Arc de Triomph. Revealing a fragile character of light and transparency that is at the same time strong, the old and…
Experimental Architecture in Los Angeles: Michele Saee
“Located in a suburban shopping mall, this design for a branch of Ecru, the high-fashion clothing store, uses many of the forms and materials of the original store on Melrose Avenue to create an expressive and open stage set for the merchandise.” Betsky, Aaron, John Chase, and Leon Whiteson. Experimental Architecture in Los…
Sci-Arc Gallery: “I Broke the Glass” Installation
“In the SCI-Arc installation, as well as in the Publicis building, the steel structure is a force of momentum, rising towards the sky with a kinetic spiral structure. Partially veiled with the shifting and overlap of the curved laminated glass panels, the entire surface achieves a quality of both depth and lightness reflecting…
30 Years of Emerging Voices: Michele Saee
Michele Saee was selected as an “Emerging Voices” award recipient in 1997 by the Architectural League of New York. Tsien, Billie, Anne Rieselbach, and Rosalie Genevro. 30 Years of Emerging Voices: Idea, Form, Resonance. New York: Princeton Architectural, 2015. Print.
Spazio Architettura Feb 2003: Michele Saee Retrospective
“The floor of the walkway hanging from the ceiling is made of pierced sheet metal to bring out the transparencies and the overlapping spaces, levels and materials give this otherwise anonymous Los Angeles interior energy and appeal. If we were to try to read between the lines of the Angeli restaurant, we could see…
Heteropolis by Charles Jencks
“One of the great strengths of the L.A. School and hetero-architecture in general is its ability to work with and against the existing context at the same time. Virtually all the best work of Morphosis, Israel, Moss, Saee and company is a conversion – typically of a warehouse. Some architects are at their best…