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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.
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…