The Green House

Seeking to persuade the general public that sustainable, or “green,” design was both beautiful and affordable, this exhibition offered the Glidehouse, a full-scale prefabricated house—living room, dining room, kitchen, and bath—designed by California architect Michelle Kaufman. The house was equipped with on-the-market sustainable furniture, appliances, and decorative objects. The show also featured a materials resource room and a wide selection of models and drawings representing green houses from around the world.


Press
Featured in a CBS Sunday morning segment and in the Washington Post.

“Activism starts in the Glidehouse…a case study in the welcome wave of domestic architecture: affordable, highly design and factory-built. The airy dwelling also offers visitors an immersion in “green” living, California style.
Linda Hales, Washington Post, May 31, 2006


Credits
Associate curators: Christopher Hawthorne and Alanna Stang
Exhibition designer: Lewis, Tsurumaki, Lewis
Graphic designer: Pure+Applied

New Hotels for Global Nomads

Through models, photographs, films, full-scale environments, and specially commissioned works of art, this exhibition told a multi-faceted story of the contemporary hotel from various perspectives.

Mr. Albrecht conceived the idea of the show and catalogue, selected all artifacts, wrote exhibition text, and assembled the design team.

> See exhibition catalog


Press
Feature article in Travel & Leisure.


Credits
Exhibition designer: Architecture Research Office
Exhibition and catalogue graphic designer: Alicia Cheng

Making Architecture

An inaugural exhibition of the new, Richard Meier-designed Getty Center, this show chronicled in models, photographs, and actual building components the 17-year process of designing and constructing one of the most important arts complexes of the latter part of the 20th century. In addition to Meier’s contribution, the show explored the work of artist Robert Irwin, who designed the Getty Garden, and Thierry Despont, designer of the Museum’s decorative arts galleries.


Credits
Exhibition designer: Pat Whempner
Installation photographer: Scott Francis