E-1027: Design for Living | Staged Reading
Where: Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Pl.
212-683-0023 Price: $15
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How do we put modernist design and architecture into words? That is what architect-designer Eileen Gray and architect-critic Jean Badovici attempted to do in the 1920s with their conversations, published as From Eclecticism to Doubt in L’Architecture Vivante, 1929. Together, as partners in work and love, they built a house by the sea–code name E-1027–that illustrated the questions explored in their dialogues. Paramount was Gray’s position that design is “not a matter of simply constructing beautiful ensembles of lines, but above all dwellings for people.”
Join us for a performance on Friday, June 26, as these groundbreaking discussions between Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici are brought to life by two actors, Anne Priol and Mica Smadja, through a staged reading adapted by artist Elizabeth Lennard. Together, Gray and Badovici, Priol and Smadja, chart out early modern design principles as they discuss the relation of house to landscape and climate, how to harmonize the interior with the exterior; and the cold calculations of architectural theory versus human emotions. Gray and Badovici express opposite points of view until they find a new way to design and build together and reconcile their differences.
Performed by: Anne Priol and Mica Smadja
Organized by: Center for Architecture
Price: $10 for AIA members and students with valid ID; $15 for non-members
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