Compact 1922.1 by Max Kuo
This work is part of an ongoing series of architectural investigations into the forms that have accumulated around the Colorado River over millenia. Including archaeological sites, indigenous lifeways, modern infrastructure, architectural settlements, and contemporary junk space, these images speculate on the architectural possibilities latent within the impossible hybridization of disparate human settlements whose origins range across time and space.
This work presents objects that exist "here and now" and their radical presentness in time and space. This radicality emerges from the quality of juxtaposition, where unlike objects can coexist in time and space, in this case, along the Colorado River. Set along a single river, objects that are prehistoric, modern, ersatz, monumental, and much more, recontextualize the associations and meanings latent within each.
Materials: Giclee Print, Unframed
About Max Kuo:
Max Kuo is a founding partner of the studio ALLTHATISSOLID and a Lecturer at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design. Max has been a Visiting Critic at Syracuse University, MIT School of Architecture, Tongji University, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and several universities in Seoul. He has previously practiced in the offices of Reiser + Umemoto and Fernando Romero Enterprise and prior to entering architecture, Max was an artist-in-residence at the Whitney Museum, Independent Studies Program and Red Gate Gallery in Beijing.
Max’s recent writings and design practice explore pluralism in contemporary culture and the creative and paradoxical effects of digital networks on architectural form-making. Max’s writings have been published in architectural journals such as Log, Pidgin (Princeton), Thresholds (MIT), Mas Context (Chicago), and POOL (UCLA).
