Palimpsestuous Relationships by Bryan Cantley

form:ula is bryan cantley, and blurs the indeterminate zone between architecture and its representation. an alumnus of ucla, he has lectured at a number of architecture schools internationally, has been visiting faculty at sci-arc and woodbury. the san francisco museum of modern art purchased eleven of his models/drawings 2001 as a part of their permanent collection, and he was the recipient of a graham foundation grant in 2002. cantley has had solo exhibition at the bartlett [2008], as well as being the international guest lecturer at the bartlett school of architecture in 2008 and 2017. he has shown work in a number of other institutions, including sfmoma, uncc and ucla. his solo exhibition “dirty geometries + mechanical imperfections” premiered at sciarc in 2014, and work was featured in ad’s “drawing strength from machinery” in 2008, and “drawing architecture” in 2013. he has had drawings published in the journal of architectural education and numerous international magazines. he has lectured at a number of international and domestic universities. in 2016, he was a recipient of a krob juror’s citation for the memorial delineation competition, was included in the drawing futures conference and publication. he was featured in neil spiller’s books- surrealism and architecture [thames & hudson] 2016, and celebrating the marvelous: surrealism in architecture [wiley] 2018. he is working on a follow-up of his first monograph, mechudzu [2011], tentatively titled “speculative coolness”.


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