Extension Gallery is an experimental forum for testing new thought and practice in architecture. It is a platform for dialog between national and international practices and investigation of the relations between architecture and other disciplines. The gallery commissions architects that adopt a diverse set of architectural theories to design and construct site-specific installations that transform the gallery space with their work and allow visitors to explore and experience current architectural thought in practice.
Philippe Rahm: Descent
The Descent is an installation of three nested spaces that offer a voyage of vertiginous descent inside atmospheric parameters of space. The envelopes introduce, in succession, a decline in temperature, illumination, and humidity. The Descent sensitizes the visitor to the transformation of architecture in correlation to climatic global warming and the construction of atmospheres as a new tool of organization in architecture. Philippe Rahm’s work challenges the architectural notion “form follows function” or “function follows form,” and instead suggests that architecture should follow climate.
The exhibition was sponsored by Extension Gallery and Podmajersky, Inc.
April 13th through Aug. 18th 2007
