Heading full speed into fall break, Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski’s studios are hosting several don’t miss events this week. Please stop by and check out the following events!

AARON BETSKY LECTURE & CONVERSATION
October 12, 5 pm
Room 127, Architecture Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
We’re thrilled to invite you to a presentation and discussion on “Architecture and the Future” by curator, author and director of The School of Architecture at Taliesin, Aaron Betsky.

Following the presentation and discussion with Betsky, graduate students from our curatorial and publishing seminars will inaugurate two exhibitions dealing with contemporary mediums of architectural and art representation with the works of artists, architects, photographers and poets from Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia, and a temporary reading room with a selection of independent architecture and design magazines from all around the world.

Exhibition Openings at Arch Hall
ME MYSELF & MY AVATAR
October 12 from 6 pm
Room 233, Architecture Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

FOLD is excited to present the third exhibition of its fall 2019 exhibition series “Me, Myself and My Avatar”. The group show presents works by LaTurbo Avedon, Juanito Olivarria/Luxigon, Pedro Bandeira and 18:25 Empreiteiros digitais and Sebastian Alonso Bessonart.


THE RETURN OF THE READING ROOM
Corbu Lounge, Architecture Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

FOLD is also presenting the second edition of The Reading Room, a showcase of international independent and alternative publications on architecture and urbanism. The Return of the Reading Room presents Real Review, San Rocco, MONU, Product Placement, Dirty Furniture, LOG, Clog, WASH, Friendly Fire, CARTHA, Works That Work, Gratuitous Type, Dolce Stil Criollo, NON-ISSUE and FOLD.


BETWEEN ONE & ZERO
October 12 from 6 pm
Room 104, Architecture Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

In his essay ‘Weak Universalism’ Boris Groys discusses the possibility of radical reduction of the image (of art, architecture) to a “pure relationship between image and frame, between contemplated object and field contemplation, between one and zero.” In this reduction, pure forms challenge the symbolic, ideological, programmatic, idealistic and utopian imperatives of images. A form of “weak universalism” (radical abstraction) is reached when architecture finds itself “between one and zero,” as the most simple of forms carry the deepest connections with our historical, material and ideological history.

Between One and Zero presents drawings, fashion items, poetry, photography and video works to challenge the iconographic role of architecture as an act of radical reduction. Work by Bruna Canepa, Rem D. Koolhaas/United Nude, Jason Mena, Oliver Haidutschek, Matteo Ghidoni/Salottobuono and Christopher Rey Perez will be featured.