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Indepth Arts News:
"Michael Kalil Retrospective: Design for the 21st Century"
2001-11-01 until 2001-11-30
Parsons Exhibition Gallery, Parsons School of Design
New York, NY,
USA United States of America
The Department of Architecture at
Parsons School of Design, a division of New School University, will open
a retrospective exhibition of the work of Michael Kalil. Michael Kalil was an educator, interior architect and an artist. Up
until his death in 1991, he was the principal of Kalil Studio in New
York City. Known for his innovative work with technology and materials,
Kalil developed a prototype for a space module for habitation, for NASA
(1984-1987).
The model for this prototype will be included in the
exhibition. Also shown will be Kalil's Electronic Communications
Center, designed for Armstrong World Industries, residences and
industrial designs. Kalil's work has been extensively published, and
exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, the Fort Worth Museum of
Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Sao Paulo Biennial, and MOMA, among
other places.
In 1980, he received the Interior Design Award for an automated office
space he designed for Armstrong World Industries, and in 1994, he was
posthumously awarded the Pratt Institute Alumni Achievement Award for
outstanding achievement in design. It was the fist posthumous alumni
award granted by the Institute. Kalil taught at Parsons School of
Design, The University of North Carolina, and Columbia University, among
other schools. In the early 1970's, he co-founded the Open Atelier of
Architecture & Design, with Giuseppe Zambonini, to develop new
approaches to design education.
In 2000, the Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart Design was established
at the Department of Architecture, Parsons School of Design. This
endowment will sponsor an annual lecture on natural/technological
systems, a topic of growing importance and urgency to architects and
society. The first lecturer in the series, William McDonough, a renowned
architect who has been at the forefront of sustainable design, will
lecture on April 18 in Tishman Auditorium at The New School. The
endowment will also award yearly grants to students and practitioners
conducting research in the spirit of Michael Kalil's designs.
Parsons' Architecture Department offers a BFA in Architectural Design,
the Masters of Architecture and an MA in Lighting Design. The
Architecture programs teach students about the built environment in all
of its complex forms. They examine the designed world in multiple scales
and social practices: from landscapes to furniture, from cities to
performance spaces. Students' interdisciplinary training and digital
expertise provide them with a range of career opportunities in the
design world, such as exhibition design, theater design, environmental
art, interior architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture and
digital/virtual space production.
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