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Boundaries in architecture are defined and redefined everyday given the fluctuating contexts of our global environment. These limits or borders mark the differences between the serious and the farcical, the useful and the worthless, the sustainable and the ephemeral, the new for the good and the new for its own sake; between mass appeal and sub-cultural interests; between the self serving and the altruistic.

symposium: “Failure is an Option: Positions on Research and Experimentation” with Thom MAYNE, Greg LYNN, Jason PAYNE, Kimberli MEYER, Michael SPEAKS, and Ciro NAJILE. Moderated by Neil DENARI.
Monday, 06/10
4.00–6.00 p.m. / Perloff Hall, Room 1102
UCLA A.UD
Los Angeles, CA 90095

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Join guest curator and editor Christopher Mount and Los Angeles architects Kevin Daly, Neil Denari, Elena Manferdini, and Michael Rotondi as they discuss the evolution of L.A. architecture over the past three decades. Moderated by LA Forum board member Gail Peter Borden, the event will shed light on the upcoming exhibition, “A New Sculpturalism,” opening at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA this June as part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., and celebrate the launch of an impressive accompanying catalogue, co-published by MOCA and Rizzoli.

panel discussion: A New Sculpturalism
with Kevin DALY, Neil DENARI, Elena MANFERDINI, & Michael ROTONDI
Thursday, 04/25
7.00pm / Vitra Los Angeles
8753 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, California 90232

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Neil Denari is an architect and principal of Neil M. Denari Architects, a globally recognized architecture practice based in Los Angeles. He is currently a Professor at UCLA. At present, his office is engaged with projects of various scales in the U.S. and Asia. Denari is the author of two bestselling books, Interrupted Projections and Gyroscopic Horizons, and is currently at work on Facticity, forthcoming in 2013.

neil DENARI, “Facticity”
intro. by eric owen MOSS
Wednesday, 11/28
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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“The machine aesthetic is everywhere,” observed the New York Times of HL23 when it rose above the High Line in 2011, noting that the 14-story Chelsea building’s eastern panels were partially manufactured on the same presses used to make parts for Mercedes trucks. This event brings Los Angeles architect Neil Denari (NMDA) and New York developer Alf Naman (Alf Naman Real Estate Advisors) together to discuss HL23’s realization, from its aerodynamic design and site relationship to its significance for New York’s high-end real estate market.

neil DENARI & alf NAMAN
lecture: “High Design at HL23”
Monday, 01/30
7.30–9.00 pm / Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Columbia GSAPP

1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027

2002

the store features neil denari’s characteristic continuous folding surfaces.

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2004

the facade of neil denari’s screening room for the endeavor talent agency is visible along camden drive.

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neil m. DENARI architects: The city of Maribor has a rich history and quite possibly, an even richer future. As the 2012 European Capital of Culture, the future will arrive in a hurry for this intimate, vibrant city. There is therefore, an urgency about what this future will provide for the people of Maribor and to what extent the new UGM will accelerate the conditions of urban life. Museums, as we know, don’t simply reflect the identity of a city, they transform identities through the material life of architecture. In this, a building must have the nerve to respond to a particular cultural energy, to be assertive, but how? In what way? At what cost?

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2010

neil DENARI’S sleek residential tower sits alongside the highline in the meatpacking district.

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THE ARTLESS DRAWING: NEIL DENARI, 1982-1996
IN ASSOCIATION WITH UCLA ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN
OPENING RECEPTION SUNDAY JUNE 6, 2010, 6:30-8:30PM PUBLIC RECEPTION IN CONJUNCTION WITH ACHIM FREYER SATURDAY JUNE 19, 7-9PM EXHIBITION RUNS THROUGH JULY 15, 2010

Image Credits:
Neil Denari, Tokyo International Forum Competition, 1989
Pantone color (seafoam green, bright orange, grey, red and blue) and Zip-A-Tone on Photostatic print
copyright Neil Denari - please do not reproduce without permission for the artist

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neil DENARI: commissioned by the museum of the city of new york for the fast forward: neil denari builds on the highline show on hl23, vert-eco is a 21ft tall painted aluminum structure that is an analog to the vertically expanding east facade of hl23. with a 6 ft wide counterbalanced base, two progressively perforated surfaces sandwiched together with an internal frame undulate up and out, creating distorted views next to the ascending rotonda stair. like hl23, vert-eco is a meditation on minimum footprint, maximum expansion concepts.

engineered and fabricated by dante martinez / tisi, buenos aires, argentina

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