Momentum is building for FreelandBuck, founded in 2010 by David Freeland, 40, based in Los Angeles, and Brennan Buck, 42, who heads the firm’s East Coast outpost in Brooklyn. The past two years have been the busiest yet for the duo, who first met in a “difficult sites” workshop during grad school at the University of California, Los Angeles.
An ongoing installation at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, on view through February 11, 2018, has raised their profile considerably. Parallax Gap is a 10,000-square-foot fabric composition of 19th-century ceiling designs, cut on a CNC machine, stretched over aluminum frames and hung in layers from the ceiling of the museum’s Grand Salon, producing shifting views as visitors walk beneath it. “That work belongs neither to the architectural realm nor to art—it’s up for debate,” Freeland says. “We make architecture, but we spend a lot of time thinking about art,” adds Buck. “Parallax Gap was about trying to make a drawing in three dimensions.” Most recently, the firm was selected as a finalist for MoMA P.S. 1’s Young Architects Program 2018 installation.
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