The blueprint, invented in the 1840s, was ubiquitous in architecture offices—to which it lent a slightly acrid smell—for much of the 20th century. Now the medium confers a certain authenticity, a kind of Instragram-ish patina, says architect Florian Idenburg, though, he notes that paradoxically, a blueprint is also a plan for the future.
Building on that paradox, Idenburg and Jing Liu (his partner in the architecture firm SO–IL Solid Objectives) and artist Sebastiaan Bremer have created BLUEPRINT, a show for the Storefront for Art and Architecture (through March 21) in which 50 images are exhibited in blueprint form. (Many of the pieces were in earlier versions of the show, including one at MOCA Tucson.) Artists and architects (the latter group selected by Idenburg and Liu) were asked to look back and identify one “fundamental” work: the first piece that could serve as a blueprint for their later careers. Submitted digitally, the images were converted into blueprints by SoHo Reprographics.
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