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 Ball-Nogues Studio has been invited to create a site-specific installation for the gallery space at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. 

The opening is June 1, 2012 from 7-9pm

Exhibition discussion is June 25, 2012 at 7pm

Check out the poster

Watch the Sci-Arc gallery page for upcoming info.

 Yevrus 1, Negative Impression

Constructed from non-architectural artifacts, Yevrus 1, Negative Impression is a disposable architecture of literal references that calls into question the contemporary architectural vogue for digital complexity and abstraction. The cast impressions of 1973 Volkswagen Beetles and speedboats unite to form a strong structural whole that serves as a lookout tower in the SCI-Arc Gallery.

After studying a variety of objects withing the Los Angeles suburban-scape, the the designers selected the individual components for their iconic and structural potential, as well as their availability. Once chosen, the parts were digitally scanned in three dimensions and cast in biodegradable paper pulp using a proprietary technique the studio refers to as a “Yevrus”—the word “Survey” spelled backwards. With this work, the first in a series of experimental Yevrus projects, Ball-Nogues rethinks the purpose of the site survey. No longer seen as a simple tool for construction and engineering, the survey becomes an instrument for finding form, seeking structural stability and realizing iconic meaning.

 Benjamin Ball will be giving a lecture at Woodbury University.

Department of Interior Architecture

Powell Gallery in the  Design Center

February 22, 2012 6:30pm

 Ball-Nogues to speak at San Jose State University School of Art & Design

BENJAMIN BALL:FAST, CHEAP, AND IN CONTROL

Art 133
February 28 at 5 pm

Info here

Benjamin Ball will be attending the “Whither Installation” conference. Information on the University of Michigan website.

January 20th – 21st

University of Michigan

Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning  

A + A Auditorium (Rm 2104)

Benjamim Ball will be giving at lecture at the Architectural Association in London on Nobevember 22, 2011. Entitled Fast Cheap & In Control

Yucca Crater

Located on Iron Age Road west of the town of Joshua Tree, Yucca Crater is a synthetic earthwork that doubles as a recreational amenity. This monumental basin stands 30 feet from rim to low point.  Rock climbing holds mounted on the interior allow visitors to descend into a deep pool of water.

Yucca Crater expands on concepts borrowed from land art, incorporating the prospect of the abandoned suburban swimming pools scattered across the Mojave. Ball Nogues have re-imagined these interventions in the landscape through a method of production where the tools of fabrication transform to be become objects for display in their own right. The structure of Yucca Crater was originally the formwork used to construct another Ball-Nogues work, Talus Dome, in which more than 900 boulder-sized polished metal spheres were assembled to appear as a monumental pile of gravel. The two projects were “cross-designed” such that the method of production used in the first (Talus Dome) has become the central aesthetic for the second (Yucca Crater).

This approach integrates concept, aesthetics, and production, inviting viewers to reconsider their relationship to art by-products while repositioning them within an alternative economic and geographic domain.

Please visit the High Desert Test Sites website for more information. http://www.highdeserttestsites.com/hdts

Since 2000, the Public Art Network’s Year in Review has annually recognized outstanding public art projects through an open call submission and curation/selection process. Each year, two or more public art professionals are selected as curators to review more than 400 project applications of work installed or completed in the previous calendar year and select up to 50 public art projects that represent the most compelling work for the year from across the country. The Public Art Network’s Year in Review program is the only national program that specifically recognizes public art projects. The field is advanced by the commitment of artists to produce exceptional work, public art programs and administrators who facilitate public processes, and the curators all of whom dedicate time and thoughtful detail. The Year in Review 2004-2010 projects are available on CD in our online bookstore for use in educational contexts and for public art advocacy.

Rendering of Yucca Crater

Hello friends of Ball Nogues Studio,

Our project – Table Cloth – won a 2010 Design Award from the American Institute of Architects at the annual awards gala held at LACMA.

Follow this link for more information on Table Cloth