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  • New York, NY / 2019

    Drawing Codes / Theory of Forms

    • Design
    • Fabrication
    Text—codes, standards, and specifications—shape the form of contemporary buildings in a measure far greater than lines. ...more
  • Oakland, CA / 2018

    Catherine Wagner / Archæology in Reverse

    • Exhibition Design
    • Fabrication
    For the 2018 exhibition marking the end of Catherine Wagner’s tenure as the Dean of the Arts at Mills College in Oakland, modem collaborated with the artist to create a series of architectural instruments and interventions within the fabric of the Mills College Art Museum. Enabling what Wagner terms ‘Archaeology in Reverse,’ these building-scaled periscopes, filters, furniture and landscapes frame photographs, sculptures, performances, and, above all, the 100-year old architecture of the museum itself. ...more
  • San Francisco, CA / 2018

    YBCA BAN8 / Eureka: 2,492 Items (lost, found, wanted)

    • Design
    • Fabrication
    This map explores the risks and rewards of living in the Bay Area. Modem used custom software tools and a modified IBM Wheelwriter typewriter to imprint aggregated text onto 263 letter-sized pages, juxtaposing quotidien interactions with the density of geological hazards present in the physical landscape. ...more
  • San Francisco, CA / 2018

    Doug Hall / Song of Ourselves (After Walt Whitman)

    • Exhibition Design
    • Fabrication
    2018 modem Projects / Doug Hall: Song of Ourselves (After Walt Whitman) / Photo Credit: John Janca
    Modem designed the installation for Doug Hall's 2-channel video piece, shown at the Rena Bransten Gallery in 2018. A tensile structure allowed a 10-foot cantilevered screen to extend into the gallery, and was paired with an anamorphic projection of the video's second channel onto the gallery walls. ...more
  • San Francisco Bay Area, CA / 2018

    Resilient by Design / Whiteboard Odyssey

    • Research
    • Urban Design
    Modem was part of one of the ten teams selected to participate in the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge. In this year-long ideas competition, interdisciplinary design teams worked alongside community members to identify critical areas throughout the Bay Area and to propose community-based solutions to strengthen the region’s resilience to sea-level rise, severe storms, flooding and earthquakes. ...more
  • New York, NY / 2017

    Visionaire Racing / Laura

    • Design
    • Fabrication
    Laura was one entry in a group show of commissioned and functional toy race cars curated by Visionaire World. The cars formed an urban simulation on a large-scale racing track. ...more
  • Chicago, IL / 2013

    Modern Cartoonist, the Art of Daniel Clowes

    • Exhibition Design
    • Fabrication
    This exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago was first developed as an installation for the Oakland Museum of California in 2012. A series of uncannily-scaled furnishings engaged the body of the viewer at a range of intimate scales. ...more
  • San Francisco, CA / 2012

    The Utopian Impulse / Local Code

    • Exhibit
    • Fabrication
    • Video
    An installation on the San Francisco Local Code Case Study was featured as part of the exhibit The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area, curated by Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher at SFMOMA and shown from March 31 – July 29, 2012. ...more
  • New York City, NY / 2015

    Measure / Storefront

    • Urban Design
    • Fabrication
    As an invited contribution to the 2015 exhibition Measure, modem’s Nicholas de Monchaux produced a series of alternative facades for the Storefront for Art and Architecture. ...more
  • Mojave Desert, CA / 2019

    • Travel
    • Research
    • Teaching
    ...more