Rock and Roll Fantasy.” Sound like a course you’d want to take? Last winter, a lucky handful of students at SCI-Arc—a legendary school of architecture and design in downtown L.A.—got the chance. They were tasked with project that would turn any architecture student a sickly green with envy: Designing a party pavilion that’ll debut at Coachella, the hipster music festival, being headlined this year by Paul McCartney, Leonard Cohen, M.I.A., and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs…The course was taught by three principals at Ball-Nogues—Benjamin Ball, Gaston Nogues, and Andrew Lyon—with directives from Coachella’s art curator, Philip Blaine. Ball-Nogues knows temporary party spaces, they cut their teeth with an award-winning vortex of golden scales, and went on to design a few more: An outdoor installation at P.S.1. via…
I can’t wait to see this next weekend! Hopefully I will be able to get some photos of it’s installation so we can see the progression.
Anyone remember when I was so lost I was pretty sure I wasn’t in LA anymore? I was on the midterm for this class so I could help choose the piece. While I am sad that I didn’t get to see it while trying to get back from wherever I was, it looks like they really used their good decision making skills(and a little of my tastes that have rubbed off on not-so-innocent bystanders).
April 09, 2009, 12:30pm
