A video interview with James Wines of SITE conducted by Vladimir Belogolovsky of Curatorial Project
Video editing by Beata Belogolovsky
James Wines, a New York architect and environmental artist and founder of SITE (Sculpture In The Environment) discusses his iconic works: Ghost Parking Lot (Hamden, CO, 1977), Highrise of Homes (theoretical project, 1981), and, in detail, nine stores he designed and built across America from 1972 to 1984 for Sydney and Frances Lewis, founders of the BEST Products Company and prominent art collectors.
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Lecture by James Wines at the Center for Architecture, New York, 09.15.2022
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Content:
00:00 Preview
01:07 Introduction
04:33 Interview
04:45 9 BEST Showrooms
05:27 Sydney and Frances Lewis
07:00 Early abstract work
07:55 Focus on environmental design
08:27 SoHo as a hub of great artists
09:40 Iconography of buildings
10:53 Peeling Building
11:23 A building as a critique of itself
11:37 Bringing humor into architecture
11:55 Indeterminate Façade
14:30 “This is not real architecture!”
16:28 Bruno Zevi’s support
17:38 Publications on SITE
18:00 American character of BEST Stores
18:20 Operating on buildings
19:40 Environmental show long overdue
21:15 The Lewises’ art collection
23:46 Inside/Outside Building
24:00 Unbuilt BEST Parking Lot Building
26:40 On finding art in big box stores
27:28 “I never thought about a building before.”
28:20 Aiming at changing people’s minds
29:15 About Le Corbusier
29:30 A building as a sculpture
30:18 Tilt Building
31:20 Imitations of SITE buildings
32:17 A building as a construction process
32:55 Buildings communicating messages
33:20 A new language for a modern world
35:20 No more shapes for shapes’ sake
36:20 Use of anti-environmental materials
37:40 More on humor in architecture
38:00 On expanding architectural vocabulary
38:48 “I got tired of making shapes.”
39:15 Main professional influences
40:35 Art can be about ideas
41:40 “Why do what Mies did so well?!”
42:48 On Emilio Ambasz and Artur Drexler
44:20 Exhibition at MoMA
45:40 On Frederick Kiesler
48:18 Legacy
49:08 Deconstruction is not the point
49:40 “At 90 I deserve some sympathy.”
50:15 Recognition by the AIA
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