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Pratt Manhattan Gallery installation. Assembled in large or small groups, the tables' sweeping radiused corners logic is extended to wall graphics to create a unified visual environment and consistent identity for changing venues. © Rice+Lipka Architects
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Simple table geometries frame individual works. Bartholomäus Traubeck's Years, which Traubeck utilized in a live performance at Pratt Manhattan Gallery on Feb 21, 2019. © Rice+Lipka Architects
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Installation view at the Columbia Museum of Art & Design. RL devised a modular series of lightweight tables that enables the show to easily tour. Courtesy CMA, © Drew Baron.
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Pratt Manhattan Gallery installation. Display tables vary in height to create a display landscape that can respond to the unique spatial characteristic of each venue. © Rice+Lipka Architects
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Pratt Manhattan Gallery installation. The exhibition is the first that brings together works from both known and emerging designers pursuing the passage of time as an area of inquiry. © Rice+Lipka Architects
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The display landscape varies in height & configuration to respond to the works & to the unique spatial characteristics of each venue. Courtesy Knoxville Museum of Art.
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Pratt Manhattan Gallery installation of Glithero's Blueware Tiles, 2011 (wall) & Ryan Mario Yasin's Petit Pli, 2017-18 (tables). © Rice+Lipka Architects
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The logic of the display tables' sweeping radiused corners extends to wall graphics to create a unified visual environment. Edhv, Morphodynamic, 2015. © Rice+Lipka Architects
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Plan perspective of Pratt Manhattan Gallery installation illustrating three semi-contiguous curatorial groups: Time Performed, Time as Creator, & Time Visualized. The graphic logic of the tables & walls resonate to create a unified visual environment. © Rice+Lipka Architects
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Display tables & wall graphics are rendered in three shades of grey, subtlety distinguishing between the three conceptual themes of the exhibition: Time Performed, Time as Curator, & Time Visualized. © Rice+Lipka Architects
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Installation view at the Columbia Museum of Art & Design. RL devised a modular series of lightweight tables that enables the show to easily tour. Courtesy CMA, © Drew Baron.
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Display tables vary in height to create a varied display landscape. Pratt Manhattan Gallery installation of Glithero's Blueware Tiles, 2011 (wall) & Ryan Mario Yasin's Petit Pli, 2017-18 (tables). © Rice+Lipka Architects

DESIGN BY TIME

Pratt Manhattan Gallery / Pratt Institute, New York

Proposal 2017
Project 2017-19
Completion 2019
Exhibitions 2019-2021

Design by Time explores how temporal issues can be generative for, and encoded within, a range of textile, ceramic, lighting, fashion, object, and furniture works. RL devised a modular series of lightweight tables that enables the show to easily tour. The display landscape varies in height & configuration to respond to the works & to the unique spatial characteristics of each venue. Assembled in large or small groups, the tables' sweeping radiused corners logic is extended to wall graphics to create a unified visual environment and consistent identity even as the physical context changes from venue to venue. The tables & wall graphics are rendered in three shades of grey, subtlety distinguishing between the three conceptual themes of the exhibition: Time Performed, Time as Curator, & Time Visualized.

The exhibition is the first that brings together works from both known and emerging designers pursuing the passage of time as an area of inquiry. Designers include Atelier Mark Sturkenboom, Auger-Loizeau, Maarten Baas, BeatWoven, Sebastian Brajkovic, Hussein Chalayan, Edhv, Patrick Frey, Front Design, Glithero, Marlène Huissoud, Humans since 1982, William Lamson, Mathieu Lehanneur, mischer’traxler, Jacob Olmedo, Diana Scherer, Sebastian Cox Workshop, Bartholomäus Traubeck, Nicole Wermers, Jólan van der Wiel, & Ryan Mario Yasin.

The project is organized by Pratt Manhattan Gallery and opened in New York City on Feb 21, 2019. The lightweight, modular exhibition subsequently traveled to five additional venues and closing on Aug 15, 2021 at the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design.

Rice+Lipka Architects
Principals: Lyn Rice & Astrid Lipka
Project Team: Yiyao Tang, Shuo Jiang, Daniela Leon, Safaa Alnabelseya

Curators: c2 (curatorsquared) / Ginger Gregg Duggan & Judith Hoos Fox