Studio Jacob

Vienna, Austria
Studio Jacob is a Master’s Studio at the Institute of Architecture, die Angewandte, Vienna, led by architect and educator Sam Jacob. The studio explores architecture as a form of representation—technical, cultural, and political—by asking who is represented, what is represented, and how. Through drawing, modelling, and material experimentation, students work with the medium of architecture itself, using making as a way of thinking. The studio embraces combinations: history and speculation, the everyday and the fantastical, figuration and abstraction—seeking to understand the kinds of architectural ideas these processes can generate.
Venue
View moreStony Island Arts Bank
Address
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Neighborhood
South Side
Description
Designed by William Gibbons Uffendell and built in 1923, the Stony Island Loan & Savings Bank at 68th and Stony Island was slated for demolition before artist Theaster Gates rescued, restored, and reconstituted the structure in 2015. One of Gates’s most notable spatial projects in Greater Grand Crossing, the Stony Island Arts Bank—a 17,000-square-foot historic building housing Rebuild Foundation’s contemporary art and experimental archival program on Chicago’s South Side — has hosted free exhibitions, screenings, performances, live recordings, artist retreats, artistic and archival residencies, workshops and classes in partnership with local and globally-renown artists over the past decade.
