new haven CONNECTICUT

Yale University SOA
critic: michael YOUNG

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

melissa SHIN: This project explores the vicissitudinous juxtaposition between contemporary art and the environment in which it is exhibited. A grid or lattice was imposed upon the site as a response to the studio’s challenge of building on a site with very little organized urban context (the Brooklyn Navy yard) but within a city defined by a predominantly strong grid.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Operatic performance seeks to compress a multitude of specific art mediums into a single temporal experience; poetic narrative, dramatic performance, music (both vocal and orchestral), costume, lighting, stage and scenery design. But, to go to the opera is much more than just the performance itself. It involves all of the preliminary anticipatory experiences of the opera house. The entries, lobbies, stairways, foyers, bars and restaurants are an integral part of the opera event.

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lexington KENTUCKY

Involution and Atmosphere
Works by Michael Young

Wreckage Upon Wreckage
Curated by Dan Lorraine
Work by Greg Curtis, Ariel Erestingcol, George Kontos, Stephen Miranda, Adrian Paules, Gideon Webster

March 25 – April 15
Land of Tomorrow
527 E 3d St.
Lexington KY

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

michael YOUNG: Botanical Garden adjacent to SCIArc.  The facility acts as a artificial reef for plants.  The program contains a temporary laboratory for genetic plant engineering set to eventually collapse under the weight of plants along side the movement, which overtakes and weakens the structure.  It investigates the idea of architecture as a temporary structure as opposed to the long held tradition of architecture as an eternal element within the world.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

michael YOUNG : The current model of the city relies on antiquated power consumption and distribution methodologies creating a sea of energy waste.  In the age of “Green Architecture”, we are told to repress and reduce the appetite of the building in order to save ourselves, but what if that model is inverted?  By way of kinetics, human/animal waste, etc., can we create a building whose energy output is greater than its input, creating an excess to share and support its surroundings?  Our interest within the studio is to explore how architecture through an extreme formalism can attempt to address these problems. This work attempts to mediate the physiology’s between animal and machine as a true consumer/producer. 

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minneapolis MINNESOTA

the prolific duo of michael cina and michael young form the creative collaborative of weworkforthem. by dabbling in diverse fields from architecture to performance art as well as entertaining a myriad of clients, weworkforthem has created an aesthetic that moves beyond that of the simply graphic. line overlaps pattern and image melts into symbol in their complex creations. weworkforthem’s method is that of excess in both the density of their work and the amount of work that they produce. their creations and overflow have found a home in their offshoot site youworkforthem where they sell the various manifestations of their designs.

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