Brooke Hodge, curator of architecture and design at The Museum of Contemporary
Art in Los Angeles, will speak at the Syracuse University School of Architecture on
Tuesday, Nov. 25, at 5 p.m. in Slocum Hall Auditorium. The lecture, "Skin + Bones:
Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture," is free and open to the public.
Hodge will discuss the intersections between the two creative disciplines of fashion
and architecture, from the 1980s to the present. She explores the ways in which the
two practices share common conceptual underpinnings and how they have borrowed
from each other tectonic strategies such as weaving, wrapping, folding, pleating,
cantilever and suspension. Immediately following the lecture, she will sign copies of
her book, "Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture" (Thames &
Hudson 2006), in Slocum Gallery.
From 1991-2000, Hodge was director of exhibitions and publications at the Harvard
University Graduate School of Design, where she also held the positions of adjunct
curator of architecture at the Fogg Art Museum and assistant dean of arts programs
at the Graduate School of Design. She has organized exhibitions of the work of
architects Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Enric Miralles, Gio Ponti and Kazuyo Sejima;
theater designer and artist Robert Wilson; car designer J Mays; and fashion designer
Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons, among others.
Her most recent MOCA exhibition project, "Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in
Fashion and Architecture," is currently on view at Somerset House in London. She is
also working on a new exhibition of the work of Morphosis, which will open at
MOCA in 2009.
Hodge is a contributor to Wallpaper and also writes "Seeing Things," a bi-weekly
design column for "The Moment," The New York Times Magazine's blog.
Syracuse University School of Architecture is the fourth-oldest program in the United
States and is consistently rated among the top architecture schools in the country. In
2008, the school's undergraduate program was ranked third in the nation by
DesignIntelligence. For more information, visit http://soa.syr.edu.
