INNOVATION AT THF STOREFRONT

摘要

Founded in 1982, Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City has a 30-year history of providing an alternative platform for supporting new ideas in architecture and design. Storefront's narrow triangular building, redesigned by Steven Holl and Vito Acconci in 1993, literally unfolds its facade on to the street, becoming something between a gallery/ event space and an extension of the footpath. Storefront's programme has always aligned itself with the unconventional and the experimental, and with the productively blurred zones between art and architecture. An explicit mandate is to support the innovative in ways that other institutions do not or cannot provide. As a swelling of the sidewalk, Storefront can be seen as a uniquely important architectural budding of the innovation imperative.