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TRANS SIBERIA
From January 28 through February 19 of this year, Warm Engine (Greta Hansen and Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong) rode the entire Trans-Siberian Railway, studying the impact of Communism on the design of the Russian and Chinese cities that grew up along the railroad. TRANS SIBERIA, a show of their photos and drawings, will be on view through April 16 at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture's Studio-X (180 Varick Street, Suite 1610).
Contributors
Greta HansenGreta Hansen was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. She received her B.S. in architecture at the University of Cincinnati, studied classics at Boston University, urban planning in Alghero, Sardinia, and completed her Masters in Architecture from Columbia University in 2009. She has worked in exhibition design for projects for the Morgan Library, the Smithsonian, the Jewish Museum of New York, and the Children's Museum of Manhattan.
Cheryl Wing-Zi WongWong worked to design spaces for the Venice Biennale of Art 2009.
Warm EngineWarm Engine is a transdisciplinary practice working at the boundaries of art and architecture. W.E. merges together film, costume, writing, installation, and the built world to narrate and imagine new frontiers in the conception of space. As a creative duo with art and architecture backgrounds, our work takes place on a variety of scales, whether our proposals are to modify a small room or a larger fragment of a cityscape.
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