The Esther M. Klein Art Gallery (EKG) at the University City Science Center presents the exhibition, Frozen Architecture Meets Dynamic Architecture, a series of photographic prints taken from snow research laboratories of the United States Department of Agriculture. These images offer a fantastic view into architectural landscapes, rarely seen outside of a microscopic world.
Through the use of a Low Temperature Scanning Electron Microscope (LTEM), the solid structure of ice crystals becomes visible and reveal an architectural structure comprised of massive forms that are extremely fragile, delicate and highly intricate, and that seem to be impossibly supported.
In parallel with Frozen Architecture, EKG presents LabStudio*, a new collaboration between PennDesign’s Non-Linear Systems Organization (NSO), and UPenn’s Institute for Medicine and Engineering (IME). This exhibit features recent research projects between the NSO and the IME, detailing how non-linear architectural analysis of biological Surface design, Motility and Networking can generate new paradigms and hypotheses in Biomedicine, resulting in new models for experimental and Dynamic Architecture. Contributors include: Wei Wang, Agne Taraseviciute, Erica Swesey Savig, Mathieu Tamby, Allison Schue and Jan Baranski.