Two Pink Shells

Albert Chao (MArch/MFA ’11)

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Albert Chao is an artist, architect and tinkerer. He is a licensed architect in New York State and directs atypicalpractice, which speculates on the conditions that shape the everyday. His research interrogates the typical: typical behavior, typical design, and typical methodologies. He is specifically interested in the in/visibilities embedded within the labor of minor practices. Albert holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a dual Master of Architecture and Master of Fine Arts from the University at Buffalo. He is currently an adjunct instructor in the University at Buffalo’s Department of Architecture. He has been appointed Regional Curator of Artpark.

Two Pink Shells

Two Pink Shells is a temporary pavilion that uses acrylic scrap and heat to create doubly-curved shell structures without complex molds. The pavilion was designed and fabricated in Brooklyn, New York, and was assembled in Barcelona for the 2019 IASS Form and Force exhibition of lightweight structures.

Project Credits: Lisa Ramsburg, Princeton University; Edward M. Segal, Hofstra University; Powell Draper, schlaich bergermann partner

TOPICS: Architecture BS, 50+ Alumni Exhibition, Alumni, Fabrication and Construction, Materials