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Exhibit Design
Advocacy Planning to Open Irrigation Channels in Isabela, Puerto Rico as a Tourism Attraction
The early part of the XXth century witnessed the construction of an extensive web of irrigation channels to distribute water to homes and farmlands in Puerto Rico along more than 35 kms. Still in operation to this day, throughout time different individuals and groups have acknowledged the scenic value of these channels; however, to most [...]
On Tracks: An Alternate Way of Moving in Old San Juan
Every 3 seconds a new car drives into Old San Juan. On regular business hours, more than 1,200 hourly vehicles complete the journey, for an average of 27,000 daily cars moving into the city. On special events, over 60,000 people try —almost always on their own— to reach the city… This 3-year exhibit installation evaluates [...]
View from the Scaffold Exhibit
San José Church was built in a gothic style between 1532 & 1735 as a conventual church for Dominican friars. In its 474 years, the climatic ravages of time and the lack of timely preventative conservation work have had a harmful toll on it. Having closed the temple to the public about ten years ago [...]
Un arquitecto de profesión… un paisajista de corazón… Adriano Rogés
This exhibit commemorates the life and works of Cuban Architect Adriano Rogés. The project intended to thread a narrative of this creative designer’s story through the juxtaposition of language, anecdotes, images, physical objects, and environmental graphics. The curatorial strategy was to present standard biographical content through the lens of four different viewpoints: The Architect, The [...]
Editorial Revés: 100 Questions We Have Asked About Puerto Rico
Concerned with how readers often fail to acknowledge and ultimately disregard the relevance of student ideas, reducing them to image-making, an Architecture School’s Dean struggled to find the best way to showcase such work. The School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico decided to celebrate its 10th anniversary by publishing and exhibiting [...]
Objetos de Gravamen y Causa: Interpretaciones contemporáneas sobre el tema del consumo
Contemporary social behaviors influence a contemporary art exhibit. This exhibit, divided in two, explored contemporary representations of the idea of consumption. The first gallery, Symbols, Icons and Signs: Shin Matsunaga and the Aesthetic of Design, presented the poster medium as a touchpoint with the consumer landscape. The design, based on the idea of the shopping [...]
Puerto Rico Gráfico
Urban walls conceived as text. The author/photographer relies on the lens to enhance an appreciation of the contem-porary urban experience by framing quotidian images and their messages, as they appear in well known places around the city of San Juan. Uprooted from their context, images are woven into a narrative of their own. An exhibit [...]
Noemí Ruiz y su espacio en el tiempo: The Exhibit
A retrospective must of necessity offer a survey of the artist’s career, and its particular museographic design will highlight the most relevant aspects of her contribution to the arts within the period and the historical and social context to which she belongs. The retrospective of the works of Noemí Ruiz offers the results of a [...]
Optimus Awards
A canvas to honor the work of others. For 10 years American Paper Corp. had been hosting and running the Optimus design and printing awards. During the last few years, the awards have been embedded within the larger event of Gráfica del Caribe, preventing them from establishing their own look, feel or identity. Even though [...]