Joseph_Grima_(architect)

Joseph Grima (architect)

Joseph Grima (architect)

British architect, critic, curator, and editor


Joseph Grima is a British architect, critic,[2][3] curator[4] and editor.[5] He is the creative director of Design Academy Eindhoven and co-founder of the design research studio, Space Caviar.[1][6][7][8][9][10][11]

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Career

Grima graduated from Architectural Association in 2003 and then became the curator of the Biennale Interieur in Kortrijk[12][13][14] Istanbul Design Biennial[15][16][17][18] and the director of Chicago Architecture Biennial.[19] He also became the director of the Ideas City festival at New Museum.[20][7][21][22][5]

In 2011, Grima became the editor-in-chief of Domus, and stayed on till 2013.[7][23][24][21] He has also been Director of Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC and the Artistic Director of Matera; European Capital of Culture 2019.[5] In 2013, together with Tamar Shafrir, Grima founded Space Caviar; an architecture and research studio operating at the intersection of design, technology, politics and the public realm.[25] One of the projects, FOMO algorithm-generated journalism machine, was presented in the 2014 Milan Design Week for automatically creating magazine articles from live speech as well as social media.[26][21][27][28][29][30][31][32]

Recurring themes in the work of Space Caviar include the impact of media and technology on social relations, and the design of domesticity. As curator of Biennale Interieur, Space Caviar presented a series of works and exhibitions including The Theatre of Everyday Life and the film Fortress of Solitude, which were together poised to ask challenging questions on the past, present and future of the home under the umbrella title SQM: The Home Does Not Exist.[7]

Grima has held various academic / teaching positions at Strelka Institute,[33] Architectural Association[34] and at Bartlett School of Architecture under Sir Banister Fletcher Visiting Professorship.[35][36][37][38][39]

In 2017, Grima was appointed as the creative director of Design Academy Eindhoven.[21][40]

Works

Some of notable works by Grima include:

  • Player Piano: A Subjective Atlas of a Landscape of Labour.[8]
  • Kortrijk Interieur Biennale.[7][41]
  • RAM House.[42][43]
  • Chicago Architecture Biennale 2015.
  • Archipelago di Ocno, Mantova.[44][45]
  • FOMO.[26]

References

  1. "AD Innovators: Joseph Grimes and Sarah Herda - Architectural Digest". 31 December 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  2. Rawsthorn, Alice (9 September 2012). "In the Shifting World of Product Design, the User Now Has a Voice". The New York Times.
  3. "Soviet Architects and Their Edifice Complex". The New York Times. 16 May 2007. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  4. News, artnet (5 August 2015). "17 Disruptors Who Have Completely Changed The Art World". Retrieved 14 March 2018 via Huff Post. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  5. "Competition: five SQM The Quantified Home books to be won". 26 January 2015. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  6. "The Home Does Not Exist". Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  7. "Interview: Curator Joseph Grima of Space Caviar". 14 April 2017. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  8. Caviar, Space (14 March 2018). SQM, the Quantified Home. Lars Müller Publishers. ISBN 9783037784532. Retrieved 14 March 2018 via Google Books.
  9. Grima, Joseph (14 March 2018). Storefront Newsprints 1982-2009. Storefront for Art and Architecture. ISBN 9780984361700. Retrieved 14 March 2018 via Google Books.
  10. Grima, Joseph; Wong, Karen; Kaufman, Dean; N.Y.), New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York (14 March 2018). Shift: SANAA and the New Museum. New Museum of Contemporary Art. ISBN 9783037781401. Retrieved 14 March 2018 via Google Books.
  11. "Joseph Grima to curate Biennale Interieur 2014". 31 January 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  12. "Joseph Grima on Adhocracy at Istanbul Design Biennial". 15 October 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  13. Moreno, Shonquis (16 October 2012). "People Powered - Istanbul Design Biennial". Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  14. "Interview: Joseph Grima at Dezeen Studio - Dezeen". 1 May 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  15. "About - Space Caviar". Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  16. Grima, Joseph (14 March 2018). Instant Asia: Fast Forward Through the Architecture of a Changing Continent. Skira. ISBN 9788861303034. Retrieved 14 March 2018 via Google Books.
  17. "Admin staff at Architectural Association". www.aaschool.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  18. UCL (25 May 2017). "Dan Hill". UCL. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  19. UCL (2 February 2017). "Dan Hill and Joseph Grima – Bartlett International Lecture Series". UCL. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  20. Zegna, Anna; Graham, Dan; Grima, Joseph (14 March 2018). Dan Graham: Mirror landscape. Fondazione Zegna. ISBN 9788867491827. Retrieved 14 March 2018 via Google Books.
  21. Lampens, Juliaan (14 March 2018). Juliaan Lampens. Reprint. Asp / Vubpress / Upa. ISBN 9789461170057. Retrieved 14 March 2018 via Google Books.
  22. "City of Design: Saint-Etienne - DAMN° Magazine". 11 April 2017. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  23. "The 2015 Innovation By Design Awards Winners: Experimental". 14 September 2015. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  24. "L'Arcipelago di Ocno a Mantova - Living Corriere". 14 September 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  25. "Arcipelago di Ocno". www.domusweb.it. Retrieved 14 March 2018.

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