Daniel López-Pérez (Spanish, b.1973) and Jesse Reiser (American, b.1958) and Nanako Umemoto (Japanese) of Princeton University (USA, est.1746) in collaboration with Julian Harake (American, b.1991) and Katherine Leung (Hongkonger, b.1992) of Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture (USA, est.1986), Lukas Fitze (Swiss, b.1968) and Jan Pistor (Swiss) of iart (Switzerland, est.2001), Pablo Kobayashi (Mexican, b.1976) of Unidad de Protocolos (Mexico, est.2010), Lars Müller (Norwegian, b.1955) of Lars Muller Publishers (Switzerland, est.1983) and Kira McDonald (American) of Princeton University
Daniel López-Pérez; Reiser + Umemoto; Princeton University School of Architecture
Geoscope 2: Worlds
Album
Description
Geoscope 2 is an immersive, inflatable, multimedia split-sphere occupied by the public. Starting with the legacy of R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), whose planetary thinking aimed to measure physical experience into an ever-expanding pattern of relationships, Geoscope 2 joins a century-long exploration of the world as an architectural project. It is a capsule and cockpit from which to experience six decades of architectural thinking at a planetary scale. If Fuller’s original Geoscope project aimed for a more comprehensive understanding of one’s relationship to the world, Geoscope 2 similarly challenges its occupants to gain an expanded planetary understanding, but now through contemporary means. Presenting the work of architecture students, theorists, and practitioners, Geoscope 2 offers a kaleidoscope of contemporary thoughts and visions at the planetary scale—from the widest reaches of the discipline—and responds to the current tsunami of upheavals within our global society and the natural world.
WITH THE ADDITIONAL SUPPORT OF
Monica Ponce de Leon, Dean and Professor of Architectural Design, Princeton University School of Architecture
Noelle Norton, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Art, Architecture, and Art History College of Arts and Sciences, University of San Diego
Supracor, Inc.
Spanish Government Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban
Agenda Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)
Production credits
Curatorial Design: Daniel López-Pérez, University of San Diego, Jesse Reiser, Princeton University School of Architecture
Geoscope 2 Design: Jesse Reiser, Nanako Umemoto, Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture
RUR Architecture Team: Julian Harake, Katherine Leung Inflatable Design: Pablo Kobayashi / Unidad de Protocolos UdP
Fabrication Team: Lucía Aumann, Ernesto Falabella, Emilio Robles, Pablo Kobayashi
Experience Design: Jan Pistor and Lukas Fitze, iart
Graphic Design: Lars Müller, Esther Butterworth / Lars Müller Publishers
Logistics Coordinator: Kira McDonald
Fabrication: Grey Wartinger, Bill Tansley, Princeton University School of Architecture Staff
