Los Angeles’ A+D Museum is hosting the world’s first major exhibit featuring architecture visualization as an art form. Instead of a linear journey from blueprints to building information modeling (BIM), the Wireframes exhibit showcases a loose collection of significant moments in the field.
In Wireframes, the museum focuses on how we see architecture and design through a mixture of artwork and “stories” curated by more than 30 artists and firms. Instead of following architecture visualization from its beginning to today, these stories shine light on important times for the field, whether it was shaping other fields or being shaped itself by outside forces.
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The exhibit uses illustrations, projections and interactive virtual reality (VR) environments to express the history of the medium. The central feature is an interactive dome that shows 3D projections and two possible VR experiences—the making of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Trinity Chapel and Zaha Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev Center.
Wireframes launched Sept. 8 as part of The Assembly, the museum’s seasonal unveiling of new exhibits. It shares the spotlight with five other new exhibits being opened to the public. Far from diminishing the importance of the exhibit, the setup is aligned with Kanner and Zimmerman’s original vision for the museum.
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