News
We were selected to present at the American Society of Landscape Architects 2017 Annual Meeting education program in Los Angeles.
Life Size: Innovative Prototyping
Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 2:30 PM 4:00 PM
Ken Smith, ASLA – Founder, Workshop: Ken Smith Landscape Architect
Mikyoung Kim, FASLA – Principal, Mikyoung Kim Design
Benjamin Ball, n/a – Ball-Nogues Studio
Party on Tuesday, July 25th 2017 – 6pm to 9pm
Following Paris and Tokyo, Los Angeles will celebrate the anniversary of the Iconic vase of Paris-based French Studio Tsé & Tsé at Please Do Not Enter’s Donwtown Gallery. Two exceptional tribute pieces, signed by the architects Ball & Nogues and designer Eddy Sykes, will offer an Angeleno tribute of “Avril” vase, celebrating its 25 years of success.
The original vase as well as a limited special edition will be also available.
RSVP : contact@pleasedonotenter.com
Benjamin Ball was invited to speak at the first Lightspace.California conference held in Anaheim, CA from Feburary 28 – March 2, 2017.
10: The Miller Prize Competition Finalists
September 9 – October 7, 2016
“10: The Miller Prize Competition Finalists” is an exhibition featuring the work of the ten designers competing for the five J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prizes. The ten finalists were selected through a juried process. The five winners will design, build, and install temporary projects in response to one of five sites, each of which is a Columbus icon.
For this exhibition the artist/design teams have been invited to present their practices as significant artists and designers. Each artist/design team’s identity and working process will be showcased through both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional artwork. This exhibition is a part of Exhibit Columbus‘s inaugural symposium of Fall 2016, Foundations and Futures.
Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday September 29, 2016, 6- 8 PM.
Benjamin Ball will be speaking as part of the symposium ‘The Architecture of Performance’ held UCLA’s IDEAS campus in Culver City on Saturday, September 10th.
A symposium exploring the state of the art in performance related architecture and its inspiration for temporary urban space making and public spectacle. Organized by SUPRASTUDIO Mark Mack with Industry partner Red Bull.
Morning Panel: The Art of Performance
Peter Sellars
Jun Kaneko
Peter Noever
Refik Anadol
Afternoon Panel: Performance as Architecture
Benjamin Ball
Jimenez Lai
John McGuire
Raffi Lehrer
Alex Dahm
Gerald Casale
Free and open to the public. Reservations are required.
RSVP HERE
eventbrite.com/e/architecture-of-performance-saturday-september-10-social-media-registration-27464744791
IDEAS
3961 Lenawee Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90016
T: 310.409-1604
aud.ucla.edu/ideas.html
Parking is available on site. Visit map here: aud.ucla.edu/pdfs/IDEAS_Map_2016.pdf
Benjamin Ball was invited to speak at Dwell on Design LA 2016. He will be on the panel titled “Alternative Careers in Architecture” with other SCI-Arc grads Saturday 6/25/16 at 3:45pm. #DODLA
XENOTYPES will be on display through December 5.
Monday-Friday 11-6, or by appointment
Design Matters is pleased to present a truly unique collection of global designers and artists in it’s next show entitled, XENOTYPES.
Xenotypes are the prototypical manifestations of specific design processes, where the end is a ‘design outside of design’ or an alien. Embracing the unexpected while chasing the different is not necessarily to be understood as a failure, ‘trial and error’, or variation ~ but rather an unforeseen expression of a genetic driver, built into the possible outcome from the get-go ~ yet outside the realm of the known. These mutants, bastards or xenotypes enter through the back door of imaginative practices; and often tap into an aesthetic of fear.
XENOTYPES was curated by Juan Azulay and Carlo Aiello for Design Matters and organized by eVolo and Makeform Media
Francisco Alarcon Ruiz
Alisa Andrasek and Jose Sanchez
Ball-Nogues Studio / Benjamin Ball + Gaston Nogues
Baumgartner + Uriu
ENSSO
Xarene Eskandar
Marjan Colletti
FLOWEN
Felice Grodin
Perry Hall
Alvin Huang / Synthesis Design + Architecture
Monad Studio / Eric Goldemberg + Veronica Zalcberg
MTTR MGMT
SPCLTPCS
We recently signed a contract to create a public art piece for the San Diego International Airport. The piece will be located in the new parking facility.
More info on the upcoming art commissions here:
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/nov/14/welcome-to-san-diego/
Coordinated by Synthesis Design principal Alvin Huang, the USC studio course and its accompanying talks focus on the topic of “Informed Form”, which explores the various ways in which form is informed by a range of disciplinary, technical, and performative influences.
Listed below are the second half of the lecture series. All lectures free and open to the public.
Feb 29
MATERIALITY & FABRICATION
Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues / Ball Nogues Studio
Mar 7
NARRATIVE
Jimenez Lai / Bureau Spectacular + UCLA
Mar 21
INFORMALITY
Barbara Bestor / Bestor Architecture + Woodbury Architecture
April 4
ARTICULATION
Jenny Wu and Dwayne Oyler / Oyler Wu Collaborative + SCI-Arc
Lectures take place at USC School of Architecture, Harris Hall 101 on Mondays at 4 p.m.
For more, check out USC Architecture’s Spring ’16 Lecture Series.
Ball-Nogues Studio won a commission to design and install a new piece in Colorado State University at Pueblo’s General Classroom Building.
