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Located on the front lawn of the gallery Didier Hess in Silver Lake, Materials & Applications is an outdoor exhibition space that puts up new installations two times every year. The exhibits so far tend to play with issues important to contemporary architecture, from new materials to sustainability, alongside projects that explore the often ridiculously wonderful possibilities of the built environment. Passers-by are always amused and intrigued by this unexpected open air gallery.
Nothing better defines the perils of suburban sprawl than the front lawn. One of the scariest moments in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands was not the boy in the S&M gear with the killer fingers but the endless stretch of perfectly manicured green in the town beneath the manse where he was made. Collaborators/spouses Jenna Didier and Oliver Hess have taken their front lawn at Materials & Applications and done just about anything the coteries of brilliant young architects they attract can do... More »
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