SH is an artist/curator based in NY+LA whose photo/text/doc/video projects explore modernist architecture, urbanization, global tourism + international conservation.
The current project, CASE STUDIES-ARCHITOURISM, traverses modern versions of cultural travel, webs of architectural histories, ramifications of tourism on sites + the implications for the future of these pursuits in light of the pandemic. The website will take the the form of an international travel journal/archive of encounters with architecture - archaic-modern, vernacular-extraordinary + the connections between place + influences. The 2020 doc/video NEW YORK PAUSE… + the 2021 doc/video RECONSIDERING ARCHITOURISM are responses to different phases of this time.
Originally the LA projects developed as a visual, literary + historical search to comprehend an extraordinary modern urban terrain of nature + architecture. Projects have focused on the LA River, Olmsted Plan, Griffith Park, Franklin Canyon, LA vernacular architecture + the exceptional architecture of Wright, Neutra, Schindler, Gehry, Mayne,etc. URBAN FLUX explored views of international urban issues.
Perspective-The White City about Tel Aviv’s White City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its 1930’s modernist architecture related to the Bauhaus diaspora, led to the project SOME SHULMAN ARCHITECTURE. It tracks the career of noted 1930’s Israeli architect Ben-Ami Shulman who had emigrated to LA in 1960 producing work that ultimately revealed an ironic facet in the history of LA midcentury architecture. In this case the international architecture study directed the focus back to LA. The doc/video SOME SHULMAN ARCHITECTURE premiered at the 2014 L.A. New Urbanism Film Festival. The project was the subject of an exhibition at the LA AIA in 2015.
Projects are viewable on this website.
The ARCHIVE lists previous projects- email for images + further information.