Art gallery L.A. Louver presents the debut U.S. exhibition of a new body of work, Shaping Accident, by Los Angeles–based architect and artist Thom Mayne. The exhibition is interested in the philosophical intersections of impermanence and materiality in relation to technology. Each artwork in Shaping Accident begins with a computer algorithm, which then translates an idea into physical forms that combine drawing, sculpture and printing.
Mayne is a founding partner of Morphosis, an interdisciplinary and collective architecture and planning practice established in 1972, as well as the Southern California Institute of Architecture. At SCIArc, Mayne leads the NOW Institute, a graduate-level think tank for urban sustainability and resilience. Mayne has had solo exhibitions at Centre Georges Pompidou and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.
