Invisible

Join us for the book launch of Invisible

Invisible is a book on St. Louis design practice, Axi:Ome led by Heather Woofter and Sung Ho Kim. A collection of essays, built, unbuilt and conceptual projects which maps the trajectory of the last seven years of work from 2015 through 2022. The book covers 24 projects in different cultures and landscapes around the world with various programs and scales. Nader Tehrani, Eric Mumford, Alan Balfour, Jennifer Yoos, Nanako Umemoto, and Jessie Reiser provide insightful texts supporting and articulating critical frameworks of Axi:Ome, while defining a discourse of complexities in contemporary practice that is emerging from academic expectations. The book documents the invisible ethos that constructs a project in an intricate world that challenges practitioners to re-think and re-examine how they position into architectural spectrum. Invisible cartographs and chronicles the legitimisation of architectural practice that engages the pedagogical visions of the profession and the education.

We are delighted to welcome Heather Woofter and Sung Ho Kim to the Architectural Association Bookshop to celebrate their new publication. The launch will be introduced by Tyson Hosmer. The evening will include drinks and a discussion with Dimitris Gourdoukis. The book will be available at a special launch price of £45 (RRP £49.95).

Sung Ho Kim is the Director of Architecture and Urban Design Program at Kent State University and Founding Director of Axi:Ome and was previously endowed Raymond E. Maritz Professor of Architecture and engaged in research with Biology and Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis.

Heather Woofter is the Dean of School of Architecture at University of Texas in Austin and Founding Director of Axi:Ome and was previously endowed Sam and Marilyn Fox Professor and Director of College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design at Washington University in St. Louis.

Dimitris Gourdoukis is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and is a Director of Object-E Architecture.

Tyson Hosmer is Associate Professor and Programme Director of Architectural Design MArch at UCL Bartlett.