OpenOffice

Based in New York City, OpenOffice, currently directed by Alan Koch, Lyn Rice, Galia Solomonoff, and Linda Taalman, is a platform for art and architecture projects. The name declares the organization's commitment to a design process of Open exchange. Collaborations with artists, designers, innovators, and specialists invited on a project-by-project basis, merge diverse disciplines and stimulate conceptual investigation in an ongoing creative dialogue.

Projects range from museums and other public buildings, exhibitions, public art installations, and master planning, to curatorial and content development, retail branding/prototyping, offices, and private houses. OpenOffice pursues urban and land-use planning techniques, as well as new materials and product research and development, as active elements in architectural practice.

Since 1998 OpenOffice has been engaged in collaborations with artists in conceptual investigations and realizations of architectural projects, including Public Art and New Buildings. OpenOffice maintains a commitment to the visual arts in architectural endeavors.

Recent projects include Dia: Beacon, Beacon, New York (1999-present), a 292,000 square foot museum and accompanying programs designed in collaboration with Robert Irwin, comprising a renovation of a 1929 industrial building and new additions for the Dia Center for Arts permanent collection; Public Art & Exhibition Master Plan for Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (2001-present), with Public Art installations by Liam Gillick, Miles Coolidge, and Peter Kogler; Shiseido Cosmetics Counter Prototype in collaboration with Diller + Scofidio; and NhEW PAD (2001), a design for a nomadic, internet-order, multi-climate shelter prototype, in collaboration with Copenhagen Office, DK.

August 26, 2002