Publication

  • Possible Mediums
    Kelly Bair, Kristy Balliet, Adam Fure, and Kyle Miller
    Editors
    Actar Publishers, 2018
  • GRANTEE
    Kelly Bair, Kristy Balliet, Adam Fure & Kyle Miller
    GRANT YEAR
    2018

Ellie Abrons and Adam Fure, Rock Hut, 2016. Courtesy of the authors.

Possible Mediums presents a working collection of speculative design mediums by emerging architects. 16 chapters contain drawings, objects, terms, and descriptions defining mediums active in contemporary architecture. The publication arranges projects according to shared technical and aesthetic traits, creating a vibrant taxonomy of design. Through its many contributors, Possible Mediums establishes design as a collective endeavor, propelled by the open exchange of ideas and techniques. The project is not a systematic theory, a manifesto, or a banal survey; it is a projection of architecture and knowledge to come.

Kelly Bair is partner of BairBalliet, principal of Central Standard Office of Design, and co-founder of Possible Mediums. She is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Architecture. Bair is a graduate of the University of California Los Angeles Department of Architecture and Urban Design and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Toronto, Ann Arbor, Indianapolis, and most recently in the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial and 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture.

Kristy Balliet is partner of BairBalliet, principal of Balliet Studio, and co-founder of Possible Mediums. She is an associate professor at The Ohio State University's Knowlton School of Architecture and a faculty member at SCI-Arc. Balliet is a graduate of the University of California Los Angeles Department of Architecture and Urban Design and Philadelphia University. Balliet edited Visual Catalog: Greg Lynn's Studio at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Massive Attack.

Adam Fure is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, co-founder of T+E+A+M, and co-founder of Possible Mediums. Fure is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles Department of Architecture and Urban Design and the University of Michigan. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the Beijing Biennale, The New School in New York, the A+D Gallery in Los Angeles, the Architectural Association in London, and the Grand Rapids Museum of Art. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2014 Architectural League Prize and a residency fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude.

Kyle Miller is architecture program director at Syracuse University in Florence, assistant professor at Syracuse University School of Architecture and co-founder of Possible Mediums. He is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles Department of Architecture and Urban Design and the University of Michigan. His design research has been shown at the A+D Museum in Los Angeles and included in the AIA Emerging Professionals exhibition. His writing has been published in Monu Magazine, Pidgin, Project, Offramp, PLAT, Room One Thousand, and the Journal for Architectural Education.