Lebbeus Woods, view of “The Storm,” installation, Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, 2001–02. Black and white photograph. Courtesy The Cooper Union, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Archive, New York. Photo: Amir Shahrokhi
A83’s exhibition program presents experimental projects in architecture, art, and design. The 2025–26 schedule is curated to expand access to this work and to continue increasing visibility for A83’s printmaking and publishing programming. The following three exhibitions highlight the breadth and focus of the program. The season opens with Four Five Six, an exhibition tracing the conceptual, academic, and professional practice of Brussels-based OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen over the past decade. Evolving from the forthcoming eponymous publication designed by Joris Kritis (Buchhandlung Walther König, 2025), the exhibition features 96 new serigraph prints of photographs by Bas Princen, Stefano Graziani, and Giovanna Silva, produced in collaboration with A83, alongside OFFICE models and artworks by Rita McBride. Cocurated by Jelena Pančevac (OFFICE) with Clara Syme and Owen Nichols (A83), Four Five Six is the firm’s first exhibition in the United States. Next, Architectural Drawing IV is a group exhibition within the ongoing Architectural Drawing series showcasing exceptional drawing practices of architects at various stages of their careers. This iteration includes Sofia Mercado, Isidoro Michan-Guindi, and Productora, amongst others. Many of the works in the show are commissioned by the gallery and produced in A83’s printmaking studio. Architectural Drawing IV and its associated public artist talks encourage collective, public-facing conversations on architectural representation. The Storm is a reinstallation of Lebbeus Woods’s project at the Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, originally on view from December 20, 2001, to January 31, 2002. A83 presents the original red rods in a new spatial configuration, alongside large-scale drawings reproduced from documentation provided by The Cooper Union, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Archive. Drawing on and supported by the Archive of the Estate of Lebbeus Woods, A83’s re-presentation of The Storm incorporates original materials from this important collection. Accompanied by an exhibition catalog, the installation renews access to the project while offering an in-depth study of and ongoing appreciation for Woods’s work.
Owen Nichols is an architect, curator, educator, and printmaker based in New York City. He is codirector of A83, a nonprofit architecture gallery, archive, and printmaking studio, where he has curated and designed over twenty exhibitions since its founding in 2020. He is also codirector of the architecture and design practice Chibbernoonie, featured in the US Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. He teaches at Cornell University and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union.
Jelena Pančevac is an architect and writer. Since 2012 she has been co-teaching with Kersten Geers at various institutions, including EPF Lausanne, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Yale School of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio. In parallel she is working at OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, an architectural practice based in Brussels. She serves as the editor of the academic and theoretical production of OFFICE. Pančevac is the author of several essays and books, including The Difficult Whole : A Reference Book on Robert Venturi, John Rauch and Denise Scott Brown (Park Books, 2016), The Urban Fact: A Reference Book on Aldo Rossi (Buchhandlung Walther König, 2021), Aldo and Hannie Van Eyck: Excess of Architecture (Walther König, 2022), Giancarlo de Carlo: Experiments in Thickness (Walther König, 2024), and Shonandai: Exposing the World (Walther König, 2025), all coauthored with Kersten Geers.
Clara Syme is an architect, curator, and educator based in New York City. She is codirector of A83, a nonprofit architecture gallery, archive, and printmaking studio, where she has curated and designed over twenty exhibitions since its founding in 2020. Syme is also codirector of the architecture and design practice Chibbernoonie, featured in the US Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. She teaches at Cornell University and at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union.
A83 is a nonprofit organization with a three-part mission to exhibit, publish, and promote experimental projects in architecture, art, and design. Building from the previous operation, John Nichols Printmakers & Publishers (1978–94), the organization continues to operate at the original location in SoHo as a printmaking studio, project-space, and growing archive. The 83 Grand Street location is used to produce exhibitions and installations, host workshops, and broadcast work to new audiences. A83 was officially incorporated and received 501(c)3 status in 2022.