We are based in Seattle, WA.
Organized by a handful of volunteers and registered as a not-for-profit organization, Space.City is an independent architectural group.
Our focus and purpose is to inspirit a dialogue among architects, artists, and others involved in the culture of our city.
As an information hub for Seattle's architectural community and to keep our community active, Space.City maintains an email list to communicate local arts and architecture events. By this network we support Seattle's other architectural groups and design organizations -- A:BC (Action Better City), AIA and AIGA, Cornish, DocoMomo, Henry Gallery and other museums, Suyama Space and other alternative galleries, Seattle Architecture Foundation, and UW School of Architecture. We welcome new members and encourage involvement. Subscription is free. Join us.
Space.City has a six year history of hosting architectural lectures and other cultural events in Seattle. Since our formation in 1997, Space.City has presented talks by more than a dozen artists and architects whose ideas and contributions cover the spectrum of creative and critical thinking today. The colorful list includes Tadao Ando, Cecil Balmond, Shigeru Ban, Gunther Behnisch, Alison Brooks, Yung Ho Chang, Brad Cloepfil, Rafael Fajardo, Luis Fernandez-Galiano, Carlos Jimenez, Toyo Ito, Daniel Libeskind, Greg Lynn, Eric Owen Moss, Anthony Pellecchia, Gaetano Pesche, Jesse Reiser, Michael Riedijk, Lindy Roy, Brigitte Shim, Werner Sobek, John Stamets and William Zahner. We have also hosted numerous informal discussion 'salons', three urban design forum with Seattle's former mayor Paul Schell, and two panel style symposia, "Libraries of the Future" and "Surrogate Bodies".
Upcoming lectures in 2006 include Plot, Klotz, and others.
Space.City works in partnership with Suyama Space. We thank Greg Bishop, Naramore Foundation, Washington State Arts Commission, Seattle Arts Commission, 4Culture, and Allen Foundation for the Arts for their continued support.
Carlos Jimenez lectured at the Seattle Art Museum on September 27 2005 as part of Space.City's 2005 autumn lecture series.
"My house and studio are a living thing. Their simple, container-like forms hold a thousand memories and a thousand more to be. Every day I look forward to crossing the street between each building, encountering on either short journey something I have never seen before, something I have seen countless times. As I write these lines, Houston's early spring saturates the city with the supplest tonalities of green. I am reminded of other springs, of other architectures, of the forgiving aroma of the sea. The world always moves slowly across the enormous weight of each day. Architecture invites moments of profound lightness; its volumes, its spaces, have the ability to ground us while revealing the ethereality of that which remains constant." excerpt from Carlos Jimenez, House and Studio, Reflections, by Carlos Jimenez.
Award-winning architect Carlos Jimenez of Carlos Jimenez Studio in Houston, is recognized for designing some of the countryıs premier urban facilities for art education buildings in which to create, study and appreciate art.³I imagine a democratic place whose rich student life harnesses each and every available space,² says Jimenez.
Born in Costa Rica, Jimenez moved to the USA in 1974, graduated from the University of Houston School of Architecture in 1981, and established his private practice in Houston in 1982.
A tenured professor at Rice University School of Architecture, Jimenez has produced work frequently published and honored, including a private library recognized by Architecture magazine in 2002. His works include the Peeler Art Center at DePauw University in Indiana, the Spencer Studio Art Building at Williams College in Massachusetts, the Glassell Junior School of Art for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and currently the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Pennsylvania.
Having garnered numerous honors for his designs, Jimenez is now a member of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury. He has served as a juror and visiting critic at universities and cultural institutions throughout the US and Canada, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Switzerland, Chile and El Salvador, and served as juror for 2004 AIASeattle Honor Awards
Harvard Design Press published Carlos Jimenez, House and Studio, Reflections, in connection with his appointment as Eliot Noyes Visiting Design Critic in Architecture at the Harvard Design School.