Wines exhibits architecture work in Orleans, France

James Wines, professor of architecture, is exhibiting his work in an international exhibition, Architecture in Context, through July 20, 2002, at Fonds Regional D'art Contemporain du Centre (FRAC) in Orleans, France. The exhibition features Wines' models and drawings for architecture and landscape architecture projects since 1960, including work he completed for SITE, a multi-disciplinary environmental arts and architecture organization he founded in 1970.

Wines' work represents a fusion of art, architecture and the surrounding environment. His early works, which he called "Landsite Sculptures," integrate architectural elements with the natural terrain. In the 1970s, when the ideals of social responsibility dominated many professions, Wines focused on creating designs that responded to social, psychological and contextual influences as part of a concept of integrated systems that reflected the emerging age of technology and ecology. Through design, he investigated the similarities between technological interactivity and the natural interactivity of ecology.

SITE, a New York-based firm, consists of a team of architects, landscape designers, artists and technicians who see the arts as a fusion of related ideas. As such, SITE is dedicated to creating designs that effectively communicate the importance of social and environmental responsibility through four elements of "environmental thinking" — aesthetics, context, information and ecology.

For more information on SITE, visit www.siteenvirodesign.com.
For more information on the Frac Center, visit http://www.frac-centre.asso.fr/public/acc_en.htm.