Contemporary Architecture, Modern Design

Martin responded to an invitation by Clay Odom to submit new research for an exhibition that ran parallel to the Weather Symposium, hosted by the University of Texas at Austin. The exhibition call asked for work that fit within the conference theme or could be new work made specifically for the conference. Mr. Summers used the opportunity to take a prior experiment regarding mid-century modern architecture and furniture that produced some surreal results and to further iterat

Martin Summers was invited to submit work for an exhibition themed around Artificial Intelligence in Architecture at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

Click image to expand A Purple Architecture is now available. The books editors Vahid Vadat, James Kerestes, & Ebrahim Poustinchi did an incredible job assembling a talented group of architects to submit work under the notion of “purpleness.” In the book’s prologue the editors set out the agenda: “The centuries old topic of how to represent reality, and subsequently how to supplant it, anchors these scenarios. In the past few decades, philosophers like Jean Baudrillard, Gille

Essay titled “20220202_02" Martin was invited by Bryan Cantley based on their friendship, mutual respect, and their prior collaborative drawing and modeling series ( objectspaces[s] + [ _   & Improbable Object[space-s] + ) to write an essay that added some theoretical context to the nature of Bryan's work. There were no guidelines other than a suggested set of possible themes and Martin was given freedom to take the essay in any direction desired. After many failed attempts

Martin was invited to contribute a short written piece discussing models that helped shape and inform the conceptual territory of the book. 150 different people were asked to contribute and were given freedom to discuss models in any way they desired.   Additional contributors include: Hitoshi Abe, David Adjaye, Stan Allen, Tadao Ando, Aaron Betsky, Marlon Blackwell, Preston Scott Cohen, Peter Cook, Neil M Denari, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Liz Diller, Evan Dougles, Winka Dubbeldam,