LEVENBETTS: Thirteen American Houses, Nine City Blocks, Three Wood Dwellings

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^{Thirteen American Houses, Nine City Blocks, Three Wood Dwellings installation at Fay Jones School of Architecture, University of Arkansas (2024). © LEVENBETTS}

Thirteen American Houses, Nine City Blocks, Three Wood Dwellings
Exhibition 
Mon, Jan 27 – Mon, Mar 24
Campbell East Wing Gallery

Gallery Talk
Mon, Feb 24
5PM, Followed by a Reception
Campbell 153

This exhibition is about different ways of looking at dwelling in America. Since there is no single answer that architecture can provide to solve problems—to propose esthetic solutions and to create high performance shelter for everyone, looking at a range of scales, technologies and domestic patterns is our charge as architects and is what this exhibition is about. Ways of looking is relativistic and gives us multiple perspectives, guarding against the tyranny of the singular view. 

THIRTEEN AMERICAN HOUSES looks at the single family house in the work of LEVENBETTS as captured in a book called Thirteen Ways of Looking at a House. 

NINE CITY BLOCKS looks at the densification of the low level American city in a project called City of Trees and is based on repeatable prototypes constructed of mass timber and on plants and trees as critical components in a healthy city. 

THREE WOOD DWELLINGS looks at the anatomy of a single large block in the City of Trees project and the anatomy of the variable timber based prototypes that comprise the dwellings in the larger proposal.

About LEVENBETTS

LEVENBETTS is an award winning New York City based architecture practice. The office was founded by David Leven and Stella Betts in 1997 and focuses on design at all scales including urban design, public architecture, houses and housing, commercial workspaces, exhibitions and furniture. The office employs a variety of methods to arrive at innovative solutions within the programs and sites of architecture.

LEVENBETTS work has been recognized nationally and internationally through awards, exhibitions and publications. The office has won sixteen AIA awards, most recently for the East Flatbush Public Library, Zoid Pavilion, Square House and Cornell University Rhodes Hall.