Canadian Art Reviews “Making Models of Conformity” at the University of Toronto
LAMAS is featured in Canadian Art’s review “Making Models of Conformity,” published on October 4, 2017, covering the Making Models exhibition at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. The exhibition brought together nine architecture studios and collectives invited to propose speculative public-space interventions for the university’s Sir Daniel Wilson Quad, with LAMAS among the participating practices.
The review situates the exhibition within broader questions about how architectural models operate as both representational tools and instruments for imagining public space. It reflects on how the projects on view—produced as speculative, functional, and relational models—test ideas about how architecture constructs and frames notions of “the public,” particularly within institutional and urban contexts.
Within this framework, LAMAS’ proposal, Nowhere, Now Here, is discussed as engaging ideas of placelessness and mediated perception in the campus quad. The project is positioned among a set of experimental works that use modelling not only to propose form, but to interrogate how architectural representation shapes experience, access, and collective imagination in shared urban environments.