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Exhibition

Presented by BFA Interior Design: Built Environments

Buildings Transformed by Interior Design

Dec 1, 2020 - Jan 9, 2021
Rendering of a designed space showing grayscale figures looking through windows at trees and greenery, walking up stairs, and exploring the depicted space.
Credit: Xixian Shu

SVA Flatiron Windows

133/141 West 21st Street, 1st floor, New York, NY 10011

School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “Buildings Transformed by Interior Design,” an exhibition of thesis projects by the BFA Interior Design: Built Environments (ID:BE) class of 2020. Curated by senior thesis faculty Gita Nandan R.A. and Anthony Lee, the exhibition will be on view from Tuesday, December 1, 2020, through Saturday, January 9, 2021, at the SVA Flatiron Windows, 133/141 West 21st Street, New York City, and online at svaidbethesis2020.com.


“The themes that dominate the work are relevant to the issues of our planet,” says BFA ID:BE Chair Dr. Carol Bentel, FAIA, FIIDA, ASID. “The graduates’ projects focus on such topics as sustainability, the environment, recycling, spiritual values, well-being, the restoration of dying arts, energy renewal, the revival of local cultural values, helping sidelined communities be included, the nurturing of children and adaptively reusing abandoned buildings.”


Featured designers are Hwanil Chang, Jinglan Fan, Kyungmin Kim, Hongyun Kou, An Kiet Lam, Youngsuk Oh, Ye Qian, Jiajun Shi, Xixian Shu, Jiayang Wang, Alexis Waxter, Mengqi Wu, Siqi Yan, Lan Yao and Tian Zhang.


The exhibition will be held virtually at svaidbethesis2020.com. Additionally, projects will be on display in the SVA Flatiron Windows space, at 133/141 West 21st Street, via monitors that are visible from the sidewalk.

Designed interior with key elements built from recycled industrial materials including a food stand made from a shipping container and matching set of table and chairs from PVC pipes.
Credit: Jiajun Shi
Brightly colored interior showing gently curving modular couches spread across a terrazzo floor. In the background is an oversized photo mural of transgender activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera walking down a street.
Credit: Alexis Waxter
Graphic depiction of a room designed with astronomical elements including a ceiling image of a galaxy and walls covered in constellations.
Credit: Siqi Yan
Designed atrium-like space with prominent vertical elements across the covered walls and trees planted throughout space. Several white-colored semitransparent figures congregate throughout the area.
Credit: Mengqi Wu
Airy designed space with light wood creating complex stairways in the middle of two different sections of a multilevel building.
Credit: Jiayang Wang
A figure looks outside an oversized window while surrounded on a space designed around traditional motifs, natural woods, and teapots.
Credit: Tian Zhang
Rendering of a designed space showing grayscale figures looking through windows at trees and greenery, walking up stairs, and exploring the depicted space.
Credit: Xixian Shu
Two semitransparent gray figures sit in two scooped orange chairs while surrounded by curved bookcases in a brightly lit room.
Credit: Ye Qian
Inside a very open interior space, oversized white Buddha statues sit surrounded by pink lotus blossoms as people walk through the space. Overhead is a grate comprised of circular and lotus flower shapes.
Credit: Youngsuk Oh
Inside a massive glass-enclosed space, trees and walkways host semitransparent white-colored figures as they look out onto the neighboring urban setting.
Credit: An Lam
Rendering of a massive music hall with rope lights gently curving across the walls and ceiling, creating dim lighting throughout the space and its three seating sections.
Credit: Kyungmin Kim
Rendering of an open office space with yellow walls, green circular carpets on light wood flooring, and a large disc overhead showing birds and blue skies.
Credit: Hongyun Kou
Rendering of gently curving forms emerging from water, with a ceiling supported by sunk columns. Overlaid on the image is the text "La Reserve, Jinglan Fan"
Credit: Jinglan Fan
Rendering of a massive hallway with curving walls, lit by windows on the exterior wall, as people are depicted walking through the space in afternoon light.
Credit: Hwanil Chang
Free and open to the public