Serigraph printed on paper, size: 20” x 20”

Young & Ayata’s Spectral Montage project comes from a series of experiments with photogrammetry software created off physical models made by the artist James Casebere. The Spectral Montage serigraph print series–produced in collaboration with a83–depicts a translation between various mediums of representation common to architectural practice; moving between physical model building, photography, spatial modeling through photogrammetry, and fine-art printing techniques. Young & Ayata record the distortions these technologies produce which in turn open alternate aesthetic and conceptual possibilities and provoke a revaluation of disciplinary assumptions regarding representational conventions.

Young & Ayata formed as a partnership in New York in 2008. The practice is dedicated to building commissions, exploratory mediations, and published arguments where the reality of the contemporary environment is engaged as a provocation for experiments in form, material, and imagery. Young & Ayata have received the Progressive Architecture Award, Design Vanguard Award, Young Architects Prize, AIA Honor Award, and a first-place prize for the design of the Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, Germany. Michael Young is an Assistant Professor at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union. He is the recipient of the 2019-20 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Rome and the author of Reality Modeled After Images (Routledge 2021). Kutan Ayata is an Associate Professor and the Vice Chair in the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at UCLA, where he also serves as the Director of the Master of Architecture Program.

The Spectral Montage series was produced for the exhibition, Parallel Rules, held at A83 in 2023.
Signed and numbered by Michael Young in a limited edition of 7.