Michael Elion. 1975 South Africa
Michael
Elion is a graduate of the Architectural
Association (AA) in
London and is now in the third year of his PhD in philosophy/aesthetics
in Paris (co-supervised at Oxford). He collaborated
on a film, "Aerolite", with
Xavier Veilhan that was shown
at the Centre Pompidou this year with live music by the band
AIR. In Sept 2004 he erected ARCHAIR urban
sculptures, a guerrilla installation in six locations in London
- reviews by ICON, Building
Design and Hinge
Magazine.
While
at the AA Elion had a solo show of photographs entitled, Beauty & Difference
that premiered with a retrospective of Nigel Henderson's work.
After receiving his Bachelor degree in architecture from the
University of Cape Town, he made a solo bicycle
journey across West Africa to study the architecture of the
Dogon. Elion has worked for Daniel
Libeskind (Berlin), Massimiliano
Fuksas (Rome) and currently works on 3D
lazer scans for Xavier Veilhan's sculptures.
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