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CHRISTOPHER L. MERCIER
curriculum vitae
Christopher L. Mercier
1159 East Hyde Park Blvd.
Inglewood, CA 90302
310-672-4749
310-672-4733 Fax
chris@ferstudio.com
www.ferstudio.com
Born: Detroit, Michigan - January 12, 1964
EDUCATION:
Southern California Institute of Architecture,
Master of Architecture
January 1991
Architecture Intermundium (Daniel Libeskind),
Milano, Italy
October 1987 - May 1988
Lawrence University, Southfield, Michigan
Bachelor of Science in Architecture
1987
ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIENCE:
(FER) Studio, LLP
Form Environment Research
1159 East Hyde Park Blvd.
Inglewood, CA 90302
P-310-672-4749 F-310-672-4733
July 2002 to Present
Title: Partner/Design Principal
Gehry Partners L.L.P. (Formerly Frank O. Gehry & Associates, Inc.)
12541 Beatrice Street
Los Angeles, CA 90066
310-482-3000
1993 to 2002
Title: Senior Associate/Project Architect
Tom Farrage/Co. (Architecture and Sculpture Metal Fabrication)
3625 Hayden Ave.
Culver City, CA. 90232
310-842-9884
1992 to 1993
Title: Designer/Shop Foreman/Shop Drawings/Metal Fabrication
Victoria Casasco Studio Architects
Venice, CA.
February 1992 to August 1992
Title: Designer (Chicago House Project)
Metalmorphosis (Architecture and Sculpture Metal Fabrication)
3101 La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles CA. 90016
310-287-0593
September 1988 to February 1992
Title: Designer/Shop Foreman/Shop Drawings/Metal Fabrication
Bahram Shirdel Architects
Nara Competition
January 1992
Montreal Ideas Competition
August 1990
Lorcan O’Herlihy/Richard Warner Architects
Venice, CA
December 1989
Title: Modeling Building/Construction Drawings
SCULPTURE PROJECTS:
HSI Productions Building Sculpture
“Edges and Ends” Site Sculpture
Culver City, CA
Design Collaboration w/Tom Farrage
Completed 2000
PAINTING EXHIBITIONS:
Group Exhibits:
“Art, Furniture & Wine – Group Show”
Giraffe Home,
7007 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA
October 2003
“Venice Group Show – An evening of Art & Architecture”
424 North Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
July 2003
“Italform”
8844 Beverly Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90048
2002
“Small Treasures”
Don O’Melveny Gallery, West Hollywood,
CA,
December 2002
“Texture & Grain” 87th Annual Gensler Art Exhibition (3
person
show)
Gensler Architects Offices, Santa Monica, CA
2002
“Wesley Studios Show” (2 person show)
Wesley Studios, Culver City , CA
2002
“2001 Juried Show”
Gallery 57 Underground,
Pomona, CA
2001
“Suspending Detachment”
The Hatch Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA,
2001
“Sculpture/Collage/Mixed Media Exhibit”
Long Beach Arts,
Long Beach, CA,
2000
“Artist Spectrum Juried Exhibition”
Agora Gallery, NY
1997
“100 Dollar Show”
Post, Los Angeles, CA
1997
“Openings”
Spanish Kitchen Studios, Los Angeles, CA
1996
LECTURES:
Southern California Institute of Architecture
Final Lecture in the 2002 Lecture series, ‘Architecture/Computer/Design/Manufacturing’
Los Angeles, CA
April 2002
Museum of Architecture
‘Architecture in the Digital Age,’ Guest Speaker
San Juan Capistrano, CA
September 2001
Royal Institute of Technology
KTH Lecture/Discussion ‘Condé
Nast in the Making’, Guest Speaker
Stockholm, Sweden
March 2001
Technical Research Center of Finland(VTT) Dipoli
VTT
Symposium ‘Technologies
in Architecture’, Guest Speaker
Espoo, Finland
March 2001
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
‘New Technologies
in Architecture
Symposium’, Guest Speaker
Princeton, NJ
October 2000
TEACHING POSITIONS:
Woodbury University
Architecture Department,
Thesis Studio
Spring 2001
UCLA
Architecture Department, Design & Construction of Complex Geometry’s,
Team taught Seminar/Studio
Spring 1999
Woodbury University
Interior Architecture Department,
Senior Project Studio
Spring 1998
PUBLICATIONS:
“Edges and Ends” HSI Sculpture
“Three’s Company,” Monument Magazine – commercial Special
Issue
Text by Elizabeth Martin
Photos by Tom Bonner
2002
The Condé Nast Project: A Case Study
“New Technologies in Architecture/Digital
Design and Manufacturing Techniques,”
Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
October 2000
Children’s Museum and Automated Spectacle Projects,
“From The Edge,” Southern California Institute of Architecture
October 1991
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