February 2023
Salon invited to present at the SpieleerFinderMesse game inventors convention at the worlkds most important toy fai, SpielwaarenMesse in Nüremburg, Germany.
December 2022
The Studio has relocated permanently to Venice, Italy.
October 2022
Salon will be at Spiel Messe in Essen Germany!
July 2022
The research phase of the Sally Walsh Book is complete...the materials we found now archived at the MFAH Houston, oral histories taken in the UH Library.
June 2022
Salon is preparing for GenCon in Indianapolis.
March 2022
Salon, a game of Tables and Chairs is on exhibition and playable at REEVES Art+Design, Houston.
February 2021
Alan hosts historian Stephen Fox, architect Eugene Aubry, and documentarian and author Lois Farfel Stark the evening of Monday February 22 6pm CST at the Sally Walsh Roundtable.
January 2021
Salon, a Game of Table & Chairs has won two Awards in the 14th Annual International Design Awards: Gold Medal for Game Design and Bronze Medal for Social Impact Design!
December 2020
Alan Bruton Studio has joined Houston’s Bermac Arts Collective, set up the new studio space this week!
The book “Interior Provocations
History, Theory, and Practice of Autonomous Interiors” which includes Bruton’s chapter “Salon, an Autonomous Ludic Interior” is available from Routledge Press !
July 2020
In the works planning the second article on a recently discovered second extant intact interior by Sally Sherwin Walsh.
May 2020
Salon is in development for a VRChat World that can be interactively experienced, always in the plan but now prioritized.
April 2020
As soon as pandemic conditions allow, Reeves Furniture and Fine Art is hosting the first installation of Salon, a game of Table & Chairs.
March 2020
Paper City Magazine’s Spring Design Issue features an article arranged by Alan Bruton on one of Sally Walsh’s only remaining interiors--and one of her only domestic interiors--the wonderful home of her collaborator friends the Brochsteins. The article publicly announces the Endowed Professorship that Bruton has set up in Sally Walsh’s name at the University of Houston.
http://papercitymagazine.uberflip.com/i/1215366-march-2020-houston/81?m4=
November 2019
Officially on the project of writing a book about Sally Sherwin Walsh, which will key into raising support for the Walsh Endowed Professorship and the Walsh Endowed Student Scholarship in the Interior Architecture Program at the University of Houston.
September 2019
Presenting my initial discoveries in the archives of Houston designer Sally Walsh at the Preservation Dallas and Braniff Airways Foundation
THIRD BRANIFF HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE CONFERENCE
Braniff International Art Fashion Design
Featuring the Designers and Architects of Braniff
Saturday 9/14/2019 9:30am to 3:30pm
Summer 2019
Working on a book chapter, “The Ludic Space of the Interior”, for the upcoming Routledge publication “Interiors without Architecture”, which expands upon ideas embedded in Salon.
Beginning oral histories of colleagues, clients, and friends of departed Sally Walsh in preparation for a book proposal on this Houston design powerhouse who brought Knoll and it’s architectural interior thinking to Houston’s corporate and institutional interiors.
Interviewing Sara Garden Armstrong for a section in her upcoming book, “Threads and Layers”, considering the ongoing 40 years of her multimedia art practice. www.saragardenarmstrong.com
May 2019
See the New York Times article (and scroll way down) on the exhibition Gay Gatherings at the Glass House. Also at http://www.djalbrecht.com/architecture/gay-gatherings/
May 2019
Book Talk expanding upon the introduction to Emily Noyes Vanderpoel and her ”Color Problems, a Practical Guide to the Lay Student of Color” at Brazos Books, Houston. 2421 Bissonnet Street. Wednesday May 8, 7-8pm.
April 2019
See the article in the upcoming New York Times special design section about the exhibition “Gay Gatherings: Phillip Johnson, David Whitney and the Modern Arts” which opens May 3rd at the Phillip Johnson Glass House.
March 2019
Presentation of the project Salon, a game of Tables & Chairs in the larger context of Ludic Space and Equitable Interiority at the Interior Design Educators Council Conference in Charlotte, NC.
November 2018
The reprinting of the monumental book ”Color Problems, a Practical Guide to the Lay Student of Color” by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel is out in print, introduction essay by Alan Bruton, with reviews of the project in the New York Times, PrintMag, HyperAllergic and many other design and book blogs. Look for the announcement of a book talk at Brazos Books in Houston in April, soon to be scheduled in a bookstore near you!
28 July 2018
Invited to write the introduction to the first reprinting of the 1902 book Color Problems, a Practical Guide to the Lay Student of Color” by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel.
02 Februrary 2018
Salon, a game of Tables & Chairs presented for the first time at the Pratt Interior Provocations Symposium: “Interiors without Architecture”, Brooklyn.
18 November 2017
In Minneapolis invited to a panel at the Minnesota Design Center for the screen and discussion of The Gruen Effect upon the release of the Gruen biography by Anette Baldauf.
10 June 2017
The Houston AIA made/unmade Show is up, including two of the studio’s projects: Stress Wallpaper and Ink on Paper Folded.
23 May 2017
Presentation of the research on Timber Architecture and Music from the students in his senior studio to the Environmental Design Research Association “The Voices of Place” Conference in Madison,WI
24 March 2017
Ziad Qureshi and Alan present their research into adaptive reuse of downtown shopping stores and larger support of local identity to the Interior Design Educators Council in Chicago.
01 May 2016
Alan has been appointed to Director of Interior Architecture at the Gerald D. Hines School of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston.
05 October 2015
The Chicago Biennial show gathered for Parsons is up. What a great first biennial exhibition in Chicago. Sarah Herda and Joseph Grima have curated a sensitive and spectacular cross section of questions and practices !
30 September 2015
Alan has chosen the site, written the program and enrolled the international jury for the Timber in the City Competition. Run as studio in dozens of architecture schools throughout North America, the competition is publicized by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and generously sponsored by the Binational Softwoods Lumber Council. Visit the ACSA competition site for more details. Look for an exhibition at Parsons in November 2016. @ParsonsTimber
05 September 2014
Just mounted the Venice Biennale show at Parsons. Students and faculty have tactile access to the wide range of practices exhibited.
01 July 2012
Alan has received his NCIDQ - National Council of Interior Design Qualification - status to receive a NY State License to practice Interior Design
01 February 2012
Alan appointed as Director of Summer Programs at the School of Constructed Environments. This entails the leadership of an expanding set of programs
4 and 5 weeks in duration in the fields of Architecture, Interior Design and Lighting Design. All in all there are 12 studios with a faculty of 48.
22 September 2010
Dates in early February are in the works for screenings of the film ‘The Gruen Effect’, a documentary film about Victor Gruen, consumerism, and the transformation of our cities at the MAK in Los Angeles, Northland Mall in Detroit, and the Austrian Culture Forum in New York in association with the Municipal Arts Society.
20 July 2010
Alan will be documenting the 12th Venice Biennale for Parsons starting August 26th, joined by Anees Assali, a Palestinian architect and multimedia designer from from Jerusalem.
15 July 2010
The documentary film “The Gruen Effect" (Wailand Filmproduktion/ORF. Wien/New York 2010.)
Producers: Anette Baldauf and Katherina Weingartner.) is finally translated into English. It will be screened in February at the Austrian Cultural Forum.
In the film, Alan gives commentary on aspects of Victor Gruen's tragic well-intentioned invention of the shopping mall in relationship to his concurrent work in theater set, exhibition, retail, building, and urban design. Anette Baldauf and Katerina Weingartner will be flying over in February for screenings in New York, we hope to screen in Detroit and Los Angeles as well. Purchase film here .
01 July 2010
Great progress being made by MFA Lighting Design student Virna Abraham and myself on the Vanderpoel and City4 Projects. We’re working on the background for an article to publish in the journal Critical Productive, and are building a trans-disciplinary team to consider taking the project to the next step.
20 June 2010
Getting closer to the subject artifacts for Emily Vanderpoel’s color studies. Speaking with the conservators about the potential for an exhibition. More to come soon.
