Architecture Omi:
Exploring the intersection of art and architecture.

This program will probe the line between architecture and art. Wherever the line may be, clearly these two forms are becoming more and more allied. Both architects and/or artists will be invited to construct pavilions on Omi's grounds that explore this relationship.

Francis J. Greenburger

Peter Barton
Architecture Omi Program Director


Board of Directors:

First Chair: Peter Barton, Francis J. Greenburger, Elisabeth Akkerman, Isabelle Autones, Jacob Buksbaum, Tarik Currimbhoy, Bruce L. Ehrmann, Peter Franck, Abby Hamlin, Paola Iacucci, Marc Kemeny, Carter Ratcliff, Hedy Roma, Lee Skolnick, Kathleen Triem


Advisory Council:

Meta Brunzema, Gabrielle von Bernstorff, Lisa Chamberlain, John Cleater, John Cross, Linda Cross, Phylis Derfner, Philip Douglas Heilman, Philip Nobel, Liane Nouri, John Powers.

Our Mission

To provide a setting for the convergence of art and architecture; to encourage awareness of the relations between architecture and the environment; to harmonize environmental needs with aesthetic possibility.

About The Program

Architecture Omi will explore architectural forms and structures for their sculptural aspects and esthetic sensibilities through an ongoing exhibition program located on the Omi International Arts Center campus in Columbia County, New York. With more than 480 acres of open land available, Architecture Omi has unlimited potential for creative endeavors and the exercise of free imagination in a landscape where woods, meadows and cornfields are plentiful and are liberally crisscrossed by brooks, wetlands and ponds.

Our aim is to place architectural sculptures in harmonic relationship to the existing grounds and trails of the Omi campus, which also includes The Fields Sculpture Park which is open to the public year-round. The Board will assess future site development and the viability of a residency program to investigate and elucidate this emerging art field which is quickly finding resonance around the world.

The program is a response to contemporary creators and arts organizations seeking opportunity and rural locations in order to accommodate this new art activity on the basis of shared revenues and resources. Our goal is to match creative projects with innovative funding sources and initiatives. The Architecture Omi Program is seeking proposals that are primarily self-funding submitted under the auspices of accredited sponsors. While we review all presented material we are not funding proposals, models or presentations at this time.

In addition to the property itself, The Fields has a new Visitors Center and Gallery with event capabilities, café service and a 30' x 50' exhibition space which will augment the outdoor projects. In addition to a regular exhibition schedule planned by invited curators and the Director of The Fields Sculpture Park, Architecture Omi will offer a seasonal group show in order to highlight new international movements and display drawings, plans and images associated with our land sites, as well as give voice to exceptional contemporary creators in this emerging genre.

Please return to this Web Page periodically for updates and feature project announcements.

Architecture Omi: Director: Peter Barton

Photographs of site proposals: FT Architecture, Charles Frazier, Jon Isherwood, Tarik Currimbhoy, John Cleater, Michael Tong, Pino Barillo with Fausto Ferrara, Caspar Henselmann