09.07.20
6pm CEST
A conversation with (ab)Normal and Saskia van Stein moderated by Nina Bassoli
Especially during times of crisis, for instance in the Seventies and most of all
in the last decade, architects often test in exhibitions project ideas that could
not be realized with the same promptness in the ‘real world’. In this context, architecture
on display moves in the field of abstraction, and takes distance from the building constraints,
using freer or more analytical forms of thought. Not only the so-called academic research,
but also the field research related to the production of the exhibited artefact might have
a relevant influence on the discourse around architecture and also on the production of
architecture itself. Thus, the architectures on display become a wish, or a promise, capturing
the most pressing issues of the contemporary debate and producing new hybrid figures of
architect-researchers. Will the act of building be able to keep the promises made by the exhibition?
(ab)Normal is a creative agency engaged in the multidisciplinary exploration
of design, architecture, scenography and graphic design.
Saskia van Stein is Head of the Critical Inquiry Lab at
the Design Academy Eindhoven.
Join Conversation | PW: 854262
16.07.20
8.30pm CEST
A conversation with Francesco Garutti and Veronique Patteeuw moderated by Léa-Catherine Szacka
Since their emergence in the 18th century, architecture exhibitions have produced surrogates
to buildings, pale copies of what stands outside and cannot enter the space of the gallery.
Using technical drawings, models, photographs, and other artefacts, and facilitating acts of
mental reconstruction, curators have restored original artefacts both presented and represented
in exhibitions. But what if there is no original? What does the exhibition produce when the
display goes beyond mere presentation/representation of something that lies elsewhere?
Francesco Garutti is Curator Contemporary Architecture at the Canadian Centre for Architecture
CCA in Montréal.
Veronique Patteeuw is academic editor of OASE, associate professor at the Ecole National
Supérieure d’Architecture et du Paysage Lille and visiting professor at the KU Leuven.
Join Conversation | PW: 854262
23.07.20
6pm CEST
A conversation with Andres Jaque and Carlos Mínguez Carrasco moderated by Roberto Gigliotti
In all the forms that it takes, an architecture exhibition always represents
a privileged experimentation territory. This also means transgression of the
disciplinary rules and traditional tools, devices and media used for the production
of the artefacts presented in the show. Freed from both representation constraints,
standards and norms connected to construction, the “exhibition architect” shows space
using space and produces hybrids results that he/she deliberately exposes to the influence
of other disciplines, art above all. Putting architecture in touch with other disciplines
leads us to see it through different eyes: one discipline reveals the other. Once disciplinary
borders are questioned, there is no pre-defined medium or format for the exhibits contained
in an architecture show. Today video, photography, visual arts and also
performativity are not unexpected guests in the context of the architecture exhibition…
Andres Jaque is Founder Principal of the architectural practice
OFFPOLINN (Office for Political Innovation) and curator.
Carlos Mínguez Carrasco is Senior Curator at ArkDes,
Sweden’s national centre for architecture and design.
Join Conversation | PW: 854262
10.09.20
6pm CEST
A conversation with Shumi Bose and Jimenez Lai moderated by Davide Tommaso Ferrando
Web and social media have expanded the space of communication beyond its material
boundaries, and yet, such expansion seems to have had little effects on exhibition
formats. On the other hand, it can’t be denied that during the last decade, institutions
such as museums, Biennials and Triennials have implemented all sorts of strategies to
take advantage of the potential of digital communication. Furthermore, the growing amount
of digital content displayed in architecture exhibitions, from drawings to videos to
VR installations, questions the traditional relationship between an absent original
and its copies and representations. What all these phenomena have in common, is the
translation of spaces into images: images that circulate at high speed on digital
media, becoming the first and often the main point of access to the exhibitions
themselves. The question is, then, what happens to architecture exhibitions, once
the world appears to us as an endless and unstructured collection of images,
texts and other data records, as Lev Manovich writes.
Shumi Bose is Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of
Contextual Studies in Architecture at Central Saint Martins, London.
Jimenez Lai is member of the operation of cultural
affairs Bureau Spectacular based in Los Angeles.
Join Conversation | PW: 854262
17.09.20
6pm CEST
A conversation with Giovanna Borasi and Counterspace moderated by Roberto Gigliotti
Due to its performative agency the architecture exhibition possesses, beyond other
meanings, the capability of literally influencing the behaviour of its actors.
In the ephemeral character of the exhibition lays one of its more powerful strengths.
It concentrates an enormous amount of energy in a certain place at a certain moment
and this phenomenon has a big transformative potential. In this context the exhibition
can be understood as an activist’s tool making the appropriation of a derelict building
or area as well as a device capable of strengthening community interactions. These actions,
integrated in the exhibition act, span from actions as temporary forms of appropriation
of the venues chosen for the exhibition to experiments that project visions on the
development of a site. Do they have the power to become engines for urban and
social transformation?
Giovanna Borasi is Director of the Canadian Centre for
Architecture CCA in Montréal.
Counterspace is a Johannesburg-based collaborative
architectural studio, directed by Sumayya Vally.
Join Conversation | PW: 854262
09.07.20 | 6pm CEST |
Join
| PW: 854262
A conversation with (ab)Normal and Saskia van Stein moderated by
Nina Bassoli
Especially during times of crisis, for instance in the
Seventies and most of all in the last decade, architects often test in exhibitions
project ideas that could not be realized with the same promptness in the ‘real world’.
In this context, architecture on display moves in the field of abstraction, and takes
distance from the building constraints, using freer or more analytical forms of thought.
Not only the so-called academic research, but also the field research related to the
production of the exhibited artefact might have a relevant influence on the discourse
around architecture and also on the production of architecture itself. Thus, the
architectures on display become a wish, or a promise, capturing the most pressing issues
of the contemporary debate and producing new hybrid figures of architect-researchers.
Will the act of building be able to keep the promises made by the exhibition?
(ab)Normal is a creative agency engaged in the multidisciplinary
exploration of design, architecture, scenography and graphic design.
Saskia van Stein is Head of the Critical Inquiry Lab at the
Design Academy Eindhoven.
16.07.20 | 8.30pm CEST |
Join
| PW: 854262
A conversation with Francesco Garutti and Veronique Patteeuw
moderated by Léa-Catherine Szacka
Since their emergence in the 18th century, architecture exhibitions have produced surrogates to buildings, pale
copies of what stands outside and cannot enter the space of the gallery. Using
technical drawings, models, photographs, and other artefacts, and facilitating acts
of mental reconstruction, curators have restored original artefacts both presented
and represented in exhibitions. But what if there is no original? What does the
exhibition produce when the display goes beyond mere presentation/representation of
something that lies elsewhere?
Francesco Garutti is Curator Contemporary Architecture at
the Canadian Centre for Architecture CCA in Montréal.
Veronique Patteeuw is academic editor of OASE, associate
professor at the Ecole National Supérieure d’Architecture et du Paysage Lille and
visiting professor at the KU Leuven.
23.07.20 | 6pm CEST |
Join
| PW: 854262
A conversation with Andres Jaque and Carlos Mínguez Carrasco
moderated by Roberto Gigliotti
In all the forms that it takes, an architecture exhibition always represents
a privileged experimentation territory. This also means transgression of the
disciplinary rules and traditional tools, devices and media used for the production
of the artefacts presented in the show. Freed from both representation constraints,
standards and norms connected to construction, the “exhibition architect” shows space
using space and produces hybrids results that he/she deliberately exposes to the
influence of other disciplines, art above all. Putting architecture in touch with
other disciplines leads us to see it through different eyes: one discipline reveals
the other. Once disciplinary borders are questioned, there is no pre-defined medium
or format for the exhibits contained in an architecture show. Today video, photography,
visual arts and also performativity are not unexpected guests in the context of the
architecture exhibition…
Andres Jaque is Founder Principal of the architectural
practice OFFPOLINN (Office for Political Innovation) and curator.
Carlos Mínguez Carrasco is Senior Curator at ArkDes,
Sweden’s national centre for architecture and design.
10.09.20 | 6pm CEST |
Join
| PW: 854262
A conversation with Shumi Bose and Jimenez Lai moderated by Davide Tommaso Ferrando
Web and social media have expanded the space of communication beyond its material
boundaries, and yet, such expansion seems to have had little effects on exhibition
formats. On the other hand, it can’t be denied that during the last decade,
institutions such as museums, Biennials and Triennials have implemented all sorts
of strategies to take advantage of the potential of digital communication.
Furthermore, the growing amount of digital content displayed in architecture
exhibitions, from drawings to videos to VR installations, questions the traditional
relationship between an absent original and its copies and representations. What
all these phenomena have in common, is the translation of spaces into images:
images that circulate at high speed on digital media, becoming the first and often
the main point of access to the exhibitions themselves. The question is, then,
what happens to architecture exhibitions, once the world appears to us as an endless
and unstructured collection of images, texts and other data records, as Lev Manovich
writes.
Shumi Bose is Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Contextual
Studies in Architecture at Central Saint Martins, London.
Jimenez Lai is member of the operation of cultural affairs
Bureau Spectacular based in Los Angeles.
17.09.20 | 6pm CEST |
Join
| PW: 854262
A conversation with Giovanna Borasi and Counterspace moderated by
Roberto Gigliotti
Due to its performative agency the architecture exhibition possesses, beyond other
meanings, the capability of literally influencing the behaviour of its actors.
In the ephemeral character of the exhibition lays one of its more powerful
strengths. It concentrates an enormous amount of energy in a certain place at a
certain moment and this phenomenon has a big transformative potential. In this
context the exhibition can be understood as an activist’s tool making the
appropriation of a derelict building or area as well as a device capable of
strengthening community interactions. These actions, integrated in the exhibition
act, span from actions as temporary forms of appropriation of the venues chosen
for the exhibition to experiments that project visions on the development of a
site. Do they have the power to become engines for urban and social transformation?
Giovanna Borasi is Director of the Canadian Centre for
Architecture CCA in Montréal.
Counterspace is a Johannesburg-based collaborative
architectural studio, directed by Sumayya Vally.