The Other Architect
Tuesday, Oct 27, 20156 PM — Sunday, Apr 10, 20166 PMEDT
| Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1920, rue Baile
Montreal, QC, CARelated
Curator: Giovanna Borasi, Chief Curator, CCA
The Other Architect explores how architects have invented and adopted alternative methods of working outside of traditional design practices. The exhibition includes 23 case studies dating from the 1960s until today that illustrate new ways of thinking about architecture in order to address and engage with the urgent issues of their time. These experiments embody a critical reflection on the role of the architect in society and illustrate the possibilities of practice beyond building. The architects and collective groups presented in the exhibition question their professional roles in order to actively shape a new social and cultural agenda for architecture. Their work challenges the concept of authorship and the traditional figure of the architect in favor of establishing collaborative networks and partnerships with permeable roles.
The Other Architect includes organizations like the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design, Architecture Machine Group, AMO, Take Part workshops, Atelier de Recherche et d’Action Urbaines, Forensic Architecture, Architectural Detective Agency, Global Tools, Architects’ Revolutionary Council, AD/AA/Polyark bus tour, Pidgeon Audio Visual, Anyone Corporation, and numerous others.
These groups position architectural work as a way of thinking and conducting research that can be expressed in alternative forms such as bibliographies, surveys, databases, posters, questionnaires and manifestos. The archival documents on display trace the discovery of these new working methods through meeting minutes, unpublished studies, budgets, correspondence, organizational schemes and other ephemera.
Through the execution and formalization of their research, these multidisciplinary groups create and employ experimental tools that break the traditional boundaries to develop new forms of knowledge and expertise that contribute to an “other” practice of architecture today. New York-based firm MOS Architects collaborated with the CCA curatorial team to develop a conceptual approach to the design of the exhibition. Graphic design of the exhibition is by Christian Lange.
More at www.cca.qc.ca.
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