Feeling Contexts: C+S Architects Exhibition Opening

Keller Gallery, 7-408 MIT Department of Architecture Keller Gallery at MIT Architecture announces the opening of Feeling Contexts, an exhibition of the work by C+S Architects from Treviso, Italy. Partner Maria Alessandra Segantini led an MIT Architecture design option studio under the title “Writing Venice” as a visiting professor in Spring 2012. Feeling Contexts summarizes the philosophy and methodology of C+S Architects: Architects are the translators of contexts. As a translator, the architect chooses each context he wants to operate in, serving while preserving it and bridging it to another form and time. Engaging and re-inventing the site itself, as a space rich of potentiality, reconfiguring the boundaries of the programs, re-writing the history of the place (materiality, topography, strata, culture, socio-political expectations) cross-sectioning through the different scales and disciplines involved, each time C+S manipulates and reinvents the boundaries of their intervention, dealing with the whole of the built environment. C+S re-writes the contexts as a map of the potentialities, where to graft interferences which react with the physical, economic, social and political spheres. These interferences are frames in search for the beauty of the ordinary, open to the flowing of time, energy, people. They are specific but prototypical. Understanding the fragments of the ordinary and allowing them to interfere in any new design, requires a great deal of empathy. Keller Gallery will serve as a new context for the work of C+S Architects. As if lifted from the firm’s Treviso studio and planted directly within MIT, a working table of models and drawings will compose the central space of the gallery, juxtaposed with the firm’s recent built works. http://architecture.mit.edu/event/feeling-contexts