A preview of the "Treatise: Why Write Alone?" exhibition, publication available in March

The "Treatise: Why Write Alone?" project is a publication and upcoming exhibition that explores the architectural treatise as a platform for experimentation, debate, and theoretical inquiry.

Organized by Bureau Spectacular founder Jimenez Lai, the project is based on the idea, "Why Write? And why write alone?" The exhibition will showcase over 200 new and recent works by 14 emerging designers that will fill the galleries of the Graham Foundation’s historic Madlener House in Chicago.

The exhibition makes its debut this Friday, January 23 and will run until March 28, 2015 at the Graham Foundation. The 14 individual treatises will be available as a single publication and separate volumes in March.

More details below.

"The "Treatise: Why Write Alone" provides a platform to provide a platform to investigate the collective and individual stakes that emerge from a temporary alliance of designers, as they explore architecture’s representational limits, histories, and possibilities.'

The exhibition will feature the works of:

Bittertang (Michael Loverich & Antonio Torres), New York, NY; Bureau Spectacular (Jimenez Lai), Chicago, IL; CAMES/Gibson (Grant Gibson), Chicago IL; Design With Company (Stewart Hicks & Allison Newmeyer), Chicago, IL; Fake Industries Architectural Agonism (Urtzi Grau & Cristina Goberna), New York, NY; First Office (Andrew Atwood & Anna Neimark), Los Angeles, CA; is-office (Kyle Reynolds & Jeff Mikolajewski), Chicago, IL; Andrew Kovacs, Los Angeles, CA; Alex Maymind, Los Angeles, CA; Norman Kelley (Thomas Kelley & Carrie Norman), Chicago, IL and New York, NY; Point Supreme (Konstantinos Pantazis & Marianna Rentzou), Athens, Greece; SoftLab (Mike Szivos), New York, NY; SPEEDISM (Pieterjan Ginckels), Brussels, Belgium; and Young & Ayata (Michael Young & Kutan Ayata), New York, NY.

Check out a few of the works below.

Exhibited works will range from drawings and models to multimedia installations and site-specific wall drawings that utilize diverse and often unexpected strategies, forms, and materials.

The 14 individually-authored treatises will be published together in March and will be accompanied by a launch event at the Graham Foundation on March 18.

For more and to RSVP for the exhibition's opening reception, click here.

More images in the thumbnails below.