venice architecture biennale 08 preview: UNStudio
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venice architecture biennale 08 preview: UNStudio
'the changing room' by UNStudio
for this year's international architecture biennale in venice UNStudio has produced ‘the changing room’
as part of the exhibition 'out there: architecture beyond building' curated by aaron betsky.
'the UNStudio installation in the arsenale explores the transformative potential of the material world.
just like clothes designers, architects offer alternate looks and identities, age and income-appropriate
shells. these constructions consist of a miscellaneous package of endogenous and exogenous
values; things and ideas that inherently belong to architecture and its traditions, and things and ideas
that do not, but that nevertheless profoundly influence architecture. how to deal with this?
can architecture still have autonomy? according to unstudio the lesson is to ‘switch it on, switch it off’…
to find autonomy in brief moments of liberation.'
'the changing room' by UNStudio
'the installation structure shows an architecture that is as supple as textile, in which floors, walls and
ceilings flow into each other. on the inside, the visitor encounters a kaleidoscopic world of people posing,
inviting voyeurism, and seeking transformation in their own conceptualizations of the changing room.'
UNstudio
as part of the exhibition 'out there: architecture beyond building' curated by aaron betsky.
'the UNStudio installation in the arsenale explores the transformative potential of the material world.
just like clothes designers, architects offer alternate looks and identities, age and income-appropriate
shells. these constructions consist of a miscellaneous package of endogenous and exogenous
values; things and ideas that inherently belong to architecture and its traditions, and things and ideas
that do not, but that nevertheless profoundly influence architecture. how to deal with this?
can architecture still have autonomy? according to unstudio the lesson is to ‘switch it on, switch it off’…
to find autonomy in brief moments of liberation.'
'the changing room' by UNStudio
'the installation structure shows an architecture that is as supple as textile, in which floors, walls and
ceilings flow into each other. on the inside, the visitor encounters a kaleidoscopic world of people posing,
inviting voyeurism, and seeking transformation in their own conceptualizations of the changing room.'
UNstudio
'the changing room' frame diagram
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UNStudio: http://www.unstudio.comvenice architecture biennale: http://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture
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