SpaceInvading
Psycho Buildings: Artists Take on Architecture
Designer: Ernesto Neto, Do Ho Suh, Mike Nelson & Atelier Bow-Wow
Location: London, UK
Image Credits: Do Ho Suh
The exhibition’s title comes from a book published by Martin Kippenberger in 1988, black and white photographs of “psycho buildings” — buildings whose odd states of abandonment or demolition gave them a foot outside the world of rational, modern life. With this starting point, the Hayward’s curator, Ralph Rugoff, collected ten artists and asked them to respond in some way to a given part of the gallery.
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Posted: 01/17/2009
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Container in San Telmo
Designer: FPS Office Architecture
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sitting on one the oldest neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, right in the middle of the city. A small workshop for a textile designer.
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Posted: 01/17/2009
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Haus 47°40’48”n/13°8’12”e
Designer: Flöckner + Schnöll
Location: Salzburg, Austria
Image Credits: Stefan Zenzmaier
This house for a universal setting is merely a hub in a personal network. For some time now one has been able to connect to a service infrastructure quite independently from any social pressure to make that connection in a particular location. This act of connection now takes place inside the house. Even the road network reaches inside the house. The house is an extension of both the vectoral streetscape and the visual landscape (or surroundings).
The horizontally inserted structure comes directly into contact with the gently falling meadow. The surrounding farms, forest edges and mountains emerge emboldened into the landscape. The low, spreading lamina of the living space is reinforced by the two identical concrete slabs. When perceived from outside this living space is part of the surrounding landscape. From inside, these surroundings become part of the living space.
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Posted: 01/17/2009
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