A new scenography of DIREKTOR by BUREAU

Direktor is the latest project by Daniel Zamarbide for a theater play by Oscar Gómez Mata, in which he experiments with one of the classics of the German avant-garde of the 20s.

After the formation of his new office BUREAU, Daniel Zamarbide, in his latest project Direktor, collaborates in an interesting creative process with Oscar Gómez Mata, which leads them both to reinterpret the interesting proposals developed by Oskar Schlemmer in the Bauhauss.

Description of project by BUREAU

Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet has become a sort of stabilised experience in my mind, something that is almost in every project I make, and me being more or less conscious about it depending on the endeavour.

The very interesting creative process I went through with Oscar Gómez Mata, during the development of the Direktor, took us both to many cultural “places”.

Lars von Trier’s incredible stage designs were the driving engine, particularly the Direktor and Dogville, but the rigorous scenes of Schlemmer appeared continuously and unconsciously to finally arrive to a sort of synthetic view of the Direktor’s space.

The design for the Direktor is not a stage, it is a double space, a dynamic one where a 3d grid supports the uncontrollable and burlesque action of the actors and a visible backstage from where actions are prepared as an integral part of the play. All of the objects circulating on stage are considered “as found” pieces, part of a recognisable popular catalogue allowing to sometimes break the abstraction.

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BUREAU. Daniel Zamarbide

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September 2017

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Metal, Printed linoleum, Plastic Vietnamese chairs

Daniel Zamarbide. BUREAU

BUREAU, is the new project by Daniel Zamarbide. The practice hides under its generic name a variety of research activities. BUREAU makes things as an urge to react to the surrounding physical, cultural and social environment with a critical standpoint and with an immersive attitude. BUREAU is (in 2017) a furniture series, an editorial project, a design team, they are architects.

Daniel Zamarbide obtains his master degree at the Institut d’Architecture de l’Université de Genève (IAUG) in 1999. During his studies he followed the workshops of Christian Marclay, Philippe Parreno and Catherine Queloz at the École Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Geneva.

In the year 2000 he becomes one of the founding members of group8, an architectural practice that has acquired an important national and international recognition.

Daniel Zamarbide has developed through the years a particular interest in the protean aspects of his discipline and nourishes his work and research through other domains like philosophy, applied and visual arts as well as cinema.

As a guest lecturer and jury he has been invited at a diversity of international schools and institutions to present and discuss his work and research.

Since 2003 his interest in research and education has led him to be invited as an assistant in the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and as a professor (2000-14) at the Haute École d’Art et de Design (HEAD) in Geneva. In 2014, he integrates the team of ALICE Lab (Dieter Dietz) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) as a guest professor and research director.

In 2012, Daniel leaves group8 to start a new practice with Leopold Banchini, architect. Their practice, BUREAU A has explored during 5 years the possibilities of architectural making in a great variety of formats, opening the practice to work in the fields of art, garden and landscape architecture, exhibition design, temporary architecture and object making.

In 2017, following the dissolution of BUREAU A, Daniel Zamarbide pursues his more personal research interests under the name of BUREAU. This new entity produces architecture in the continuity of BUREAU A and incorporates to his already prolific activities furniture design (with a design brand of the same name) and an editorial project, which launches the first publication in June 2017.