Andrés Jaque Office for Political Innovation presents its design for the Contemporary Art Fair ARCO, which is going to be showed in Madrid’s Fair, between the 24th and 28th of February.

Andrés Jaque Office for Political Innovation ’s design superimposes a ring, made up by a modelling islands lattice in order to permit a diagonal approximation to the galleries.

Description of the project by Andrés Jaque Office for Political Innovation

With more than 100000 visitors and 230 galleries, the contemporary art fair ARCO Works as a temporary urbanism that joins radically different public. The Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation’s design superimposes a ring, made up by a modelling islands lattice in order to permit a diagonal approximation to the galleries, with a leaves stippling that repeats a three-dimensional quadrangular mesh with volumes covered by photographs on mirror and metallic and polarised sheets.

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ARCO 2016
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Andrés Jaque Office for Political Innovation
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Roberto González, Laura Mora, Lucas de Abreu, Sebastian Bech-Ravn, Andrés Castañeda, Ilgaz Kayaalp, Federico Landi, Yen Lin, Manon Marchadour, Santiago Montenegro, Fabio Morales, Jorge Noguera, Gustavo Parra, Ana Rodríguez, Andrés Villar.
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Andrés Jaque, holds a Ph.D. in architecture. He is the founder of the Office for Political Innovation and the Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York.

In 2014 he received the Silver Lion at the 14th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Biennale di Venezia.

He is the author of award-winning projects such as Plasencia Clergy House (Dionisio Hernández Gil Prize), House in Never Never Land (Mies Van der Rohe European Union Award's finalist), TUPPER HOME (X Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo), or ESCARAVOX (COAM Award 2013). He has also developed architectural performances as well as installations that question political frameworks through architectural practice; including IKEA Disobedients (MoMA Collection, 2011); PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society (Mies Barcelona Pavilion, 2012) or Superpowers of Ten (Lisbon Triennale, 2014).

Andrés Jaque is a Professor of Advanced Design at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) and Visiting Professor at Princeton University's School of Architecture.

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Published on: February 25, 2016
Cite: "ARCO 2016 by Andrés Jaque Office for Political Innovation" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/arco-2016-andres-jaque-office-political-innovation> ISSN 1139-6415
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