The goal of the exhibition, Elements of Architecture, is the creation of a new point of vision about elements that create architecture, with an individually reconstruction of each one as if it was a catalogue. This elements constitute the core of the buildings that nowadays we use. There are an individual room for each one of it, in order to explain them in detail;
Floor, wall, ceiling, roof, door, window, façade, balcony, corridor, fireplace, toilet, stair, escalator, elevator and ramp are explain individually with drawings, models and even with models on a real scale.
Every room has different qualities, similar to space we all know, as offices, laboratories or museums, in order to enhance the path of the visitors across the exhibition with several experiences.
"This exhibition is the result of a two-year research studio with the Harvard Graduate School of Design and collaborations with a host of experts from industry and academia... Elements of Architecture looks under a microscope at the fundamentals of our buildings, used by any architect, anywhere, anytime: the floor, the wall, the ceiling, the roof, the door, the window, the façade, the balcony, the corridor, the fireplace, the toilet, the stair, the escalator, the elevator, the ramp. The exhibition is a selection of the most revealing, surprising, and unknown moments from a new book, Elements of Architecture, that reconstructs the global history of each element. It brings together ancient, past, current, and future versions of the elements in rooms that are each dedicated to a single element. To create diverse experiences, we have recreated a number of very different environments – archive, museum, factory, laboratory, mock-up, simulation...”.
Rem Koolhaas. Curator of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition.
