The exhibition includes their production since 2000, including well-known buildings like the House in Never Never Land, ESCARAVOX, Tupper Home or Plasencia Clergy House, together with singular architectural experiments such as the IKEA Disobedients Project, the 12 Actions to Make Peter Eisenman Transparent or the Skin Gardens.
Andrés Jaque is now visiting professor in Princeton, where he is in charge of the Integrated Advanced Studio. Together with his office they have gain great visibility in the last years both in the development of specific architectural proposal, the office is currently developing projects in Arab Emirates, Spain and the US, and in the participation in a broader disciplinary debate (with shows now in Tel Aviv or Hasselt and preparing their installation for Koolhaas Venice Biennale).
URBAN ENACTMENTS are TRANS-SCALAR and TRANSMEDIA constructions. They mobilize objects, technologies, beings, buildings, environments; making constellations of heterogeneous entities that gain continuity (as a contingent urbanism) only as they perform together as the components of a shared situation.
From this perspective the way in which the material embodiment of the political has been discussed in architecture in recent decades can be challenged.
Both techno-determinism and techno-neutrality are confronted by a sense of ‘SHARED-AGENDAS’, that account for the political as a dispute and association between the agencies activated by numerous individual entities.
The works included in this exhibition are not architectures designed to be later occupied by society, but techno-societies in which architectural design attempts to gain relevance.
Dates.- April 7-May 14, 2014.
Venue.- Princeton University School of Architecture. 08544 New Jersey, US.
