The Other Architect, running at Het Nieuwe Instituut and curated by Giovanna Borasi, CCA Chief Curator, explores how various groups pushed beyond traditional architectural practice to develop architecture as a field of energetic, critical, and radical research, outside the established domains of academia and the usual dynamics of editorial and institutional activities. They sought to expand the role and responsibility of architects in society by working outside of traditional design practices and pursuing collaborative strategies, new tools and experimental attitudes. Their ingenuity showed the ability of architecture to shape the contemporary cultural agenda, a lesson that remains critically relevant today.
These alternative working methods and strategies manifested in a range of forms including mission statements, manifestos, videos, photographs, meeting minutes and Tshirts. The archival documents on display reveal how architects constructed a cultural agenda without the intervention of built form. Tracing the development of these unusual creative processes allows us to consider how these different ways of defining architecture can be applied today.
The Other Architect presents architects whose work challenged the concept of individual authorship in favour of establishing networks and partnerships with permeable roles. These include
These alternative working methods and strategies manifested in a range of forms including mission statements, manifestos, videos, photographs, meeting minutes and Tshirts. The archival documents on display reveal how architects constructed a cultural agenda without the intervention of built form. Tracing the development of these unusual creative processes allows us to consider how these different ways of defining architecture can be applied today.
The Other Architect presents architects whose work challenged the concept of individual authorship in favour of establishing networks and partnerships with permeable roles. These include
AD/AA/Polyark, AMO, Anyone Corporation, Architects Revolutionary Council (ARC), Architectural Detective Agency (ADA), Architecture Machine Group (AMG), Art Net, Atelier de recherche et d’action urbaines (ARAU), Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), CIRCO, Corridart, Delos Symposion, Design-AThon, Forensic Architecture, Global Tools, Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS), International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design (ILAUD), Kommunen in der Neuen Welt, Lightweight Enclosures Unit (LEU), Pidgeon Audio Visual (PAV), Take Part, and Urban Innovations Group (UIG).
The exhibition was first on view at the CCA in 2015 and is accompanied by a publication, The Other Architect, edited by Giovanna Borasi, published by the CCA with Spector Books, and designed by Jonathan Hares.
