Friday, 7 October 2011

skin: elastic



























































OMA/Progress
Barbican Art Gallery
Curated by Rotor
06/10/11 - 19/02/12

  • the EU bar code
  • the Wyly Theatre: Dallas
  • the materials
  • architectural skins
  • the competition(s)
  • the PRADA catwalk
  • preoccupations
  • 3,454,204 images on the server
  • a place as 'worth ethic' / 'work ethic'
  • a building as strategy
  • don't describe: show and prove
  • sustainable architecture
  • part with the familiar
  • accommodate change
  • authentic humans
  • elastic organism: not death

"Minimum / Sustainable* now exists in a state of parasitic codependency with overdose: to have and not to have, craving and owning, finally collapsed in a single signifier."
from: Junkspace | 2002 | Rem Koolhaas | adapted by Rotor* 2011 

A BUILDING IS NO LONGER AN ISSUE OF ARCHITECTURE,
BUT OF A STRATEGY...

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