Habitat/Variations
Alexander Apóstol, Pablo León de la Barra, Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec, Raúl Cárdenas, Santiago Cirugeda, Jimmie Durham, Didier Fiuza Faustino, Yona Friedman, Jakob Kolding, Josep María Martín/Raphaël Nussbaumer/Alejandra Ayala/Luz Muñoz, Hans-Walter Müller, N55, Maria Papadimitriou, Tercer un Quinto, Pedro Reyes, Gabriel Sierra et Barbara Visser.
Where to live, and how? This exhibition offers a reflection on projects by artists and architects who think about living conditions and challenge this question in their work. These projects come from various contexts that, for the major part, are situated at the junction of architecture and art, Utopia and reality, individual and collective space. Some of these projects document very active emerging urban forms and ask complex economical, political, and social questions which traditional notions of urbanism disregard.
If we think of the city as “a series of strata and styles, of icons and cultural practices which bring together constructions from the past, tradition, as well as these new projects and ideas for the future”1, can the different projects that will be presented really transform, or at least question, the way specialists, the State and users tackle the problem of living conditions?
A project by María Inés Rodríguez in collaboration with Juan Herreros and Pablo León de la Barra
At the invitation of the Centre d’édition contemporaine and the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève
Exhibition produced jointly with La Casa Encendida, Madrid.
The architect Juan Herreros will hold a symposium Saturday June 23rd, from 2 to 7 pm at the Bac – Bâtiment d’art contemporain, with Santiago Cirugeda, Philippe Rahm, Kees Christiaanse, Anne Lacaton, Salvador Pérez Arroyo.
The exhibition will be presented at La Casa Encendida in Madrid from September 20 to November 5, 2007; the second part of the symposium will also take place in November
