The exhibition presents the work of American architects Platform for Architecture + Research / PAR, founded by Jennifer Marmon in Los Angeles in 2003. Questioning the role and limits of architecture today, Marmon, together with her collective team, are part of a new generation of architects exploring universal topics as a means to expand their discipline in new ways. With its idea of a network of ‘relations’, the exhibition reflects the essential architectural elements that influence the office’s award winning work that aims to establish a dialogue with people as well as the urban fabric. The exhibition presents buildings, competition entries and urban studies that range in scale from small houses to museum concepts e.g. the Wilshire Tower in Los Angeles/US, the Taichung Cultural Center in Taichung/Taiwan, the Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki/Finland and the Lima Art Museum in Lima/Peru.
Wilshire Tower aerial view + View to Hollywood Hills ©Bloomimages
The exhibition presents the work of American architects Platform for Architecture + Research / PAR, founded by Jennifer Marmon in Los Angeles. Questioning the role and limits of architecture today, Marmon, together with her collective team, are part of a new generation of architects exploring universal topics as a means to expand their discipline in new ways. The installation illustrates the various strategies used by the office to develop their specific design approach that aims to establish a dialogue with people as well as the local conditions to result in their individual mode of architectural expression.
The office ‘Platform for Architecture + Research / PAR’ was established in 2003. They have since been awarded several prizes, including the Presidential Emerging Practice Award from the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles in 2014, an International Architecture Award in 2014, and American Architecture Awards in 2013 and 2016. The work of the office has been featured in exhibitions at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the US National Building Museum, the New York Center for Architecture, and the European Center for Architecture.
Lima Art Museum ©PAR + Taichung Cultural Center ©LUXIGON
Providing an insight into their architectural universe, the exhibition
presents buildings, competition entries and urban studies including the
Wilshire Tower in Los Angeles/US, the AD18 Hotel in Los Angeles/US, the
Taichung Cultural Center in Taichung/Taiwan, the Guggenheim Museum in
Helsinki/Finland, the Bauhaus Art Museum in Dessau/Germany, the Lima Art
Museum in Lima/Peru, as well as the Pavilion House, the Stacked House,
and the View House all located in Los Angeles/US among others.
The
featured projects range in scale from small houses to museum concepts.
Drawings, models, and images reveal the diagrammatic thinking,
exploration of form and connections to the urban fabric that link PAR’s
projects. With its idea of a network of relationships, the exhibition
reflects the essential architectural elements of organization, material
and form that influence the office's work to benefit living conditions,
urban identity and the integration of the local surroundings with their
respective city.
CATALOGUE
An Aedes catalogue will be published.
English, € 10,-
To the catalogue order
