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didier faustino goes pow! again for the architectural association school of architecture.

didier faustino goes pow! again for the architectural association school of architecture.

Nov 4, 2015

images / didier faustino 2015 © adagp courtesy de l’artiste

Though billed as the ‘second edition’ of This is not a Love Song, it’s really the third sighting. This is however the second sighting and newest in Bedford Square. Designed by artist and architect Didier Faustino, upon invitation from the AA – Architectural Association in London, the sculpture serves as a beacon for Faustino’s presentation Undomesticated Places, an exhibition presented as two projects, one inside the AA gallery and one in the public space of Bedford Square. The two approaches underscore performative practice in the closely-linked fields of contemporary art and architecture, representative of Didier Faustino’s obsession with the location of the body in private and public space.

The first part of the exhibition, inside the building, contains the video Exploring Dead Buildings 2.0 which recalls the performance realized on the occasion of the 12th Havana Biennial in 2015. An explorer with a video device fixed on his metallic armor constructs a sensitive archaeology of the School of Ballet; a building designed by Vittorio Garatti in the early 1960s.

Outside, in Bedford Square, This is not a Love Song (the first opus of the installation paid a pop tribute to André Bloc’s interior sculptures, created in Meudon, France in 2014) has been built. This monochromatic performance-architecture platform invites events and performances, as well as providing a “speakers’ corner” for public use.

[ practical information ]
event > undomesticated places
venue> architectural association school of architecture | 36 bedford square london
date> 10 october > 12 december 2015

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above> the second sighting, though the first in bedford square introduced in september 2015 / below> the inaugural sighting in meudon, 2014.

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Just wondering if the missing architectural statement in the first should have somehow been retained in the second and third?

[ didier faustino ] was born in 1968 and lives and works between Paris and Lisbon.

Didier Faustino’s work reciprocally summons up art from architecture and architecture from art, indistinctly using genres in a way that summarizes an ethical and political attitude about the conditions for constructing a place in the socio-cultural fabric of the city. Spaces, buildings and objects show themselves to be platforms for the intersection of the individual body and the collective body in their use. Each project represents a concept that subverts the social context; in which seeing is experimenting beyond submission to the dichotomy of the rules that normally mark out public space and private space. The body is recentred on the basis of the social implications of the space, alerting people to the dangers of subjecting it to an ambiguity of representation that may contribute towards their forgetting its identity.

The [ architectural association school of architecture ] (AA) is the world’s oldest and most influential architecture school. Since 1847 the AA has pioneered architectural education alongside promoting and advancing the profession and the culture of the discipline; at the AA architecture is treated as a unique form of human enquiry. The AA’s students and teachers have gone on to become worldwide leaders of architecture. Through its unique unit-based system of teaching and its intensively collaborative team-based approach to learning, the school brings together disconnected worlds, fresh ideas and inspiring insights.

Alumni include Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Richard Rogers, Will Alsop, Cedric Price and many others.

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the inaugural 2015 chicago architecture biennial. installations 1.

the inaugural 2015 chicago architecture biennial. installations 1.

Oct 2, 2015

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We’ve used this intro in another post [ see talking to michelle boone ]: It’s hard to believe that 2015 is the launch date of the first Chicago Architecture Biennial. With so many major worldwide architecture & design events going on and with Chicago’s architectural heritage being one of the richest in the world, this event will serve as the epitome of ‘it’s never too late.’

There are more of the younger, emerging talents than the acclaimed, a not uncommon theme at a biennial. Some are academic, others enlightening, taken as a whole, inspiring. Though the organizers talked to over 500, the Biennial features 100 participants, the following a smattering of creative inventions, these found in the Chicago Cultural Center, 77 East Randolf Street.

[ rock print ] is the first architectural installation to be built from low-grade granular material and constructed by robotic machines. Conceived as an intriguing vertical object, the installation presents a radically new approach to The State of the Art of Architecture – the official title of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015 – and brings forward a new category of random packed, potentially fully reusable, poly-dispersed jammed structures that can be automatically fabricated in non-standard shapes. Following an initial period of robotic assembly, the installation will comprise a large-scale architectural artefact in its completed form, exhibiting distinct features, such as, for example, full material reversibility and the respective reusability of the aggregated materials; structurally active interlocking, differentiated structural performance, while yielding high geometric flexibility and articulation. Performing a full scale 3D “rock printing process” that uses the self-aggregating capacities of the material itself, this visionary project is the first collaborative installation by Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich, and the Self-Assembly Lab, MIT. [ credits ] images below>

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[ BUILTHEFIGHT ] Didier Faustino Paris / Lisbon – In the wake of the Occupy Wall Street and other similiar protests movements that followed all over the world, Didier Faustino proposes a modular architecture that is designed to strucutre protest sit-ins. BUILTHEFIGHT presents one assembled architecture composed of twelve modules. To be activated, the rough architecture requires a group of demonstrators who have gathered in the urban space. Each participant wears a devide that links to those worn b others, to form an occupied territory. Each ephemeral group establishes a compact unmovable space. The aesthetic of the project also refers, paradoxically, to the design of anit-riot police equipment and chain-link fences. This duality place the demonstrators in a double condition: offensive and defensive. This prototype proposes a political ‘archtiecture-event’ designed to enable defensive formations. images below>

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[ children’s town ] Onishhimak + Hyakudayuki architects | Tokyo – This is a smalll town for children. It is a gathering of several small houses, all of which are on wheels, so they can be moved. Children can parade with the houses or change their layouts to make a new town in which to play.

Children’s Town is base on the ‘Home-for-All’ project for children living in temporary housing in Higashi-Matsushima, Japan, that the architects build in 2013 in the wake of the tsunami that hit the country. image below>

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[ models of the house of one ] Kuehn Malvezzi + Armin Linke + Marko Lulić | Berlin – The center of Berlin will be the site for the House of One, a house of prayer and learning for Christians, Jews and Muslims alike, as well as the secular urban community. Kuehn Malvezzi designed a synagogue, a church and a mosque to be built under one and the same roof. The architecture of the House of One is monumental and devoid of symbolism, and presents itself to the city as a single entity. The spatial experience of the interior, however contrasts with this perception; inside, the three religions assert their harmony and difference. The three (3) models shown are the Model of Space (architecture), the Model of Gestures (photos) and the Model of Relations (video).

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above> model of space below> model of gestures and model of relations – click > enlarge

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[ peranesi circus ] Atelier Bow-Wow | Tokyo – The courtyard of the Chicago Cultural Center is inaccesible, even though it is visiible from all sides of the building. This relationship of secludedness enhances the perception of the courtyard as a void in the middle of the building. the proposition of bringing people into the courtyard presents several difficulties – not environmental or physical concerns but rather issues with the security, safety and facility management. The allegory behind G.B. Piranesi’s Carceri d”Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons) could be recalled for this void space as a means to critique the constraints of daily life. The ramp, ladder, suspended bridge, cantilevered balcony and swing are not accessible to the general public but are rather for the use of circus performers – or for imaginary prisoners.

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[ halo ] Wolff Architects | Cape Town – “Design something the world will never forget. Something that will be associated with Cape Town forever after. Something temporary.’ That was the brief that Wolff Architects received for a structure to celebrate Cape Town as the World Design Capital in 2014. The response was a halo of light, 330 feet (100m) in diameter, that would appear at night above Lion’s Head, a mountain that towers over the city. It is an enigmatic device, celebrating the landscape that defines Cape Town. It is also a gentle satire on the reverence that people have for Table Mountain.

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The best of all worlds. Installation by didier faustino.

Oct 11, 2011



Portuguese artist Didier Faustino presents ‘The Best of all Worlds’ an installation designed for Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine in the framework of IFA.’ In search of this ideal space where exchanges and confrontations take shape, The Best of all Worlds positions bodies and their phantoms to give them a voice. In the midst of the museum’s collections, the saga seems to gather spectators. Whilst projections of other architectures seem compromised, The Best of all Worlds is perfectly situated in the exhibition. A gathering of bodies where individuals discuss ‘body pleasure’ and ‘corps delicto.’ It is conceived as the distorted reflection of a meeting, a gathering place, a place to exchange ideas, for dialogue and discussion where power is exercised. This ‘micro- nation’ with blurred contours, questions our use of debating. The strange and fragile proportions of this unison on the brink of collapse, invites the spectator to project themselves failing taking part.



An installation in the windows of Paris Lafayette Maison from 16 > 20 June 2011, the artist created a mask that clamps over the faces of a kissing couple. Called Doppelgänger, the 3D-printed mask holds the wearers’ heads apart at a fixed angle while hole at the centre allow their mouths to meet.



In 2009, in Hong Kong, Faustino installed a pair of swing seats on a billboard frame. The concept is called “Lightness of being”



In 2008, Yang Yang, South Korea, Faustino created “Sky is the limit” a domestic space sample, propulsed 20 meters above the ground, a tea room projected in a state of weightlessness, over the troubled horizon. The building’s body is nothing more than a fragile skeleton. Its thin arachnoid structure sets under tension a vertical void. Two captive voids of strictly similar dimensions provide two opposing experiences.

designer: didier faustino
date: 21 october >4 december 2011
venue: galerie carlu | for the institut français d’architecture exhibitions | 1 place du trocadéro paris 75116

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