A view. With a room. [Retrieving architecture out of its comfort zone] Spacelab for EVOKED - Architectural Diptychs Exhibition: FabLab gallery, Tirana, 22.02.2016 > 06.03.2016 What we conventionally could identify with the term "architecture" is set in a very limited portion inside the huge domain of buildings, with tiny ratios varying from country to country. And this very limited portion represents a series of exceptional units if compared to their context, individual episodes of lyric dissonance that tend to get lost in the "white noise" of the generic scenery, less and less natural and increasingly built landscape in an entropic drift without brakes: a landscape full of generic buildings, lacking of quality not only in architectural and urban terms, but too often even in terms of common sense. And architecture, this extraordinary collection of one-offs - made with great skill by amanuenses and far too exceptional - seems generally not to be able, or not willing to be able, to seriously impact the real world and becoming a shared, widespread system of thought, or capable to graft successful quality-stemcells in the built landscape: architecture seems being too busy in self-complacency, too accustomed to reassuring pats-on-the-back by an economic system in which, basically, it has little or no weight. With architects relegated to coachman-flies of a world that is calmly, concretely doing without them, at best engaged only as handsome buddies in light conversations at useless parties. So, rather than identify one of the endless possible design solutions to the single, specific theme given to us by the curators, we reversed the perspective boosting the request to who seems always too apathetic or generic-speaking regarding those issues: we, symbolically and polemically, are calling into action architecture and its being often too self, contemplative and distracted with respect to the real world out there. “A wiew. With a room.” provocatively puts the beautiful, ethereal open space of the Glass House by Philip Johnson - one of the main archetypes of modernity and its self-proclaimed international revolution - out of its wonderful isolation. More on @evoked2
