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What is the role architecture plays in the construction of the societies? This is the clear and direct question that Andrés Jaque (and his practice “Office for Political Innovation”) persistently asks himself for more than a decade. His buildings, installations, performances, teaching activities and texts unveil unexpected links between different subjects and processes (FrayFoam Home, 12 Actions to Make Peter Eisenman Transparent, House in Never Neverland), invert the conventional processes that build the city via a “revolution from the couch of your living room” (Tupper Home), generate controversies and arguments about the management of both public and private spaces (Arquitectura Parlamento, Polémicas de Interiores, Sweet Home Gran via) and convert infrastructures into catalysts for new social rituals (Cosmo PS1). Through the analysis of these projects, we will highlight the theoretical bases of Jaque's work (especially Bruno Latour and Michel Serres) and the strategies by which these are turned into architecture in a non-direct way.
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Presented by Enrico Forestieri at Newcastle University, Alternative Practive Theory APL 2001 (Prof. Andrew Law, Julia Heslop) 20170313