General | Martine Zoeteman | 03-06-2011
On klatmagazine.com: Lukas Feireiss about the upcoming exhibition Testify! The consequences of architecture at the Netherlands Architecture Institute:
"The exhibition is about architecture’s consequential nature. We choose twenty five projects from all around the world, realized in the last few years, all marked by a strong social connection to the context. Projects that have generated a new understanding of space, and that above all have affected the territory around them. What we wanted to do in Rotterdam was to understand the impact these buildings have on the people that live in them, that use them every day. We’ve interviewed and listened to these people. The idea was to give voice to those that are usually excluded from the debate on space and architecture. The excess of self-referentiality has undermined the whole discourse on architecture. Only architects or critics talk about architecture, making the subject extremely boring and academic. Architecture is on the contrary one of the most common aspects of our lives. We all live and die inside architecture. All our lives are lived inside built spaces. Architecture should become an ongoing, diffused, and accessible theme of discussion."
> Read more on www.klatmagazine.com (scroll down for English)
Testify! Design voor de 'Eichbaumoper', architects: Raumlaborberlin - Photo: Rainer Schlautmann
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