I have just started Project 3 - Buildings and Space - of the People and Place module so I read with interest about the V&A’s exhibition on small spaces. This sounds like an exhibition not to be missed. The museum in London invited 19 architects to submit proposals for small structures that examine notions of refuge and retreat. Seven of their designs were selected for full-scale construction inside the museum. The theme of this exhibition was a powerful thread animating and holding together these seven buildings, commissioned by the V&A's curator of designs, Abraham Thomas. The thread is made of what would be called resistance – architectural resistance to the ever-growing world of buildings that look as if they have been designed by computers and built by robots.
Buildings include a Fujimori teahouse, a timber book tower by Rintala Eggertsson named The Ark, and a plaster cast of an ad-hoc living space in Mumbai, squeezed between a warehouse and the architects' office (Studio Mumbai), and out in the museum's John Madejski Garden, Norwegian architets Helen & Hard (based in Stavanger) have created a building named Ratatosk, after a mythological Nordic squirrel and is made from ash trees that have been split apart and then milled by a computer-driven machine.
This Small Spaces exhibition has a strong message about nurturing local architecture which should be led by imagination rather than computer wizardry. This exhibition closes at the end of the summer but all seven of this small buildings have something valuable to convey.
Buildings include a Fujimori teahouse, a timber book tower by Rintala Eggertsson named The Ark, and a plaster cast of an ad-hoc living space in Mumbai, squeezed between a warehouse and the architects' office (Studio Mumbai), and out in the museum's John Madejski Garden, Norwegian architets Helen & Hard (based in Stavanger) have created a building named Ratatosk, after a mythological Nordic squirrel and is made from ash trees that have been split apart and then milled by a computer-driven machine.
This Small Spaces exhibition has a strong message about nurturing local architecture which should be led by imagination rather than computer wizardry. This exhibition closes at the end of the summer but all seven of this small buildings have something valuable to convey.
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