Arch+ Displays, KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Berlin
Coinciding with the centenary of Malevich’s Black Square (1915), Room of Manifestoes recognizes the role Manifestoes played in the development of visionary ideas and social, political and aesthetic projects in the 20th Century, while reaffirming their latent potential in developing discourses of contemporary architecture.
In an era of shifting values and conflicting narratives, the manifesto remains the quintessential tool to focus on critical architectural issues and their ramifications in life. The exhibition explores the Manifestoes at the centre of WAI’s architectural practice, and their materialization in projects that span from genealogical reconstructions of architectural history, to the reconceptualization of tools and strategies of representation of a critique of architectural ideology, and the reformulation of principles and fundamentals of architectural programs and their spatial possibilities.
With a selection of books, self-published magazines, prints, digital and hand-made collages, models, artifacts, and videos, Room of Manifestoes provides a screen in which to project architectural intentions, ambitions, fears and desires, showcasing projects that feed from previous failures and victories of utopia in order to create the possibility of dreaming architectural futures.
WAI Architecture Think Tank
Opening: June 18, 2015, 8 pm
June 19 – July 31, 2015
Open during office hours: Mon-Fri 11am – 7pm,
+ June 20, 11am – 7pm
ARCH+ Studio, 3rd Floor
c/o KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststrasse 69, 10117 Berlin
ARCH+ displays: Room of Manifestoes
