Tuesday 12/11/2024
Alexianenplein 1, 9000 Ghent, Auditorium A4
6.30 p.m.
At the beginning of An Outline of European History, Nikolaus Pevsner argues that the difference between architecture and building can be illustrated by the comparison of Lincoln Cathedral with a bicycle shed. According to Pevsner, the cathedral is architecture, the bicycle rack is not. But what if the bicycle rack is architecture? What if ordinary elements of the urban landscape – a sidewalk, a path, a ramp, a dust- bin – can become architecture? At Dogma we call confetti an architecture made of ordinary elements such as fences, walls, piers, posts, benches, platforms, pergolas, or even minute elements such as a brick or a tile. Confetti are not spaces but places, not objects but markers, not buildings but what exists in between buildings. The lecture will present a series of projects inspired by the idea of confetti.
Martino Tattara is a professor at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, where he leads the Institute of Design and Housing (Entwerfen und Wohnen). He previously taught at the Faculty of Architecture at KU Leuven and ETH Studio-Basel. During the last years, together with Dogma, the architectural practice he has established together with Pier Vittorio Aureli, he has been working on a research by design trajectory that focuses on domestic space and its potential for transformation.
Images:
Left: Dogma, Spring Rain. Fence, portico, wall and staircase for the Qianhai Harbour School, Shenzhen, 2022
Right: Dogma. The Opposite Shore. Retrofitting Suburban Settlements from Property to Cooperation, 2021