agps clues exhibits some work of agps, a team of architects working in Zurich and Los Angeles: Marc Angélil, Sarah Graham, Manuel Scholl, Reto Pfenninger and Hanspeter Oester. The show explores the conceptions, input, processes, as well as unpredictable deviations which result in the spaces of built work. While buildings are made for specific purposes, subject to analysis, calculation, and evaluation, de facto human activities can never be fully anticipated. They just happen. And in doing so, they alter the course of design intentions.
Beginning with spatial intervention within the Aedes Architecture Forum gallery of a cantilevered 20 meter long by 3 meter high wall, the rough construction with precise structural balance is a first hint into the logic of the work. On the wall are clues into 19 projects, linked by 5 central themes: tectonics, process, economy, sustainability, and complexity. Some clues involve early conceptions, others describe design processes, and still others admit to unanticipated consequences. Projected onto the gallery walls are the built spaces that are the evidence of the work.
The exhibited projects vary in size and type from houses in Los Angeles - Hollywood House and Topanga Ranch - to urban infrastructure - Portland Aerial Tram and a freeway cover in Zurich. Between are institutional and housing projects - Children’s Museum of Los Angeles, IUCN Headquarters near Geneva, and Integra Housing in Zurich.
The exhibition opening will be preceded by a reading at ANCB at 6 pm in cooperation with the International Literature Festival Berlin. Among others, Author Margarete v. Lupin will read an excerpt of her short story “Am anderen Ende des Periskops – At the other end of the periscope” from the book “Blickwechsel” (Change of Views) published by agps Architects. ”. The reading will be held in german. Entrance is free.
agps is a collaboration of partners operating between practice and academics. Marc Angélil is a professor in the Department of Architecture at the ETH Zurich. Sarah Graham has taught in various universities in the U.S. and China, including University of Southern California, UC Berkeley and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Reto Pfenninger is a professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Northwestern Switzerland. Manuel Scholl is a professor of urban design at the Leibniz University of Hanover. Hanspeter Oester is active in the Swiss Engineer and Architect Association, focusing on sustainable development.
Shift of Viewponts
Architecture and Literature - Reading and Exhibition Opening
Time: September 7, 2012, 6.00 pm
Place: ANCB, Christinenstr. 18/19, 10119 Berlin
Followed by the exhibition opening at 7.00 pm: agps clues
Writers and architects create, structure, and construct spaces, both in a larger sense and down to the smallest detail, thereby generating atmospheres and living environments. Yet literary and artistic structures consist of very different substances. That which the architect sets into place in an elaborate and functional arrangement using palpable materials such as stone, concrete, and wood must be achieved by the writer in the form of characters as abstract and sensuous representations. By virtue of their extraordinary forms of expression, both of the publications presented on this evening demonstrate that there are commonalities and parallels between these often separate disciplines:
Blickwechsel (Another Take) is a book experiment by the architectural practice agps - Marc Angélil, Sarah Graham, Manuel Scholl, Reto Pfenninger, and Hanspeter Oester, with offices in Zürich / Los Angeles. Presented are 17 buildings, located in the US and Zürich, which are central to the work of agps. In short stories and essays, five authors pursue the individual traces of buildings, thereby reflecting upon each structure in a state of use. The author Margarete von Lupin reads excerpts from her short story "At the End of the Periscope" about the building of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
As a prose counterpoint, we will also hear selections from Mark Z. Danielewski's novel Das Haus (The House), read by the actress Franziska Herrmann. Playing the lead role in the narrative is an idiosyncratic building. Space and atmosphere are at once the backdrop and protagonist of a nightmare which is experienced by a small family in a house in the countryside. Here, the medium of the book becomes itself a form of architecture which allows that which is the described to be experienced with immediacy.
The reading will be held in german. Entrance is free.
At 7 pm the reading will be followed by the exhibition opening of "agps clues" by the architectural practice agps in the Architekturform Aedes am Pfefferberg.
Program:
6.00 pm
Welcome:
Dr. h.c. Kristin Feireiss, Architekturforum Aedes am Pfefferberg
Introduction:
Julia Schulze, Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin
Marc Angélil, agps architects
Reading:
Margarete von Lupin
Franziska Herrmann
7.00 pm
Exhibition Opening:
"agps clues", Architekturforum Aedes am Pfefferberg
Catalogue
An Aedes catalogue was published.
ISBN 978-3-943615-05-0
English
Price € 10,-
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