David Helbich + SANAA

http://davidhelbich.blogspot.ca/2016/06/trying-to-look-like-building_1.html

Jimmy Robert + Johnson

Jimmy Robert, Imitation of Lives, 2017. Rehearsal view, Glass House, 2017. NIC Kay and Quenton Stuckey.

The work of Guadeloupe-born, Bucharest-based artist Jimmy Robert spans photography, film, video, sculpture, and performance, but collage is its mainstay. For his latest piece, titled Imitation of Lives, 2017, and staged at Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, Robert mines the architect’s infamous life and historical influence to create an exquisite montage interspersed with divergent references and foreign objects, including music, mirrors, bits of poetry, and a marble trompe-l’oeil painting by Lucy McKenzie, among other things. The work is co-curated by Cole Akers and Charles Aubin as part of Performa 17 and will take place November 3–5, 2017.

 https://www.artforum.com/words/id=71943

Angela Ferreira + Mies van der Rohe and Guedes

Zip Zap Circus School (2000-2017) takes as its material two “unrealized” architectural projects: Pancho Guedes’ Zip Zap Circus School in Cape Town (1994) and Mies van der Rohe’s 1912 model for a portable at the Kröller Museum in Amsterdam. The bookends of early- and post-modernist architecture are combined into one work that documents, celebrates, and also critiques the notion of architecture as social reform (Zip Zap Circus School was designed to create educational opportunity and vocations for Cape Town youth). Implicit in the combination of references and the structure itself is portability, a concept I will come back to. But as with others of Ferreira’s architectural installations, their provisional status contains a conceptual slippage from “unfinished” into the weightier “unrealized”: prototypes stand in for historical contingency and the failures of modernism.


http://chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org/blog/the-allegoricity-of-angela-ferreiras-zip-zap-and-zumbi/

Simon Terrill + Goldfinger

http://simonterrill.com/Balfron-Project

Cildo Meireles + Costa and Niemeyer

Arte Física: Caixas de Brasília/Clareira – , 1969. Sequência de fotografias e mapas, três caixas de terra. Fotografia: Pat Kilgore.

Bas Schevers + Le Corbusier

https://vimeo.com/145871529


Quote from "La Poème de l'Angle Droit" by Le Corbusier, 1947-1953 translated by Kenneth Hylton in 1989
Soundtrack: "Adagio Hoek" by Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen, 2015

This fragment is part of the video project "Corner Sessions" (2015)