RE-CONSTRUCTIVIST ARCHITECTURE a call from Rome

08/01/2017. Exhibition by Jacopo Costanzo and Giovanni Cozzani [NYC] USA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA

Involving some of the architects who participated in the 1988 MoMA’s show “Deconstructivist Architecture” through their drawings and short essays, the exhibition is attempting to generate a debate between two generation of architects: one who destabilized a certain kind of relationship with the design theory and a new one wishing to get back to the lost way.

AM3 (Palermo) Villa on Lake Nemi. Image courtesy of Ierimonti Gallery

AM3 (Palermo) Villa on Lake Nemi. Image courtesy of Ierimonti Gallery

Adam Nathaniel Furman (London) In the tradition of Hadrian’s villa, the villa Giulia, and Madama, the House of the Tetrarchs is a political withdrawal into nature, fortified with the geometry of an urban ideal on the periphery of an unruly city. Image courtesy of Ierimonti Gallery

UNULAUNU (Bucharest) A locus amoenus is a place where the human being finds the wild part of himself as an individual, he finds himself in an absolute private dimension, where he knows how to be free and emotional. It represents a vision that explains a clear need for relief from rigid social rules and an escape from the universally recognized and accepted conventions. Image courtesy of Ierimonti Gallery

Point Supreme (Athens) Roman Villa. Image courtesy of Ierimonti Gallery

False Mirror Office (Genoa) Zuppa Romana. Image courtesy of Ierimonti Gallery

Point Supreme (Athens) Roman Villa. Image courtesy of Ierimonti Gallery

Parasite 2.0 (Milan) Crypto domestic desert. Image courtesy of Ierimonti Gallery

fala atelier (Porto) Frivolous attempt at the definitive courtyard house. Image courtesy of Ierimonti Gallery

jbmn (Paris) Palladio 4.0. Image courtesy of Ierimonti Gallery

PARA Project (New York) Another pass at distortion of the cultural box but this time with the natural. Image courtesy of Ierimonti Gallery

Warehouse of Architecture and Research (Rome) A dwelling of noble and latin sense. Image courtesy of Ierimonti Gallery

Something Fantastic (Berlin) The actual site of the countryside as mythical place, as locus amoenus, is the periphery. Image courtesy of Ierimonti Gallery

MAIO (Barcelona) Rooms for a Discontinuous Roman Villa. Image courtesy of Ierimonti Gallery

Fosbury Architecture (Milan) Juggernaut. Image courtesy of Ierimonti Gallery

BERNARD TSCHUMI “A house like a city, a city like a house” [Print, 12x12 inches]. Image courtesy of Ierimonti Gallery

PETER EISENMAN Study for a museum in Istanbul Collection Peter Eisenman [Print, 12x16 inches]. Image courtesy of Ierimonti Gallery

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU Art Museum Strongoli Strongly, Italy [Print, 12x16 inches]. Image courtesy of Ierimonti Gallery

Exhibition view. RE-CONSTRUCTIVIST ARCHITECTURE at Ierimonti Gallery. Image courtesy of Ierimonti Gallery

Ierimonti Gallery New York is showing the Re-Constructivist Architecture exhbition, curated by Jacopo Costanzo and Giovanni Cozzani and promoted by the Scientific Technical Committee of Casa dell'Architettura in collaboration with Consulta Giovani Architetti Roma.

The exhibition will feature the work of thirteen international emerging architecture firms, aiming to portray a generation of architects born in the ‘80s: a countertrend that tries to recover a debate lost years ago and obstructed by a cumbersome star system. Their theoretical, critical and historical approach attempts to rediscover a thoughtful dimension behind the architectural subject. Each firm will present a residential project for the Roman countryside, a design exercise meant as a typological investigation, or, more generally, as a meditation on the autonomy of the architectural discipline. The thirteen projects for thirteen houses showcased in the exhibit are intended as a homage to the city of Rome and its countryside.