SCALA · Architecture Playing Cards by Arquitectura a contrapelo

Next Tuesday, May 28, the Sevillian studio Arquitectura a contrapelo will launch, in the US platform for crowdfunding Kickstarter, the second edition of Scala · Architecture Playing Cards, a poker deck that reflects the international panorama of architecture in the last twenty-five years through drawing and color.

This is the fourth campaign of Arquitectura a contrapelo after the projects Order, Expo and the first edition of Scala, all satisfactorily developed and produced on an international scale, especially in the case of Scala in 2016. Scala · Architecture Playing Cards was, also, a project highlighted in the Design category and included in the weekly Kickstarter newsletter; collected in prestigious international media and published in more than ten languages.

SCALA is a standard deck of poker cards which provides an overview of several buildings of interest in contemporary architecture. The four suits define the size of the projects from the small scale of pavilions and houses to the urban and infrastructural range.

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Uncut sheet. SCALA · Architecture Playing Cards by Arquitectura a contrapelo.

Poster. SCALA · Architecture Playing Cards by Arquitectura a contrapelo.

Building and card. SCALA · Architecture Playing Cards by Arquitectura a contrapelo.

Back details. SCALA · Architecture Playing Cards by Arquitectura a contrapelo.

Timeline. SCALA · Architecture Playing Cards by Arquitectura a contrapelo.

Map new offices. SCALA · Architecture Playing Cards by Arquitectura a contrapelo.

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Arquitectura A contrapelo

AaC was born in 2012 as a sort of blog where learnings and reflections on architecture could be exchanged. In 2016, it became also an architectural practice with the realization of refurbishing and brand new projects and competitions; as well as a design laboratory which develops art- and architecture-related products in such varied formats as memory games, card decks, posters…

It is a project shared by Pedro Mena, Miguel Rabán & Juan Luis Romero, graduates of ETSA Seville, and conceived as a common space that allows for research and shaping of alternative possibilities for architecture.

A contrapelo, ‘against the grain’, is an expression taken from philosopher Walter Benjamin’s oeuvre, where he advocated for an absolute distancing from a historical development at the service of the victor. The task is to brush history against the grain, discovering every work as contemporary, by stripping it off every empathy for the concept of progress. This way of re-reading, re-interpreting and re-drawing the world is the one we want to portray in our practice.

Published on: May 25, 2019

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