IN TREATMENT [>2] METALOCUS

In the past, architects knew what to expect after finishing their degree. In reality, nobody considered other alternatives than what seemed to be a small bunch of unambiguous possibilities, typical and predictable channels of professional development.

Nowadays, it’s clear that the situation has mutated. Things are different, there are multiple channels, and even the ways we practise them are being reinvented. Just recall some of the examples in the first edition published two years ago (For example, the article whose link we have provided at the end: Arquitectos tenderos y ¡a mucha honra!)

Today, more and more, the way we see the reality has been reinvented. Monolithic ideas are viewed in a fractured way and then are constructed again in a new, equally valid reality.

The psychotherapist in the series In Treatment (a story based on the successful Israeli series of the same name), Paul, reconstructs the ideas of his patients from Monday to Thursday, a new reality for his narrators, leaving Friday for he himself to go to therapy with his colleague and friend of many years, Gina. During the sessions we learn about the various characters and the conflicts they confront.

The actors that participate in the first season of INTREATMENT [>2] - METALOCUS, are young architects looking for their own identity every week.

In this second season of INTREATMENT [>2] - METALOCUS project and when we first discussed the idea about a reconstruction of an architectural In Treatment, I remembered how METALOCUS was born of the same interests Fourteen years ago:

the need to explain reality in a different way than we were seeing it being narrated, knowing full well that interpretation was a common cause among the architects of that generation.

IN TREATMENT [>2] – METALOCUS will be the sofa where a series of architects will talk about reality kaleidoscopically, their reality. Using Yi Fu Tuan’s definition of place, they will build a place for contemporary architecture relating what they think about this reality, in this reality and with this reality. What links all the guests together is that they are architects far from the city where they studied, and the majority are even far from the country where they thought they would be professionally based.

Faraway from their city, from a reality that doesn’t exist, building a reality around a void. INTREATMENT [>2] - METALOCUS Thank you to the participants and thank you especially to the readers. Enjoy!

The architects of the second season: