Contribution to La Biennale di Venezia, 6. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura: Sensing the Future. The Architect as Seismograph
Inquiry into the Architecture of the Future Our contribution to the 1996 Venice Biennale presents four projects in progress, which give insight into several themes that we are concurrently pursuing. As in previous presentations at the Swiss Institute in New York or the Centre Pompidou in Paris, 3 architectural models and 1 video monitor are placed on 4 separate tables. Both the models and the video are intended to provide food for thought on today’s cities. A fictional, contemporary city in the process of growth is conveyed through the synthetic combination of real pictures from our everyday surroundings. The video project was originally designed for the exhibition “Enquête sur l’Architecture Proche”, a survey of contemporary architecture, which was to be mounted at the Centre Pompidou in 1997. Our project was well advanced when the ambitious exhibition had to be cancelled due to budgeting problems. The project was so important to us, however, that we decided to proceed although we had no idea where it would lead us. For a long time, we simply followed the images, a flood of images, which we organized like a library.
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