Small Designs, Nice Architects
An exhibition for and on the Roca Gallery Barcelona
“In the course of the time I spent in S’s massive kitchen subsequent to Lake Como, I’d draw for hours and hours, completely spontaneously, espresso makers, cooking pots, bottles. Due to their unusual shapes, I notably appreciated the inexperienced and pink enamelled espresso pots; they had been a type of miniature of the incredible structure I used to be going to come across in a while. Immediately I nonetheless like to attract these large espresso pots that turn into, in my creativeness, brick constructions with an inside you may stroll by means of”.
Aldo Rossi, architect.
This assertion kinds the idea of “Small designs, nice architects”, the place issues aren’t at all times what they appear. “A espresso maker, for instance, generally is a gateway to a person and an period”, that is what López Cotelo mentioned about Rossi’s espresso makers. Equally, for some time one other famend architect, Peter Zumthor, couldn’t make up his thoughts whether or not the drawing hanging in his personal studio and created by himself was a salt cellar or skyscraper.
We usually affiliate architects, particularly internationally prestigious architects, with the massive scale. Massive buildings, skyscrapers, even cities are the goal for his or her creativity. However in precise reality, within the place the place concepts take form, there are not any scales; evocative concepts journey from one excessive to the opposite and there’s room for stimuli of every kind to develop the ultimate mission. And it’s exactly at a selected time throughout this journey when a sketch, picture or piece of paper finally ends up changing into both a big constructing or a small object that alters our lives. Issues aren’t at all times what they appear.
On this journey some visionary folks, like Alessi, realised the potential and richness of making synergies in all dimensions, stimulating architects to embark on designing objects. And on a regular basis utensils had been reworked into works of inventive worth, with espresso makers even changing into manifestos.
“Small designs, nice architects” proposes a special have a look at the work of those famend worldwide architects related to the massive scale, displaying them in a extra intimate mild, exactly by means of their designs for the smallest however, above all, probably the most home objects, by way of our commonest act: sitting down on the desk, in entrance of what may very well be any Sunday household meal. We’ll dip the bread within the oil served to us by Peter Zumthor, Toyo Ito gives us with the plates, David Chipperfield affords us a seat, Zaha Hadid will place some flowers and we’ll sit again and calm down with Jean Nouvel’s espresso.
The desk is laid. Bon appétit!
Design: TwoPoints.Web
Shopper: Roca Gallery Barcelona
Curation and exhibition structure: 15515 Arquitectura
Shopper: Roca Gallery Barcelona
Curation and exhibition structure: 15515 Arquitectura
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