Vogadors/Architectural Rowers

Vogare: in un contesto difficile per l’architettura, in Catalogna e nelle isole Baleari è nata una nuova generazione di architetti che cercano di navigare nelle acque turbolente del presente per trovare la propria strada, in direzione del futuro ma al contempo con uno sguardo complice verso il passato.

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Vogadors/Architectural Rowers. Catalan & Balearic Threads
Hard Materiality for a Permeable Architecture
Castello, 40 (San Pietro di Castello)
dal 29 agosto al 25 novembre
Vogare: in un contesto difficile per l’architettura, in Catalogna e nelle isole Baleari è nata una nuova generazione di architetti che cercano di navigare nelle acque turbolente del presente per trovare la propria strada, in direzione del futuro ma al contempo con uno sguardo complice verso il passato.
Organizzazione: Institut Ramon Llull

Commissioner: Institut Ramon Llull
Curators: Félix Arranz and Jordi Badia

Rowing: At an extraordinarily difficult juncture for architecture, a new generation of architects has emerged in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands. They seek to navigate the turbulent waters of the present to find their path towards the future but all the while retain a complicit regard for the past.

Vogadors is a clear commitment to the future presenting a selection of 9 works from some of the most outstanding young Catalan and Balearic architects, all of them with a shared sensibility. These works likewise illustrate a different way of going about things in response to the growing demand on the part of society for what is necessary for community life and at odds with more spectacular and showy architecture.

The exhibition documents a sober architecture that uses very simple materials but is of a tremendous technical and intellectual sophistication and includes a strong social and ethical component enabling skillful construction with mindful openness to the environment, people and life without abandoning the most abstract and visual sentimental values.