April 1 - May 12 2022
Opening March 31, 6 pm
Architekturmuseum TU Berlin︎︎︎
BUILDING
Building, the process or business of making structures, e.g. buildings, nowadays relies heavily on digital representations of data (2). Generated and managed by drawing and modeling software, these representations structure human (3) and non-human actors (4) and their actions (5). These digital ecosystems both stem from and determine the dominant conditions of architectural and construction labor (6).
(1) … models, drawings, renderings
(2) … volumes, quantities, geometries, materials, costs
(3) … clients, architects, engineers, manufacturers, construction workers
(4) … tools, machines, robots
(5) … drafting, calculating, listing, visualizing, brick-laying, casting
(6) … tasks, working hours, compensation
INFORMATION
Information is processed, organized, and structured data. It provides context for data and enables decision-making processes. (Wikipedia)
Information is the title of a survey exhibition curated by Kynaston McShine at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1970. It presented participatory and process-based art that in part employed data collection, quantification, and developed new forms of critique in the emerging information society.
The exhibition Building Information at Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität Berlin brings together architects, artists, companies, theorists and activists.
Aaron Benanav, Alan Ruiz, Amelyn Ng, automated architecture (Mollie Claypool-Glass/Claire McAndrew), ATCHAIN, ABC School (The Architecture Lobby), Ericka Beckman, Harun Farocki, HOME-OFFICE, Ibiye Camp, Martin / Baxi Architects, TopCad / Bernard Cache, Sidsel Meineche Hansen
curated by
Kadambari Baxi
Elisa R. Linn
Klaus Platzgummer
Lennart Wolff
curatorial assistant
Lía Duarte Rodriguez
supported by
Leinemann Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur
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Leinemann Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur
partners
artist talk
April 25, 2022, 7 pmIbiye Camp, Glitches and Being
The artist will explore modes of resistance (inspired by Christina Sharpe’s writing in The Wake, On Blackness and Being. We will be discussing scanning software, the importance of resolution and incompleteness. How can technology be used to liberate non-western environments and more-than-human existence?
Ibiye Camp is an artist whose work engages with technology, trade and material within the African Diaspora. Ibiye’s work utilises architectural tools to create sound and video, accompanied by augmented reality and 3D objects, and highlights the biases and conflicts inherent to technology and postcolonial subjects. Ibiye tutors at the RCA with architectural design studio ADS2, titled Black Horizons: Worlding within the ruins of Racial Capitalism. Ibiye co-founded Xcessive Aesthetics, an interdisciplinary design collective exploring data through immersive technologies and public installations.︎︎︎
screening
May 10, 2022, 7 pmHarun Farocki, Zum Vergleich, 2009 with an introduction by Kadambari Baxi (Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?) ︎︎︎
“When I look at these buildings I don’t see craft but capital, with no regard for the community, the workers, or even the inhabitants who will have to face management that does not care about the building.”
Ericka Beckman in conversation with Isla Leaver-Yap: Construction Zone as a Pinball Game: On Frame UP (2005)︎︎︎
Ericka Beckman in conversation with Isla Leaver-Yap: Construction Zone as a Pinball Game: On Frame UP (2005)︎︎︎
Ericka Beckman Frame UP, 2005(courtesy the artist/Philip Martin Gallery)
conversation
May 11, 2022, 7 pmAaron Benanav automated architecture (Mollie Claypool-Glass/Claire McAndrew)
“Automation may be defined as what Kurt Vonnegut describes in Player Piano: it takes place whenever an entire ‘job classification has been eliminated. Poof.’ No matter how much production might increase, another telephone-switchboard operator or hand-manipulator of rolled steel will never be hired. In these cases, machines have fully substituted for human labour.” Aaron Benanav, AUTOMATION AND THE FUTURE OF WORK—1, New Left Review (2019) ︎︎︎
The Architecture Lobby is an international organization of architectural workers, planners, and designers advocating for the value of architecture in the general public and for architectural work within the discipline. ︎︎︎
workshop
May 9 - 11, 2022
with Alan Ruiz, ABC School (The Architecture Lobby), Aaron Cayer, Peggy Deamer, Kadambari Baxi, Klaus Platzgummer and Lennart Wolff et al.
Amelyn Ng, Borgesian BIM Object Library, (2021), Produced with Rice graduate students Yun Koo and Alec Burran.
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Kadambari Baxi (Who builds your Architecture?)(WBYA?) in conversation with Maggie Qin (ATCHAIN), (2022)
April 1 - May 12, 2022
opening March 31, 6 pm
Architekturmuseum der TU Berlin
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with contributions by
Aaron Benanav, Alan Ruiz, Amelyn Ng, automated architecture (Mollie Claypool-Glass/Claire McAndrew), ATCHAIN, ABC School (The Architecture Lobby), Ericka Beckman, Harun Farocki, HOME-OFFICE, Ibiye Camp, Martin / Baxi Architects, TopCAD / Bernard Cache, Sidsel Meineche Hansen
curated by
Kadambari Baxi, Elisa R. Linn, Klaus Platzgummer, Lennart Wolff
curatorial assistant
Lía Duarte Rodríguez
BUILDING
Building, the process or business of making structures, e.g. buildings, nowadays relies heavily on digital representations of data (2). Generated and managed by drawing and modeling software, these representations structure human (3) and non-human actors (4) and their actions (5). These digital ecosystems both stem from and determine the dominant conditions of architectural and construction labor (6).
(1) … models, drawings, renderings
(2) … volumes, quantities, geometries, materials, costs
(3) … clients, architects, engineers, manufacturers,
construction workers
(4) … tools, machines, robots
(5) … drafting, calculating, listing, visualizing, brick-laying, casting
(6) … tasks, working hours, compensation
INFORMATION
Information is processed, organized, and structured data. It provides context for data and enables decision-making processes. (Wikipedia)
Information is the title of a survey exhibition curated by Kynaston McShine at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1970. It presented participatory and process-based art that in part employed data collection, quantification, and developed new forms of critique in the emerging information society.
The exhibition Building Information at Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität Berlin brings together architects, artists, companies, theorists and activists.
supported by
Leinemann Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur
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partners
Ibiye Camp, Data: the New Black Gold, 2019
artist talk
April 25, 2022, 6.30 pm
Ibiye Camp, Glitches and Being
The artist will explore modes of resistance (inspired by Christina Sharpe’s writing in The Wake, On Blackness and Being. We will be discussing scanning software, the importance of resolution and incompleteness. How can technology be used to liberate non-western environments and more-than-human existence?
screening
May 10, 2022
Harun Farocki, Zum Vergleich, (2009) with an introduction by Kadambari Baxi (Who Builds your Architecture?) (WBYA?) ︎︎︎
When I look at these buildings I don’t see craft but capital, with no regard for the community, the workers, or even the inhabitants who will have to face management that does not care about the building.”
Ericka Beckman, interview: Construction Zone as a Pinball game on Frame UP (2005)︎︎︎
Ericka Beckman Frame UP, 2005
(courtesy the artist/Philip Martin Gallery)
