Of signing a contract. Inside the Free Unit
All architecture students have an idea of what a contract is to a varying degree. Those of us with some experience of working in a practice know that there exist contractors and contracts to be signed with them, and that the other party (it appears) will always try to do everything in their power to make you breach the contract, so as to get out of fulfilling their side of it, later suggesting that you should have seen it coming. There seems to be something inhumane about a contract – is it not some physical proof that we are not prepared to trust …
Out there: architecture beyond building.
11th international architecture exhibition, Venice
And out there, there are two worlds; one in need of a social architecture which is sensitive and contextual, and another world edging on the virtualisation of culture, to which architecture must reach in order to reinstate a new material and sensual space. Roughly speaking, the national pavilions on the 11th International Architecture Exhibition state the former, whereas Aaron Betsky’s exhibition in the Arsenale describes the latter. And, as tradition, the Biennale takes upon itself the question: what is an architecture exhibition? A good …
Real Time 2007–2011
Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design
London Metropolitan University
