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This interest in performance among architects is less a style or a fledgling movement than a register, a way of working. It’s a means of sketching out a new set of priorities — and giving up older ones that are tarnished or compromised. It’s also open-ended, challenging the idea that a building can ever really qualify as finished. It makes room for perspectives that come from other fields. — LA Times
According to Hawthorne, this new trend—seen in the work of architects from Andrés Jaque to Bryony Roberts—evidences the appeal of "impermanence and often...informality," putting the work in contrast to the ritzy architecture that seems to dominant these days. View full entry
Architect and experimental preservationist Bryony Roberts joins us for our next Mini-Session, a continuation of our Next Up event staged at the Chicago Architecture Biennial. While Roberts' interview at the Chicago Cultural Center unfortunately didn't make it to tape, I called her up for a... View full entry
For a highly-limited run during the Chicago Architecture Biennial's opening weekend, Mies van der Rohe's federal plaza became the stage for a performance foreign to most central business districts: a drill team exercise. Conceived by Bryony Roberts (of the Oslo and Los Angeles-based Bryony Roberts... View full entry
