Superpowers of Scale - Jaque, Andres

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Résumé :
Andr?s Jaque and the Office for Political Innovation bring new subjects into the fold of architecture. Documenting a series of performances, research projects, installations, films, characters, and exhibitions, Superpowers of Scale demonstrates the breadth of architectural knowledge and its possible representations....

Biographie:
Andr?s Jaque is the founder of the Office for Political Innovation, an architectural agency working in the intersection of design, research, and activism. The office?s work explores architecture as a political practice that negotiates its agency through trans-scalar expression. The Office for Political Innovation has been awarded the 2016 Frederick Kiesler Prize from the City of Vienna, the SILVER LION at the fourteenth Venice Biennale, and the Dionisio Hern?ndez Gil Award, among others.

Andr?s Jaque is also the director of the Advanced Architectural Design Program at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. His research has been published in Perspecta, Log, Thresholds, and Volume, among other publications.

Sommaire:
Andr?s Jaque is the founder of the Office for Political Innovation, an architectural agency working in the intersection of design, research, and activism. The office?s work explores architecture as a political practice that negotiates its agency through trans-scalar expression. The Office for Political Innovation has been awarded the 2016 Frederick Kiesler Prize from the City of Vienna, the SILVER LION at the fourteenth Venice Biennale, and the Dionisio Hern?ndez Gil Award, among others.

Andr?s Jaque is also the director of the Advanced Architectural Design Program at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. His research has been published in Perspecta, Log, Thresholds, and Volume, among other publications....