Quintus Miller; Paola Maranta; Jean-Luc von Aarburg
We loved this term ‘thoughtscape’, described by Quintus Miller as a “vast topography of interrelated thoughts”. As practitioners Miller & Maranta have a unique ability to advance ancient building techniques rendering them relevant in the making of contemporary buildings. This imbues their buildings with a sense of culture and a sense of memory. This connection with memory is something they believe necessary to make present. The means used in their work are inventive, tactile, and sophisticated. This obviously comes from the cultivation of what they have called their ‘thoughtscape’, which is a combination of the random, the intuitive, the scholarly and the precise.
By presenting this ‘unfamiliar constellation’ of fragments, of spaces, of materials, the curious visitor is taken on an exciting trip, activating their own memories or experiences and lending some insight into the wonderful capacity of architecture to envelop and give form to unexpected associations. This exhibit which represents the FREESPACE of thought and creativity, reminds us of the way that A. S. Byatt describes the making of poetry where she talks about “a kind of musical rhythm of firing cells with sensory content, a combination of the precise and the random”. The exhibit displays beautifully the inner world, the driving force in the making of architecture.
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