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It’s a research and teaching program about fundamental topics of architecture founded by @fabiodon and @_marcozelli_.

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On January 24, the Jacques Herzog und Pierre de Meuron Kabinett, Basel hosted ‘Unbuilt Matter’ as part of the current @s_am_basel exhibition ‘What If – Unbuilt Architecture in Switzerland’.

@_marcozelli_ , of the Zurich-based collective Forum for Architecture Theory (F.A.T.), moderated the roundtable discussion with Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou and Jaques Herzog.

The talk explored how the category of the unbuilt applies to architecture and unfolded its spectrum of possibilities, starting from two texts proposed by the speakers.

With the storyboard ‘Life / Supersurface, an alternative model of life on Earth’, @emmanuelle_chiapponepiriou offered an insight into the work of Superstudio. The unbuilt is here the premise for radical speculation, where an a priori design strategy informs the entirety of inhabitable space, stretching and dissolving the boundaries of the discipline toward different forms of project.

With the text ‘Eine Stadt im Werden?’ Jaques Herzog (@herzogdemeuron) praised instead for a dialectic approach where the unbuilt gears to the given, providing a space potential and ‘hesitation’. The assignment for studying the vertical development of the city of Basel has been hijacked by the architects and the artist Rémy Zaugg, to interrogate the physical nature of the city, its infrastructural system, and its geography to formulate possible stories of the city, and multiple conjectures about its ‘becoming’.

While both analyzed positions revealed a certain prophetic capacity, their interplay showed the distance between an eschatological narrative and a negotiation with the here and now, resulting in different use of the unbuilt category.

Photos: Hans H. Münchhalfen by @fatzrh

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Forum for Architecture Theory is thrilled to announce the new semester topic. Stay tuned!
Graphic by @andreasaccavini
Typeface Seagal by @giovanni_murolo by @fatzrh

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Join our program #onAutomaton @trienaldelisboa @maatmuseum with @settexento @fala.atelier @lucinda__correia @_marcozelli_ @fabiodon and many others! taken in Museo Maat - Lisboa Portugal by @fatzrh

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Thanks to the curators of “A Certain Kind of Life”, Jimmy Carter, Abigail Chang, Francesco Marullo and Agata Siemionow for curating this edition of F.A.T. and for hosting us in their beautiful installation.
A big thanks to the participants Pippo Ciorra, Sonja Dragovic, Tuomas Toivonen, Andre Tavares, Ivo Martins, Flora Del Debbio, Nash Kennedy for joining the inspiring discussion on Focault’s practice of “self-writing” and Le Corbusier’s learning from the Ema Cahrterhouse. Photo by Ibay Rigby
@trienaldelisboa @uicsoa @fa_platform @genericarchitecture @nashkennnedy @needsatrim @eye_experience
@ibairigby #thepoeticsofreason by @fatzrh

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#MiesvanderRohe #Award #2019 #Thanks for letting us be part of this amazing #event! @eumiesaward @fundaciomies @ibmbcn
#getout & #getFAT taken in EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Awards by @fatzrh

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#FAT #forumforarchitecturetheory #zurich #manifesto taken in FAT by @fatzrh

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