Dots, lines and squares is the contribution of 2A+P/A (Gianfranco Bombaci and Matteo Costanzo) to What is ornament? exhibition curated by Ambra Fabi and Giovanni Piovene within the framework of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale – The Poetic of Reason.

Starting from the first experiments made by Ettore Sottsass, with the coloured stripes of Superboxes, to the pop patterns used in the exhibition Superarchitettura, through the continuous grids of dots by Archizoom or the squared surfaces by Superstudio, and finally arriving at the exuberant and provocative geometries by Alchymia and Memphis, this exhibition is the first attempt to give a general reading of a phenomenon, that of the use of textures and patterns in Italian design.

https://2019.trienaldelisboa.com

Culturgest
Headquarters of Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Rua Arco do Cego, 50
1000–300 Lisboa

Opening
4 October 2019 – 22:00

Date
5 October – 1 December 2019

Opening times
11:00 – 18:00
Tuesday to Sunday
Closed on Mondays

During the upcoming Design Week, 2A+P/A will present the exhibition “Drawings and Projects” in the historic Antonia Jannone architectural gallery. A collection of projects, images, illustrations and photographs brought together in the gallery’s spaces to portray the poetic research of the studio.

Every work on display investigates other projects and tries to affirm an idea of architecture as a form of collective knowledge. The office’s two partners, Gianfranco Bombaci and Matteo Costanzo, explore the potential of architectural projects through non-philological reference samples that derive from a range of disciplines and include objects, paintings, buildings, sculptures and weavings. Architecture thus becomes a research tool for understanding reality and at the same time for giving shape and space to the
collective rites of the present times.

The exhibition shows the juxtaposition of two bodies of work. One wall hosts the series called “36 drawings”, first created for the Biennale of Orléans and commissioned by the Frac Centre-Val de Loire. The opposite wall presents a selection of projects chosen to exemplify the type of work undertaken by 2A+P/A during its ten years of activity: finished work, competition projects, exhibition pavilions and installations.

During the exhibition the gallery will also host a talk on the role and value of architectural drawing in the present day.

On 23 March, Alternative History exhibition, curated by Jantje Engels and Marius Grootveld, in collaboration with Drawing Matter and the Architecture Foundation, will open in London. We had been invited among more than 80 contemporary practices in the UK and Europe to imagine an exchange with architects from the past. Each office was assigned a different drawing from the collection of Drawing Matter. The architects were then tasked with making a model that not only responded to what they saw, but envisioned an alternative future for the original drawing while adhering to the constraints of the project: although comprising different materials and scales, the models had to be transportable, and their footprints had to fit within the surface area of the historic drawings.

Click here to see a full list of participating architects and studios, and the models and drawings as they emerge.

6 Cork Street, Mayfair
Open Saturdays and Sundays only 11am–6pm;
private view, and opening colloquium, 23 March, 2pm

The 5th of February the exhibition “Omaggio a Gio Ponti” will open at the Italian Culture Institute in Stockholm. We contribute together with Baukuh, BRH+, Stefano Graziani and Francesco Librizzi.

Today preview of the exhibition “5 architetti arredano la finestra dell’auditorium dell’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Stoccolma”, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Institute and its designer Gio Ponti.
The exhibition will be officially open for the Stockholm Design Week in February.

The project of Maria Grazia Cutuli School in Herat is on show in London at Victoria and Albert Museum within the exhibition The future starts here.

V&A
The Sainsbury Gallery
On now until Sunday, 4 November 2018
Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL

On 14 June 2018 at 6 pm, the exhibition Intentions. Reading 11 projects of le FRAC Centre-Val de Loire will open in Walter Knoll Gallery in London.

Intentions is a curated table of objects in conversation with and in reaction to a series of radical projects from the collection of le FRAC Centre-Val De Loire in Orléans. Through this exhibition, Royal college of Art ADS10 participants engage with one of the most important collections of Radical Architecture worldwide to reflect upon on the power of architecture to imagine and transform the city.

ADS10 is a MA Architecture studio in the Royal College of Art led by Gianfranco Bombaci, Matteo Costanzo and Davide Sacconi. ADS10 is a journey toward the very reason of architecture. Guided by an anthropological gaze, the Studio has the ambition to question the relationship between architecture and man and verify if the discipline of architecture can still challenge norms and behaviours imposed by the present urban condition, and thus reclaim a meaning for contemporary practice.

INTENTIONS
Reading 11 projects from le FRAC Centre-Val de Loire
14 – 22 June 2018

Opening
14 June 2018, 6 pm
Opening Hour
Mon – Fri / 10 am – 6 pm

Walter Knoll
42 Charterhouse Square
Clerkenwell London
EC1M 6EA

INFO at:
https://www.rca.ac.uk/schools/school-of-architecture/architecture/ads-themes-201718/ads10-savage-architecture-or-city-collective-rituals/