36 drawings
1 – Ziggurat
Ur, Iraq
III millennium BC
2 – Tower of Babel
Babylon, Iraq
II millennium BC
3 – Matmata Troglodyte Dwellings
Matmata, Tunisia
II century BC
4 – Terme di Caracalla
Rome, Italy
216
5 – Palazzo Rucellai
Leon Battista Alberti
Florence, Italy
1451
6 – Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne
Baldassarre Peruzzi
Rome, Italy
1536
7 –Galleria degli Uffizi
Giorgio Vasari
Florence, Italy
1580
8 – Porta Pia
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Rome, Italy
1565
9 – Acquedotto Felice
Matteo Ortolani, Giovanni Fontana
Rome, Italy
1587
10 – Jantar Mantar
Jai Singh II
Jaipur, India
1734
11 – AEG Turbine Factory
Peter Behrens
Berlin, Germany
1909
12 – Set Design for Orpheus and Eurydice
Adolphe Appia
Dresden, Germany
1913
13 – La Ricompensa dell’Indovino
Giorgio De Chirico
1913
14 – Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo’s House and Studio
Juan O’Gorman
Mexico City, Mexico
1931
15 – Palazzina Furmanik
Mario De Renzi
Rome, Italy
1940
16 – Unité d’Habitation
Le Corbusier
Marseille, France
1952
17 – Baule and Senufo Masks
Gian Piero Frassinelli’s Collection
Ivory Coast
1950
18 – Natura Morta
Giorgio Morandi
1956
19 – Vertical Stripes (8.7 cm)
Daniel Buren
1965
20 – Superbox
Ettore Sottsass Jr.
1966
21 – Dream Beds, “Presagio di Rose”
Archizoom Associati
1967
22 – Rimorchiatore
Gae Aulenti
1967
23 – 12 Ideal Cities -12th city
Superstudio
1971
24 – Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes
Sol LeWitt
1974
25 – Quinta da Malagueira
Álvaro Siza
1977-1998
Évora, Portugal
26 – Bacterio laminate
Ettore Sottsass Jr.
1978
27 – Teatro del Mondo
Aldo Rossi
Venice, Italy
1979
28 – Netherlands Dance Theater
OMA
The Hague, The Netherlands
1987
29 – Arnoldi Triplex
Frank O. Gehry
Los Angeles, U.S.A.
1981
30 – Casablanca
Memphis
1981
31 – Colossus
Carlo Aymonino
Rome, Italy
1984
32 – Renovation of Porta S. Paolo
Costantino Dardi
Rome, Italy
1984
33 – Nemausus
Jean Nouvel
Nîmes, France
1988
34 – Cellule No. 3
Absalon
New York, U.S.A.
1992
35 – Masterplan Strijp Philips
Andrea Branzi, Lapo Lani and Ernesto Bartolini
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2000
36 – Architettura Monumentale
Ettore Sottsass Jr.
2003
EXHIBITION AND CATALOGUE
Biennale of Architecture in Orléans 2017
Published in Rome, 2017
TEXT AND DRAWINGS:
2A+P/A (Gianfranco Bombaci, Matteo Costanzo)
The series of drawings is a visual essay that exposes our idea of architecture in its intimate form. Artworks, images, objects, built or unbuilt architectures, archetypes are indifferently assumed as projects and juxtaposed to create a storyboard of unexpected encounters and unpredictable meanings. Each element of the collection is detached by its own material, spatial and temporal context by being redrawn and therefore re-appropriated to construct a cabinet of obsessions. The drawings are integrated in the architecture by entirely covering the wall, like a fresco that tells a choral story of temptations.
As a whole they represent a body of ideas and meanings without a specific hierarchy or order, using a lens that flattens history in a present moment. As such the contemplation of the past is not just the memory of surpassed and obsolete objects, but rather the construction of an archive of pieces and parts that we can continuously reassemble to produce meaning. Ultimately architecture is not just the production of space but first and foremost a form of knowledge.