AWC 9 – THE DIFFICULT DOUBLE I-III

The culture of architecture is based on misunderstandings and tweaked stories. Bad reading, simplification and superficial interpretation of something far away, both in space and time, has been the engine of quite many of the avant-gardes of the recent past. This course wants to introduce a new generation of cultural producers. Each of the authors was asked to show an appropriated fragment of cultural history. Often the practice presented is not reducible to this simple point of reference, but the way the historical counterpart is accumulated and appropriated, perhaps misunderstood, reveals doubtlessly a lot of the fixations of the author invited. Both author and fragment compose a ‘double portrait’, a ‘difficult duo’ that tells more about the project of the one invited than a simple office presentation would do. The totality of these micro stories will inevitably create an alternative history, an accumulated set of cultural knowledge.