Generative Architecture. The Making of a Room.
- Presented by
- Alejandro Campos
- Ismahelio
- Artists
- Anaglyphic
- Anna Beller & Alejandro Campos
- Corneel Cannaerts & Luis E. Fraguada
- Victor Doval & xnmtrc
- Fleep
- Olga Fradina
- Kira0
- office ca & {protocell:labs}
- Erik Swahn
- Studio Yorktown
Verse is delighted to present Generative Architecture, an exhibition curated by Alejandro Campos and Ismahelio.
Alejandro and Ismahelio, both architects and practicing generative artists, realized that there are many artists with similar backgrounds in the digital space.
For their exhibition, they invited a curated selection of these artists to create works that challenge the interpretation of a room in the virtual realm. The result is a collection of works specifically created for GenArch, born out of discussions and collaborations on this theme.
Louis Kahn, The Making of a Room, 1971
Architecture comes from the making of a room but, What’s exactly a room?
For architects, buildings are just a form of architecture and architecture, further beyond, the sense of place, of continuity and connection with everything around us. When one makes room for something, it opens spaces and possibilities, frameworks for new relationships, communities of wonder, creativity, and knowledge.
The Generative Art, web3, NFT spaces are henceforth to be referred to as an architecture made of Twitter Spaces, Art Galleries, Discord Rooms, Marketplaces, Forums, Platforms, Archives, Repositories, Code Structures, Blocks and Chains… all of them words that carry architectural meanings.
Can these spaces develop without architects? Where are they? What are they doing?
Studio Yorktown, preview detail, 2023
Anna Beller & Alejandro Campos, preview detail, 2023
Victor Doval & xnmtrc, preview detail, 2023
Generative Architecture, or GenArch, is an exhibition that follows architects on their Creative Coding journeys, on their opening of spaces for virtual encounter, their merging of virtual and mixed reality technologies with physical objects and crafts, and their use of generative systems for artistic discovery. With both physical and digital artworks by artists with a background in architecture, GenArch takes a closer look at how disciplinary knowledge and techniques can be used to open new perspectives on the field of Generative Art.
What can architects contribute to a world that appears to be shifting away from embodied experiences to predominantly audiovisual stimuli?
If artworks are rooms, then,
Louis Kahn, The Making of a Room, 1971
Curatorial statement by Alejandro Campos and Ismahelio.
Louis Kahn, The Making of a Room, 1971
Alejandro Campos
Alejandro is a Spanish Creative Coder based in Rotterdam, where he currently holds an academic position as a Lecturer at the Department of Architecture, Delft University of Technology. As a scholar, Alejandro specialises in the history of Modern Architecture and the colonial dynamics behind its universalising claims.
His generative artworks connect interests on art history, critical theory...
Ismahelio
A trained architect specializing in parametric and generative design, Ismahelio has lived and worked in Spain, Mexico, India, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and the United States, each of which has influenced his work. Deeply interested in studying the connection between architecture and art through generative systems.
Having taken a strong interest in the visual arts from an early age, Ismahelio combines...
