GROUPWORK - Alice’s Tabula Rasa

In the organizer's words:

Alice's Tabula Rasa refers to English and German perspectives of the 19th century. These include the author Lewis Carroll's critique of convention as well as the architects Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Gottfried Semper and Karl Bötticher's quest for an "etymology of architecture" - a research into origins that was taken up again around a century later by Henry van de Velde and Walter Gropius in their brief revival of a material-speculative approach to teaching.

GROUPWORK is convinced that without a forensically precise examination of the properties of materials, even the most ambitious architectural intentions run the risk of degenerating into mere facades of the present - aesthetic gestures without ethical support. An installation shows how architectural archetypes can be rethought to enable carbon-negative construction - as a proposal for a new paradigm that stores and permanently binds atmospheric carbon.

Amin Taha will be on site that evening to present projects by the British architecture and design studio.