Alternative histories
2019
Alternative Histories was an architectural exhibition co-curated by Jantje Engels and Marius Grootveld in collaboration with Drawing Matter and the Architecture Foundation, London. It was first presented at Cork Street, London and then CIVA, Brussels.
Hayatsu Architects were asked to respond to the frontispiece of the abbé Laugier’s 1753 Essai sur l’architecture, ‘The Primitive Hut’.
Architecture evolves through material transformations, copying one from another, much like how Greek temples adopted using stone instead of wood.
Casting is an act of copying. Bronze is an ancient material used by humankind dating back to the mid-4thmillennium BC. It is a ductile alloy which does not corrode once the copper oxide layer is formed. Its eternal quality transforms the most primitive construction made from wooden branches to a dignified and long-lasting architecture.
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