To identify, verify and validate answers/local solutions regarding the satisfaction of the needs and aspirations specific to the local/regional time and context.

Regulations Open Call for Projects in theTrans(ap)parencies2013 Thematic Exhibition

Objective:

Arhitext design Foundation, editor of Arhitext magazine, launches this open call for the selection of the projects to be presented at the Trans(ap)parencies Thematic Exhibition, at theTrans(ap)parencies 2013 East Centric Architecture Triennale.

Why a thematic exhibition:

As an exercise of articulation of a critical approach regarding the contemporary architectural phenomenon in the region

To illuminate, and to make visible and readable the vanishing lines/lines of force of the discourse at the level of architecture objects, as well as at the level of theoretical and critical approaches.

To identify approaches and discourses evincing particularities, local/regional shades of meaning and specificities, which would allow us to make an easier/more balanced comparison with architectural phenomena worldwide

To identify, verify and validate answers/local solutions regarding the satisfaction of the needs and aspirations specific to the local/regional time and context.

Inheriting a common history, the architecture of this region defines its identity today by making renewed use of local resources and by taking a critical stance with respect to international mainstream trends. For this reason we feel the need for a thematic exhibition.

Argument from the curator of Trans(ap)parencies2013 Exhibition:

“Trans(ap)parencies is not a concept, but an instrument of political and epistemic vizualization of architecture and by architecture: a epure, the description of a situation. Such as a mobile camera, it offers, precisely by its instability, the possibility of multiple views on the architectural processes from the Eastern, South-Eastern and Central Europe, articulating (trans-architecturally, in a de-opacifying manner) architecture as an implicit expression of political drives, from which the increasingly higher trans-aesthetic and meta-technical responsibilities of architects also derive.

Transparencies. More than twenty years ago, the countries from Eastern, South-Eastern and Central Europe were reintegrated into the world-system, of which the symmetrical promises of communism had been previously substracted, by democratic promises of the capital. Since then, and especially with the current systemic crisis – the expression of which was constituted, let us not forget, precisely the inflation of architecture in tandem with the scarcity of democracy –, the promise that transparency will replace the symmetry and equality, that political architecture is available at least visual and epistemic to everyone, that decisions are taken, with the participation at least spectacular in front of everyone, proves more than just a purpose built facade.

Trans-apparencies. How does architecture from Easter, South-Eastern and Central Europe express, help or fight these trends? Are political and architectural promises of transparency only a deceiving appearance? How does architecture help or fight democracy in this area? How does it block anti-democratic impulses? What political illusions does it maintain? How does it form the young citizen of the young democracy, implicitly, by spatial training situations in which it transposes him (public, private, common, surveilled, abandoned, intermediate, multiple, mixed, contaminated and dead, ghost-spaces, inter- and intra-spaces, realised micro-utopias etc.)?

Trans(ap)parencies. Meta-architectural, through this operator term, the situation may become reversible. If (primordial political concept, fundament of democracy) often is only a built, maintained illusion, a facade that not only masks the lack of transparency, but it builds more and more consistent and efficient political opacities, also through this appearance of transparency it can be passed, breached, exposed at meta-architectural level.

Because the problem of trans(ap)parencies – that is, of transparency appearances that have to be passed as such – is imposed inclusively (and maybe firstly) at self-meta-architectural discourses level, of the self image which the architecture builds for itself, which seems to reflect, that is, to reject anti-trans-apparently the political lights, the outside glances, preferring the appearances to an autonomy, that is, more and more, of an impossible, not allowed techno-aesthetic amorality…”

Why an open call:

This open call responds to the constant need to identify the most recent examples of quality architecture. Targeting both emerging offices and well-established practitioners, it is a public request which gives the opportunity to outline a complete, and thus more relevant image of the architecture built in the last 5 years in Central and Eastern Europe. This request is also open to experiment and innovation.

Why participate:

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