Out of ConText
WAF Miami 2025 – World Architecture Festival, Miami Beach Convention Center, Gruppenausstellung. 2025
ORGANISATION
Kurator: Vladimir Belogolovsky, New York
BESCHREIBUNG
Out of ConText
Projects from Armenia, Bangladesh, China, Finland, Poland, Switzerland, and Vietnam
Exhibition at WAF MIAMI 2025 – World Architecture Festival
Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, USA
12.11.2025 – 14.11.2025
What are the most critical questions for architects to pose now? Contrary to the current mainstream fixation on agendas such as sustainability, ecology, architects’ identities, problem-solving, social engagement, adaptive reuse, and the evergrowing assault on form, authorship, artistry, and alternative views, curator Vladimir Belogolovsky focuses our attention on architecture itself. Where do we derive our inspirations? What is the role of an architect? What kind of architecture do we try to achieve? How do we start a project? What excites us? He directs these questions to seven international architects and brings together their responses in a group exhibition, Out of ConText. The result is a critique of the current moment in architecture in which we no longer discuss the discipline’s aspirations. The show serves as an open platform that invites us to identify and debate our ideas – contextual and personal, consequential and random, rational and intuitive, pragmatic and philosophical, calculated and emotional, aligned and contradictory, and as diverse as we are. The show invites visitors to contribute to the discussion by taking part in live interviews conducted by the curator within the installation. (Vladimir Belogolovsky)
Ausstellungsteilnehmer:
– Yuval Baer of BAER / Architecture & Urban Design, Jerusalem, Israel / Museum of Architecture and Design in Helsinki, Finland (Competition entry)
– Ping Jiang of Atelier Ping Jiang / EID Arch, Shanghai / Panda Pavilions, Chengdu, China
– Fawad Kazi of Fawad Kazi Architect, Zurich / Cantonal Hospital St.Gallen (KSSG) – Children’s Hospital of Eastern Switzerland (OKS)
– Nguyen Huu Son Duong of SILAA Architects, Hue / Sahi Homestay Retreat, Hue, Vietnam
– Roger Riewe of Riegler Riewe Architects, Graz/Berlin / Museum of Silesian Art, Katowice, Poland
– Mohammad Foyez Ullah of Volumezero Limited, Dhaka / Train Station, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
– Garegin Yeghoyan of ARCHcoop, Yerevan / Villa Yeraz for a winery owner, Rind Village, Armenia
BEITRAG
Kantonsspital St.Gallen KSSG – Ostschweizer Kinderspital OKS, 2009-2029
Gezeigt wurden ein Interview von Vladimir Belogolovsky mit Fawad Kazi, Pläne und ein städtebauliches Konzeptmodell von Fawad Kazi Architekt GmbH, eine Visualisierung von Virtual Design Unit GmbH, Fotos von Georg Aerni und Florian Brunner, die Gebäudemonografie Kantonsspital St.Gallen KSSG – Ostschweizer Kinderspital OKS, Band I-III, herausgegeben 2018, 2021 und 2025 von Marko Sauer und Christoph Wieser im Verlag park books sowie ein Mockup vom Türgriff FSB 1254.
GRAFIK, VIDEOS
Vladimir Belogolovsky, New York
LINKS
www.archdaily.com
www.e-flux.com
www.stirworld.com
www.world-architects.com
