Architecture, Art and Metabolism

Discipline, Energy and sustainability, Essay, expanding design practices, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Urban Paradigms

Architect’s role, Architectural theory, Architecture&art, Art, Art&technology, Cultural agitator, Cultural enrichment, Curatorial, Discipline, Ecology, Energy, Essay, Exhibition, Flexibility, Functionality, Future projections, Global Awareness, History of Architecture, Interdisciplinary work, Japan, Metabolism, Modernism, Planetary urbanizations, Post-modernism, Preservation, Sustainability, Theory, Urban Paradigms

My interest in architecture, from the perspective of my role as a curator of art, stems from the fact that architecture is the pre-eminent site for the production of reality, as it is uniquely oriented the toward the future, but precisely as a continual negotiation, or as a continually articulated struggle between the present, the past and the future. This is what I look for, also, in the art that interests me the most; namely, the recognition, following Duchamp, that art is ultimately a game in which the only constant is change itself. Implicit in Duchamp is a vision of history under perennial negotiation; historical truth as forever in situ.