Architecture Discussed: Digust & Other Irregula...

Architecture Discussed: Disgust and Other Irregularities Opening night: Tuesday 5th October from 6pm Open 11am - 4pm, Wednesday to Saturday Through the University of Auckland's Master of Architecture (Professional), the exhibitors are exploring the ways today’s society responds when conflicting ideas come together - schoolyard and factory, destruction and reconstruction, life and death. To respond to these cultural tensions the three projects look at: * A focus on functional efficiency, re-examining use through a synergistic notion of realignment between a private school and industry. * Addressing the question of how victuals (meat from cattle) influence the ritual of preparing, dining and consumption. * Exploring the role of an architectural intervention in Baghdad through memory and drawing to produce a centre for religion and arts within the program of university buildings and galleries. These three projects consider aesthetic design in the context of friction arising in moments of social abhorrence. They create the possibility for viewers to experience the full scale of human emotion – from joy and beauty to frustration, anger and confusion and to see "the grotesque" from a new, even alluring, perspective. More information: www.architecturediscussed.com