Atlas. Studio Tom Emerson
8 October 2014 to 31 October 2014
gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg
Opening: 7 October 2014, 5 pm
Talk with Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung, ETH Zurich and Prof. Peter Märkli, ETH Zurich
about the history of architecture education at ETH Zurich
Talk with Prof. Tom Emerson, ETH Zurich and Richard Wentworth, artist
Introduction to the exhibition "Archizines" by Elias Redstone
In recent semesters, the students working at Studio Tom Emerson have created several collaborative structures re-using various materials. These ephemeral projects served as primers to teaching and research. Once again architecture students will design and make a stage for the fall program of gta exhibitions that will be activated by temporary exhibitions and discussions.
Studio Tom Emerson is a design and research chair in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich. Set up in 2010, the studio focuses on re-use and bricolage in architecture and the narrative of history. It is about the re-use of materials, the re-use of buildings and most importantly the re-use of knowledge. Using improvisation and opportunism, they seek new architectural possibilities in the world that surrounds us, picking up clues in the long arcs of architectural history and in the traces of quotidian human affairs. The Studio Tom Emerson uses or re-uses history in an eclectic way, like the bricoleur uses what is at hand.
“Atlas“ is a survey of collective student work from Studio Tom Emerson, ETH Zurich since 2010. “Atlas“ contains full size construction projects alongside extensive urban surveys of post-industrial European from the former textile city of Forst in eastern Germany to Glasgow in the West.
In collaboration with Prof. Tom Emerson, ETH Zurich
Exhibitions and events that take place on the stages by Studio Tom Emerson:
Archizines
7 – 31 October 2014
Performative Archive: Skopje
7 – 31 October 2014
More Models
31 October 2014
Architektur für Kinder: Zürichs Spielplätze
6 November – 10 December 2014
Photos: Martin Stollenwerk
