The pre-architectures exhibition at CIVA gathers an array of transdisciplinary works and reveals the links between prehistory and the complex, modern world we navigate today.
Frederick Kiesler’s unpublished masterpiece Magic Architecture: The Story of Human Housing sketches a universal history of housing, from the first cave dwellings to 20th-century urban slums, while exploring the “birth of design” in human creativity.
Kader Attia’s Hypomnemata contributes a powerful reflection on colonial knowledge and its exploitation in modern capitalism. It examines how trauma and repair resonate in non-western subjectivities.
Metafore is a series of photographs created at a time when Ettore Sottsass traveled through Italy, Spain and the Pyrenees. The images question the act of building as well as the foundations of industrial culture, reinventing the basics of architectural language and exploring the connection between the individual and its physical surroundings.
