Exhibition 'Form Follows Fiction': Six Architectural Projects Exploring Alternatives to Function

The exhibition 'Form Follows Fiction: Six Inquiries' presents six architectural projects that question one of the most established principles of architecture—the idea that form must follow function. By analyzing the works of six international architects, the exposition, which is part of the main program of the 20th Buenos Aires Architecture Biennial, demonstrates how architecture can arise from diverse and often contradictory narratives and ideas.

These ideas can be pragmatic and artistic, collective and individual, pure and complex, restrained and expressive, structured and intuitive, logical and arbitrary. Together, these positions reject any single ideology or consensus.

The six featured projects treat architecture as a process of inquiry rather than a final solution. Each project begins with some 'fiction'—be it a hypothesis, a story, a projection, or a given premise through which concepts and forms are tested, challenged, and reinterpreted. Collectively, they present architecture as an investigative process where form is shaped by both ideas, intentions, and imagination, and by function itself.

Exhibition Details

The project was curated by Vladimir Belogolovsky from New York, USA. The exhibition design was developed by Esteras Perrot from Cordoba, Argentina. Among the participants are Lucía Esteras and Gonzalo Perrot from Cordoba, Argentina; Adam Diem from New York, USA; Ashot and Armin Snkhyan from Yerevan, Armenia; Gustavo Carmona from Mexico City, Mexico; Davor Matekovic from Zagreb, Croatia; as well as Javier Claerhout and Barbara Van Bierwilt from Belgium.

The exhibition will run from October 3rd to October 31st at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, Hall 14, located at Junin 1930, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Operating hours: Tuesday to Friday from 12:00 to 21:00; Saturday, Sunday, and holidays from 11:00 to 21:00. Entry is free for Argentine citizens and residents.

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