10 Stories of Collective Housing

Exhibition

February 1 - March 10, 2023 | ARCH 121 Gallery

The exhibition shows the analysis of ten inspiring masterpieces through drawings and texts, highlighting the most important contributions made by each of the architects towards developing desirable housing. The exhibition is mostly extracted from the world wide acclaimed book, published in 2013, which recognizes masters such as Ignazio Gardella, Jean Renaudie, Ralph Erskine and Fumihiko Maki, among others, who defended their own personal vision of architecture, a far reach from dogmatism and closer to users. Each story is a journey through multiple possible links which relate the project with works that preceded it, set it against those of its generation and match it up with recent 21st century designs. This is neither a canonical list of buildings nor the top ten of collective housing. They were chosen as one chooses one’s friends. Faults and all, they make everything worthwhile. 

a+t research group was founded in 2011, by the journalist Aurora Fernández Per and the architect Javier Mozas. Its aim is to spread their research on collective housing, density, mixed uses and public space. Previously, they had also founded a+t architecture publishers in 1992, which is an editorial company on architecture, independent from any institution or professional group. All its publications are bilingual (English/Spanish) and distributed worldwide. Their research has produced more than 20 monographic books, and a+t magazine is now distributing its issue number 56: Generosity.