Progressive Architectural Thinking #1 is out: Interconnections
“When I was about 20 years old, I started to make connections: realising how the Sex Pistols connected to the Situationists, how Joy Division connected to JG Ballard…” says artist and graphic designer Scott King somewhere in the middle of this first issue.
Interconnections, a ceaseless need to blur the boundaries of architecture in a broader exchange, have led us through a journey now spanning three decades.
In the not-quite-yet post-industrial Torino of the nineties, live music, clubs and art galleries became a trampoline for an education that was never confined within the seventeenth-century walls of our school of architecture.
Reaching the watershed of 25 years in practice, 20 of them under the banner of PAT., is an occasion to reflect on a body of built and unbuilt work, encounters and experiments, revelations, successes and failures. And as much as we love to celebrate the former, we don’t regret the latter either. After all, as Rick Rubin puts it, “failure is the information you need to get where you are going.”
Progressive Architectural Thinking is a magazine exploring those connections that make architecture what it is, and what it can become.
Accompanying us through our everyday wanderings across architecture, art and research, you might happen to be jumping into a multifarious variety of creatures: archives, conversations, collabs, projects, references, words, ideas and sounds.
It lands into your email, it may have a regular frequency but you should not rely on that too much, it is born to evolve.
Progressive Architectural Thinking #1 – Interconnections moves from early 2000s research on museum space, a shapeshifting concept for Carlow Centre for Contemporary Art and PAT.’s first steps in Venice; talks with Hilde Teerlinck about reuse and art spaces, Elizabeth Diller about Cedric Price, and artist and graphic designer Scott King about the unlikely links between punk, pop and cultural theory. While you might discover something about architectural afterlife in Paris, you’ll cross something the media told about PAT. in the “as told”, a playlist curated by Carlo Bordone and Maurizio Blatto, and something cooking in Nizza Monferrato, involving Joseph Kosuth.
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