Alternative Histories – Drawing Matters, The Architecture Foundation, London
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Abstract
Bohdan Lachert’s 1937 sketch is a simple and elegant signage study for a post office in Stanislawów. Compared with Lachert’s more dynamic, constructivist compositions, this façade has a restrained, typographic character—the combination of the signage and ribbon windows is reminiscent of a bullet-point list.
For this model, we extend the logic of the sketch by translating a generic form letter into a monolithic façade for a post office tower. As the part becomes the whole, the building begins to conflate order & expression, billboard & duck, paper & architecture, post & office.
Status | Built |
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Location | London, 23 March -14 April, 2019 & Brussels, 6 September-29 September 2019 |
Year | 2019 |
Type | Exhibition |
Team | Vander Ploeg & Bosshard & Tavor & Vihervaara |