Powerhouse Company, Bubbles (2012). Courtesy Powerhouse Company / Christian van der Kooy.
Powerhouse Company, Designed by Architects (2012). Courtesy of Christian van der Kooy
Powerhouse Company, Sinking and Rising (2012). Christian van der Kooy.jpg "Powerhouse Compamy, Out of Balance (2012). Courtesy of Christian van der Kooy")
Powerhouse Compamy, Out of Balance (2012). Courtesy of Christian van der Kooy
Powerhouse Company, Designed by Architects (2012). Courtesy of Daniel Hewitt
Powerhouse Company Shifts Exhibition (2012). Courtesy of Daniel Hewitt
Powerhouse Company Shifts Exhibition (2012). Courtesy of Daniel Hewitt
Powerhouse Company Shifts Exhibition (2012). Courtesy of Daniel Hewitt
Powerhouse Company Shifts Exhibition (2012)
Shifts exhibition launch event. Courtesy of Daniel Hewitt
Rotterdam/Copenhagen-based Powerhouse Company and critic and architectural historian Hans Ibelings (the Architecture Observer) presented an evocative, polemical exhibition illustrating the far-reaching impacts of new economic circumstances on architecture’s present and future, through film, models, and text.
Exploring the fundamental changes that the culture and practice of architecture are undergoing worldwide as consequence of seismic political and financial challenges, the show played with the formats of a traditional architectural exhibition to speculate upon how we got here, and what comes next.
A series of events punctuated and expanded the exhibition, including a publication launch mid-way through the show, chronicling the project's research.