?Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen?, installation view, 2017. Photo: CCA, Montréal
The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) presents the exhibition Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, curated by Giovanna Borasi, CCA Chief Curator. The exhibition presents a conversation initiated by the CCA, with the conviction that studying architecture?s ideas involves using the past and the present as tools to envision the future.
The conversation, which took place over the past year, involves Go Hasegawa (Go Hasegawa and Associates, Tokyo), Kersten Geers and David Van Severen (OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Brussels), and the history of architecture. This dialogue is now on view in the CCA?s main galleries until October 15, 2017. Besides, History examines the role that history plays in contemporary architecture practice. The invited architects reread, redraw, translate, and appropriate from the past and from each other in order to construct relationships and meaning out of a constellation of references. Collected from many historical periods and geographies, these references?Andrea Palladio, John Hejduk, Aldo Rossi, Kazunari Sakamoto, and others?reveal a very different attitude of inquiry, more directly related to the architects? aesthetic research without becoming strictly operational or literal.
Go Hasegawa, David Van Severen, Kersten Geers, and Giovanna Borasi in conversation, 2017. Photo: Photograph by Jean-Mar...