CCA’s opens final Out of the Box exhibition on Argentinian architect Amancio Williams
Casa sobre el arroyo, Mar del Plata, Argentina, by Amancio Williams, 1943-1945. Amancio Williams Fonds, CCA. Donated by Amancio Williams? children. Photograph by Matthieu Brouillard © CCA
The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) has announced the opening of the third installment of the Out of the Box research project, exhibition series, and publication dedicated to the work of Argentinian architect Amancio Williams (1913?1989).
The installment will feature an extensive archive of proposals produced and reworked by Williams and his collaborators, including his wife Delfina Gálvez. The archive includes drawings, photographs, correspondence, and models, donated to the CCA by the Williams family in 2020.
The Out of the Box: Amancio Williams series, which is structured as a study in three acts, features Studio Muoto (Paris), Claudia Shmidt (Buenos Aires), and Pezo von Ellrichshausen (Concepción) as guest curators. For this installment, Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen of Pezo von Ellrichshausen explore the domestic monumentality in Williams?s work.
The exhibition features technical drawings of monumental elements which are incorporated in two key projects; Casa sobre el arroyo (House on the river) and Casa Desmarás (Desmarás house) alongside other photographs and sketches.
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