Shortlist announced for first Experimental Architecture Award
The four finalists of the inaugural Experimental Architecture Award have been announced, recognising projects that combine real locations with virtual-reality fiction and installations that explore the guts of architecture.
Holly Hendry, Chris Hildrey, Lawrence Lek and Public Practice are the four experimental architects and artists that have been shortlisted for "pushing the boundaries of how we can explore, experience and create space in its many forms".
The Experimental Architecture Award was set up by the Arts Foundation to open discussions around the role of experimentation in contemporary architecture, and how architecture, art and design can address spatial issues.
"We really had to wrestle with the term 'experimental architecture'. What does it mean"" said Justin McGuirk, one of the award's judges and chief curator of London's Design Museum. "We established quite quickly that it didn't mean what it might have in the 1970s ? with paper architecture serving as a preamble to a future career designing buildings," he added.
"Rather, it seemed to be much more about other possibilities, from virtual spaces and bureaucratic systems to sculptural interventions."
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