Feel the Architecture: “Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined”, Royal Academy

London’s Royal Academy of Arts will be showcasing “Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined”, January 25 – April 6, 2014.

Some of the most creative architectural minds of the world have intervened in the Royal Academy to give a new perspective to architecture, by transforming the main galleries with a series of large-scale installations.

The display is a higher way to explain architecture. It doesn’t try to describe, but to make viewers feel the spaces, light and limits, in other words, the main elements of this useful art that is irreparably linked to an economic and social context, which conditions it and disappears in the exhibition hall.

The seven designers that have taken the Royal Academy, have resorted to the cleanliness of materials, the sensation of spaces and illuminations or they have worked with ideas – even fantasy – but they have all avoided the merely visual experiences that have characterized the architectural glamour of recent times.

Participants: Grafton Architects (founded in Dublin in 1978 by Shelley McNamara), Diébédo Francis Kéré (b.1965, Gando, Burkina Faso), Kengo Kuma (b.1954, Kanagawa, Japan), Li Xiaodong (b.1963, China), Pezo von Ellrichshausen (founded in 2002 by Mauricio Pezo (b.1973) and Sofia von Ellrichshausen (b.1976) in Concepcion, Chile), Álvaro Siza (b.1933, Matosinho, Portugal), Eduardo Souto de Moura (b.1952, Porto, Portugal).

Sources: El PaísandRoyal Academy