Visiting: 60+ UnFold – Exploring artistic directions in architectural research 

The School of Architecture is celebrating its 60th anniversary with an exhibition in The Arcade Gallery

12 September – 27 oktober 2024

Architecture is a discipline that includes socio-political issues, production and construction methods as well as insight into historical and future worlds. Sensibility towards form and matter is part of the aesthetics of architecture – artistic experimentation is imperative for ushering in speculative futures in societal transformation. The School of Architecture at Lund University is currently working on establishing new directions for artistic research in architecture.

The exhibition presents a broad survey of architecture projects with artistic ambitions emanating from the School of Architecture. The present collection of works is delineated along four trajectories of exploration— the socio-political strand, which engages with contemporary societal issues by offering alternative perspectives; digital fabrication, offering novel modes of production and construction; practice based research, which establishes generative connections between the architectural discipline and the outcome of real-world practices; and lastly, the education interface, which showcases innovative proposals by current students spanning from foundational to doctoral levels of education. These four trajectories contextualize the initial phase of establishing Sweden’s first platform for artistic research in architecture.  

Read more at The School of Architecture’s website

Image: Amelia Henry, Group 28 AH, 2024.