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Diskursiv No. 
Mortar and Sione
C100 M40 Y30 K10
Trial and error
Cabina D'Elba

12 Jan – 28 Jan 2023
Forum Stadtpark, Graz



Color has always been an essential means of expression in architecture. It has gradually lost its significance via the universal white box. Both in practice and in teaching, we have lost the sensitivity for color as well as the knowledge of its use and possibilities.

Therefore, it is our concern to place color at the centre of our discourse and to bring it back to mind. Through an exhibition, a symposium and a publication, we want to collect the most diverse positions, approaches and working methods of architectural offices in relation to the topic of color.

Addressing this topic the exhibition will feature works by Nuno Melo Sousa, Michael Reindel, Institut Vierzehn, Nikola Hergovich and Luca Tommasi as well as 90 contributions from international architecture offices. In addition a lecture series, which will take place at the 20th January, will provide deeper insights to the topic. On the 24th of January, a symposium will give another way of looking at color. The edition will culminate in a publication, print and online, which will be released in autumn 2023.

Exhibition

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Program

Thursday
12 January 2023

18:00
Vernissage

Friday
20 January 2023

Tuesday
24 January 2023

20:00
Conversation about Colors
Claudia Cavallar and Jan De Vylder, moderated by Alex Lehnerer

Publication

  • Introduction Andreas Lechner Text
  • Tool to Read, Tool to Write About Color as an Instrument for Mapping the City and Interacting With the Urban Framework - Luca Tommasi Analysis
  • Schutzanstrich Alex Lehnerer Essay

  • Some Aspects of Color in General and Red Green and Black White in Particular 1993 2023

    Donald Judd Marina Montresor

     Article
  • A Space Which Avoids Color Rafał Śliwa Analysis
  • Flecks of Color Tabea Marschall and Elise Limon Text
  • I Live in the House With the Blue Roof Nikola Hergovich Report
  • Colors in Contemporary Urban Praxis Francesco Caneschi Text
  • #kommwirstreichen Jan Engelke Article
  • Max Otto Zitzelsberger in Conversation

    with Michael Hafner and Katharina Hohenwarter

     Conversation
  • RGB Trauma HPO; Giorgio Scanelli and Riccardo Simioni Essay
  • Coating Absolute Alexander Barina Text
  • The Dizzying Universe of Karl Gerstner and Vilém Flusser Franziska Hederer Analysis
  • Le Rouge et le Noir in Löwenbräu Blue Julian Müller Critique
  • How Do Colors Get Into the City? wohnlabor; Rebekka Hirschberg and Anna Jäger Text
  • High-Tech, Big Tech, Technicolor Adam Sherman Article
  • We Paint Ourselves a Room Institut Vierzehn Report
  • We Have Been Thinking a Lot About Red and Green Lately Ajna and Adna Babahmetović Essay
  • Ecologies of Regenerative Color Paul Konrad Analysis
  • Interview With Oda Pälmke Martin Grund and Wassily Walter Interview
  • The Color of the Architectural Skin Matthias Castorph Article
  • Afterword Julian Brües Text

Diskursiv No.2, Colors
December 2024
12 × 18,5 cm, 384pp., 150 color and b/w
ISBN 978-3-98612-136-5
E-Book ISBN 978-3-98612-137-2

Order here: Jovis

Participants

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Credits

Concept and Curation
  • Julian Brües
  • Michael Hafner
  • Katharina Hohenwarter
  • Philipp Sternath
  • Adna Babahmetović
  • Ajna Babahmetović
Design
Programming
Photographer Exhibition
Host
Collaborations
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Diskursiv

A forum series that temporarily exposes current and practical architectural fields of tension and then permanently preserves them. This takes place in an analogue environment by means of exhibitions and publications. The focus is on the internal problem areas of architecture, which are to be dealt with in an interdisciplinary framework. Their subsequent presentation is to serve as a starting point for solutions and methodically open up further fields of discussion.


Adna Babahmetović
Ajna Babahmetović
Julian Brües
Michael Hafner
Katharina Hohenwarter
Philipp Sternath

Klosterwiesgasse 7
AT–8010 Graz
ZVR 1295008426

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