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Who Builds Your Architecture? Exhibition




Who Builds Your Architecture? Exhibition


Completed in 2019

Client: WBYA? and Boston Architecture College Gallery

WBYA? (Who Builds Your Architecture) is an advocacy group that asks: how can architects and better understand how the production of buildings connects their design and consulting practices to the workers who ultimately build them.

Working with the WBYA? archive, we created a new exhibition space, centering on the working table mapping sites of labor from extraction to construction; surrounded by the superimposition of scale figures representing the people involved in the architectural process, and projecting them at fulls scale onto the streets of Boston.
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To better understand this global issue and make visible these entanglements, WBYA? began research initiatives and mobilized architectural tools to draw connections between architects and workers; we organized workshops with architects, activists, students and organizational partners to brainstorm ideas and strategies; publicizing the findings through public exhibitions and a host of publications.

One tactic implemented for the exhibition was to simply insert this question: Who Builds Your Architecture? Again, and again, and to frame it in a way that supposes a distinction that can be rendered visible. That architecture is essentially a collaborative process cannot be an after-thought. Not only can this question not be taken for granted, but what if it appears not towards the end, but is at the very beginning of any process of building.

Furthermore, what if this is a question not just for any future acts, but also an enquiry that frames architectural histories, and underlines stories of centuries of building.







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Completed in 2019

Client: Boston Architecture College Gallery

WBYA? (Who Builds Your Architecture) is an advocacy group that asks: how can architects and better understand how the production of buildings connects their design and consulting practices to the workers who ultimately build them.



To better understand this global issue and make visible these entanglements, WBYA? began research initiatives and mobilized architectural tools to draw connections between architects and workers; we organized workshops with architects, activists, students and organizational partners to brainstorm ideas and strategies; publicizing the findings through public exhibitions and a host of publications.