BREAKING ANTI-TECTURE : The making of new professionals
An exhibition on diversity, equity, and inclusion breaking in architecture and professionalism.
BREAKING ANTI-TECTURE is a new exhibition presenting diverse experiences of studying and practising architecture, highlighting creative collaboration and alternative approaches to architectural representation in and away from the design studio. BA-A celebrates collaborative contributors – the new professionals – alongside one (poorly) de-identified academic and personal story spanning the last eight years. This is an architectural design exhibition of the determination needed to succeed in an industry that appears two-faced.
The new professionals’ creative determination in facing personal and design challenges is the narrative of BREAKING ANTI-TECTURE.
The de-identified contributor’s auto-ethnographic narrative is ridiculously fraught with obstacles, and when combined with the ‘toughen-up’ attitude of studio culture, corners the individual into sacrificing degrees of personal privacy. Professional and personal risks in sharing such experiences is high, so the struggle often goes unnoticed and unsupported. In BREAKING ANTI-TECTURE, these obstacles are laid bare to emphasise the hypocrisy faced by diverse individuals in design studios, and the dis-compassionate design crits that threaten and homogenise creativity at large.
Architectural education and practice are under immense pressure to change. We hope the exhibition encourages policy and culture changes – and turns to institutions and industry to ask ‘hey, exactly what is it you’re afraid of?’
BREAKING ANTI-TECTURE is a new exhibition presenting diverse experiences of studying and practising architecture, highlighting creative collaboration and alternative approaches to architectural representation in and away from the design studio. BA-A celebrates collaborative contributors – the new professionals – alongside one (poorly) de-identified academic and personal story spanning the last eight years. This is an architectural design exhibition of the determination needed to succeed in an industry that appears two-faced.
The new professionals’ creative determination in facing personal and design challenges is the narrative of BREAKING ANTI-TECTURE.
The de-identified contributor’s auto-ethnographic narrative is ridiculously fraught with obstacles, and when combined with the ‘toughen-up’ attitude of studio culture, corners the individual into sacrificing degrees of personal privacy. Professional and personal risks in sharing such experiences is high, so the struggle often goes unnoticed and unsupported. In BREAKING ANTI-TECTURE, these obstacles are laid bare to emphasise the hypocrisy faced by diverse individuals in design studios, and the dis-compassionate design crits that threaten and homogenise creativity at large.
Architectural education and practice are under immense pressure to change. We hope the exhibition encourages policy and culture changes – and turns to institutions and industry to ask ‘hey, exactly what is it you’re afraid of?’
