Urban Choreography

Urban choreography expands the concept of architecture in an era expressed by conflicts between economic urban development, conservation of cultural traditions, social trends and environmental needs. Architecture appears as an experience representing movements and changes in the sphere between industrial assembly lines and social activism, rather than as a static form.

Cao Fei expresses China’s accelerated synthetic urbanization by shifting between the real, the hyper-real and the imagined. Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen examine the link between object, production conditions and the body in the productive space; Andrés Jaque and the Office for Political Innovation explore diverse sociopolitical devices embodying confrontations and activism.