EXHIBITION 2024: The Allegorical Architecture Project

16 - 29 October 2024

The Temporalisation of Space & the Spatialisation of Time

Curated by Professor Daniel K Brown

This exhibition by Wellington School of Architecture postgraduate students represents a collection of allegorical stories told through the voice of speculative works of architecture. To encourage lateral thinking, students begin with an allegorical provocateur drawn from literary or remembered tales — works such as Whiti Hereaka's novel 'Kurangaituku', Nedim Gursel's short story, 'The Graveyard of Unwritten Books', oral narratives about the construction of the Waitaki River Hydroelectric Dams, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', Paul Virilio's philosophical exploration <<L'horizon negatif>>, and Peter Schneider's article "The House at the End of Time". Each student's provocateur is used to incite an unexpected proposition that addresses a speculative issue relating to architecture. To further encourage lateral thinking, architectural interventions are paused in a moment of time and situated into cause-and-effect relationships within a contextual field. The interventions become not only the inhabitants of the site, but also the narrators of its tale.

''I make, remake and unmake my concepts along a moving horizon, from an always decentered centre, from an always displaced periphery, which repeats and differentiates them." — Gilles Deleuze