AA Files 78, AW 21/22

Architectural Association London

This File seeks to reassess the ways in which architecture has utilised the body as a form of measure. David Turturo examines the connections between the Viennese Actionists and the generation of Austrian architects working alongside them. Here, the human body becomes what Turturo calls a body-site' (as opposed to a 'place-site') in which Actions could be played out. Using visions of messy, leaking bodies as architectural models, the architects acted out a collective reckoning with the oppressive legacies of functionalism, and joined the artists in a larger project of facing and expunging the nation's post-war guilt. Meanwhile,Christina Varvia calls for contemporary architects and designers to adopt an expanded view of the human body; one that might include the many material traces it leaves over a lifetime of consuming and producing in a globalised world.

<p>AA Files 78 / Architectural Association London / Page 7<br />David Turturo, "Action Architecture: Blood, Soil and the body as a Stage"</p>
<p>AA Files 78 / Architectural Association London / Page 8<br />David Turturo, "Action Architecture: Blood, Soil and the body as a Stage"</p>
<p>AA Files 78 / Architectural Association London / Page 16<br />David Turturo, "Action Architecture: Blood, Soil and the body as a Stage"</p>
<p>AA Files 78 / Architectural Association London / Page 20<br />David Turturo, "Action Architecture: Blood, Soil and the body as a Stage"<br />( with Sitzgruben / The Pit, Breitenbrunn )</p>
Personal message from David Turturo 2022 © archive studio no/ever
Personal message from David Turturo 2022 © archive studio no/ever

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