The Game of Architecture (2013)

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People:

Gianni Pettena (archive creator)
Gianni Pettena (artist)

Title:

The Game of Architecture (2013)

Date:

2011-2018

Level of archival description:
Project

Extent and medium:

19 digital files (437 MB)
1 drawing
1 photograph

Scope and content:
The project series documents "The Game of Architecture", a drawing realized in 2013. The drawing is of triangular-shaped structures made of bricks standing in a desert. This drawing is a reinterpretation of a previous project by Pettena "Situazioni Competitive" in 1971. "Here architecture, albeit with the same characteristic of competitiveness, becomes indistinct, confused, no longer the leading actor, at the mercy of an unknown context (a desert? the nature of an alien planet?) which, threatening to overwhelm it, seems to nullify its every need and characteristic." [1]

The project series contains a drawing for the 2013 edition and the 2018 version, which is a digital photograph modified to show the architectural construction standing in rough water.

Source:
[1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-the-game-of-architecture-2013-1/ (last accessed 28 January 2020)

Reference number:

AP207.S1.2013.PR01

Arrangement:
Material in this project series was kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.

Location:

Italy

Language of material:

English
Italian

Related units of description:

For more documents related to Pettena's project "Situazioni Competitive" (1971), see AP207.S1.1971.PR08.

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