Louisiana: Architecture Connecting
Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
November 08, 2024 – March 23, 2025

Architecture Connecting is a new series of six architecture exhibitions at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Opening on 8 November 2024, the first show in the series presents three different architecture studios. ecoLogicStudio, Atelier LUMA and Jenny Sabin Studio work at the intersection of algorithms and nature, using new methods to push the boundaries of architecture.

The series Architecture Connecting explores architecture’s connections and interdependence with other fields, including aesthetics and the natural and social sciences. Each exhibition will highlight architecture’s connections to society, history, nature and future visions as expressed in the work of architects today. The first exhibition in the new series presents three different studios that, as an integrated part of their practice, act as laboratories for exploring biology and other sciences. Conscious of our connection to all living things and tracking technological advances, not least in artificial intelligence tools, the studios are developing new methods to review issues of sustainable architecture and climate concerns. What comes after biomimicry, cradle-to-cradle, circular design and circular economy – movements and green philosophies that have marked architecture over the last 15-20 years?

The three studios – ecoLogicStudio, Atelier LUMA and Jenny Sabin Studio – have different aims and use widely different methods to review the relationship between architecture, nature and science. The three studios are contributing site-specific installations and projects that will unfold in dedicated spaces at the museum.

EcoLogicStudio, London, is founded by the architects Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto. Using bio-digital design, they integrate photosynthesis into buildings that can produce both oxygen and nutrients. Questioning the relationship between the city and nature, they have developed urban planning tools that act like nature – like fungi, mould, algae or other intelligent organisms.

The research design lab Atelier LUMA, Arles, asks a key question: How do we utilise bio-regional resources to create new materials and design processes that can replace traditional industry? The architects apply a new site-specific practice based on specific regional biospheres to identify resources in the form of traditional crafts, existing local manufacturing and natural materials. Collaboration between a variety of professions leads to new building materials and designs.

Jenny Sabin Studio, Ithaca, NY, uses mathematics and biology to pursue the desire to integrate natural processes into building materials and architecture. Sabin develops materials that are responsive to humans and structures that behave like plants, bones or even DNA. Year-long collaboration with biologists to develop micro-scale digital tools is laying the groundwork for the future creation of intelligent buildings.

Jumping off from The Architect’s Studio Architecture Connecting picks up where the previous exhibition series left off. In six exhibitions over seven years, The Architect’s Studio took a close look at practices that turn ideas into form: In 2017, the first exhibition in the series presented Amateur Architecture Studio, China, headed by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu. In 2018, So Far … featured Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena and the Elemental studio. In 2019, the series showcased Mexican Tatiana Bilbao Estudio. In 2020-21, the exhibition Taking Time featured Indian architect Anupama Kundoo. In 2022, the series presented Forensic Architecture’s work to uncover, map and submit evidence of conflicts and crimes around the world. In 2023, the final exhibition in the series presented the Kenyan architecture studio Cave_bureau.

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