Import/Export
Open Museum 2013
The Union of Polish Architects and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw welcome you to IMPORT/EXPORT – cycle of six meetings with architects, focussing on the ambiguities related to the peregrinations of young Polish architects.
Migrating around the world, gaining new experience and working for design offices of the global village, they enact a bilateral transfer of knowledge and practice acquired in both domestic and international environments. Aleksandra Wasilkowska, Mateusz Świętorzecki and Jan Sukiennik will interview their guest about the interpenetration of cultures, inspirations, as well as the models and problems that Polish and world architecture faces.
In 2014 the next Architecture Biennale in Venice will take place. Its director Rem Koolhaas’s aim is to examine the architecture of the past 100 years, and to look at the process whereby the global has gradually encompassed the local, diluting national features in one unified international language. The combination of national memory and knowledge acquired via the Internet has produced complex forms and narrations. It is no longer about Chinese or Swiss architecture but the rise of the Bilbao Effect, of styles or repetitive typologies. Architecture in the era of globalization is a large space for interpretation, translation, mutation and adaptation. Hybrids combining transnational features emerge. Nomads with their unshaken faith in the local, agents of globalization, architects without borders – who are they? Where are the migrating architects heading?
