Laboratorio
Houses and Housing in Buenos Aires
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Cátedra Justo Solsona
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1995
Professors: Ciro Najle, Pio Torroja, Daniel Ventura
Students: Pablo Lorenzo Eiroa, Gabriela Cárdenas, Roberto Bogani, Federico Borghini, Bruno Emmer, Gastón Encabo, Guadalupe Fervenza, Raquel Hojman, Nora Libertun, Santiago Pagés, Alexis Rochas, Tomás Tomas Saraceno
Laboratorio investigates indeterministic yet systematic design procedures to construct (houses and housing) projects through techniques of estrangement and assemblage, by means of cutting and pasting historical (canonical) architectural materials. Their parts, neither arbitrarily alienated nor entirely cherished, are turned into the perplexing pieces of novel configurations.
