2017–2018 Garofalo Exhibition: Dysfunctional Plans

UIC School of Architecture

The UIC School of Architecture invites you to celebrate the opening of the 2017–2018 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship exhibition by Fosco Lucarelli.
Dysfunctional Plans is a theoretical inquiry based on seven design exercises made in collaboration with a group of students. Its rather unwieldy brief provided no a priori function, content, strategy, or site; no hypothetical conditions apart from the arbitrary definition of seven oxymoronic “poetic images.”
Each image contains archetypal forms such as the “wall,” the “enclosure,” the “monument”; systems of spatial organization and representational devices like the “grid” and the “plan”; and finally, the concept of “nature,” historically considered the opposite of architecture. However, a productive notion of ambiguity is introduced when an “unnatural” qualifier gets associated with each image.
More an experiment than a manifesto, Dysfunctional Plans questions if architecture might be a discipline autonomous enough to create its own narrative, content, function, purpose, imagination and therefore, meaning, stemming solely from its bare form.

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