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| re:orient - migrating architectures When we consider the architectural presence of Far Eastern immigrants in Budapest, in a physical sense, what we first find is that there is no so-called Chinatown. What we have instead is a loose and irregular network, with various key points of concentration as its nodes (markets, shopping centres, major restaurants), whose visible built elements are the stages of the immigrants' most important activities, commerce and catering, as well as the facilities servicing these. Budapest - Chinatown, text by Gergely Kovács, Ida Kiss, Melinda Matúz "re:orient - migrating architectures" explores the local aspects of China's global significance and increasing influence. The project seeks to forecast possibilities which are now detectable only in connection with retail, but which will, in all likelihood, determine the built environment, which transforms under the pressure of ever-cheaper products. The project follows up these ideas with the presentation of spaces, architectural devices and materials that create new contents, and indicate ways of turning these constraints of the market to our benefit, show how to infuse the mass products, which are designed to have a short life-span, with lasting cultural values. Location Venue Pavilion at Giardini Commissioner Zsolt Petrányi Curator Attila Nemes Deputy Curators Adam Somlai-Fischer, Samu Szemerey Publication The first 10 pages of the catalogue are also online: www.reorient.hu/catalogue_en.html More info: www.reorient.hu |
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