Andrés Jaque interviewed by Stafanie Flamm for DIE ZEIT

'EVERYDAY POLITICS' exhibition on our works on the politics of domesticity at the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung, Hamburg

EVERYDAY POLITICS. Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation
16. April / 7. Juni 2013

Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S., Georgsplatz 10, 20099 Hamburg

'EVERYDAY POLITICS. Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation' Ausstelung im der Alferd Toepfer Stiftung FVS, Hamburg

Einladung zur Ausstellung 16. April – 7. Juni 2013

EVERYDAY POLITICS. Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation
Eröffnung am 16. April 2013 um 18.00 Uhr in der Galerie im Georgshof
Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S., Georgsplatz 10, 20099 Hamburg
Bergüßung Ansgar Wimmer, Vorstandsuorsitzender Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S
Einführung Christoph Fischer, Architekt, im Gespräch mit Andrés Jaque

La_2 de TVE entrevista a Andrés Jaque sobre 'Las arenas de Hänsel y Gretel'

El Parlamento de Hänsel y Gretel

'La Terraza de Hänsel y Gretel' en La2

La Casa Encendida - 01/03/13

• La Casa Encendida - 01/03/13 Un reportaje de Marina Domínguez. Minuto 14.08

'Hänsel & Gretel Arenas'

Hansel and Gretel Arenas from ImagenSubliminal on Vimeo.
Andrés Jaque and the Office for Political Innovation have worked in the last years re-enunciating the way home, family and house get architecturally articulated as a social and material reality. Works like TUPPER HOME (Madrid), Sweet Parliament Home (Gwangju), IKEA Disobedients (MoMA, New York), Fray Foam Home (Vennice Biennale) or House in Never Never land (Ibiza) have provide opportunities to address from different perspectives the same conjunction.
‘Hänsel & Gretel’s Arenas’ is a temporary pavilion to hold a number of discussions in which children and adults, with the assistance of marionettes, will debate the ethics contained in the tale ‘Hänsel & Gretel’. It is constructed in the roof of La Casa Encendida, the most active cultural center in Madrid.
The structured is composed by more than 6.000 hanging decorative objects and toys. A cloud of colorful light plastic elements, all of them designed originally to awake desires in people of different ages, and massively produced by delocated industrial networks. The construction offers a post-marketing version of the witch’s children trap of ginger cookies. 

'Architecture of the Other' a review by Nick Axel (@alucidwake) on 'PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society' by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation

'Architecture of the Other / PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society' Nick Axel (@alucidwake) reviews the intervention in the Barcelona Pavilion.

Opening of our construction 'Las Arenas de Hänsel y Gretel' at La Casa Encendida's roof

Andrés Jaque in Harper's Bazaar

Ethel Baraona writes on 'PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society' by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation at DOMUS

The Value of the Infra-Ordinary
"Each of the objects that Jaque has rescued from the building's basement to illustrate the work carried out by people for years, invisible to the tourists and grand events at the Mies Foundation, tells us new stories that until now had remained locked away in a basement." 
Ethel Baraona
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Lugadero presenta 'Dulces arenas cotidianas' de Andrés Jaque

Del 17 de enero al 16 de febrero de 2013.

Presentación del libro y exposición Dulces arenas cotidianas, una constelación de aproximaciones a lo doméstico, no como una realidad autónoma desconectada de la construcción de lo colectivo, sino precisamente como una de sus arenas más eficaces.

Dulces arenas cotidianas muestra intereses y temáticas que evidencian la estrecha relación entre lo hogareño y lo público, no como un espacio sino como un proceso que se da allí donde se desarticulan los consensos. En estos ensamblajes arquipolíticos existe todo un campo para repensar el urbanismo contemporáneo, y donde la disciplina de la arquitectura puede encontrar nuevas formas de ganar relevancia pública.

Andrés Jaque (Madrid, 1971) es arquitecto y dirige la oficina Andrés Jaque Arquitectos y la Oficina de Innovación Política. Su trabajo ha sido premiado en numerosos concursos y publicado en revistas internacionales. Autor, entre otras obras, de la Casa Sacerdotal Diocesana de Plasencia, destacan proyectos tales como “IKEA Disobedients” (2011), que forma parte de la colección del MOMA de Nueva York, su instalación “Fray Home Home” (2010) que ocupó el espacio central del Palacio de la Bienal de Venecia 2010 o “Phantom. Mies as Rendered Society” (2012), resultado de la investigación de Jaque para el Pabellón Barcelona de Mies van der Rohe.

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DULCES ARENAS COTIDIANAS. Andrés Jaque y la Oficina de Innovación Política.Presentación del libro e inauguración de la exposición a cargo de Andrés Jaque: 17 de enero de 2013 (21:00)
Fechas exposición: Del 17 de enero al 16 de febrero de 2013
Dirección: LUGADERO. C/ Correduría 5a. 41002 Sevilla
Horario: De lunes a viernes: 10:00-14:00 y 18:00-20:30. Sábados: 10:00-14:00. Domingos: Cerrado.

Entrada libre

Keshet Rosenblum interviews Andrés Jaque at Haaretz

'PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society' intervention by Andrés Jaque & the Office for Political Innovation at Mies' Barcelona Pavilion

Following previous interventions by Ai Weiwei, SANAA and Jeff Wall, the Mies Van der Rohe Foundation and the Fundació Banc Sabadell presented on December 13th until February 28th the intervention 'PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society' by Andrés Jaque & the Office for Political Innovation, an installation based on the two year ethnographical work developed by Jaque and the Office.

'PHANTOM' account the existence of a basement below the icon of Modern Movement, in which all those ordinary objects necessary to construct the upper floor's sublime experience are kept away from public sight. As Dorian Gray's portrait, the basement is the place where the pacts in which the upper floor gets to be constructed as a social reality are retained. In Jaque's words: 'The pavilion is a two stories battle ground where two notions of the politics confront. The foundational politics on the upper floor, the contingent in the basement'. The installation proposes a new way to articulate them through 23 social contracts between the ordinary and the sublime materially displayed in the very place where Mies ecstasies has been traditionally found.

  

Andrés Jaque's contribution to 'the Detour Book'

"We All Live in Electrical Parliaments" Andrés Jaque's contribution to the Detour Book is published, edited by Raffaella Guidobono.

Guidobono, Raffaella (Ed.). The Detour Book. The Moleskine notebook experience. Moleskine Srl., 2012.

Inauguration of 'PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society' by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation

Presentation of the intervention 'PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society' by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation at Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona, December 13th, 1:30pm.

Andrés Jaque lectures at Princeton University

'PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society' Intervention by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation at the Barcelona Pavilion

We are very pleased to announce that Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, following previous interventions by Sejima and Nishizawa, Ai Wei Wei, Jeff Wall and Antoni Muntadas, will open the intervention 'PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society', next December 13th at the Barcelona Pavilion.

ESCARAVOX by Andrés Jaque Architects / Office for Political Innovation on the front cover ot Bauwelt

 

 ESCARAVOX by Andrés Jaque Architects / Office for Political Innovation on the front cover of Bauwelt 43.12

COUCH CITY by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation at Storefront NY

COUCH CITY by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation exhibited at Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York), as part of the exhibition ‘Present, Futures’
 
COUCH CITY. What if sofa, that disreputed ubiquitous architectural device, retained the last chance to politicize urbanism? Pictorial Forecast of the Urban Assemblages as they get to be daily performed.

Urban life is the way ‘right here, right now’ encounters the ‘fictional pseudo now’, the ‘making of the not now become now’, and the ‘never will become a now, but gosh!, how sexy it is sensing it being almost a now’. That’s not happening on the streets, but in a most disreputed architectural device: the sofa. Modern life, and their depictions, started when homes were brought into cushion; and its ultimate outcome is the ubiquitous hegemony of couch. Pictorials were not mere mirrors anticipating the future. We live a pictorializing era. It is the context in which images of daily life, slightly changed, where socialized, the arena on which current society has been built on. 

From the couch we watched Friends around a TV-set couch. From a sofa we watched Obama, in a sofa, watching Bin Laden being executed. Urbanism is now the World Wide Couch-Linked-Cotidianity. It is couches watching couches. It is a globally distributed soft comfort, with views on the global arena, but with scarce awareness of the close. COACH URBANISM measures the world as it gets translated into something happening in a sofa. 

But every absolute project produces its dissidence. There exist the Politics of the Couch. There is Glenn saying ‘I am a man’. There is Sarah with fried eggs on her boobs. There is Richard showing documents of what daily life gets to be like. There is Grand Fury and Barbara saying ‘Things need to be discussed’. The common got inside to become unsaid, and now the inside turned politic to be able to discuss. Political urbanism happens from the couch to the laptop, and backwards. The in between from comfort to global views, is the space where the close can still gain affection. That’s where politics happen now days. That’s the final urban pictorial where daily life can be brought into the political.

http://storefrontnews.org/programming/events?preview=true&e=489

La noche que los ESCARAVOX tronaron a IKEA

"La noche que los ESCARAVOX tronaron a IKEA". Conferencia inaugural de la presentación de la Cátedra Fulton en la ETS Arquitectura de Valencia -UPV. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia-.

Aula Magna. Jueves, 25 de octubre de 2012. 12:30h.

IKEA Disobedients. At MoMA and MoMA PS1

IKEA Disobedients MoMA, New York from Andrés Jaque Architects on Vimeo.

IKEA Disobedients. Video manifesto of its first phase in Tabacalera Madrid

IKEA Disobedients Tabacalera, Madrid from Andrés Jaque Architects on Vimeo.