27 sounds like Jack Bauer with three extra hours, but in fact it's the title of a rather ambitious design documentation and learning project currently underway.
27 is a journey into the heart of contemporary European architecture, under a permanent state of mutation. 27 is a joint venture between a filmmaker, two architects and a graphic designer travelling together to meet people engaged in the process of making the Europe of tomorrow. 27 is a trip to 27 countries and 27 practices, all led by young architects recognized in their own country and abroad.
Local Architecture Network, FatCat Films and graphic design firm Undo-Redo began collaborating last year to produce the films. Check out the teaser:
27 The Project - Teaser from FatCat Films on Vimeo.
You can stay tuned to 27's progress here.
Comments
This looks like just another gropup of pathetic, conventional modernist poseurs. Nothing truly radical, like truly independent architects rejecting the moderist straitjacket and bravely exploring the forbiddel world of pre-modernist architecture. Modernist ideolody is as strictly defined and controlled as communist ideology before 1989. But the rebellion against moderinst dogmatism is inevitable. Viva la REVOLUTION.
Audun Engh, Oslo Norway