On October 1st, 1970, the Kommissie Speciale Aktiviteiten (KSA, or Special Activities Committee) was established within TU Eindhoven’s Architecture, Building and Planning Department with a mandate to organize exhibitions, excursions, lectures, and other events related to architecture. Promptly, the Committee developed a profile based on a continuous questioning of architecture’s boundaries, as its exhibitions and lectures promoted the idea of intellectual discussion and confrontation as the basic elements to elevate architecture culture beyond the prosaic platitudes of technique.

This exhibition provides an overview of CASA Vertigo’s trajectory, revealing its multifaceted nature, academic principles, and its ever-developing pedagogical project by providing a parallel presentation of not only its exhibitions, events, and publications, but also the work performed behind the scenes to make those possible. While this duality is present in every exhibition or event, here, it is both signaled and accentuated, as CASA’s process of creation is magnified and put on display.

Simultaneously interactive and informative, 50 Years of CASA Vertigo conveys a story with many distinctive characters. It does not conceal the props or the improvisations, but instead presents the rawness of the process. The exhibition should thus be perceived as a storage of ideas with an intrinsic play between the inside and outside in which everyone is welcome to participate.

date

October 14 - November 26, 2021

venue

TU Eindhoven

Team

Sergio M. Figueiredo

Andreea Sofineti

Vincent van Spaendonk

with

Koen van Dijk

Warhel Mohammed

PARTNERS

CASA Vertigo