Notes Projects
Plenty is interested in architecture and the present, operating under the premise of two considerations:
1)
Contemporary physical culture is self-sufficient, rich and saturated. A boundless material and informational plenitude, stretching across the globe.
2)
The present is not a fixed point in a linear timeline with a common past and a common future anymore. Rather, it’s a chaos of simultaneous realities, contingencies, differences, and dissonances. To engage with it is neither to structure the past nor to plan the future, but to crystallise an essence from the plenty.
Plenty is a tool to compose the here and now; to represent it. No distinction between reality and representation since the latter is part of the former. Without having a face, mass or color itself, an identity is forged by embodying a multitude of realities.
>Like anything in the world, like everything that lives, I am a diamond, made of hard carbon that is at times pure, transparent or granular, reflecting a thousand times over the thousand and one hues of the rainbow, shining out of the multiple things of the world and of the thousands of people and living things I ever met. Matter and mirror, media and messages, white and sprouting multiple color lines, bedecked gamut of thousand reflections.< [1]
Plenty relates to language to give form to the architectural present. Architecture has always been an art of articulation. But not about making an argument. Not about producing statements. Not about reasoning. About placing something, somewhere.
A stage for multiple voices to generate an overlapping rhythm. Not aspiring to define what architecture is, but to accumulate what it can be about. Keeping the notion of architecture in circulation, always open to inflections and reinterpretations. Not to be owned, contained, or precisely located. Always in flux. Architecture ceases to be a disciplinary noun and becomes a verb — a continuous process of densification and enrichment. Not to be true. Not to be right. Not to develop a position. But to develop a stance. Being with, in order to be subversive at the same time.
Plenty is an instrument to become more sensible. More differentiated. More articulate. And ultimately, to have fun.
Plenty speaks with a loose tongue and reflects on the world as it unfolds — diffuse, intensified, uncertain, and, above all, full of potential.
[1] Serres, Michel. Information and Thinking (2017)