A Lot With Little

8 March to 18 May 2024

New Opening hours
Fri–Sun, 3–7PM

A LOT WITH LITTLE dives into 16 buildings by international architects and invites the visitor to experience them as everyday living spaces. Along with music accentuations, the sophisticated photography of the film highlights the architectural qualities; statements by the architects themselves on their design approaches and the social responsibility of architecture in general are intertwined.

Designed as an expansive triptych, the immersive video work illustrates the design challenges of the architects as well as the spatial qualities of the buildings exhibited in their respective surroundings and everyday functionality. The projects are grouped into four typological clusters–housing, education, transformation, and disaster relief–to outline design parallels across divergent geographical, cultural, social as well as economic contexts.

Responding to local conditions and lack of resources, the architects have created extraordinary projects which are sustainable and affordable. The projects underline the relevance of thinking architecture, city, people and nature together, and contribute to a forward-looking building culture.

This installation work is on show in various cities around the world. Find more details at www.alotwithlittle.com

DATES AND EVENTS

Opening vernissage
Thursday, 7 March 2024, 7PM

Missing Perspectives
Thursday, 16 May 2024, 6PM

A short film event at the DAZ, curated by Silvia Gioberti (Guerilla Architects) and Alesa Mustar (DAZ),
featuring short films by
Paula Granda Ojeda und Polly Bruchlos „Haunted landscapes“ (13,07“)
Jasmine Parsley „Praxis Praxagora“ (19,35“)
Jeanne Astrup-Chauvaux „Wild infrastructures“ (40“, 5x 8“)

FEATURED ARCHITECTS

Mariam Issoufou Kamara, Atelier Masõmī (Niger) Anne Lacaton & Jean Philippe Vassal, Lacaton & Vassal (France) Mauricio Rocha, Taller de Arquitectura Mauricio Rocha (Mexico) Marina Tabassum, MTA (Bangladesh) Jan de Vylder & Inge Vinck, A JDVIV (Belgium) D. Francis Kéré, Kéré Architecture (Burkina Faso/Germany) Solano Benitez, Jopoi de Arquitectura (Paraguay) Marta Maccaglia, Semillas (Peru) Shigeru Ban, Voluntary Architect’s Network (Japan) Marta Peris & Jose Toral, Peris + Toral Architects (Spain)

FEATURED PROJECTS

Housing
Niamey 2000, Niger, 2016. Architects: Mariam Issoufou Kamara, Atelier Masōmī
Social Housing units in Cornellà, Barcelona, Spain, 2021. Architects: Peris + Toral
Estudio Iturbide, Mexico City, 2016. Architects: Taller de Arquitectura Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo
Rot Ellen Berg, Oudenaarde, Belgium, 2011. Architects: Architecten Jan de Vylder Inge Vinck (AJDVIV)
Abu House, Asunción, Paraguay, 2006. Architects: Solano Benitez with Gabinete de Arquitectura, today Jopoi de Arquitectura

Education
Startup Lions Campus, Turkana County, Kenya, 2021. Archtitects: Kéré architecture
Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City, 2021. Architects: Taller de Arquitectura Mauricio Rocha
Rural Schools in the Peruvian Amazon, Pangoa, Peru 2017/2019. Architects: Marta Maccaglia, Semillas
Nantes School of Architecture, Nantes, France, 2009. Architects: Lacaton & Vassal
Faculty of Architecture, Design and Art (FADA) in progress, Asunción, Paraguay, Architects: Solano Benitez with Gabinete de Arquitectura, today Jopoi de Arquitectura
Teletón, Children’s Rehabilitation Centre, 2010, Asunción, Paraguay, Architects: Solano Benitez with Gabinete de Arquitectura, today Jopoi de Arquitectura

Transformation
Transformation of 530 Dwellings, Bordeaux, France, 2017/2018. Architects Lacaton & Vassal with Fréderic Druot and Christophe Hutin
Fabrica de San Pedro Cultural Centre, Uruapan, Mexico, 2022 by Taller de Arquitectura Mauricio Rocha
Palais des Expos, Charleroi, Belgium, in progress. Architects: Architecten Jan de Vylder Inge Vinck (AJDVIV)

Disaster Relief
Khudi Bari, various locations in Bangladesh, ongoing. Architects: Marina Tabassum Architects with FACE (Foundation for Architecture and Community Equity)
Paper Concert Hall, L’Aquila, Italy, 2010. Architects: Shigeru Ban Architects with Voluntary Architects’ Network

CREDITS

Curator and Producer: Noemí Blager
Filmmaker and Editor: Tapio Snellman
Camera Assistant: Diego Pitarch
Additional footage: Asif Salman (Bangladesh, Marina Tabassum interview) and Benoit Martin (Shigeru Ban interview)
Composer: Daniel Nolan
Sound Design: Daniel Nolan and Oskar Qvick
Additional Session Musicians: Evi Vine, vocals (Khudi Bari), Dave Elliott, percussion (Startup Lions) and Keir Moore, guitar (Iturbide Studio)
Graphic Design: Micha Weidmann Studio

Project management team at DAZ: Laura Holzberg, Tarek Megahed and Alesa Mustar
Communications and press at DAZ: Daniela Jung, Benedikt Hotze

Noemí Blager, A Lot With Little, 2023

Supported by ARPER

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“A Lot With Little” at the DAZ. Photographer: Leon Lenk

DAZ

With Laura Holzberg and Alesa Mustar, the German Architecture Center DAZ has a new curatorial and artistic direction since this year.

While Laura Holzberg has already been accompanying the DAZ for ten years, Alesa Mustar joined the team in 2020. The two of them are dedicated to social issues on a social, political and spatial level beyond architecture. Thus, the new dual leadership started in September with a series of talks dealing with socio-cultural paradigm shifts and the related questions of equitable space production. They understand the DAZ as an enabling and discursive space.

“In terms of the DAZ, I see the idea of a Support Structure as something that provides a basic structure within which potential can be released. DAZ as a place for encounter and exchange, where current social and architectural issues are negotiated.” (Holzberg, curator and space strategist)

“Interacting with the public means being in constant correlation with our target groups, which describe a wide range: From academia, politics, construction to artists, activists and designers. We take up current processes and debates and see ourselves as social researchers with a resonance space – the DAZ – which may be a platform of expression and mediator.” (Mustar, curator and urbanist)

The German Architecture Center DAZ is an initiative of the Association of German Architects BDA. It is a laboratory of ideas, a place of exchange, mediation and debate.

The DAZ aims to feature alternative spatial practices: Humankind and the environment are placed at the center, architecture is seen in its complex social dimension and responsibility, and the city is considered as a reflection and negotiating surface for socio-cultural and political developments.

With exhibitions, installations, performances, workshops, and conversations, topics related to physical and social space are initiated, addressed, and discussed. Projects are developed in intensive and interdisciplinary collaborations – with institutions and actors from architecture, art, culture and the urban design – to enable an expansion of knowledge and impact.

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