Pedro Pitarch – Burning Down the House ▶

This lecture will explore Pedro Pitarch’s architectural practice, showcasing a series of projects that arise from contemporary situations, deeply rooted in reality, but which trigger opportunities for speculation. The pop-up urbanisms of music events, the cynical architectures of post-politics, the sociological implications of media technologies and their dangers, the metropolitan implications of new-tech industries, the urban ethos of trans-humanity… These are just some of the concerns that inform Pitarch’s professional practice, navigating a somewhat tangential position between normative architectural discourse and its interrelations with technology, contemporary cultural production and the construction of societies.