Fake Industries Architectural Agonism

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Architecture Live! at Superfront L.A. featuring the english version of Ay Caramelles opens Thursday, November 19

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Architecture Live Architecture Live! opens November 19th with reception 5pm – 8pm and will be on view through December 16. The English version of Ay Caramelles! has been possible thanks to the generous contribution of Andrew Chappel and Daniel Ruiz Esquiroz’s  voices, techniques, technologies and patience.

Awarded at the Architectural League of NY Young Architects Forum 2009

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What matters right now is how to deal with the consequences. Think backwards, recall. Earlier foresights offer a bygone sort of delight: none got closer to this extension of capitalist disaster. Architects’ honeymoon with economic power is over and it is becoming an unfriendly divorce. We are left [...]

April 21st, 2009 at 6.00 pm, Live at Princeton SOA

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Next Tuesday April 21st, 2009 at 6.00 pm, Cristina Goberna and Urtzi Grau (a.k.a. Fake Industries Architectural Agonism) will lecture on foreclosure fantasies, real estate nigtmares and credit dreams presenting the FINAL COLLECTION ever to be reproduced, renovated o redesigned, of the immature, generally ill-conceived and fairly sentimental DESIGN EFFORTS crafted by the architects, [...]

Memo to the Audience

Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is our pleasure to introduce www.fakeindustries.org, the archive of Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, a conglomerate that explores potentials of architectural agonism and false constructions. As it happens, there is a rather perplexing dearth of suitable entries. We, Cristina Goberna and Urtzi Grau, core and archivists of Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, like productive [...]

Un Cadavre

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The fight for Tafuri’s corpse began in a marshy stage, with all kind of pests (from frogs to mosquitoes) fighting over an already-putrid body. The initial confusion seemed like a National Geographic show on the alimentary habits of the scholarly fauna of the swamps; it quickly became a less [...]

BAR’s Sinferencia

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In October 22nd, 2005, the Bureau for Antropophagi and Representation (BAR) met in Barcelona. The first and last Bar Sinference counted with the inestimable collaboration of some of the most infamous BAR members, such as the attentive professor Bacterium, the unclassifiable Shrimp, the well-kwon Reus’ Hanger, the undauted Annah von Fulbright, the [...]