
CHU HAO XIU ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, DONGHAI UNIVERSITY
Master Architect/Partner of Wei Zijun Jiujing Architecture
Assistant Professor, Curator, Department of Architectural Design, Chak Chi Kong University
Wen Shin Art Center (No. 6, Lane 10, Lane 180, Section 6, Section 6, Minquan East Road, Neihu District, Taipei City)
$300 (This event fee can be credited with invoice discount of $150 for book purchase on the day)
On the afternoon of 3/7, the Art Gallery Library will hold its first annual selection of activities for the Cultural Arts 2019-2020 — Architecture Salon (4): Two Talks on Pezo von Ellrichshausen's Studio on Two Talks on Pezo von Ellrichshausen. The curation team specially invited Professor Chiu Hao Xiu, Department of Architecture, Tonghai University, and research Master of Architect/Partner of Frontier Architecture, Mr. Wei Zijun, discussed together with the Chilean architectural ensemble Pezo — Studio Pezo von Ellrichshausen) unique perspectives and designs that span the fields of architecture and contemporary art.
Studio Pézo-von Ellruchshausen was founded by Chilean-Argentine architect couple Mauricio Pezo and Sofía von Ellruchshausen in 2002. Their work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. The Art Institute of Chicago and Modern New York The Museum of Fine Arts (MoMA) has been selected as a permanent collection, and two were also curators of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008.
This Salon speaker, Professor Chiu Hao Chiu, will invite the Perseo-Von Erickhausen Studio to a lecture at Tung Hai University in 2015 to share her personal perspective on design, architecture and life, as well as the curatorial practice of two architects from all over the world to integrate contemporary art and architecture. In Observation and Practice. Speaking from Kazimir Severinovich Malevich's manifesto “The Non-Objective World” by the leading Russian artist Kazimir Severinovich Malevich, continuing with the ideas between contemporary art and architecture, Pezo-von Eirichhausen and its architectural works. Kao, is how to express yourself in creation.
The works of Pezo von Ellrichshausen Studio are mostly residential, renowned for utilizing their distinct geometry to engage in dialogue with the surroundings. Hao-Hsiu Chiu, who had invited both founding architects to give lectures in Taiwan in 2015, first introduces the background of the studio and shares three stories from accompanying them on visits to Lukang and Sanyi, regarding their passion and humanistic concerns. Jim Wei, from a researcher's perspective, discusses the Suprematist founder Kazimir Malevich's (1879-1935) pursuit of the essence of painting and how Pezo von Ellrichshausen reduced space to three basic elements: "peripheral," "central," and the "crossed space" in between to conduct dialectical thinking. To them, architecture is less a tool for solving problems and more a subject worth studying itself.
Hao-Hsiu Chiu also brought a special book gifted by Pezo von Ellrichshausen, themed around the 2010 Chile earthquake and reflected on the necessity of spatial memory due to disasters. Jim Wei draws parallels to Dutch monk-architect Dom Hans van der Laan (1904-1991), who perceived architecture through arithmetic and measurement, compares Pezo von Ellrichshausen's attempt to create a self-contained experience, independent from context. Jim Wei led the audience through three design proposals that appear to be "squares" but actually correspond to the three basic elements of space, explaining the Studio's ideal space planning after thoroughly considering the site conditions. Finally, the salon moderator Jr-Gang Chi concludes by introducing how Pezo von Ellrichshausen reinterprets space through topology, creating a novel experience of defamiliarizing ordinary things, highlighting an interesting trend among many young architects in recent years to revisit the past and explore the roots of prehistorical matters.