Archi[types/text]: Architecture in Philippine Life

This project is about forms and figures. Architecture is grasped as a mode or manner, a blueprint of practice. It is also reckoned as a consciousness, a perspective through which space is sensed and lived out. These two aspects converge in eight exhibitions on landscape and urban planning, painting and photography, cinema and post cards. In all these instances, architecture is imagined as at once type and text because it is both a thing and a subjectivity, an artifact and a sensibility. Edifices are fleshed out by memory. Identity takes place. The city is mapped. Painters and photographers render locales. Vicinities become settings in the fictions of the screen. Architecure finally becomes complex in culture and history: it is formative and figurative.