designers' task force
Dear friends, we are glad to announce CENTRALA DESIGNERS TASK FORCE projects will be on show during an exhibition organized by AiT magazine in Hamburg under title „Wild Wild East – Junge Architekten aus Osteuropa“ . The opening will take place in AIT-ArchitekturSalon, Bei den Mühren 70, 20457, September 17, 7:30 pm. The exhibition will be closed on October 29.
Regards from CENTRALA!
description from the exhibition board:
CENTRALA is a cooperative based on an inclusive formula. It’s “hardcore” is composed out of three ex-alumni of Warsaw Institute of Technology: Krzysztof Banaszewski, Małgorzata Kuciewicz, Jakub Szczęsny, who after studying in Darmstadt, Montpellier, Paris and Barcelona decided on establishing an open cooperation to commit to a large-scale change of grey Polish reality of mid-90ties.
CENTRALA is intrested in a wide range of subjects and scales- from small design objects, through artistic installations and buildings to urban scale masterplans. The will to have a positive impact on reality leads to an active approach when it comes to influencing client programmatic briefs, proposing Centrala’s own new functions to the city, cooperating with culture and education oriented NGOs and governmental-cum-municipal institutions working with such subjects as cultural diversification and environmental education ( The Museum of Polish Jews, Palestinian RIWAQ fundation, Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, etc).
CENTRALA is focused on experiment and intellectual exchange, therefore it’s rarely intrested in any repetition of concepts, forms or work tactics leading to regular commercial efficiency of large money-oriented offices. Most of it’s work is based on historical contextualization used as vehicle of abstracting the object from inevitable limitations of the past towards a positive vision of the future. For this, much of Centrala’s work can be concerned as bottom-up propaganda of the better future deprived of indoctrination aspect.
Centrala believes in the city becoming a better reflection of citizen’s needs, instaed of ignoring them. The space people are supposed to live / function in should be tuned in with them without the orthodoxy of modernist standarization. Space can be only partially pre-programmed, therefore a fluid tactic is needed, rather than rigid, definitive projection.
For this reason Centrala members tend to call themseves synchronizers, instead of architects.
CENTRALA’s role models are: Diller & Scofidio, Shigeru Ban, Yona Fridman, Laurie Anderson, B-boy Abstrak and The Pirates of The Carribean.
CENTRALA resides in Warsaw, Poland and can be reached through it’s website: www.centrala.net.pl
