Manning McBride

This exhibition is an exploration of a design process that is present in the architecture of Aldo Rossi. It is a work that is not entirely resolved. And it may raise more questions than it answers. This is reflective of the intricate and challenging brief that instigated this journey.
 

A divertissement is a short dance in a performance, usually digressing, or, not relating to the overall narrative. In many ways, this is how I view the work, and process of Aldo Rossi. A serious treatment of the discipline of architecture with small injections of personality and meaning. This is also how I have approached this work. To follow a process but identify and capitalise on moments of digression in order to test its limitations. In this way, the work is clunky. Ebbing, flowing, skipping and jumping between the consequence of procedural design and personal decisions. It is an architecture born in and for the museum, in the pursuit of something novel.