Antônio Frederico Lasalvia is an undisciplined architect whose work investigates the relationship between material processes, labor and form. Working across critical spatial practices and writing, he explores how craft knowledge relates to the contemporary industrial complex. His projects often engage directly with leftover materials and production residues through collaborative and situated processes, approaching making as a way of thinking by other means.
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Paratypology: Towards a Scrap Theory of Form
1. To Sort I find myself at a furniture factory, in the seaming department, surrounded by the pneumatic humming of sewing machines. All around me, industrious hands are swift in joining odd parcels of hide, textiles and other soft surfaces according to flat templates. Although the individual steps they carry out are familiar to me,… Read More »