PRATT SESSIONS 19: OBJECTS - GROUNDS - COMMUNITIES - ERIC BUNGE + ALESSANDRA CIANCHETTA

Bunge and Cianchetta are establishing themselves and their respective firms as important players in the cities of New York and London. The subtlety, attentiveness, and care of their work reflects their talents and intellectual interests as designers and educators. The session will situate their overlapping approaches as emerging thinkers and leaders who are invested in developing exploratory environments. Both are actively scrutinizing alternative relationships between architectural objects and architectural grounds: pushing those relationship’s potential to script, choreograph and transform the patterns and rituals of the communities they engage.  Through their projects, their presentations and the ensuing discussion, an investigation of Objects-Grounds-Communities will bring to light the intelligence and vicissitudes with which both participants break-ground. Bunge and Cianchetta bend and reconfigure our normative understandings of grounds, objects their anticipated relationships and scales.