The Instituto Cervantes in Sydney will hold the exhibition and conference, “Architecture without Paper, from Venice to Sydney”, an extraordinary selection of works in audiovisual format, shown at the 11th Venice International Architecture Exhibition.

The exhibition, organized by the Spanish Ministry of Housing and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, will be open by the architect, Diego Moreno de Cala, on the 8th of June, at 6:30 p.m., with a conference titled “Architecture Without Paper, from Venice to Sydney”. Moreno de Cala will talk about this “virtual architectural reality” in the Spanish scene, represented by the 15 architecture studios that have shown their projects in the 11th Venice International Architecture Exhibition, displayed now in the Instituto Cervantes until the 15th of July.
This exhibition, curated by the architects Soledad del Pino and Ángel Fernández Alba, aims to show the innovation and quality of the work being carried out in the Spanish panorama today, and places the spotlight on a fresh, avant-garde architecture, one that serves the sensibilities and needs of society.

Under the title Out There: Architecture beyond Building Aaron Betsky, General Organizer of the 11th Biennial Architectural Exhibition in Venice, warned us “We must keep alive in our attempts to make sense out of, find our way through and be at home in a world of sprawl. This is the wonder that design can evoke. An architecture that can make us aware of the elements around us will be one that places us in a clear relation to our world. Architecture must reveal who and where we are in a reality that seems more and more confusing. Architecture must bear witness to our transformation through technology. Architecture must be the poetry of revealing us to ourselves. Such an architecture would inhabit the world of myth, a world reflecting on time and place, where reality is something we remake in the ordering of space.”

This exhibition includes the work of a generation of professionals who, silently, have succeeded in responding in recent decades to a complex demand, and who have acted as a bridge between the Modern Tradition and the incipient and widespread Networked Architecture, thereby inspiring in us fresh expectancy of architecture’s future role. The exhibit here reflect attempts to blaze new trails of creativity and to re-define our collective margins of tolerance in processes where the unexpected and intangible are part of architecture’s new look.

We should look upon tradition not only as a pathway to tangible aesthetics, but also as the artist’s own power to shape the future. Soon the unexpected, the obscure, may be living side-by-side with the commonplace, the vernacular, without inspiring in us any nostalgia for the loss of blueprints, in a transition to architecture without paper.
The search for new imagery is in digital territory, which has little in common with the traditional method of “paper architecture”. What is taking place now is the digital expressing of ideas in which architectural objects are encoded and in which they are derived from a form which the architect doesn’t always have control over.

Interviews with Isidoro Castellanos, head of the Instituto Cervantes in Sydney, and the architect Diego Moreno de Cala, can be organised through the Institute.