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<p>If one premise for architecture has been to ground space to a place, then what
value does site specificity hold in these contemporary times of easy-jet travel
and superfluid mobility? Has the anonymity of the generic globalised city yielded
extra value for localised cultures? WHAT ARCHITECTURE is an architectural office
whose design strategies are guided by the cultural, social and economic reverberation
between the global and the local - the glocal. The city today is characterised
by an immense instability caused by flow: the transcience of its tourist-citizen
demographic, the rapid exchange of information and goods, the sensitising resonance
between foreign phenomena and that familiar. Within its projects, WHAT ARCHITECTURE
looks to anticipate the unexpected. Research and theoretical practices are conducted
via the spaces of teaching and publication. Teaching has been conducted at the
Bartlett, London, TU, Delft and Sint Lucas, Brussels. <a href="http://www.whatarchitecture.com">WHAT
ARCHITECTURE</a> is continuously exposed to the contemporary condition due to
its european correspondency to Monument Magazine (Australia) and via the 'spatial
mobility' book ROAM. WHAT ARCHITECTURE works with disciplines that inform architecture
such as the arts, film, sound and economics. WHAT ARCHITECTURE thus collaborates
with facilitating organisations such as Ove Arup, ING Bank, Mecanoo, Black Dog
Publishing, 0900-space, and MAP (NZ). In this way the WHAT-Network has emerged
that is capable of outsourcing project information from a variety of places.
<a href="http://www.whatarchitecture.com" target="_blank">WHAT ARCHITECTURE</a> has exhibited
at the Venice Biennale and are involved in 'ab1' - architecture biennale 1,
Rotterdam 2003.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#FFFFFF">WHO is WHAT?<br>
WHAT ARCHITECTURE was established in 2000 and operates from London. WHAT ARCHITECTURE
consists of two partners: Anthony Hoete and Gerrit Grigoleit. The partners of
WHAT ARCHITECTURE have built up a broad professional experience through working
for various architectural firms in a number of 'international locales' including
Mecanoo (Delft, where one of the partners was an Associate), Sauerbruch Hutton
(Berlin) and Daniel Libeskind (Berlin). WHAT ARCHITECTURE was formed so as to
turn this diversity of experience into projects imbued with rigour and vigour!</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#FFFFFF">WHAT webdesign<br>
the whatarchitecture site is designed by Maarten Happaerts [dialmfor]</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#FFFFFF">WHAT projects<BR>
House on Motiti Island, The House Hijacked, Gamestore Gasometer, Flemish Administration
Center, VAC of Vlaams Administratie Centrum, Sarajevo Concert Hall, Absolut
Vodka Café, Hedge Bridge Housing, Fly-over City, Sargeant Gallery, rOAM
(WHATbook) mobility thematics</font>
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