Corporate Arcadia looks at what is usually disregarded by architecture culture: the corporate architecture of banking headquarters, office buildings and hotels that has mostly shaped the city of Brussels in the 1990s and early 2000s. It does so with a twist:
1/ Armin Linke’s photographic work from inside the Corporate Arcadia reveals the hidden activities of fifteen institutions and at the same time ‘restores beauty to these invisible sites’, overlapping architecture, interior design and social functions.
2/ Magazine excerpts and videos offer thematic insights and counterpoints in the form of seven ‘double figures’, letting emerge multiple dimensions and critical knots.
3/ Models and documents retrieved on site or from the architects’ archives are called to perform as embodied figures on a stepped theatre of objects: if their position is static, the concepts they carry are mobile, open to interpretation and recombination.

Magazine produced within the exhibition Corporate Arcadia, curated by Sophie Dars & Carlo Menon and commissioned by the CIVA’s Contemporary Architecture Department, Brussels, 23 Jun — 24 Sep 2017. Then hosted at TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Department of Management in the Built Environment, 7 — 22 Dec 2017.

Links:
Press kit
CIVA website
TU Delft videos