Parallel Rules is the second exhibition in a83’s Architectural Drawing series featuring work by 6 architects: Architensions, Bruna Canepa, Galo Canizares, Aelitta Gore/Daniel Hall, Carole Lévesque, and Young & Ayata.

Architensions
Architensions (ATE) is an international architectural design studio operating as an agency of research led by Alessandro Orsini and Nick Roseboro and based in New York & Rome. The studio looks at architecture and design with a perspective rooted in site-specificity to envision modes of collective engagement, living, and cultural production. Architensions works at the intersection of theory, practice, and academia, focusing on architecture as a network condition in dialogue with the political and social context to create new possibilities for the contemporary city.

Bruna Canepa
Bruna Canepa is an artist-architect based in São Paulo, Brazil, where she graduated Escola da Cidade (2013) and is currently developing her master’s degree research An Archeology of Drawing in the History of Architecture and Urbanism program at FAUUSP–University of São Paulo. Canepa co-founded Miniatura (2010-2014) and collaborates regularly with architecture practices from her hometown São Paulo. Since 2007 Canepa has been participating in solo and collective exhibitions in Brazil and abroad.

Galo Canizares
Galo Canizares is a designer, writer, educator, and pixel painter. His work interrogates the emerging sociotechnical effects of code, screens, and software culture. He is the author of Digital Fabrications: Designer Stories for a Software-Based Planet, a collection of essays on software and design.

Aelitta Gore / Daniel Hall
Aelitta Gore and Daniel Hall met at The Cooper Union and are currently practicing architects and makers in New York City.

Carole Lévesque
Carole Lévesque is an academic and trained architect based in Montreal, Quebec. Her work explores the representation, temporality and practices of urban space and architecture. Through drawing and various modes of representation, her research investigates the processes of abandonment and renewal. Recent projects have specifically focused on vacant lots in Beirut, Montreal and Rome. Co-founder of the Bureau for the Study of Undisciplined Practices (BéPI), and member of the Cultures – Arts – Societies Research Center (CELAT), she is a full-professor and the director of the School of Design, University of Quebec in Montreal where she teaches studio, theory and criticism as well as research by design methods. She is co-editor of Inventories: Documentation as Project (BéPI, 2021), author of About Uselessness in Architecture (L'Harmattan, 2011) and Finding Room in Beirut, Places of the Everyday (Punctum Books, 2019). Carole Lévesque holds a PhD in Environmental design, History and Theory of Architecture from the Université de Montréal and a professional graduate degree in architecture from the University of British-Columbia.

Young & Ayata
Young & Ayata formed as a partnership in New York in 2008. The practice is dedicated to building commissions, exploratory mediations, and published arguments where the reality of the contemporary environment is engaged as a provocation for experiments in form, material, and imagery. Young & Ayata have received the Progressive Architecture Award, Design Vanguard Award, Young Architects Prize, AIA Honor Award, and a first-place prize for the design of the Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, Germany. Michael Young is an Assistant Professor at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union. He is the recipient of the 2019-20 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Rome and the author of Reality Modeled After Images (Routledge 2021). Kutan Ayata is an Associate Professor and the Vice Chair in the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at UCLA, where he also serves as the Director of the Master of Architecture Program.

Link to Installation photography by a83.

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