Interfaz

This exhibition is being presented as part of Buenos Aires Design Month. Hitzig Militello Arquitects is marking the occasion by celebrating its 20th anniversary. Since 2006, the practice has viewed architecture and design as tools for constructing identities and new ways of engaging with experiential spaces. Two decades of projects have shaped a practice characterised by experimentation, materiality and a constant exploration of the discipline’s boundaries. Celebrating these twenty years is not merely about looking back at the journey so far, but about asking ourselves what lies ahead. At a time when our relationship with technology is rapidly transforming the way we think, create and produce, the installation invites us to pause and reflect on this transition. Nature and artifice, intuition and calculation, material and information coexist as expressions of the same present. Twenty years on, we continue to view design in the same way: as an open question. Hitzig Militello Arquitectos 2006—2026

The installation proposes a dialogue between two ways of understanding and constructing our environment: that which grows and that which we calculate. This installation (territory) engages in dialogue with, and serves as a backdrop for, objects selected on the basis of a convergence between nature and technology. A territory that bears the traces of time and growth, yet whose orthogonal layout reveals a nature that has already been interpreted, represented by a grid that forms a topography measured and shaped by human intervention. Upon this emerges a second nature, that of the intellect: an articulated structure whose parametric skin translates the invisible logic of sound into matter. Waves and frequencies transform a regular geometry, just as the word is transformed into information, language and thought. Both worlds share the same tone. This is no accident: they also express a common logic built upon representations of geometric intervention. Nature ordered by humankind and the technology conceived by humankind thus belong to the same logic of transformation. The work explores a continuum between emotional and artificial intelligence, between humanism and increasingly autonomous technology. Perhaps the challenge lies not in choosing between these two natures, but in deciding how to allow ourselves to be shaped by each of them.

Curatorial Selection The curatorial approach recognises a selection in which the origin of the objects, the ideas they convey and their material nature illustrate the fascinating dialogue between technology and nature. In some cases, the compositional focus reveals an association with technological features, whilst in others, the manufacturing process highlights the natural origin of the raw materials.