Naive Intention

Description

Introduced by an essay about the vague contradiction between intentionality and chance, necessity and accident, reason and futility, authorship and anonymity, the book presents a selection of images that inform Pezo von Ellrichshausen's cross production between art, architecture and academia. Each page contains a single picture and a brief caption describing it. Beyond a comprehensive depiction of the individual works, the monograph underlines transversal notions of inventory, format, scale, regulation and value within the pictorial representation. In the fashion of a personal album, each drawing, painting, photograph, model or building, evokes the mental world behind the couple's production. This volume could be read both as a collection of ideas, one after another, or as the same one that persists over time.

Pezo von Ellrichshausen is an art and architecture studio founded in 2002 by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen. They live and work in the southern Chilean city of Concepcion and teach regularly at the PUC in Santiago de Chile and at the IIT in Chicago. They have been the curators of the Chilean Pavilion and selected for the International Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. They have edited monographic issues of A+U in Tokyo, 2G in Barcelona and the essay book Spatial Structure. Their built work has been distinguished with several international awards and widely exhibited, among other venues, at the FIAC in Paris, the Royal Academy of Arts in London and at the MoMA in New York. Founder of Mainstudio and works on editorial design, books and visual identities for clients within architecture, art and fashion. Edwin has been part of different international design juries, such as Art Directors Club New York, The One Show New York and the Art Directors Club the Netherlands. His work, as well as interviews, has been published in various books and magazines, including Arcademi.com, +81 Magazine, Slanted and Process Journal of Design.

"In the introduction, fellow Dutch architect Wiel Arets introduces Pezo von Ellrichshausen's ability to mix art with architecture through a poetic blur of typologies and geographies, allowing the reader to traverse the projects from his personal perspective.... The monograph also presents a visual feast - designed by Edwin van Gelder, founder of Mainstudio, each vibrant image occupies a full single page, with a wide variation between drawings, sketches, models and photographs." --Wallpaper "This work profiles the projects, some realized and some conceptual, of Chilean architectural group Pezo von Ellrichshausen (architects Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen). All of the projects are located in Latin America. The book contains color photos, illustrations, and images on every page." --ProtoView