Oslo Architecture Triennale 2013: Behind the Green Door

摘要

Rotor, the Belgian collective that curated the Oslo Architectural Triennale (OAT)'s main show, are obsessive collectors, hoarders, salvagers and sifters of objects and data. At the 2011 OMA retrospective at the Barbican, they curated a categorised cacophony of 450 objects (as well as streaming 3.5 million images) from the practice. In Behind the Green Door at Oslo's design and architecture centre DogA, they mounted 650 objects from virtually the whole planet, all relating to the Triennale's overarching theme, sustainability. I asked Maarten Gielen, de facto Rotor spokesman, was the choice random? 'Intuitive,' he replied, after the briefest of pauses. Talk about crunching big data - who needs supercomputers with Rotor around? But more on them later.