7 LABYRINTHS FROM MADRID

In the installation entitled SEVEN LABYRINTHS FROM MADRID, curated by Spanish architect Begoña Diaz-Urgorri, the city is understood as a labyrinth-experience, where reality and fiction meld, where it is impossible to predict a possible sequence, where an image of unfoldedness and hiddeness appears. Standing out from more traditional architectural exhibitions, the installation explores various attitudes toward the city, based on idea of the LABYRINTH. The exhibition stages a journey through the notion of the labyrinth from the perspectives of architects from Madrid with different approaches to the same original idea. The Labyrinth, just as the city, is not merely a spatial expression but a temporal one. Amid detours and turns, the duration of our sojourn depends on two factors: the complexity of the design as much as our intelligence or intuition. Inside the labyrinth/city, we are subject to a range of options with an unpredictable outcome. Collectively, the spatial installations convey an impression of recent approaches in Spanish architecture and urban planning. Integrated in the Labyrinth are buildings and Projects of these selected offices from Madrid: Maria Jose Aranguren and Jose Gonzalez Gallegos, Dario Gazapo and Concha Lapayese, Carmen Martinez Arroyo and Rodrigo Pemjean, Jose Luis Esteban Penelas, Beatriz Matos and Alberto Martinez Castillo, Alvaro Soto and Javier Maroto, and Begoña Diaz-Urgorri.