Film still from Holding Rivers, Becoming Mountains, dir. Solveig Qu Suess, 2025
MAAT — Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology
Made up of almost 30 trillion tons of materials, global cities are an intricate entanglement of evolving structures, geometrically complex systems, and spatially diverse environments. They are devices to shape energy, information and material fluxes that accrue over time to cast a hardened exoskeleton of human societies.
What does it mean for architecture to be the carrier of these transformations? This dynamic process can be addressed by investigating the material basis of architecture, its complex constructions, foundations, reinforcements, cracks, models, joints, erosions, weathering, renovation, interconnections. The question on how to measure how heavy a city is challenges the audience to detect the Anthropocene signal amidst the noise of the Earth.