exhibition at the CCA: Rooms You May Have Missed: Bijoy Jain, Umberto Riva

The exhibition that opened recently at Centre Canadien d'Architecture in Montréal directly compares two different ways of perceiving and designing residential space through the works of an Italian architect, Umberto Riva, and an Indian architect, Bijoy Jain (Studio Mumbai Architects).
The exhibition looks at the very notion of "room", a basic component of architectural home design, and how it is interpreted by two architects from different generations, Umberto Riva (1928) and Bijoy Jain (1965), and from very different cultures with different building traditions, late twentieth-century Italy and contemporary India.
In Riva’s projects, rooms become a sequence of spaces joined by a fluid path, and the architect completely reinterprets the conventional concepts of spatial organisation. Bijoy Jain works with local artisans and traditional techniques, and the inner courtyard plays an essential role in his projects as it is a semi-public area and a multi-purpose space in the layout of the home.
The architects designed the exhibition set-up in the halls of the CCA themselves, offering visitors a direct experience of their concept of space.

(Agnese Bifulco)

Title: Rooms You May Have Missed: Bijoy Jain, Umberto Riva ("Des pièces à ne pas manquer: Bijoy Jain, Umberto Riva)
Dates: 04 November 2014 – 19 April 2015
Location: CCA, Montréal Canada

Images courtesy of CCA

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