Studio-X is hosting a retrospective exhibition that will engage not only architects but also people who would like to discover the traces of our urban and cultural recent past. The exhibit features the over a quarter century long experience of Deniz Aslan and Sevim Aslan -masters of landscape architecture and surveying respectively- at DS Mimarlık, accompanied by various actors and documents.
Rather than merely featuring the completed projects, the exhibition focuses on the underlying forms of production and thinking behind these. The operation of a multipronged office and the transformations it underwent are conveyed through the accounts of the various actors they have worked with. It is this multidimensionality that underlies the exhibition which is curated and designed by PATTU.
The exhibition presents a mapping of the 30 year long experience of DS Mimarlık on the one hand, which is a summary of architecture and construction in Turkey in its own right, while also exploring the issues that come to the forefront in this period such as the transition to liberal economy in Turkey, and the transformation of scale and project production processes both in landscaping and surveying. The exhibition “MICROCOSMOS: From the Beginnings to the Present 30 Years of DS Mimarlık” is at Studio-X Istanbul until March 4th.