R+EVUE THE B-SIDE

Visible from only one perspective at a time, architecture suffers the fate of never revealing itself as a whole. An inherent duplicity arises between what can be seen and what remains hidden. The back side—which never shows a representative face nor welcomes us into the building and rarely gets printed in glossy architecture magazines—is the overlooked side of architecture. As a result, we studied the backs of a few famous buildings. What we found is the B-side of architecture. Liberated from the front’s representative obligations, the B-side is an ambiguous space of programmatic, representative, contextual or even ideological experimentation. We represent our discoveries through a series of analytical and experimental drawings