The Event as Architecture
Design Master Class led by Pedro Pitarch
The Berlage presents D.E.L.F.T. (Delft Event-Led Future Typologies): a collective vision on how event culture can reconfigure and reimagine the contemporary city. In this project, Delft’s urban fabric is subdivided into seven sectors, each serving as a test bed for a distinct typological redefinition. These interventions challenge the conventional static nature of urbanity, proposing instead forms of spatial organization that are mobilized, activated, and transformed through the temporary and performative logics of the event.
The Berlage is pleased to announce its upcoming design master class entitled “The Event as Architecture” led by Pedro Pitarch, architect and contemporary musician. The master class, to be held from Monday, November 3 to Friday, November 14, will explore the notion of the urban event as an architectural type. Over the last decades, urban events built around ephemeral programs have multiplied and consolidated into a metropolitan condition. Festivals, parades, fairs, demonstrations, and even rebellions will be examined as paradigmatic examples of a form of urbanism that, supported by budgets comparable to those of more conventional types, generates urbanity and co-constructs our societies through experience rather than form. The master class will aim to formulate a design framework that interprets the urban event as an architectural type in itself, focusing on the identification of urban tools characteristic of this emerging form of urbanism. The two-week-long program will be concluded with a public event and exhibition on Friday, November 14.