Acclaimed and renowned both in the world of architecture and in the world of art, Jaque turns architecture into a non-ideological political act. His work can be interpreted in three ways: the idea of ‘space’ yielding to the theme of ‘composition’ – not only aesthetical, shape composition, but “a cosmopolitical practice dedicated to operating on the way bodies, technologies, and territories are constructed as interconnected and interdependent”; the centrality of relational devices, less in a functionalist sense than in an organic sense, as an alternative to the urban delirium we live in, aware that there is no blank slate anywhere and that it is only by focusing on what we have that we will be able to come up with better alternatives for dignified living; that architecture must be ‘trans’: trans-scalar, trans-species, transmedial – a continuous transition of time, space, and materiality to prefigure a more-than-human present.
