MAIA, Master of Arts of Interior Architecture, Diploma Show
Le Cube, HEAD – Genève, Avenue de Châtelaine 5, Geneva

MAIA Final Review
6th June, 2024

MAIA Opening – Vernissage – Open to the Public
7th of June, 2024 – 18h00

MAIA Show – Open to the Public
8th of June, 2024 – 12.00 – 18.00

These “little sexy buildings that are not encumbered by plumbing issues” experiment with styles, know-how, and theories. Grouped within a common landscape, follies express possible elsewheres. Their occupants rejoice in fleeting identities: short-lived hermits in huts, nomads under immobile tents, and conquerors on the gazebo, animated by the promises of the temple of love.

Whether terribly sophisticated or exaggeratedly rough, these follies might be useless but, oh! so necessary. They unite. They intensify. Organized in systems, the follies reflect on the territory through emergences, not through a comprehensive plan. Designed by range, each folly proclaims its reasons for being and revokes the propositions of the previous one.

Having moved beyond the parks of eighteenth-century aristocrats, it is now the metropolitan environment that they consider. In response to the fragile ecology of our world, which seeks to establish a balanced relationship with its resources and environment, the follies formulate architecture and landscape as an inseparable culture.

STUDENTS
Alexandra Miskufova, Anais Youssefi, Andreas Laskaris, Marie Schild, Marie Torrione, Patris Sallaku, Ségolène Davister, Valentina Pantalena, Vilma Hubalek

JURY
Anna MacIver-Ek, Fredrick Hellberg, Sarah Kueng, Youri Kravtchenko, Rosario Hurtado

FACULTY
Dr Javier Fernández Contreras: Head of Department
Valentina De Luigi: Deputy Head
Youri Kravtchenko (YKRA): Studio Professor
Cecile-Diama Samb (sapid studio): Studio Assistant