Books
Pezo von Ellrichshausen’s Work
Architects who paint – from Le Corbusier to Zaha Hadid, among many – illustrate the interdependence of art and architecture, although most architects treat art as a representation and a conceptual tool. Mauricio Pezo and Sofía von Ellrichshausen, however, equate painting with architecture. Window Wall captures their practice from 2001 to 2024, encapsulating their search for meanings with relentless pursuits in their art and architecture. Through their ‘notional windows,’ we can understand the intentionality of their paintings, buildings, and writings.
The oscillation in their works – between art as architecture, art as text, text as art, text as architecture, architecture as text, architecture as art – is accentuated by the deliberate dissociation in the timeline of their work: Pezo and Sofía bundle the works between abstract patterns, orthographic paintings, and atmospheric sceneries, with texts that rhythmically present their projects based on sixty philosophical indices. One understands the SOLO paintings existing independently of the SOLO house, yet the painting and the built object present two parallel realities that one can only fully comprehend through ‘endless reciprocity.’ Their diagram in which two curved arrows go from a black circle to a white square and back, crossing the middle dotted line, depicts the loop between the author’s subjectivity and the object’s objectivity.
The book is a stunning journey through Pezo and Sofía’s psyches, tunneling into their most intimate world.
