Atelier Caracas is an architecture and design studio founded in 2015 by Julio Kowalenko and Rodrigo Armas. Their practice spans architecture, design, sculpture, and scenography. The studio operates as an effervescent platform for formal, aesthetic, and cultural experimentation. Heavily influenced by pop culture and the ordinary, Atelier Caracas is dedicated to creating scenographically curated, intellectually provocative objects and spaces, saturated with symbolism and narrative.
For this exhibition, they present RIGOR, which questions two fundamental notions in architecture: environment and design. Drawing on a figure they have frequently referenced in their work, they reinterpret Hans Hollein’s architectural manifesto—"Everything is Architecture"—to provide LIGA with a new spatial and emotional perception.
Ultimately, this intervention serves as a starting point for reflecting on design. In it, they present four provocative compositions that rethink a series of well-known utilitarian objects from popular culture, which now acquire a new aesthetic, spatial, and environmental meaning. In this sense, the rigor of exhaustively understanding these elements is the fundamental characteristic required to reinvent them.
