W OFFICE | west architecture workroom

w office is a word-based design research workroom complementary to C-B A’s building activity

w office work is concerned with communication, on a cultural level, between the object and the user, at both a literal and a metaphorical level.

w office discusses C-B A’s work from a cultural standpoint as occurs in west workroom, a typical product of w office

west workroom aims at exploring some of the differences that exist between European and American practices.

west workroom in not a book but an attempt to unhinge the traditional idea of a book aligning a critical, formal and cultural analysis of the body of work produced by C-B A since the beginning of the third millennium, or the so-called global era.

west workroom was put together to put the problem of identity on the table and to shed light on the cultural differences still in place in the west world, in spite of the much talked about process of globalization.

west workroom is not a showroom. It is a framework for arranging graphic and written materials according to a spiritual and personal geography. The juxtaposition of practice—projects, icons, symbols—and theory—essays, ‘formal manifestos,’ journal entries, cultural analyses, jokes, a glossary—attempts to eliminate the gap that has thus far kept them apart, producing a non-linear discussion of architecture and its role in