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What if intelligence has no fixed address? At Palazzo Diedo in Venice, Mat Dryhurst, Holly Herndon, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Adriana Rispoli stage Strange Rules, a six-day case that cognition exceeds its substrate.
Strange Rules opened on 4 May 2026 in the ground-floor nave of Palazzo Diedo, the Venetian palazzo operated by Berggruen Arts and Culture, and ran through 9 May. The project introduced Protocol Art to describe work that does not simply use algorithms, artificial intelligence models, or platform infrastructures as tools but takes them as its subject: exposing, analysing, and transforming the invisible rule systems that shape how culture is produced and perceived. It is less a statement about technology than about where authorship sits when the instructions that generate work are as consequential as the work itself.
@hansulrichobrist@matdryhurst@holly_herndon@sub.global@adrianarispoli_curator@berggruendiedo
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From Thisispaper+ Germany Guide
wulf architekten fills a gap in a 13th-century Reutlingen streetscape with a timber truss behind cast-glass tiles, bracing the historic row while making the demolished house partly visible again.
The site on Oberamteistraße holds one of the oldest rows of half-timbered houses in southern Germany, a sequence dating to the 13th century when Reutlingen operated as a free imperial city. Plot no. 34 was missing: its Stone House had been demolished in 1972, and only the cellar survived. The brief asked for two things at once: rehabilitate the historic buildings at nos. 28–32 under heritage criteria, and rebuild the corner as a protective enclosure for what remained underground.
Architecture: @wulfarchitekten
Photography: @brigidagonzalezwork
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Madrid Guide curated by Thisispaper
Architecture in Madrid — sunlit courtyards, ceramic facades, and interiors of spare elegance. A city where modernism arrived late and stayed long, producing cultural institutions, apartment renovations, and restaurants designed with the same precision as museums.
FUBA Bakery by Isern Serra @isernserra
SOLO CSV Art Space by Estudio Herreros @estudioherreros
Acid Shop by Plantea Estudio @plantea_estudio
Dr.You by BURR Studio @burr.studio
Royal Collections Museum in Madrid by Mansilla & Tuñon @tunon_albornoz
CaixaForum Madrid by Herzog & de Meuron @herzogdemeuron
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From Thisispaper+ Alpine Houses
In the village of Chamoson, Canton of Valais, LVPH Architectes transforms a shepherd's mayen, inserting a spruce-plywood interior and a wide panoramic window into the rough stone shell against the Alpine skyline.
A mayen is not a farmhouse. It is a seasonal hut, built from the stone of the mountain it sits on, used for summer grazing and abandoned for winter. In Chamoson, at a bend on a snow-covered road in the Valais Alps, LVPH Architectes found one in need of transformation and used it to ask a particular question: how much can you change a vernacular building without replacing it?
Architecture: @lvph.architectes
Photography: @joeltettamanti
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From Thisispaper+ Portrait Photography
Antonia Mayer photographs her own family in the Vienna suburb of Tulln in the series Zahn für Zahn — images made across two decades alongside a poem by Rosa Cass.
"If Cass made images, they might look like Mayer's; and if Mayer wrote poems, they could read like Cass's." The argument is worth testing against what is actually in the work.
Photography: @_antoniamayer
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From Thisispaper+ Black Matter
In the Sierras Grandes of Córdoba Province, Nicolás Oks places a 70 m² pavilion — an eighteen-sided charred-timber volume sitting inside a stone-walled landscape without disturbing it.
The site in Villa Yacanto was already a room before anything was built: irregular stone walls, laid up in the Jesuit manner from the local fieldstone, divide the sloped ground near the El Durazno River into enclosures. Molle and espinillo trees filter the sightlines toward the Sierras Grandes, and on clear days the distant mass of Champaquí Peak closes the view to the south. Nicolás Oks treated this pre-existing geometry as the first layer of the design, placing the building inside the enclosure rather than clearing it away. @laokza
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From Thisispaper+ Collectible Design
Presented at the inaugural show of the Fondazione Dries Van Noten in Venice, Seongil Choi's HMP Chair 01 builds a functional seat from folded perforated steel mesh coated in successive layers of red polyurethane.
The mesh starts flat. From there, Seongil Choi bends, folds, and layers it, working a sheet material that behaves more like paper or fabric than metal. The resulting form holds a back, a seat, a structural base with two large oval perforations, and a compressed back-rest with a smaller elliptical cut-out, all in one continuous piece of steel that curves where it needs to and holds straight where it must. @seongilchoii
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In Shimada City in Japan, mA Style Architects completes a detached house whose cedar-clad exterior reads as a closed volume while the interior organises around a top-lit courtyard threaded with a living tree.
From the road, the house presents as a long cedar-clad gable with no windows. The surface is tongue-and-groove vertical boarding, honey-toned and uniformly tight, broken only by a concrete plinth and a service unit near the street edge. The roof ridge runs clean to both ends. Nothing in the exterior discloses what is happening inside, and that opacity is the argument. @ma_style_architects
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From Thisispaper+ Art Spaces
At Acéfala Gallery in Buenos Aires, Lena Becerra presents COAGVLA, a sculptural installation of glass, stainless steel and silicone that holds matter in the liminal state between dissolution and recomposition.
The title comes from the alchemical principle solve et coagula: dissolve and recombine. Lena Becerra takes this not as metaphor but as method. In COAGVLA, matter is literally broken apart, suspended in glass and silicone, and reassembled into forms that do not resolve cleanly into either the organic or the industrial. What you see across the gallery walls at Acéfala are objects that could be organs, or machines, or something the language of either category doesn't reach. @lena.bcrra@acefalagaleria
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From Thisispaper+ Second Life
At Elisabethenstrasse 10 in Basel, Vecsey Schmidt Architekten renovated an 1867 rectory by Johann Jakob Stehlin the Younger, restoring the bel etage while opening the attic to raw daylight.
The building was commissioned in 1867 as the rectory for the Elisabethenkirche, the final piece of Johann Jakob Stehlin the Younger's planned cultural ensemble stretching from Barfusserplatz to the Bankverein. Stehlin conceived this urban sequence of art gallery, sculpture hall, music hall, theatre, schoolhouse, and rectory as a coherent civic statement, and the rectory's Neo-Renaissance sandstone facade, with its mansard roof and baroque gable, still reads as the ensemble's domestic anchor.
Architecture: @vecseyschmidt
Photography: @barbarabuehlerphoto
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