Celine Condorelli is an architect based in London. Her work is concerned with architecture as support and interface. She is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at London Metropolitan University and has worked with institutions working with local government such as in Space Syntax, UCL 2002, or organisations dealing with promoting architecture to the general public such as London Open House and Architectural Dialogue 2001/2002, and extensively in art and architecture collaborations such as 'theatre pieces' (Tate Triennial of British Art 2006) and 'Alterity Display' (Lawrence O’Hana gallery, london, 2004). Recent works include developing Support Structure, an RSA Art for Architecture and Arts Council England project with Artist-Curator Gavin Wade, through several exhibitions including at Chisenhale Gallery, London 2003, The Economist, London 2004, Birmingham Eastside 2007, as well as taxi_onomy with artist Beatrice Gibson, supported by Arts Council England, the British Council and V2 Rotterdam. Taxionomy was part of 'the thin line' Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice 2005, 'Subcontingency' at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin 2007, the 'Did you say participate?' publication, and MIT press 2006.

In Support

To offer support is an act of generosity; it allows and makes provision for something new to occur. Support is about the how rather than the what, the means over the end; it is critical to how things link and work together towards change. A support structure is an invitation.

Celine Condorelli will talk about the notion of support within art and architecture practices through the 'support structure' project. She is currently developing a bibliography of support around a wider notion of support structures and their potential productivity, meaning their ability to provoke change.

Support structures are discursive, they construct as well as define the field and relationship between objects as open and yet context specific, in a constant process of elaboration and re-definition.