Field Harp Performance

Whether with cast shadows, clouds of ink, or the tow line of a kite, Fırat Erdim’s practice explores the interrelationship of lines, materiality, and place to question axioms of architectural imagination. Projects such as the Kite Choir and the Field Harp facilitate aesthetic practices of attunement with the atmosphere. The custom instruments developed in these works are played in collaboration with the wind, making the ebbs and flows of the atmosphere palpable as a dynamic, sonic thickness. Their polyphonic, social dimension asks whether we can act together in relation to our existential medium. This work has been performed or exhibited at Versus Art Project (İstanbul), the Des Moines Art Center, WORKS+WORDS Biennale (Copenhagen), Adds Donna (Chicago), the 2022 Toneburst Electroextravaganza (Wesleyan University), and the Italian Virtual Pavilion of the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, among others. Erdim received the 2015 Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome and a 2016 Santo Foundation Award for Individual Artists. Originally from Turkey, he is currently associate professor at Iowa State University.

BALSA CROSETTO PIAZZI and GIORGIS ORTIZ are two independent architecture studios. They have collaborated on projects within the United States, a shared territory where both studios are based.

Founded in 2015 by Juan Manuel Balsa, Rocío Crosetto Brizzio, and Leandro Piazzi, BALSA CROSETTO PIAZZI centers on architecture’s material realm and its capacity to reshape reality through building. Each commission is treated as a platform to rethink the cycles of materials, people, ecologies, knowledge, and resources while working on architecture projects that search for radical geometries and abstraction. Their work has received the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects & Designers (2025) and been shortlisted for the Lisbon Triennale Debut Award. They represented Argentina at BAL 2025 and won competitions for Banco Nacion’s restoration and Plaza Manuel Belgrano in Córdoba. Their work has been shown at the Venice Biennale (2023, 2025) and BIAU. The partners have taught at MIT, Columbia GSAPP, RISD, and other leading institutions across the Americas and Europe.

GIORGIS ORTIZ is a collaboration between Adriana Giorgis and Evan Ortiz. Together, they explore what it means to be true to place, working to create spaces that instill a sense of wonder.

Together, both studios have designed and built 12 Rooms (2025), a large-scale installation at the MIT campus.