Form Follows Fiction: Six Inquiries Examines Architecture Beyond Function at the 20th Buenos Aires Architecture Biennial

Form Follows Fiction: Six Inquiries brings together six architectural projects that challenge the long-held premise that form follows function. Part of the main program of the 20th International Architecture Biennial of Buenos Aires, the exhibition examines work by six international architects and reveals how architecture can emerge from diverse and often contradictory narratives and ideas: pragmatic and artistic, collective and individual, pure and complex, contained and expressive, structured and intuitive, logical and arbitrary. Taken together, these positions resist any single ideology or consensus. The six projects on display treat architecture as a process of inquiry rather than resolution. Each begins with a fiction — a hypothesis, a story, a projection, or a constructed premise — through which concepts and forms are tested, questioned, and reinvented. Collectively, they present architecture as a process of research, in which form arises as much from ideas, intentions, and imagination as from function. The exhibition was published on September 25, 2026. Among the featured works is Sleeve House by actual / office, photographed by Michael Moran.