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This exhibition was the result of an invitation by Karsten Gori and Uffe Leth to show some of the studio’s work at the small gallery they run in the front area of their own architecture firm. It was an opportunity to link the two events as part of a single idea: things exhibited in one space complemented those exhibited in another.

While pieces for the exhibition Meeting at the Building were purpose-made, in the case of Ingredients & Cakes we worked with material taken directly from our studio, without alteration. We took to Copenhagen the cabinets for the four projects we were going to put on display: the Museum of the Mills, the House in a Suitcase, Plaza Pio XII and Casa Providencia. These cabinets help the projects to travel. They are closed up in the studio and opened at the destination to directly reveal their interior, so we placed them in the gallery with the projects still inside or half revealed. The show, as a result, was very simple to install, it only being necessary to build the adaptation to the shop window, which we extended with a wider base to give it greater depth and to be able to display models there. In this stretch of the window, with the bases and paintings by Soraya Smithson, the specific design of the exhibit was focused.

Ingredients. The four projects shown as part of this exhibition are forerunners to—“ingredients” of—the 111 Building, and investigate concerns that subsequently appear in the housing project, such as domesticity, public space and natural light. Visitors to the exhibition in Leth & Gori’s gallery found shared points of interest with the exhibition at the Royal Academy.

& Cakes. Discovering that this gallery was a former bakery gave us the idea of accompanying the exhibition opening with cakes connected to the projects on show. This was made possible thanks to the assistance of the Escribà bakery in Barcelona.

Exhibition Design: Flores & Prats Architects.

Window Shop and Biscuit-Copenhagen Map: Soraya Smithson.

Biscuits and Lollypops: Flores & Prats with Escribà Barcelona.

Collaborators: Micol Bergamo and Oriol Valls, with the help of Déborah Flého, Claire Lemarié, Tomás Kenny, Mariola Borrell and Marina Baró.

Installation: Fabián Asunción, Soledad Revuelto and Roberto Pozuelo.

Photographs: Duccio Malagamba, Àlex García, Hisao Suzuki and Eugeni Pons.

Catalogue: Flores & Prats Architects.

Sponsorship: Institut Ramon Llull + Embajada de España en Copenhague. Special thanks to Karsten Gori and Uffe Leth, Leth & Gori Architects.