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obnoxiouslynaive: Peter Zumthor’s house

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:48:14 +0100

Peter Zumthor’s house

modernizing: The Tricycle house designed by People’s...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:12:34 +0100

The Tricycle house designed by People’s Architecture Office, is a small house connected to a bicycle, allowing people easily move or migrate.

dezeen: Ciné 32 by Encore Heureux Photography by Sébastien...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:10:47 +0100

dezeen:

Ciné 32 by Encore Heureux

Photography by Sébastien Normand

ethel-baraona: Architecture As Signs and Systems: For a...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:05:49 +0100

ethel-baraona:

Architecture As Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time

by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brow

Denise Scott Brown is one of the lecturers of the 14th Congreso Arquine which main topic is SPACE. We highly recommend to read the chapter “Architecture as Sign rather than Space” on this book, as a start point for further reflections about space in architecture.

ethel-baraona: Ad-hoc Library, A Manual Ordinarily, we believe...

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:30:56 +0100

ethel-baraona:

Ad-hoc Library, A Manual

Ordinarily, we believe that knowledge is very near to us, sometimes we think knowledge is attainable and stable. Or we walk near it but don’t realise its movement and reflection. It is a kind of movement and a journey. It is personal but collective. It is boundless. It is emotional. In some cases it is a total, unstoppable experience. It exists and moves trans-locally. It is a representation. It is not presentable. Makes you feel alone as a singularity. Makes you feel near to something. Makes you feel like the Other. It is filled with space and love. You feel you are near even if it is always far away.

The mobile archive presents our trans-local production of knowledge. Realities, objects, ideas, fly in the air that you can catch and reproduce. The Ad-hoc library intends to be part of the swarm intelligence of the city: it moves, expanding knowledge wherever it is taken, but never alone. Always with people.

Instructions:

1- Work together with more people: the designer of the device, the content curators, the authors, the readers.
2- Select the kind of contents, books, fanzines you want to share.
3- Select a topic, share it, discuss it, listen what people want to read.
4- Think on which places, which public spaces to take it.
5- Ask citizens to participate, to take out the chairs and start reading.
6- From time to time, make a book-club, a speaker’s corner, an activity helpful to spread knowledge.
7- Simply enjoy.

Pelin Tan, Ethel Baraona Pohl.

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The Ad-hoc library is the theoretical corpse of the Adhocracy exhibition.

Curated by Pelin Tan, Ethel Baraona Pohl.

Design: Yelta Köm

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This text has been published on The New City Reader 08 [Architecture]: “Adhocracy Architecture, An Obituary. Free Designs to Take Action in the Streets of Istanbul”. Guest edited by Fake Industries Architectural Agonism for the Istanbul Design Biennial.

robertogreco: Close, Closer “For three months from September...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:07:51 +0200

robertogreco:

Close, Closer

“For three months from September 2013, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale will be a critical platform for the plurality of contemporary spatial practice. The events and exhibitions will introduce architecture as a discipline that is not exclusive to professionals or defined only by buildings, but rather as an expanding field with which, amongst others, sociologists, scientists, curators and artists are all dynamically and radically engaging.”

(via nomadicity)

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Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:13:40 +0200

quaderns: Quaderns - Guerrilla interviews #1 | Peter...

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:15:09 +0200

quaderns:

Quaderns - Guerrilla interviews #1 | Peter Eisenman

Quaderns has been at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice and has asked to several participants which were their responses to the notion of Common Ground posed by the curator of this edition, David Chipperfield.

We present several responses to an idea with fuzzy boundaries, where the Common, beyond a return to convention, appears once again to be defined by different attitudes and approaches addressing practical and theoretical layers of architecture.

[SP]
Quaderns ha estado en la 13ª Bienal de arquitectura de Venecia y ha preguntado a varios participantes cuál ha sido su respuesta a la noción de Common Ground propuesta por el comisario de esta edición, David Chipperfield.

Respuestas diversas para una idea con límites difusos, donde lo común, más allá de un regreso a lo convencional, parece definirse una vez más por la diferencia de actitudes y aproximaciones frente a los estratos prácticos y teóricos de la arquitectura.

STUDIO #03 ICON: StarArchitecture

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:05:54 +0200

studiomagazine:

Madelon Vriesendorp

@STUDIO_magazine

publicdesignfestival: The ongoing Archi<20 Festival focuses...

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:01:13 +0200

publicdesignfestival:

The ongoing Archi<20 Festival focuses on architecture and its relationship with territory. Until mid September in the Alsace region (France) people can see the 20 sustainable structures selected under the call of last October.

Photos by Denis Gerber _ All rights reserved

publicdesignfestival: On a vacant lot close to the Oil Museum...

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:42:38 +0200

publicdesignfestival:

On a vacant lot close to the Oil Museum in Stavanger (Norway), Helen & Hard has built a colorful playground with a participatory process that involved local youth groups. The surfaces and installations were created repurposing resources from the offshore oil industry. The area offers a great variety of activities including skating, climbing, beach volleyball, concerts and dance events.

publicdesignfestival: New objects of public design by De Bende...

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:34:54 +0200

publicdesignfestival:

New objects of public design by De Bende for Museumpark in Rotterdam (The Netherlands).

#domusMXtape No. 1

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:40:49 +0200

#domusMXtape No. 1

Lavapiés como pieza de museo.

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:20:37 +0200

Lavapiés como pieza de museo.:

elcontexto:

por PATRICIA ORTEGA DOLZ para El País.

Lo doméstico puede ser un espacio desde donde construir lo colectivo.

Eso quiso contar Andrés Jaque, con ayuda de Candela, en una obra que ha adquirido el MoMA.

Candela Logrosán Pérez ha encontrado un remedio para la soledad. Ha llenado su casa…

ethel-baraona: “Terra Incognita” The New City Reader [Istanbul...

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:13:24 +0200

ethel-baraona:

“Terra Incognita” The New City Reader [Istanbul edition] issue #03 on the streets now.

“Terra Incognita” is a game to cipher and decipher the city [edited by demilit]. You can start an infinite geographical puzzle on the new city reader.

so-aware: Oguaa Football for Hope Centre by Architecture for...

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:10:32 +0200

so-aware:

Oguaa Football for Hope Centre

by Architecture for Humanity Design Fellow David Pound with Joe Addo

As part of the 20 Centers for 2010 Campaign, Architecture for Humanity partnered with the FIFA World Cup Organization and Play Soccer Ghana to design and build the Football for Hop Center. The program included spaces for public health, education and football while addressing local social challenges in disadvantaged areas as well as improving education and health services for young people. The Football for Hope Centre in Khayelitsha is the first of the 20 Football for Hope Centres in Africa.

The design incorporates passive solar principles and mixed building material palette of indigenous, renewable and reclaimed components. Because of the efficiency of the design, there is no need for cooling systems and minimized running costs for electric and water. The building also uses reclaimed scaffolding and donated shipping containers for the structural elements with natural and local materials such as bamboo and mud blocks.

Related post: Safmarine Container Project – Sports Center #1

so-aware: Dalston Eastern Curve Garden by the Architectural...

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:55:29 +0200

so-aware:

Dalston Eastern Curve Garden

by the Architectural Collective – Exyzt

The Dalston Eastern Curve Garden was developed on the old Eastern Curve railway line which once linked Dalston Junction Station to the goods yard and the North London Line. The Garden was designed by the architectural collective Exyzt who also built last summer’s temporary Dalston Mill on the site. This year they returned to construct the spacious wooden garden pavilion which hosts events, workshops and gatherings.

The Garden includes large raised beds for growing food, which fill up fast with tomatoes, peppers and scented herbs, all grown by local residents. Wildlife-friendly trees and shrubs, including hazel, hawthorn and birch have been planted alongside butterfly bushes, bracken and other plants that were already growing on the derelict site.

Spotted via: irishboyinlondon, be sure to check out his post for much nicer photos!

ecumenopolis-coac: Photo: ORDOS 100, Ai Weiwei, 2008. 16 de...

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:48:18 +0200

ecumenopolis-coac:

Photo: ORDOS 100, Ai Weiwei, 2008.

16 de julio a las 19h en el COAC

ethel-baraona: When designing a building or a city, architects...

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:44:51 +0200

ethel-baraona:

When designing a building or a city, architects should notice about the relationship it has with the natural environment and how they interact, looking for the reconciliation between techniques and nature. What if this fascination about extreme environments were helpful to reach a deeper understanding of our relationship with nature?. Then we could paraphrase Lebbeus Woods: “Each architect must find their own, natural way.”

From The Fascination of Extreme Environments. The Inevitability of Disrupting Natural Ecology? at dpr-barcelona BLOG

Arquitectura sensata para un mundo sucio

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:55:30 +0200

Arquitectura sensata para un mundo sucio:

Cada segundo generamos en el planeta 64 millones de kilos de basura. Nos come -literalmente- la mierda. Deshechos de metal, plástico, vidrio, cartón, que en la mayoría de casos acaban en vertederos incontrolados convertidos en ciudades infames donde viven y trabajan una legión de desheredados. El vertedero de La Pascana, cerca de Arequipa (Perú), es […]