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Quaderns - Guerrilla interviews #2 | Sam Jacob

Sam Jacob is co-founder of FAT [Fashion Architecture Taste], an architecture office with an international reputation for delivering outstanding and award winning projects at a range of scales and for many different uses. He also write the blog Strange Harvest.

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.

COMMONPLACE ISSUE 4: AFTER THE PARTY [30.08.12]

“There is a power of speculation that is not commercial: it is propositional, projective, and positive. Speculative architecture captures the promise of the near-future and attempts to convincingly construct it in the present. It redeploys the latent and the overlooked, and turns them into the nearly-new — the recognisably novel but incrementally improved.”

Amelia Groom
Amelia Stein
The Ship

» What is “Commonplace”? In response to David Chiperfield’s theme for the 2012 Venice Architectural Biennale, Fulcrum produced four daily sheets exploring the decline of the Commons (as a physical territory and intellectual domain), the shared aesthetic of our digital age, the possibility of ontological affinity with non-human entities, and speculating about the post-crash future of architecture.

Presented as part of the British pavilion’s “Venice Takeaway” programme.

More info: Fulcrum COMMONPLACE

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.

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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.

The new issue of Volume, Volume 32: Centers Adrift checks out new notions of centrality, of emerging patterns and entities that influence our understanding of relationship and interdependency as a new common ground for design. An issue featuring a 900 kilometer long city challenging our notion of ‘city’ and ‘actor networks’ as challenging our notion of planning. Centers become peripheries and vice versa, new centers and new peripheries emerge. Is one better than the other and can design make a difference here?

More info: Volume Magazine

Edited by the Barcelona-based curatorial office Latitudes, designed by Chad Kloepfer and Joel Stillman, and freely distributed from a micro-newsroom at the New Museum, New York, from October – December 2010, ‘The Last Post’, ‘The Last Gazette’, ‘The Last Register’, etc., were hybrid weekly tabloids that built incrementally into a surrogate catalogue for ‘The Last Newspaper’ exhibition. The newspapers comprise a parallel programming and exhibition space (including, for example, a cartoon strip and an artist-run ‘advertising department’, alongside interviews and feature articles). They were an archive in formation companioning ‘The Last Newspaper”s artworks, organizations, and events, as well as a platform for critical reflection on the agency of art and artists, the information industry and its public with respect to the news and the newsworthy.

More info: Latitudes

Manufactured Landscapes - a feature documentary by Jennifer Baichwal

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