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As part of our research for “Displaying...

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:35:00 -0400

As part of our research for “Displaying Architecture” always emerges the question about the possibilities of communicating architecture through exhibitions.

This time we want to share the show curated by Beatriz Colomina with the aim to rethink the relationship between architecture, mass media and exhibitions.

Playboy Architecture, 1953-1979
29 September 2012 – 10 February 2013

“Playboy Architecture, 1953-1979explores the crucial role of modern architecture— buildings, interiors, furniture, cities and product design—in constructing the Playboy imaginary. The exhibition shows how architecture was mobilized to shape a new sexual and consumer identity for the American male and how architectural taste became critical to success in the art of seduction. Through an extraordinary quantity of architecture and architects featured in Playboy, the magazine played an important role in informing the public, particularly American men, about design and architecture in relation to literature, politics, art, lifestyle and fashion. Looking at the changing nature of Playboy architecture not only provides a way of understanding how Playboy’s project changed from the mid 1950s to the late 1970s; it also reveals how Playboy’s idealized world became a reality that was ingrained into America’s national identity and had a massive global impact.”

More info at NAIM Playboy Architecture

El CCCB i l’editorial Àmbit us conviden a la presentació del...

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:33:11 -0400

El CCCB i l’editorial Àmbit us conviden a la presentació del llibre “Ruinas modernas, una topografía del lucro”, segona publicació de la col•lecció “Paraula i Paisatge” dirigida per Francesc Muñoz amb les col•laboracions de Pedro Azara, Rafael Argullol, Oriol Nel•lo i Jordi Punti.

Divendres 19 d’octubre a les 19.30h al CCCB
Entrada gratuïta, aforament limitat.

Més info: Julia Schulz-Dornburg: Ruïnes modernes, una topografia de lucre. Article publicat a Quaderns #262 Parainfraestructures

El proper dilluns a les 19:30h cicle de conferències ARA...

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:03:57 -0400

El proper dilluns a les 19:30h cicle de conferències ARA ARQUITECTURA amb Coll-Lecrerc i Flexo Arquitectura.

Més info al Observatori de Quaderns:

- Coll-Leclerc: Moble habitable

- Jaime Coll-Judith Leclerc: Escola Sant Gregori

- Flexo Arquitectura: Centre de dia i activitats comunitàries.

Volume #33 “INTERIORS” is out now and described with...

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 04:56:12 -0400

Volume #33 “INTERIORS” is out now and described with this abstract:

“For years, the interior played second fiddle to ‘proper’ architecture, but there are signs a shift is taking place. Stagnant economies, shrinking populations, environmental imperatives, all signal that there is less reason to build, and more reason to make better use of what we have. Digging deeper, we find the interior is a powerful marker of who we are and what we want to be; ‘lifestyle’ in other words. Political ideology, social norms and psychology all get played out on the inside. The interior relates intimately to the society we live in, and it’s up to us to understand this dynamic, to provoke it. Like the old adage ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’, let’s ‘open up’ architecture and take a closer look inside.”

More info about contents and contributors at Archis Volume

Gustavo Gili ha publicado recientemente la Revista 2G dedicada a...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 05:19:00 -0400

Gustavo Gili ha publicado recientemente la Revista 2G dedicada a OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, amigos y colaboradores de Quaderns.

En la web de Gustavo Gili podemos leer

“Con diez años de trayectoria, el estudio integrado por Kersten Geers y David Van Severen ha abordado desde una postura radical todo tipo de proyectos: propuestas de ciudad casi utópicas, puestos fronterizos, casas unifamiliares, edificios administrativos, montaje de exposiciones, pabellones de exposición… Su arquitectura no solo depende de las soluciones de diseño que puedan darse sino que pasa por reformulaciones radicales del programa —como vaciar el Pabellón de Bélgica de la Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia de 2008 para llenarlo de confeti—, rígidos esquemas en planta —como el cuadrado dividido en nueve de la villa en Buggenhout—, la construcción de espacios a base de estancias concatenadas (o enfilades) —como la casa de fin de semana en Merchtem— o el soterramiento del volumen —como en su villa en Bruselas o el proyecto para el Kunstmuseum de St. Gallen—.

El número cuenta con tres textos introductorios escritos por el crítico británico Ellis Woodman, la historiadora estadounidense Joan Ockman, y los arquitectos y editores de la revista San Rocco Pier Paolo Tamburelli y Andrea Zanerigo. Como complemento, la sección Nexus incluye unos textos de los propios arquitectos y una entrevista con Enrique Walker. Todas las obras han sido fotografiadas por el magnífico fotógrafo holandés Bas Princen.”

El contenido puede consultarse aquí: 2G #63 OFFICE Kersten Geers van Severen

“Encase your legs in nylons,Bestride your hills with...

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 03:54:00 -0400

“Encase your legs in nylons,
Bestride your hills with pylons
O age without a soul;
Away with gentle willows
And all the elmy billows
That through your valleys roll.”
– John Betjeman, ‘Inexpensive Progress’, 1966

Exotic Pylon | Often called a ‘blight on the landscape’, the humble electricity pylon has been the subject of a recent spate of competitions to rethink its design. But what is really at stake when we do away with the pylon’s classic form? Are we missing the chance for a more ‘communicative’ infrastructure?

Photographer: Simon-Denison
Author: Charles Holland [Quaderns contributor]

Article published in: Architectural Review Asia Pacific #126: Architecture and Infrastructure.

Julia Schulz-Dornburg acaba de publicar el seu llibre “Ruinas...

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:49:00 -0400

Julia Schulz-Dornburg acaba de publicar el seu llibre “Ruinas modernas. Una topografía de lucro”, un inventari fotogràfic de la construcció especulativa abandonada a Espanya. Amb textos de Rafael Argullol, Pedro Azara, Oriol Nel·lo i Jordi Puntí

Julia Schulz-Dornburg acaba de publicar el libro “Ruinas modernas. Una topografía de lucro”, un inventario fotográfico de la construcción especulativa abandonada a España. con textos de Rafael Argullol, Pedro Azara, Oriol Nel·lo y Jordi Puntí

/// El texto de Rafael Argullol se puede leer a través de El País

/// Julia Schulz-Dornburg: Ruïnes modernes, una topografia de lucre. Artículo publicado en Quaderns #262 Parainfraestructuras

Datos del libro

Ruinas modernas. Una topografía de lucro
juliaschulzdornburg.com
ISBN 978-84-96645-14-1
Editorial Àmbit Servicios Editoriales, SA, Barcelona

Un article dedicat a Flexo arquitectura, al Cultura|s de la...

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 08:17:00 -0400

Un article dedicat a Flexo arquitectura, al Cultura|s de la Vanguardia d’aquest dimecres.

Un bon moment per a revisitar aquest projecte, guanyador del premi Ciutat de Palma 2012. Observatori 263

Un buen momento para revisitar este proyecto que ganó el premio Ciutat de Palma. Observatori 263

http://quaderns.coac.net/en/2012/02/263-flexo-arquitectura/

Caption: Entrance door to Austrian booth at Triennale di Milano...

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:18:23 -0400

Caption: Entrance door to Austrian booth at Triennale di Milano 1968

Hans Hollein exhibition at the Austrian Pavilion at the 14th Triennale di Milano 1968 | fourteenth Triennale di Milano, International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts and of Modern Architecture.

More info: Austriennale

While working and researching on the topic of “displaying architecture”, we’re also revisiting some projects of the avant-garde years which will be helpful to understand how exhibitions can be a proper tool to communicate and theorize about architecture.

Quaderns - Guerrilla interviews #3 | Adam Caruso Adam Caruso...

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 04:09:03 -0400

Quaderns - Guerrilla interviews #3 | Adam Caruso

Adam Caruso studied architecture at McGill University in Montreal. He worked for Florian Beigel and Arup Associates before establishing his own practice with Peter St John in 1990.

He taught at the University of North London from 1990-2000, and was Professor of Architecture at the University of Bath from 2002-2005. He has been Visiting Professor at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, at the ETH Zurich, and on the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics. In 2011 Adam Caruso was appointed Professor of Architecture and Construction at the ETH Zurich.

Quaderns - Guerrilla interviews #2 | Sam Jacob Sam Jacob is...

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:41:00 -0400

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...

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:22:00 -0400

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

radarqnet: You will need time to review all of the 124 projects...

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:01:06 -0400

radarqnet:

You will need time to review all of the 124 projects curated by Spontaneous Interventions, but there’s no doubt it worth it.

Not happy yet? Also you can participate in a online debate with four questions:

Are We Fighting With or Against ‘The Man’?

Is Tweeting for Action Enough?

But How Do You Fund It?

Who is Community, Anyway?

The answers to these apparently common questions will show the complexity beyond a spontaneous intervention.

—

About Spontaneous Interventions: design actions for the common good is the theme of the U.S. Pavilion at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale - Common Ground (Fall 2012).

Books of CopiesSan Rocco has been invited to contribute to the...

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 05:43:36 -0400

Books of Copies
San Rocco has been invited to contribute to the Museum of Copies, the show presented by FAT (London, UK) at the 13th International Architecture Biennale. San Rocco contributes by launching the “Books of Copies” project.

International Exhibition, Arsenale, FAT’s Museum of Copying.
Exhibition: 29 August – 25 November

Giorgio De Vecchi © 2012

—via giodevecchi

Quaderns - Guerrilla interviews #1 | Peter EisenmanQuaderns has...

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 07:18:27 -0400

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.

The new issue of Volume, Volume 32: Centers Adrift checks out...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 04:15:29 -0400

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

Environment - Tranformer1968Haus Rucker Co. are appliances that...

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:27:00 -0400

Environment - Tranformer
1968
Haus Rucker Co.

are appliances that change sensory impressions for a limited time in a visual and acoustic way. The processes of seeing and hearing are drawn out of their habitual apathy, separated into their individual functions and put together again as special experiences.

» At Venice we also had an interview with Ortner&Ortner former Haus Rucker Co. —Stay tuned for more info! #LaBiennale

Nigel: And then we looked at each other and says well we might...

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:06:39 -0400

Nigel: And then we looked at each other and says well we might as well join up you know and uh….
David: So we became The Originals.
Nigel: Right.
David: And we had to change our name actually….
Nigel: Well there was, there was another group in the east end called The Originals and we had to rename ourselves.
David: The New Originals.
Nigel: The New Originals and then, uh, they became….
David: The Regulars, they changed their name back to The Regulars and we thought well, we could go back to The Originals but what’s the point?

Spinal Tap

From Villa Rotunda Redux by FAT Architecture. More info at Strangeharvest and FAT Architecture web-site

Edited by the Barcelona-based curatorial office Latitudes,...

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:32:55 -0400

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...

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:03:00 -0400

Manufactured Landscapes - a feature documentary by Jennifer Baichwal

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