As a kid, I was always fascinated by the fact that cities could be lost and rediscovered.
The Architecture of the City
ARCH+ widmet sich seit mehr als vier Jahrzehnten dem Experiment in Architektur und Städtebau. Via The Nomad. 
Capturing the rural landscape of Wanaka Valley, the Hawkesbury Residence in Mt Barker, New Zealand, uses the landscape as an artistic, ever-changing art work as part of its architecture. Standing at the foot of the hill behind the property, the elongated shape of the residence allows all spaces to be flooded with the perfect amount of natural light. Los Angeles-based Marmol Radziner studio have completed this stunning 2,150 square foot residential project in 2011 and since then, the inhabitants have been enjoying the modern interiors and landscape beyond, framed by the roof line and cedar deck. Via Lauren Moss 
Les nouvelles technologies au service du dialogue et de la concertation sociale. 
ARKITEKTUR, DESIGN, PLANLEGGING, LANDSKAP /ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, PLANNING, LANDSCAPE. Øvregate 7, 0551 Oslo. (00 47) 22 80 84 80. Via julia gómez candela 
The reconstruction projects, whoever they emanated from, whether these were public institutions (Conseil de Développement et de la Reconstruction, Direction Générale de l’Urbanisme, Municipalité and Mohafaza), foreign consultants (World Bank, Institut d’Aménagement et urbanisme de la Région Ile-de-France…), or different communitarian institutions, political parties, or even militia, were all seen as many representations of the urban space: “most often as attempts to legitimize their political, ideological or military options, these representations are not the fruit of chance: they are part of a symbolical representation of urban space of which they reveal the hidden codes” (ibid.). Via Ana Valdés 
Frank Gehry's success with the Bilbao Guggenheim sparked an inevitable backlash, but, as he tells Rowan Moore, 'expression' is still vital to architecture... 
Changing the role of the architect is a possibility as well; instead of an architect designing a specific building, the architect develops the interface for people to interact with. This design machine creates a constraint and a new born freedom. The design machine becomes the interface system with which home owners can customize a home without an architect by their side. Computation based design and morphological processes allow for many different kinds of variations and mutations which can easily adapt to different constraints set forth. What will tie these iterations together? The answer is topology. Houses written of the same base original equation will always have the same topological relationships, even when it is mutated, as long as the equation is always additive, without subtraction of original elements. The Classic Klein Bottle seems like an ideal topology as it already begins to create openings and spatial continuity. The way in which it is one continuous surface suggests certain structural performances. Via Adela Ciurea 
As the rest of us run for cover in rainy or snowy weather, French photographer Christophe Jacrot deliberately goes out in the storm. Via Johann Barnard 
Marina Abramovic signed a deal with architect Rem Koolhaus earlier this week to design and construct her Center for the Preservation of Performance Art in Hudson, New York. The Serbian art superstar will seek to raise $8 million to pay for the project, she revealed Tuesday night to a group of art collectors at a panel at Manhattan's tony Core Club, and the museum will be devoted to performance art pieces of "six hours minimum." Some of them will go on for days. 
Sarà I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE il quarto importante evento che il gruppo creativo romano di Cityvision presenterà il prossimo 17 febbraio 2012 alle 18,30 al MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma. Dopo l’esperienza e il successo di Rome CityVision Experience, Love and Kill your own Town e Y1 Independent Architecture Stuff, un nuovo evento d’architettura indipendente vedrà protagonista, per la prima volta a Roma, il famoso studio londinese SQUINT/OPERA con una lecture dell’architetto Jules Coke (founding director). Sarà inoltre annunciato il nuovo concorso d’architettura internazionale che quest’anno indagherà sul futuro della Grande Mela: New York Cityvision Competition. La giuria del nuovo concorso sarà composta da Joshua Prince-Ramus (REX architects), Eva Franch i Gilabert (Storefront for art & architecture), Roland Snooks (Kokkugia), Shohei Shigematsu (OMA ny), Alessandro Orsini (Architensions) e Mitchell Joachim (Terreform One). Durante l’evento verrà inoltre presentato e distribuito il free press numero 5 di CityVision Magazine e saranno rivelati i vincitori del concorso PFFF Inflatable architecture competition indetto da CityVision e FARM. Via julia gómez candela 
Les éditions Dupuis ont publié une bande dessinée documentaire et pédagogique sur la vie et l'oeuvre de Le Corbusier. 
Rencontré dans le cadre du projet sur la cité Frugès, le dessinateur JER a très vite interpellé Bruno par son parcours et sa personnalité. Via Gabriel Manceau 
Waffle urbanism A visit to Jürgen Mayer H's Metropol Parasol, one of the most daring and controversial urban interventions to be completed in Europe in recent years. An architecture report from Seville by Ethel Baraona Pohl. via @____thenomad Via The Nomad. |
The magazine of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation After 80 years it's back: bauhaus – the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation's new magazine. Everything from the Bauhaus world, essays, interviews and more. The first issue of the bauhaus magazine was published in December 1926 to coincide with the opening of the Bauhaus building in Dessau. Every three months (with interruptions), it reported on events in Dessau and important modern trends. Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, Ernst Kallai and Hannes Meyer contributed to the magazine as editors. The authors included Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Hilberseimer and many others. The last issue was published in 1931. 80 years after the discontinuation of this periodical, we, as the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, are publishing a new magazine under the old name. In doing so, we by no means presume to replicate an interrupted tradition. The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation is not resuming the unique historical experiment of the “Bauhaus”. Nonetheless, it does work at the same place – the Bauhaus building in Dessau – and its remit is to cultivate the legacy of the historic Bauhaus and, “given the ideas and approaches of the historic Bauhaus, to address issues of design in the present-day environment” (the Foundation’s statute). The biannual magazine aims to report and comment on the activities of the Foundation and its partners. It will thereby not only focus on activities in Dessau, but also on those of an international network exploring issues of design. This issue of the magazine will delve into the history of modernity and its relevance to us today. Via The Nomad. ![[Italo #CALVINO] Visible Cities: Massimo Scolari at Yale | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/16RLBAXuCtraLx5QFgOIbTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
A slightly fictionalized review of Massimo Scolari: The Representation of Architecture, an exhibition of drawings on display at the Yale School of Architecture. Inspired by Invisible Cities and a real meeting between Scolari and Italo Calvino. Via julia gómez candela 
eröffnung@janus Es ist soweit: janus geht in Betrieb! Am Eröffnungswochenende vom 17. und 18. März 2012 ist das Museum zwischen 11h und 17h frei zugänglich. Herzliche Einladung zu diesem Anlass! Herrenberg 40, CH-8640 Rapperswil-Jona Via julia gómez candela 
Bonheur Brut Collectif: une définition du niveau de vie plus holistique que le Produit national brut (PNB). ![[Invisible Cities] Tesseract Humanitarian Architecture | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/FwVOYNgpf9rtG8pssIutTDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
changing things through creativity and imagination... via @____thenomad 
To confront with the sea level rising of New York, Tingwei Xu and Xie Zhang from the University of Pennsylvania designed an idea for protecting certain areas against water by wearing a “membrane’. Deriving from the intelligent components, we created a surface system that can reveal a continually changing expression. The transforming surface can combine the multiple functions such as waterproof, lighting and agricultural planting. Rather than a traditional hierarchy design thinking, each component on the surface has equal essentiality. It is a irreducible integrity. Via Adela Ciurea 
Le discours de l’architecte se base aujourd’hui sur quelques mots, le plus important étant sans doute espace. Otez ce mot de la langue française et communiquer sur un projet deviendra une opération délicate ! Pour autant, ce terme n’est apparu en architecture qu’au début du XXème siècle. Via Beturbio OMA is a leading international partnership practicing architecture, urbanism, and cultural analysis. OMA's buildings and masterplans around the world insist on intelligent forms while inventing new possibilities for content and everyday use. OMA is led by seven partners - Rem Koolhaas, Ellen van Loon, Reinier de Graaf, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, David Gianotten and Managing Partner, Victor van der Chijs - and sustains an international practice with offices in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing, and Hong Kong.
OMA-designed buildings currently under construction include the new headquarters for China Central Television - a tower reinvented as a loop - in Beijing; the adjacent Television Cultural Centre; Shenzhen Stock Exchange - China's equivalent of the NASDAQ exchange for hi-tech industries; three buildings in Doha, Qatar; and De Rotterdam, the largest building in the Netherlands. OMA's recently completed projects include New Court, the headquarters for Rothschild bank in London (2010); Milstein Hall, an extension to the Architecture, Art, and Planning school at Cornell (2010); Maggie's Centre, a cancer care centre in Glasgow (2010); Wyly Theatre in Dallas (with REX, 2009); and Prada Transformer, a rotating multi-use pavilion in Seoul (2009). Other acclaimed buildings include the Casa da Música in Porto (2005); the Seattle Central Library (2004); the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin (2003); the IIT Campus Center in Chicago (2003); and the Prada Epicenter in New York (2001). See a google map of OMA's completed buildings.
The work of Rem Koolhaas and OMA has won several international awards including the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2000, the Praemium Imperiale (Japan) in 2003, the RIBA Gold Medal (UK) in 2004, the Mies van der Rohe - European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (2005) and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2010 Venice Biennale. 
L'architecte Renzo Piano a présenté, mercredi 15 février, son projet de palais de justice pour Paris. Un immense bâtiment de 61500 m2, comprenant 90 salles d'audience, haut de 160 mètres, soit la moitié de la tour Eiffel... Via Vincent Athias |
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