Edito: Control and Conciliation
Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu
DOSSIER: Hybrids. New Ways of Cohabiting
coordinators: Ştefan Ghenciulescu, Cătălina Frâncu
We have become rather accustomed to thinking of territory in terms of clear categories: city/village/nature, industry/agriculture/services, built/unbuilt, work/living etc.
And this is, of course, because we generally need categories to be able to think structurally, and, it seems, to simply think and communicate. Perhaps, when talking about urbanism and architecture, radical cut-outs are also related to the obsession with modernity and to separating city functions not just conceptually, but also physically, to decomposing and then recomposing fundamental elements. (…)
Multi‑Species Architecture
Enrique Espinosa (Eeestudio) & Lys Villalba: Educan, Brunete
Taming Infrastructure
Mecanoo: Taichung Green Corridor, Taichung, Taiwan
Accomodate Places
SCOB: 2 Public Space Projects
Intro: Cătălina Frâncu
Reşiţa. A City on the Move
DOSSIER Authors: Lorena Brează, Mugur Grosu
Crowding and Richness
l’atelier, Nomadic Architecture Studio:
6 projects in the city
Working
Dialogue with arch. Corvin Cristian
Desvio—Creative Work Space, Lisbon
João Gonçalo Lopes
ZOOM
Fortress in a Peripheric Neighborhood by the Lake
The Concrete House, Close to Băneasa Lake, Bucharest
Safari Through a Miniature Universe
Atelier MASS: Expanding the Ursuleţul Nursery in Cluj
Fold & Function
Alexe Popescu
Disturbing Models
Philip Topolovac at /SAC @Malmaison
CLEAR
INTERSECTIONS
(On Laboratories, Education, and Water)
Andreea Boldojar
(book in romanian) Curţile Bucureştene. Potenţialul ascuns al morfologiei urbane
Review: Cătălina Frâncu