This small independent museum starts from a family archive, but speaks of a community, of a city and of fundamental human experiences, and does so by a spatial and auditory experience rather than by classical museum means
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In 1989, while the entire East was enthusiastically reforming, two (neo)Stalinist countries were still left in the area. In the meantime, one of them became a EU member, the other one is struggling a bit more. One has just finished, the other one is still busily working on a grand national project, built in the centre of their respective capitals.
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From most of the photographs circulated on the Internet, especially at a cursory glance, the Plasencia auditorium appears to have been randomly thrown into a field, in an absurdly peripheral position, yet another of those many self-sufficient objects, planted in the middle of nowhere by egotistic local administrations and architects.
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FABER is a community made up of people who have been investing trust and energy in Timisoara’s growth, a place whose story revolves around the idea of strategic conservation, where the process, the people and outlining work strategies are more important than the product itself,
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The old house in the southern part of the historical center and its extensions shape a complex of rooms, porches, courtyards and terraces. A world for children to explore and to enjoy.
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Text : Sancho Igual,Yves Guggenheim
Photo: Radek BruneckyThe neighbourhood was established in the sensitive and historically significant town centre of Mühlau, Switzerland. The open and very detailed development is laid out with seven main buildings that are arranged like inlays in a setting.
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Edito: The application form, the typewriter and the golden flat
Text, object, photo: Mugur Grosu
In our collective imaginary in Romania, the writer is still associated with the quill and pen. And, late at night, with weary lashes, they will still blow out the light bulb, out of sheer habit. This is no metaphor, those of us living under Communism used to write by candlelight, like bards of old times, because of daily power cuts. Once again because of Communism, here the typewriter is not symbolic for literature but has remained the embodiment of state authorities. During the “Golden Age” of Ceausescu, Decree no. 98 of 28 March 1983, stated that any typewriter had to get an approval from the police (Miliția). (…)
DOSSIER: EXPO
Intro
TEXT Ştefan Ghenciulescu
In‑between
David Chipperfield Architects: James Simon Gallery, Museum Island, BerlinProject: David Chipperfield Architects
Text: Lorena Brează
Photo: Laurian Ghiniţoiu
Enough is Enough
Responsibility for Real: 2020 Timişoara Architecture BiennialText: Anca Cioarec, Brînduşa Tudor,Raluca Rusu, Alexandru Ciobotă
Photo: Bianca Azap, Dan Purice
The Romanian Museum of Collectivization
Text: Cosmina Goagea
Photo: Andrei Mărgulescu
Pocket Interiors.
A Contemporary Telematic NovelProject: Zeppelin Design
Text: Constantin Goagea
Photo: Andrei Mărgulescu
The Water Castle and The Tower of Arts in Turnu Severin
Project: Zeppelin Design
Text: Constantin Goagea
Photo: Andrei Mărgulescu
URANUS NOW
Project & Text: URANUS NOW team
Photo: Tudor Constantinescu, Vlad Dudu, Andrei Bîrsan, URANU NOW team
A Storehouse with a View
The Mihai Oroveanu Archive at the Salonul de proiecte
TEXT Salonul de proiecte, skaarchitects –Kalliopi Dimou, Sorin Istudor
The Incredible and Sad Tale of a Lonely Contessa and Her House for the Inhabitant who Refused to Participate
TEXT Daniel Tudor Munteanu, Davide Tommaso Ferrando
From Near to Far
Visual Cartographies of the 2 Mai and Vama Veche Space
TEXT Iuliana Dumitru, Alex Axinte
ZOOM
The Urban Machine
MEETT Toulouse Exhibition and Convention Centre
TEXT OMA
The Electra Factory, Iaşi
Text:Alexandra Berdan
Photo: Katerina Nedelcu, Alexandra Berdan, Ancuţa Costandache
The Terminal as a Tool for Urbanity
Bus Terminal, BudaörsProject: Intramuros
Text: Lorena Brează
The Light New Top
GV51 Penthouse Apartments, BelgradeProject & Text: Studio ENND
Photo: Relja Ivanic
Urbanizing the Swiss Periphery
Igual Guggenheim Architects: 2 Collective Housing ProjectsProject & Text: Sancho Igual, Yves Guggenheim
Photo: Radek Brunecky (Wetzikon), Beat Bühler (Küsnacht)
FABER. Independent Cultural Center, Timişoara
Interview with Oana Simionescu and Sergiu SabăuReporter: Lorena Brează
Photo: Farkas Pataki
Daydreaming
Text:Ştefan Ghenciulescu
Photo: Radu Abraham, Ioana Sisea
Material‑scapes
Text: Sandra Demetrescu
Photo: Andrei Mateescu
Places in a Garden
Mânadelucru: Kindergarten in BucharestText: Dorin Ştefan Adam, Lorena Brează
Photo: Vlad Pătru
The Meaning of Sculpture
Objects, Spaces and Learning at Kunsthalle Bega
PLANS
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Edito: The house inside the house and the outside house
Text Ştefan GhenciulescuAt some point, Claudiu – who’s an artist – tells me: “You speak like a architect”. I didn’t really understand what he was talking about, as it seemed to me that I avoided those terms of ours – section, functionalism, urban fabric, free plan, program or I don’t know what else. Claudiu goes on: “You, architects, when you talk about buildings – no matter their size or function -, you always call them `houses`”. He was right. For architects, any construction is, above all, a house. As if the original house, the primitive hut of the Abbé Laugier, had produced in the meantime only houses to live, to work, to learn, to gather, to pray and so on. (…)
Dossier: (Retro)Pioneers
Intro
TEXT Ştefan Ghenciulescu
Z33
A Pause from the City, a Background for the City
TEXT Lorena Brează
George Enescu’s house in Mihăileni
Campaign Journal for Architecture and Community, Stage 1
TEXT Mirela Duculescu, Andreea Machidon, Raluca Munteanu, Raluca Ştirbăţ, Şerban Sturdza
Photo: Camil Iamandescu, Raluca Munteanu, Şerban Sturdza, Pro Patrimonio
The Ambulance for Monuments
TEXT Lorena Brează
Neptune Baths
A Magical Place Spotted from a Broken WindowProject: Asociaţia Locus
Text: Lorena Brează
Photo: Herculane Project, Alex Danu, Martin Neagoe, Mihai Şom
Slanted House
The Focus Is Not on Humans, but on the LandscapeProject, text: Paradigma Ariadné
Photo: Attila Róbert Csóka
A New Sheet over an Old House
The Protective Construction for the Roman Mosaic Edifice (Tomis), Constanţa (1959–1967)
TEXT Irina Băncescu
MUZEON, Cluj
The Story of Your Jewish NeighbourProject: Atelier MASS
Text: Camelia Sisak
Photo: Gouwy Lieven
Velocità
Project: Corvin Cristian Studio
Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu
Photo: Alex Sacalu, Corvin Cristian
To the Future and Back
Interview with Prof. Achim Menges, Director of the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) at the University of Stuttgart
INTERVIEW Lorena Brează, Ştefan Ghenciulescu
ZOOM
Microarchitecture at School
TEXT Justin Baroncea
F. A chair
After the Chair, a Stool
Design, Text: Fabricate
OPEN AIR Society
Romanian Design Week 2020Curatorial concept: Romanian Design Week & Zeppelin Design
Exhibition design: Zeppelin Design+Ping‑Pong Contest winners
Graphic design: Radu Manelici+Sebastian Pren
Text: Constantin Goagea
Photo: Andrei Mărgulescu
PLANS
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In 2019 we organized the “Uranus Now” exhibition about the huge urban destructions and megalomanic projects of Nicolae Ceausescu. We focused on the Uranus neighborhood in Bucharest, almost completely destroyed and the place where the sinister People’s House was built. But we really wanted not to talk only about architecture and heritage, but also about people
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Text, object, photo: Mugur Grosu
In our collective imaginary in Romania, the writer is still associated with the quill and pen. And, late at night, with weary lashes, they will still blow out the light bulb, out of sheer habit. This is no metaphor, those of us living under Communism used to write by candlelight, like bards of old times, because of daily power cuts.
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