Articles published by: Nickname

Project, text: Romina Grillo, Liviu Vasiu
Photo: Delfino Sisto Legnani e Marco Cappelletti

The project is about the refurbishment and the extension of a 1910 villa in a Piedmontese village. Located on the edge of the urban fabric and open towards the vast rice and agricultural fields, the villa is the last architectural object that connects the bourgeois world with the hard context of its countryside.

Project: BOGDAN & VAN BROECK
Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu
Photo: Jeroen Verrecht, BOGDAN & VAN BROECK, Luca Beel, memymom

We are taking back our city.

Houses in downtown European cities (and not only) are rapidly turning into offices, Airbnbs, hotels, etc. The Cosmopolitan project follows the exact reverse path: a former office building becomes a block of flats, with public functions on its first two levels.

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu
Photo: Andrei Mărgulescu, Cosmin Dragomir, Daniel Miroțoi, Mihai Rotaru

The word steampunk conjures a mixture of Sci-Fi and nineteenth-century aesthetics: goggles over high hats, ladies’ hoop skirts and gentlemen’s frock coats matched with mechanic limbs, etc.

Edito: 74 Nearly Forgotten Poets. And a Nearly Invisible Memorial

TEXT Mugur Grosu

DOSSIER: Drawing

Intro
TEXT Ştefan Ghenciulescu

Autobiografia scientifica
Beniamino Servino: Image, Imaginary, Identity, Idiosyncrasy
TEXT Alexandru Cristian Beşliu

Matrix at Hand
3D Scanning and Reconstruction of Reality

Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu
Imagini: Graphein

Data, Images, City
Răzvan Zamfira & Interrobang Studio

Participatory Worlds
Claudiu Bârsan-Pipu & Neomorph

Indoors, in a Tent
TEXT Alex Axinte

super:serios
Games, Design, and Urban Interactions

Intro: Lorena Brează
Text / ilustrații: super:serios

Outside Inside
A Lockdown Student Competition

Horia Marinescu
Exorcism through Drawing

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

Education by Drawing
The Italian School

Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu, feat. Magdalena Nicola

The Romanian Dwelling. A Folder
On plans, models, archives, and houses

TEXT Cristina Constantin, Cosmin Pavel

DOSSIER: Covid Era Projects
Intro
TEXT Lorena Brează, Ştefan Ghenciulescu

Viziere.ro
A Collaborative Project

A War Hospital

Text: Loren Brează
Photo: Alexandru Roşanu

Robot at Work
Modulab

Text: Lorena Brează, Ioana Calen
Photo: Modulab

City 1.5
A Project for (Post)pandemic Togetherness

COVID Street
Accumulating Street Images of the Pandemic

TEXT Bogdan Iancu

DOSSIER:
After the Quake: Japanese Schools

Intro

Miyanomori Elementary School

Toni Elementary School, Junior High School and Nursery School

Kamaishi Unosumai Elementary School, Kamaishi Higashi Junior High School, Unosumai School Nursery, Unosumai Kindergarten

Takata‑Higashi Junior High School

ZOOM

HOTSPOT Co‑working Space

TEXT biroarchitetti

Domestic
Corvin Cristian: Offices for Jazz Communication, Bucharest

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

PLANS

Edito: School in the Coronavirus Times
TEXT Ştefan Ghenciulescu

Learn as you go

There is fear and sadness, feelings that all of us are experiencing. But there is also enthusiasm (a lot of it) and competence (more or less of it). Balkan-like bricolage and makeshift online solutions (…)

DOSSIER
Together and Alone. Models of Dwelling
Intro
TEXT Ştefan Ghenciulescu

Bucharest Steampunk
ADN BA. Urban Spaces 2/Mumuleanu

Project: ADN BA
Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu
Photo: Laurian Ghiniţoiu, Andrei Mărgulescu, Cosmin Dragomir, Daniel Miroţoi, Mihai Rotaru

The Cosmopolitan. Offices Become Homes
BOGDAN & VAN BROECK. Turning an Office

Building into Housing and an Urban Landmark, Brussels

The Social Housing Factory
Project & text: Roldán + Berengué, arqts
Photo: Jordi Surroca + Gael del Río/Roldán + Berengué arqts

Refurbishment and Extension of a Villa
Galliate, Italy

Project & text: Romina Grillo, Liviu Vasiu
Photo: Delfino Sisto Legnani e Marco Cappelletti

Critical Restitution
Rehabilitation of a House in the Village of Remetea, Harghita, Romania

Project: Larix Studio
Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu
Photo: Szigeti Vajk‑István, Larix Studio

House with Wide Eave
Mizil, Romania

Project, text & photo: Cristina Constantin, Cosmin Pavel

Patient Zero
House one. Text two.

Project: Cosmin O. Gălăţianu, Cristian Beşliu, Cosmin Georgescu, Octavian Bîrsan
Text: Cosmin O. Gălăţianu
Photo: Cosmin O. Gălăţianu, Cristian Beşliu

Project Alias
Or How to Protect Yourself from Your Smart
Friends at Thome

Project: Bjørn Karmann & Tore Knudsen
Text: Lorena Brează

ZOOM
Filling
ADN BA. Splay Office Building, Bucharest

Project: ADN BA
Text :Ştefan Ghenciulescu
Photo: Daniel Miroţoi, Cosmin Dragomir

More than design
Calup. Recul Independent Theater, Bucharest

Project: Calup – Mihat Márk Lóránt, Alexandru Tudose
Reporter: Lorena Brează
Photo: Sorin Nainer, Alexandru Tudose, Mihat Márk Lóránt

Out for Coffee, on the Boulevard
Bogdan Ciocodeică Studio. Beans & Dots 2
Coffeshop, Bucharest

Project: Bogdan Ciocodeică Studio
Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu
Photo: Andreea Macri

Writing not Typing

Autor: Thomas Weaver
Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu

Design Exercises in Street Furniture
Decebal Scriba. 1973

Text: Mirela Duculescu
Photo: Arhiva Decebal Scriba

PLANS

Text: Mugur Grosu
Foto: Mihnea Ratte, Cătălin Georgescu, Marina Popa, Corina Cimpoieru

Here’s a stereotype to wonder about: “A Romanian is born as a poet”. The brimstone in our cities bears, nevertheless, testimony to the contrary: not only is there no place for poetry in them, but one can hardly find some place for people as well. Nothing stands before the new gods—the car and the money; to research them is blasphemy, to challenge them—apostasy.

Text: Alexandru Cristian Beșliu
Images: Carmelo Baglivo, BAN

For Carmelo Baglivo’s generation, formed in the 80’s, the architectural representation, the image, has become a fundamental ideological pursuit complementary to the project, yet a willfully autonomous one, free from the constraints of immediate realization. Carmelo’s collages and drawings capture the disorientation of someone who dares to interrogate the legacy and memory of modernity, of its “fathers”, its masterpieces and its myths.

It is generally difficult to rehabilitate Modernist works, balancing unavoidably radical interventions and the respect for your colleagues’ (and even your masters’) work. How do you deal, though, with minor, (semi)vernacular Modernism, devoid of any great historical value, but full of charm – and issues?

Interview: Alex Axinte

Co-founded by Constan­tin Petcou and Doina Petrescu, atelier d’architecture autogérée (aaa) is “a collective platform of research and action around urban change and emerging cultural, social and political practices in the contemporary city. aaa initiates and supports strategies of ecological transition involving citizen locally and internationally. aaa acts against global crisis (ecological, economic, political, social, etc) by creating the conditions for citizen to participate in the ecological transition and adopting resilient ways of  living. aaa functions within an open interdisciplinary network, where different viewpoints cross each other:  architects, artists, students, researchers, pensioners, politicians, activists, residents, etc.

Intro: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

“Four Walls and a Roof . The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession”. A book by Reinier de Graaf

Zeppelin rarely publishes “starchitects”. And when it does happen, it is mostly about an isolated project where, besides the fireworks (having their own value), there are also more important things: an (added) value as a public space, a smart urban transformation, beautiful spaces, innovation that will actually carry things on… Or because they express a phenomenon which needs to be critically discussed. Or, well, because it is what it is, and we all have our guilty pleasures.