Articles published by: Nickname

8. Edito: What is a pink hippopomingo?
Text: Mugur Grosu

10. DOSSIER: The Other Architects

18. Intro
The Other Architects: The Not‑Only‑Architects and the Non‑architects Who Make Architecture
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

26. Architects of Dreams
Around the Pink Floyd. Their Mortal Remains exhibition
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

34. Vlad Bina: Design for a Virtual World. And then back

50. Laura Paraschiv. The Constant Gardener
REPORTER: Dorothee Hasnas

60. Alexandria, Pink Floyd, architecture, Bucharest, literature
Text: Mihai Duțescu

64. Jack‑of‑All‑Trades and the Right Price
A selfie with Dorothee Hasnas, architect and cultural manager

69. Mihai Coliban: Once an Architect, Always an Architect

72. Oana Bogdan: I’m More of an Architect Now Than I Was Before

76. Gellu Naum’s Comana House
Text: Mihai Duțescu

84. Vienna 1928—Wittgenstein House
Architecture as Reflection
Text: Horia Marinescu

94. The Other Architect—an Archive of the Natural
Homage to my grandfather, Antonie Beșliu
Text: Alexandru Cristian Beșliu

98. ZOOM

100. Two Gardens, One Artist, One Studio
Text: DAAA

108. Junya Ishigami
An exhibition and a pavilion
Text: Corina Laza, Junya Ishigami

138. Firemen Museum, Fire Prevention Center BCN
Renovation of the Old Poble Sec Fire Station
Text: José Miguel Roldán, Merce Berengué

152. Glory and Humility
Restauration of the Craiova Branch Headquarters of the National Bank of Romania
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

160. Bolșoi, Garage, Moscova
Text: Constantin Goagea

166. Layers Instead of Boxes and Objects
Apartament AP_10MS, București
Text: Ștefan Păvăluță

174. Courtyard Under a Tree
Loft transformation in a listed building, London
Text: Anca Mihalache

182. 2 BM
Text: Justin Baroncea

190. From Model‑House to the Ideal Villa
The winning project of the „Imagine Dumbrava Vlăsiei” competition
Text: Cosmin Georgescu, Alexandru Cristian Beșliu, Laura Cristea, Cosmin O. Gălățianu, Horia Munteanu

194 – 224. PLAN
A collection of plans

Zeppelin update

We worked on our bookazine formula. It’s even more of a book than before, yet still connected, fresh and rich, as a magazine should be.
The format is just a bit smaller, just to better fit in a casual bag, be lighter and also easier to read in bed or at your desk, even if it will have more pages now, 224!

The dossier rules: it takes about two thirds of the issue and aims to become a reference for the chosen subject.

There are even more large photos and almost only original texts, a lot of research and analysis, but also poetry and quite different viewpoints.

Orientation will be easier as well as choosing how deep you want to go in any material. That’s mainly because we moved all technical drawings—plans and details—in a separate section. But cross‑references between this drawing part and the main article are highly visible. Articles thus become more accessible, without losing their depth and professional elements.

Starting from now, an even more serious and merry publication. And one with the things that remain.

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8. Edito: Starts by 2 bits per second at 1800, but ends by a hologram featuring 3 strange buildings
TEXT: Constantin Goagea

10. DOSSIER: Modern?

14. Intro
On Continuity
TEXT: Ştefan Ghenciulescu

26. Intro Uwe Schröder
TEXT: Cosmin O. Gălăţianu

28. Galerie und Atelierhaus, Bonn

36. Haus Hundertacht, Bonn

44. Prager Höfe, Bonn

52. Intro Tony Fretton
TEXT: Alexandru Cristian Beşliu

54. Reconciliation: Commercial and Housing Complex, Tietgens Grund, Frederiksstaden, Copenhaga

64. Westkaai Towers 5 & 6

70. Paolo Zermani. Intro: „Cio che dura poco non e architettura.”
TEXT: Alexandru Cristian Beşliu

72. The Cemetery of Sansepolcro

80. Putting Things in Place.
Interventions in Sacred Spaces

90. The Temple‑Crematorium

98. The Restoration and Reconstruction of the Novara Castle

106. Intro Sergison Bates
TEXT: Cosmin O. Gălăţianu

108. Social housing and crèche, Geneva, Switzerland

116. Care Home

126. Garden Building

132. Visualising Evolution
Ştefan Davidovici

142. A New Form of Beauty
Or about enlightened conservatism
TEXT: Ştefan Ghenciulescu

143. To Washington
TEXT: GM Cantacuzino

152. Extension of the “Partium” ChristianUniversity of Oradea
Atelier FKM

164. ZOOM

166. A Moment’s Joy
Holiday Housing, Moltenia
Anca Mihaela Constantin, Ionuţ Constantin

178. Collective Authorship
Private histories of public architecture

182. Meetings
An Installation within the walls of the Alba Iulia Citadel
Dorin Ştefan Adam, Elena Viziteu

188. Ubikubi—The Latest Collection

192 – 224. PLAN
A collection of plans

The architects’ deliberate lyricism-devoid text (below) is missing any reference to aesthetics or “philosophy”. However, when I visited the (yet unfinished, at the time) museum with Miguel Roldán, I felt it as a poetry-filled project, even yielding a slight dream-like character: the light turns almost material, the same bright colour is layered over new and old elements, to which we may add the delicate articulations and curved gaps cut in the old walls, and even the repetition and obsessive overlapping of vertical metal items.

The former Technical School of Aviation from the outskirts of the town of Mediaș, at the exit towards Sighișoara, was about to be degraded into disappearance. However, lately, it has been changing functions, some buildings are disappearing, others are rehabilitated, new buildings pop up. A social program – protected workshops for vulnerable people – has found a place in the former mess hall. ADP’s project is an example of reinventing a construction, but also of re-densifying the town’s outskirts, of building a public pole as well as an argument in favour of limiting the uncontrolled expansion of the town.

Intro: Modern by sound omission. The virtue of abstinence

Text: Cosmin O. Gălățianu

We make a note on the work seen from outside: it is clear that retrospection to the work, to the working, has a modernity of itself. In other words, the way the work is regarded, for instance the work of architecture, legitimises or not its modernity. Such a regard, a recent one, we may say, has twisted towards a type of architecture that is convenient (and here we mainly refer to the architects) by its implacable righteousness.