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29 Editor’s: Cindirellas
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

30 Bearth & Deplazes Architekten: Rigor and Timelessness
> The headquarters of an insurance company in Landquart, Switzerland, designed by Bearth & Deplazes, recall almost pedagogically the principle of space defined by structure and Louis Kahn’s great lesson of critical modernism
Text: Cosmin Caciuc & Bearth & Deplazes Architekten

38 DOSSIER: Two small churches
> Romanian examples of fine sacred architecture – projects which go beyond processing an image to interrogating the essence of a programme, spatial typologies and structural principles
Text intro: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

40 Abruptarhitectura: A Church and Its Bell Tower
Text: Cristina Constantin

43 Alexandra Afrăsinei: Typological Recovery
Text: Alexandra Afrăsinei

48 Context or Abstraction
> Two office buildings in Víziváros, Budapest
Text: Levente Szabó

58 Bernardo Bader Architects: A Regional Archetype x
> Single-family home in Vorarlberg, Austria
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

62 H&P Architects: Blooming Bamboo Home. Humanitarian Architecture in Vietnam x
> A prototype of a modular dwelling, which can be adapted to several programmes, reacting as a living organism to weather conditions or to the needs of its inhabitants, being able to withstand the frequent floods in Vietnam
Text: Patricia Erimescu

66 www – wall window workshop: Dan Perjovschi at Ruhr Triennale 2013 x
> Contemporary art, a special event of transforming a famous industrial building in Ruhr Westphalia region, Germany, and a workshop led by Dan Perjovschi, who included works from his personal collection and contextual drawings, as well, about the building and the event itself.
Text: Ioana Calen

70 LIKE architects: The Andy Warhol Temporary Museum x
> A cultural space within a commercial space in Lisbon

72 bam! Bottega di architettura metropolitana: Soft Cube Above
> He installation in front of the MAXXI building in Rome

76 Zeppelin: Beyond the city
> The exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest focused on the recent territorial developments in rural Romania

Urban Report
80 El Campo de Cebada, Madrid: Democratic Urbanism in Difficult Times
> A visionary experiment in democratic urbanism, a space for social interaction and solving community problems
Text: AndreeaVrabie

Connected
86 LuelingSauer Architects: Space & Material
> Research projects on construction materials and textile technologies
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

92 McDowell+Benedetti: A Bridge in Full Swing
> The innovative swing bridge over the River Hull in United Kingdom, believed to be a World’s first, offers pedestrians the unique experience of riding on the bridge as it opens and closes to river traffic

An apartment from an interwar building.

We wanted to reinterpret some of the characteristic elements found in this apartment: wood finishes, lighting and space continuity, irregular geometry, the multitude of options for opening and closing spaces, the very different perspectives.

A flat’s redesign, Bucharest

An anonymous apartment building of the 30s, with one small flat per floor. No special architecture – on the contrary, awkward positions of the openings, non-functional corners; yet, at the same time, qualities that even the worst architecture at that time had and which hardly come up today: agreeable height, a well proportioned windows, an indescribable charm of bizarre connections between spaces, or of ordinary door joints with panelling and boarding.

‘What are you staring at us for ? Why are you taking pictures ? Get away from here ! Leave us in peace !’
We saw the homestead at a bend on the road which passes through the Râmeti village in the Western Carpathians. An incredible image : a house, a shed and a barn exactly as they used to be a hundred years ago and which now seem to exist only in ethnographic museums. Three elderly people, patching a thatch roof with a sheet of metal.

28 Editor’s #117 / In the countryside. For us, for them, for everyone
Text: Stefan Ghenciulescu

30 SANAA: Outside Paris

Text: Corina Laza
> Sanaa created for Louvre Lens Museum a building that is capable to dissolve itself in the landscape and whose galleries contradict the traditional canons of museology.

from September 18th through October 12 th, 2013 @ Aiurart Contemporary Art Space (Bucharest, 21 Lirei St.)
Curated by: Ioana Ciocan
opening: September 18th, 7pm-10pm.
Facebook event, https://www.facebook.com/events/724673474216219/ 

I started my love affair with José Antonio Vega Macotela (b. 1980, MX) after I saw his Study of Exhaustion – The Equivalent of Silver (2011) at Manifesta 9 in Genk, Limburg, Belgium in 2013.

An exhibition about the reactivation of the Romanian architectural heritage.

This exhibition is based on a selection of 20 contemporary interventions to listed buildings. We have not chosen restorations of huge value monuments (where the interventions should be invisible anyway), but operations that breathed new life into old, fragile sites. Respectful repairs, but also infusions of new functions, strategies, community actions, added value for that particular location.

From a recent ruin to a house: recovering and repairing ask for an architectural action, that differs both from restoring and creating a new work.

The project of this house is a rather unusual type of intervention. This is not the continuation of a project or the adjustment to a context. We called it repair works. The repair works of a recent ruin is something else than the intervention on an old house. An old space has a couple of sensitive elements, a spirit, perhaps good proportions or well-aged finishings.

An Art-Deco house of Bucharest

Semi-detached on a small plot, with a stepped parapet in levels terraces yet hiding a gently sloped roofing, boat portholes (lighting the attic) and “cubist” surfaces made of plaster profiles. A nice Bourgeois house in the South of the centre, not listed as a monument, not included in any protected area, and in a rather poor state.