Minor, ephemeral and (only apparently) quasi-banal interventions did not truly find their places in the histories of architecture, being inflated rather by the aesthetic imagination and the technical courage of one could call Grand Projets, that is grand edifices or expensive projects.
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Post de: Cosmin CaciucIn „Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age”, Manuel Castells lets us know he does not build urban theories based on other theories, but rather draws relevant theoretical conclusions based on the observation and interpretation of current social and spatial transformations.
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Post de: Cosmina GoageaIn every big industrial company there are research and innovation units or innovation-labs focused on the study of tomorrow’s habits, needs, and tendencies. Such labs are strikingly different from design offices, since they do not draw in there; as a rule people from all over the world, professionals in anthropology, sociology and from a wide range of other sciences and arts talk about future.
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Post de: Constantin Goagea(about Sustainable cities Conference. Foundations and our urban future)
Among the first 5 in the world in the top of cities to experiment/live in, always as an example in architecture and design debates, to be found in scientific and academic references, or in the political practice, people keep on talking about the Danish model, Copenhagen and how happy its citizens are.
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Post de: Cosmin CaciucParticipationism is a historiographical construct inspired by mid 1960s’ anthropology and social theories. About twenty years before theorizing, by 1945, Hassan Fathy was testing “participationism” within New Gourna project in Luxor, Egypt. The situation was unique: the Egyptian Department of Antiquities was relocating the local population from the endangered area containing ancient ruins, trying to reintegrate people into sustainable tourism circuit through craft activities that they could undertake.
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16 Sou Fujimoto: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, 2013
> Fujimoto proposes a new relationship of architecture with context and building technology, offering it as a bare scaffold for subsequent and spontaneous events and social relationships.
Text: Cosmin Caciuc27 Editor’s: Participationism avant la lettre: looking back to past experience
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16 Sou Fujimoto: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, 2013
> Fujimoto proposes a new relationship of architecture with context and building technology, offering it as a bare scaffold for subsequent and spontaneous events and social relationships.
Text: Cosmin Caciuc27 Editor’s: Participationism avant la lettre: looking back to past experience
Text: Cosmin Caciuc
28 Latz+Partner: Factory to Park> What was left of industry becomes “layers” into a large conversion,
determining the content and spatial framework of the Parco Dora in Turin.36 Ana-Maria Goilav Guran: Continuing a Traditional Architecture
> The project for Church of the Psychiatry Hospital in the village of Voila does not copy images, interpreting instead a spatial and structural logic.42 DOSSIER: Mexic
Editors: Alexandra Demetriu, Alberto Canavati, Jean Craiu
- 42 Intro: Modernity and tradition recaptured. About the evolution of authorial architecture in Mexico / Text: Alexandra Demetriu, Alberto Canavati, Jean Craiu
- 45 Deeply Traditional and Still Modern: University Olympic Stadium in Ciudad de México
Text: Beatrice-Gabriela Jöger
- 48 Luis Aldrete & Magui Peredo, Cynthia Mojica: Shelters on the Ruta del Peregrino
Text: Jean Craiu
- 52 Fernanda Canales: A Garden and a Library
- 55 Dear Architects: A Shelter for Individuality / Text: America Miranda
- 59 MMX: Two Pavilions
- 64 MMX: Autonomous Units and Differentiated Courtyards
- 67 TALLERDEARQUITECTURA: Gardens, Courtyards and Open Boxes for Artistic Education
- 72 Productora: Recycling the past future
URBAN REPORT
74 Buzesti-Berzei Axis, Again. A Discussion about Modernity and Democracy
Investigation: Stefan Ghenciulescu- 76 Architect Constantin Enache: About the Project
- 79 What Kind of Modernity are We Talking About? The War of the Paradigms
- 82 (Non)democratic Urbanism, and Building a New Practice
88 Complexity: Zeppelin Night #48
- Calin Negoescu: partner at Westfourth Architecture studio (Bucharest–New York)
- Serban Tiganas: co-director at Dico & Tiganas studio, Cluj
- Adrian Spirescu: professor at University of Architecture and Urbanism Ion Mincu, Bucharest
- Robert Winkel: director at Mei architecten en stedenbouwers, Rotterdam
100 BAC Japan
> The second series of workshops with Japanese students at Barcelona Architecture Center
Text: Justin Baroncea102 Manadelucru: Gavroche Café, Alba Iulia
106 Daniel Mayerle: Democratic Design Process at BMW Group
Reporter: Cosmin Caciuc112 Please Do (Not) Touch!
Exhibiting product design objects and their actual perception
Text: Liana Vasilescu – Bucharest Design CenterSMART SYSTEMS / Rubric supported by Lafarge
- 116 Studio Marco Vermeulen: Bio Facade for a Piece of Infrastructure / Text: Cosmin Caciuc
- 118 D-Shape Life-Size 3D Printing (Enrico Dini) / Universe Architecture / Shiro Studio: The 3D Printer That Builds Houses
- Text: Cosmin Caciuc
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21 Editor’s: Copenhagen of course, Gehl Architects, Better Cities
(about Sustainable cities Conference. Foundations and our urban future)
Text: Constantin Goagea24 Tony Fretton Architects: Concordant urban layers
Tony Fretton Architects has completed a new development of houses in the Dutch town of Den Helder, illustrating an intervention oriented toward the existing context of the city.- Recommend on FacebookTweet about it
21 Editor’s: Copenhagen of course, Gehl Architects, Better Cities
(about Sustainable cities Conference. Foundations and our urban future)
Text: Constantin Goagea24 Tony Fretton Architects: Concordant urban layers
Tony Fretton Architects has completed a new development of houses in the Dutch town of Den Helder, illustrating an intervention oriented toward the existing context of the city.32 DOSSIER: Kochi Architect’s Studio
3 proiecte recente si radicale ale tinerilor arhitecti japonezi / three recent and radical projects of young Japanese architects- 32 47% House
A dwelling whose interior floor area fills up 47% of the space compared to its maximum floor area of the house with reference to the exterior covered space… This one turns the abiguous „outside” and „inside” spaces into a real housing core, not into its edge, just where private life and publicly displayed aspects get significantly interconnected.
- 36 House Y
A small house built on a tiny plot, offering a new approach of the relation between inside and outside through a strategy articulating space and light by interpreting a traditional Japanese principle
- 40 Amida House
A house based on “free section”, which critically re-investigates Le Corbusier’s principles generated with his well-known Dom-ino design
44 Aedes studio: Strategy of Opposites
> Apartment building in Sofia50 Luciano Cupelloni Architettura: Changeable Functions and Perennial Structure
> Conversion of two pavilions for the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome55 DOSSIER: C+S Architects
3 infrastructure objects and a post-industrial residential project: history meets technology in 4 refined projects in Venice and the Veneto region.
56 The infrastructure that becomes landscape design
- 58 Designing time
- 61 The inhabited infrastructure
- 66 Urban Lake Housing
Urban Report
- 72 Arhipera: Architecture on the edge
> About a group of social participatory architecture, the evolution from construction per se to community building and a different type of teaching architecture.
Text: Lorin Niculae- 79 La Terenuri. A Shared Space in Manastur neighborhood, Cluj: or how to re-get the space between blocks of flats
Text: Lala Panait, Silviu Medesan
Smart Systems / rubric supported by Lafarge
- 82 Patkau Architects: Wodden Shells on Ice
> Innovative skating shelters in Canada
- 85 Elii arquitectos: 7 modules for a folded wooden structure
A prefab structure for a house in Pedrezuela, Madrid, displays innovative concepts of assembling based on industrialized wooden panels.
90 Architecture Days 2013: a pavilion with an innovative wooden structure in Cluj
Text: Bogdan Gavriliu
93 Modulab: Ethics and technological innovation in design
Text: Ioana Calen98 Tandem. Creative Factories #3
- 98 Handbook for the creative industry man. Low-profile and efficient Amsterdam
Text : Constantin Goagea
- 103 Filaret Power Station
Text: Irina Diamandescu
104 Archiprix International 2013: Hunter Douglas Awards
Text: Cosmina Goagea
108 Droog & Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Open house. Welcome to a Future Suburbia
A community experiment in Levittown, USA, with possible prototypes for urbanity and solutions to suburban subsistence
117 Romanian Design Week: Aiming at the product. Combina and Marco collections
> The product design at the Romanian Design Week
Text: Liana Vasilescu- Recommend on FacebookTweet about it
32 Julita Wójcik – the social interest of art
Interview by Cosmin Caciuc38 Editor’s: The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet
Text: Cosmina Goagea- Recommend on Facebook
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