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38: In memoriam Arh. Ion Mircea Enescu

42: Editor’s

44: Dossier
The 2010 Bucharest Architecture Biennale resources for architecture

52: Focus
Bogdan & Van Broeck Architects
54: The learning factory

60: Brewer’s street
70: The inverted urban block
76: Dumbraveni – a community museum

80: The Harmonia house
86: A house in Carpinis
92: Balkanology – new architecture and urban phenomena in South – Eastern Europe

94: Rien ne va Plus / Faites vos Jeux

96: AAA: Atelier d’architecture autogeree
104: John Hejduk: the wall houses series

112: Elia Zenghelis: radical visions

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Dossier
The 2010 Venice Biennale  / Stefan Ghenciulescu, Stefan Tuchila, Corina Laza

38 Intro
40 “People meet in architecture” exhibition

48 National Participations
58 Romania / 1:1
62 Romania / Superbia

Dwelling
66 Seven houses, one building / Stefan Ghenciulescu

Neighbours: Medusa Group
74 Modernism, critically revisited / Medusa Group

Dwelling: TDB – Arquitectura 
80 An articulation of two scales / Justin Baroncea, Carmen Popescu
Education / N+B Architectes, Elodie Nourrigat & Jacques Brion
86 A new unity
90 An axis in the landscape

Social: Luis Angel Dominguez
94 Social and urban reactivation / Carmen Popescu

History now
100 Arne Jacobsen: three works / Felix Solaguren – Beascoa, Berta Bardi I Mila, Daniel Garcia Escudero

Design
112 Collaborations in design 2 / Irina Suteu

Photo
118 Vasile Parvan Street / Dragos Lumpan

Editorial
37: Electronic music and architecture in the 1960s

Dossier: Alejandro Munoz Miranda
38: Intro / Stefan Ghenciulescu

40: An assembly of places /  A sequence of volumes of different heights and brightly coloured or clear glazed cracks turn the educational center in El Chaparral into a protected, complex and merry environment.

46: Module and light / Diagonals orientated after the cardinal points and interlocking squares organizes the abstract and serene space structure of the Granada Business Confederation headquarters.
52: 2 in 1 / A heavy plinth, interior courtyards and a meandering metal structure organize the joint headquarters of two labour unions in Granada.

Dwelling
58: Urbanity by densification/ An apartment building developed by tecon and showing a contained, expressive architecture attempts to intelligently concentrate the neighborhood future development and accelerate urban consistency.

Dossier: Young Japanese Architects
64: Japanese architecture between constraints and recession / The second part of the file continues to
highlight the creative skills and expressivity of building under economic (recession) or urban (extreme congestion) adverse circumstances.

Kazuyasu Kochi – Kochi Architect’s Studio
66: Garden House / A house in a large garden is quite rare in Tokyo, therefore a great privilege worth being celebrated here by re-thinking the façade perceptual qualities. 

70: KCH – a translucent screen / Conversion and change of an existing house involved a strategy of making some interconnected spaces capable to fluctuate in scale and character behind a transparent envelope.

Kumiko Inui 
74: Apartment “I” / An apartment building consisting of five units with an extremely reduced footprint offers urban qualities to a living and reasonably meets some contextual and social determinations.

78: Flower shop “H” / A flower shop consisting of several connected units reproduces the traces of original buildings having been pulled down on the site and meets the current context through its materiality.

Hideyuki Nakayama
82: 2004 / Floating over a clover lawn, a box house featuring a spatial layout offers a poetically introverted home to a young family away from vocational and cultural traditions.
86: “O” house / An experiment house that includes surprising lean-out and sections is searching for living-depth extents, while setting out a spontaneous, ironic and playful relationship with the surroundings.

Dwelling: Dan Dinoiu, Florin Tudor, Mona Vatamanu, Mona Edulescu, Alexandru Pop
90: The suburb, a site watch(ing) stage! / A number of villas on the plot of a former fruit farm in Voluntari avoid stereotypical images of suburb and seeks to involve architecture into the development of a urban community idea.

Interview
96: Oppositions: an interview with Kenneth Frampton / Kenneth Frampton answers trenchantly to challenges posed by the world of technological domination and globalization; at the same time, he gives us reasons to support a cultural sustainability and a critical resistance.

Architourism
104: China. Part 6 – Shenzen. Social laboratory / Despite banal architecture and drawing board urbanity, the fishermen village turned into a metropolis may well be the fundamental example for the on-going revolution.

Art in the city
110: FAV – Montpellier live architecture festival / This summer Montpellier has hosted for four days the  fifth edition of the FAV festival (Festival des Architectures Vives) dedicated to the theme of light and shadow.

Photo
118: Vasile Parvan street

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editorial
26: moscow time / Constantin Goagea

public: elisa valero ramos
28: the world behind the wall  / From military functions to a gentle scale for children: Elisa Valero Ramos used an existing wall in order to structure an elegant, open and playful daycare center.

spatiu public
planwerk
34: an intelligent normality / The almost finished operation of refurbishing some essential public spaces in the historic center of Cluj demonstrates how important organizing principles and a coherent urban policy are.

prodid
40: the challenge of an urban fragment / Redevelopment of the Anglican Church Square by Prodid office is a remarkable event in the context of current public investment cuts, though overshadowed by restrictions and misusage.

dossier: young japanese architects
The first part of a dossier about small architecture in Japan, with three young offices: Masahiro arada + MAO / Mount Fuji Architects Studio, Yoshihide Kobanawa and Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Achitecture Office.

masahiro harada + mao / mount fuji architects studio
48: plus / Two boxes stacked one on top of another on an undulating ground in Shizuoka: nothing more for a living-room opening to the landscape and a few guest rooms.
52: tree house / On a difficult ground in Tokyo, a house defined by the atypical presence of a wooden radially disposed structure makes its way looking slantingly toward the sky.

yoshihide kobanawa
56: meeting point murata / Conversion and rehabilitation of some old pottery shops involved a restricted budget, an intelligent reuse of existing materials and citizens’ support to preserve the identity of the place.

jo nagasaka / schemata architecture office
60: paco / A three meters portable cube could be just enough for a new housing style in a nomadic modernity.
64: sayama flat/ Renewal of an apartment in an old building may be an opportunity to a neobrutalist exploration via intelligent de-construction and deliberate preservation of a “shell” image.

dwelling: ava-architects
68: in-between two urban realities / The social housing complex by ava-architects in Lapa, Porto, twists, changes its height and creates new urban space in order to rearticulate two conflicting urban fabrics.

neighbors: tiba architects
74: strata / The rehabilitation of the Paris department store in Budapest presented Tiba Architects studio with the opportunity to add a new layer to the complex history of the building.

architourism
80: china, part 5. hong kong or the utopias come true / Hong Kong has not just set an example of how one should cope with densities but also became a true metropolis, a standard not yet achieved by other Chinese cities.

design
samare studio
88: collaborations in design 1 / First in a series of articles about creative thinking in design studios, the interview delivered by Canadian Samare Studio group reveals some of the hidden aspects on how to reinvent furniture.

studioBASAR
94: through the public space / A bench and a sign-shelter take up waste surfaces on Arthur Verona street and activate public use and social interaction with minimal resources.

point4
98: p_box + q_box / The two prototypes of wooden modular furniture have been developed by Point4 in collaboration with Ucin to the enliven green (non) spaces of the Romanian cities.

art in the city
The alternative art centers “The Paintbrush Factory” in Cluj and “Club Electro Putere” inject energy in the respective cities quite independently from urban planning or administrative policies.

102: the paintbrush factory / The former paintbrush factory of Cluj was transformed into an independent cultural center as a result of the creative imagination and professionalism of the city’s artistic milieu.
110: club electro putere / A center of contemporary art and culture not created by post-industrial employment but by insertion into an existing structure that is reinvented through an alternative cultural and social program.

photo
114: capitol cinema / short illustrated history 

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editorial
22: chairless / Constantin Goagea

dossier: tidy arquitectos
24: A home embracing the landscape, a new house risen on top of older foundations, and a primary school that responds to a specific urban situation, highlight the quality of the Chilean regional school of architecture.

26: a binocular house / An isolated dwelling located in a strongcharacter natural landscape sculpturally fits a topographic downslope whilst framing the view through an uncommon volume configuration.
30: old foundations and new walls / On the stone base of an older house a new dwelling is raised, searching for the distant skyline view though not ignoring the closer urban and topographic background.
34: an meandering building / A primary school built to a low budget clearly defines two quasi-open yards whilst emphasizing the logic of intermediate spaces within an existing urban, cultural and climate background.

critical regionalism 
40: the belfry of ditrau / Or how to make architecture on 2.25 sqm

activation: agwa & ferriere
42: a structure to live in / Agwa and Ferriere’s low budget refurbishment of a 1960s structure as a multifunctional complex concentrates on the strategic and sensitive adaptation of an existing  structure.

public
48: the missing piece / As a response to a stringent public need, alamillo medical centre in seville, designed by Javier Terrados, fills a very difficult urban void, organizing its interior around a triangular atrium.
54: internal transparence / The extension of the secondary school in Montilla, Córdoba, was an opportunity for Javier Terrados to clarify the architectural relations between the different public areas into an existent educational structure.

public space
60: the mosaic market / A residual urban space adjacent to a building and playing the role of a trade market is turned by Vora Arquitectura team into a site adjusted to the heteroclite social background of the urban neighborhoods.

neighbours
64: the black cube / The headquarter of prosecutors office in Vilnius, designed by Klap team, becomes a pause in the urban texture that embodies a search for silence in the surrounding noise.

topography
68: an alpine hovering / Beyond an expressive image, a belvedere platform in tyrolean alps aims at defining a particular topographical condition through its skilled structure mounting.

architourism
72: china. part 4. beijing: architectural logos and public space / Besides Dubai, beijing is a territory of starchitecture par excellence. Breathtaking objects dominate a sea of free spaces, gigantic traffic routes and mass productions that hold no real urban quality.

alternative
80: patrick bouchain / A different way of making architecture: a French architect searching for alternative professional paths

history now
86: 6,24 / Auguste Perret’s reconstruction project for le havre is one of the few sucessful operations of the 50s ; the rationalist grid aged well and even accepted insertions, which, like niemeyer’s cultural center, totally contradict the original concept.

photo
94: sulina 2010 / A mapping of the derelict heritage and the accelerated damage through bad refurbishment in a small town in the danube delta. alex tomazatos avoids sentimental pictures in favor of a dry, precise and therefore even more poignant presentation.

design
98: explosive milan and green furniture fair / Milano Design Week 2010
has brought mixed themes: ecological strategies, changes into the industrial system, colourful forms, social responsibility and planning of different future realities.

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