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