Magazine content no 87

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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