10. Edito: Zeus. There is unrest in the city
Text: Mugur Grosu
…how nice it would be if, on their first day of work, city managers would play such a game. They could take it easy, but at least learn their ABC-s. For no one was born a city mayor, but everyone believed they were Zeus and turned out to be the Hydra.
12. DOSSIER
Modest Houses. The Architecture of Affordability
14. Intro
Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu
If you browse architecture magazines and websites looking for housing, the first thing you see is villas in different sizes. And I don’t refer to design magazines that target a general public, but specialized, professional ones. The second thing is expensive housing which is not villas—most prominently, luxury apartments, as well as holiday homes that cost more than a regular permanent one. And third, quite surprisingly, is social housing, ranging from subsidized to extreme emergency housing. Therefore, architecture appears to be either the privilege of wealth or, at the other end of the spectrum, of crushing need. How is it that “middle architecture,” the type of construction that dominates most of today’s world, is so poorly represented?
18. Ants House
Project: Adriana Gheorghiescu & Alexandra Berdan
32. Fala Atelier: a Creative Mixture of Existing Things
An Interview with Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares & Ahmed Belkhodja
39. Arlequin Apartment
44. House and Atelier
52. Small House with a Monumental Shower
58. Passive Mediterranean Living
BXD Arquitectura: MG House
62. ExistenzMINIMUM/MAXIMUM
L’atelier: Small Urban Dwellings
65. EUGENE
Capsule Apartment
68. CADET
“Mon Oncle” Minimal
70. NEUILLY
Garçonnière Voyeuriste
72. TOLBIAC
House in a House
76. Seven Large Houses
Igual & Guggenheim: Social Dwellings
84. Four Walls and a Roof.
The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession
A book by Reinier de Graaf
100. The Engineer and the Affordable Dwelling
Henri Coandă’s Forgotten Systems
112. History for the Residents (Too)
Bucharest’s the Building Fund Lotissements
126. At Home on the Road
Text: Elena Stancu
Foto: Cosmin Bumbuţ
A Journalist and a Photographer Moved into a Campervan to Be Able to Do Their Jobs
134. On Housing
An Exhibition and an Open Debate
146. ZOOM
148 .The Second House
STARH: Holiday Home in Căldăruşani
152. The B‑Lay HQ
Design through Process and Serious Games
158. Changes in a Part of the City
Recent and Future Projects at the “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture (UAUIM)
163. UAUIM “Museum”
170. I’M UAU – FLADER_ING
172. DELTA PLAN – GEST
180. Modul Cărtureşti
A Cultural Site between Two Courtyards and a Portico
196 – 224. PLANS
