Edito: They cleaned it up
Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu
In Romanian society, one of the most common (and terrible) value confusions is, I believe, the one between beautiful, new or in good condition, on the one hand, vs. ugly, old, in poor condition, on the other. And it primarily shows when talking about architecture and the city. The reasons are many – from lacking visual education to our general frustrations or the uncertain relationship with the past, which we’d rather have mythically, than revealed through tangible traces. We are a conservative society (in some respects, even ultra-conservative), but one which does not like to conserve. The old is suspicious. That is, the actual old, while the new in the faux old, fake traditional style, is in great demand. (…)
DOSSIER
Small Blocks of Flats
Intro
Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu
Calderon 80 Residence
Bucharest
Project: ADN BA
Urban Infill
Enric Rojo Arquitectura: PIC—Apartment Building, Badalona
Prefab Story
FAR Architects: Wohnregal, Berlin
Wood is for Apartment Buildings
MARS architectes: An Environmentally Conscious Apartment Block in Paris
Monolith and Human Scale
SA43: Apartment Building, Budapest
Taming
Melon Design Studio: Remodelling a Young Housing Block in Bucharest
At the Crossing
Graphic Studio: Apartment Building on Răsuri Street
House in Red Concrete
Lillehammer
DOSSIER
MVRDV
Intro
Curators: Ştefan Ghenciulescu, Miruna Dunu
Every Project Becomes a Prototype for Pushing Boundaries
A Discussion with Nathalie de Vries
Bałtyk Tower
Poznań
Bjørvika Barcode and DNB House
Oslo
WERK12
München
Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen
Rotterdam
Valley
Amsterdam
Concordia Design
Wrocław
ROCKmagneten
Roskilde, Danemarca
Tainan Spring
Taiwan
Expo Pavilion 2.0
A New Life
Palais du Commerce
Rennes
The Pyramid of Tirana
NEXT: Access to Tooling
Extensions, Hacks and Speculations
Text: Leo Stuckhardt, MVRDV NEXT
About and for Romanian Architecture
Text; Jan Knikker & Miruna Dunu
PLANS
