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The winning proposal for the Museum of the 20th Century in Berlin, one of the most important competitions in the contemporary scene, is the coda of this double issue on Herzog & de Meuron, the fourth monograph AV dedicates to the Swiss studio. With an introductory essay and thirteen critical texts by Luis Fernández-Galiano, the issue covers 34 works and projects developed(...)
AV 191-192: Herzog & de Meuron
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The winning proposal for the Museum of the 20th Century in Berlin, one of the most important competitions in the contemporary scene, is the coda of this double issue on Herzog & de Meuron, the fourth monograph AV dedicates to the Swiss studio. With an introductory essay and thirteen critical texts by Luis Fernández-Galiano, the issue covers 34 works and projects developed over the last four years. Among them, two recently completed buildings already rise as landmarks of contemporary architecture: the Tate Modern extension in London and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.
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"AV Proyectos 78" devotes its dossier to the Lisbon office of the brothers Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus, with a selection of seven projects located in Portugal, Spain, Belgium, and France, including the School of Architecture in Lovaine and the Contemporary Art Center Olivier Debré in Tours. The issue also presents the competition for the Museum of the 20th Century(...)
AV Proyectos 078: Dossier Aires Mateus
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"AV Proyectos 78" devotes its dossier to the Lisbon office of the brothers Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus, with a selection of seven projects located in Portugal, Spain, Belgium, and France, including the School of Architecture in Lovaine and the Contemporary Art Center Olivier Debré in Tours. The issue also presents the competition for the Museum of the 20th Century in Berlin, to be built between the Neue Nationalgalerie of Mies and the Philharmonica of Hans Scharoun, gathering, aside from the winning project by Herzog & de Meuron, the other two finalists, the four that obtained mentions – those of OMA and SANAA among them – and the four selected proposals submitted by Spanish studios.
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Since the turn of the 21st century, Diller Scofidio + Renfro has undergone a process of formidable growth. Based in New York, the firm recently completed the last stretch of the High Line, the impressive centre The Shed, and a large extension to the Museum of Modern Art. Their practice spans the fields of architecture, urban design, digital media, installation art, and(...)
AV Monographs 221 : Diller Scofido + Renfro
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Since the turn of the 21st century, Diller Scofidio + Renfro has undergone a process of formidable growth. Based in New York, the firm recently completed the last stretch of the High Line, the impressive centre The Shed, and a large extension to the Museum of Modern Art. Their practice spans the fields of architecture, urban design, digital media, installation art, and multimedia performance, often focusing on civic and cultural projects on various scales. This instalment surveys the past two decades of prolific work by the design studio, divided across three main themes: Revised Landscapes, Shared Knowledge, and Accessible Culture. Includes an essay by Edwin Heathcote.
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'AV Proyectos 096' covers recent projects by the Dutch studio Mecanoo, a multidisciplinary team of professionals with offices in Delft, New York, and Kaohsiung. Their work focusses on aspects like consultation, context, process, and urban scale to develop specific strategies integrated in sustainable design, as their latest proposals show. The next chapter is devoted to(...)
AV Proyectos 096 : Dossier Mecanoo
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'AV Proyectos 096' covers recent projects by the Dutch studio Mecanoo, a multidisciplinary team of professionals with offices in Delft, New York, and Kaohsiung. Their work focusses on aspects like consultation, context, process, and urban scale to develop specific strategies integrated in sustainable design, as their latest proposals show. The next chapter is devoted to The Whale competition to design an observation center on the Norwegian coast, and presents the winning proposal, by Dorte Mandrup, and the three shortlisted projects by BIG, Snøhetta, and Reiulf Ramstad Architects.
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Thomas Heatherwick is a designer and the founder of London-based design practice Heatherwick Studio, which was started in the late 1990s. Considered one of Britain’s most significant designers, Heatherwick is known for his work on all scales. This instalment is divided across four themes – Reuse, Nurture, Connect, Gather – and takes stock of the last 20 years of the(...)
AV Monographs 222 : Heatherwick Studio 2000-2020
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Thomas Heatherwick is a designer and the founder of London-based design practice Heatherwick Studio, which was started in the late 1990s. Considered one of Britain’s most significant designers, Heatherwick is known for his work on all scales. This instalment is divided across four themes – Reuse, Nurture, Connect, Gather – and takes stock of the last 20 years of the studio’s practice through a detailed look at no less than 20 exemplary projects. Among these are Eden Residential Tower in Singapore, Google’s Mountain View Campus, New York’s Pier 55, and Rolling Bridge in London. Deyan Sudjic, former director of the Design Museum, London, contributes the opening essay.
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No less than 24 recent buildings are featured in this overview of the architectural discipline in Spain over the past year. The projects are divided among six themes – cultural context, health spaces, education, children’s play, exercise and leisure, and plural housing – and are representative of a globalised world undergoing massive shifts. The yearbook presents a(...)
AV Monographs 223-224 : Spain 2020
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No less than 24 recent buildings are featured in this overview of the architectural discipline in Spain over the past year. The projects are divided among six themes – cultural context, health spaces, education, children’s play, exercise and leisure, and plural housing – and are representative of a globalised world undergoing massive shifts. The yearbook presents a selection of works scattered throughout the Spanish territory, including the Climate Museum in Lérida by Toni Gironès, Vallehermoso Stadium in Madrid by Estudio Cano Lasso, Germina Foundation in Barcelona by b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, Loyola Campus by Luis Vidal + Arquitectos, and more.
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Since the turn of the century, the brothers of Lisbon-based practice Aires Mateus have expanded their formal and material repertoire, blurring the limits of the building with the exterior, the topography, or the existing. Such an enrichment of the architectural vocabulary combines the abstraction of their beginnings with many figurative references extracted from the(...)
AV Monographs 225 : Aires Mateus
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Since the turn of the century, the brothers of Lisbon-based practice Aires Mateus have expanded their formal and material repertoire, blurring the limits of the building with the exterior, the topography, or the existing. Such an enrichment of the architectural vocabulary combines the abstraction of their beginnings with many figurative references extracted from the historic and the vernacular. This issue celebrates their innovation with 20 works completed since 2000. The selection features numerous private homes but also the School of Architecture in Tournai (Belgium), the EDP Headquarters in Lisbon, and the Furnas Monitoring and Research Centre, located in the Azores.
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Issue 110 gathers the most recent projects of Vector Architects, the Beijing-based studio led by Gong Dong, showing the broad formal range of their work, their attention to natural or historic environments, and a work method that relies on hand-drawn sketches as main tool for thought. Next, two projects by Francis Kéré – 2022 Pritzker Prize laureate – for the national(...)
AV Proyectos 110: Vector Architect
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Issue 110 gathers the most recent projects of Vector Architects, the Beijing-based studio led by Gong Dong, showing the broad formal range of their work, their attention to natural or historic environments, and a work method that relies on hand-drawn sketches as main tool for thought. Next, two projects by Francis Kéré – 2022 Pritzker Prize laureate – for the national assemblies of Burkina Faso and Benin, which show his talent at reinterpreting limited resources and interest in involving the local population.
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Former boxer and a self-taught architect, Tadao Ando (Osaka, Japan, 1941) is considered to be one of the masters of contemporary architecture. Monumental, abstract, and essential, his extensive oeuvre – with over three hundred completed buildings – is defined by the use of stringent geometries, simple materials, and scenographic lighting. After introductions by Kenneth(...)
AV Monographs 241-242: Tadao Ando
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Former boxer and a self-taught architect, Tadao Ando (Osaka, Japan, 1941) is considered to be one of the masters of contemporary architecture. Monumental, abstract, and essential, his extensive oeuvre – with over three hundred completed buildings – is defined by the use of stringent geometries, simple materials, and scenographic lighting. After introductions by Kenneth Frampton and Luis Fernández-Galiano, ''AV Monographs 241-242'' presents a selection of 35 works arranged in a detailed chronological journey, and which take stock of the existential serenity and connection with nature that characterizes the oeuvre of the Japanese master.
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AV Monographs 245: David Adjaye
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