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In the series ‘Generosity: Housing Design Strategies’, architectural projects identifying with specific design strategies are grouped into four sections: indeterminacy, exteriority, privacy, and interactivity. At the core of the series is the concept of generosity, an essential quality for the design of collective housing. Generosity transforms the condition of the built(...)
a+t 57: Generosity: Housing design strategies. The experience of exteriority
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In the series ‘Generosity: Housing Design Strategies’, architectural projects identifying with specific design strategies are grouped into four sections: indeterminacy, exteriority, privacy, and interactivity. At the core of the series is the concept of generosity, an essential quality for the design of collective housing. Generosity transforms the condition of the built volume and makes it habitable, generating comfort, well-being, and much more. The second issue in the series focuses on the experience of exteriority, featuring work by Atelier Kempe Thill, Caruso St John Architects, Studio Woodroffe Papa, MVRDV, Henley Halebrown, Schneider Studer Primas, Vivas Arquitectos, and more.
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C3 431: Let's work together!
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When departments within an organisation fail to share information with each other, the popular term is “silo mentality”. Universities also suffer from this phenomenon, with learning and research in one field literally walled off from others. But architecture can create a very different environment: transparent, flexible, interactive. The magazine examines ''UCL East(...)
C3 431: Let's work together!
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When departments within an organisation fail to share information with each other, the popular term is “silo mentality”. Universities also suffer from this phenomenon, with learning and research in one field literally walled off from others. But architecture can create a very different environment: transparent, flexible, interactive. The magazine examines ''UCL East Marshgate'', designed by Stanton Williams, and the Faculty of Arts at Warwick University by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios as excellent examples. Also in this issue, a special feature on the Chilean practice of Pezo von Ellrichshausen and new work by Snøhetta, Wallmarkers, Peter Pichler Architecture, Atelier FCJZ, and more.
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A+U 636: = 50 m2
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A special feature on projects with an extremely small footprint: 50 square metres or less. Whether limitations on size are imposed by context, budget, programme, project brief, or the client’s wishes, creative solutions to design challenges inevitably emerge. More than 25 works are presented, conceived by a diverse range of international architects and studios, including(...)
A+U 636: = 50 m2
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A special feature on projects with an extremely small footprint: 50 square metres or less. Whether limitations on size are imposed by context, budget, programme, project brief, or the client’s wishes, creative solutions to design challenges inevitably emerge. More than 25 works are presented, conceived by a diverse range of international architects and studios, including H Architects (Vietnam), MAPA Arquitectos (Uruguay), Atelier Poem (France), 100A associates (Korea), and many more. While the selection mostly includes residential works such as houses and bungalows, there are also designs for outbuildings, park or garden features, chapels, a fireplace, and more.
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C3 329: Aires Mateus
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Modern architecture and historical heritage do not often go hand in hand. This issue looks at a love and hate relationship between modern architecture and historical ornaments. How can modern architecture be enriched by the past? And what lessons may architects learn from past examples? Special attention is also paid to the changing social functions of today's modern(...)
C3 329: Aires Mateus
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Modern architecture and historical heritage do not often go hand in hand. This issue looks at a love and hate relationship between modern architecture and historical ornaments. How can modern architecture be enriched by the past? And what lessons may architects learn from past examples? Special attention is also paid to the changing social functions of today's modern cities. Projects include: Inter-Municipal school in Saint-Denis by AAVP Architecture, the Social Housing in Terrassa by Flores & Prats Arquitects, Le Lorrain Residential Complex by MDW Architecture, and the Lucien Rose Complex in Rennes by Atelier du Pont.
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In the latest issue of the Strategy series, a+t extends its field of research to the system of tactics. Javier Mozas develops the system of tactics applied to public space offering his view of the actors involved, the modus operandi and the realms in which it takes place. Based on this view a+t has chosen 8 tactical actions which it considers to be action types, including(...)
a+t 38: strategy and tactics in public space
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In the latest issue of the Strategy series, a+t extends its field of research to the system of tactics. Javier Mozas develops the system of tactics applied to public space offering his view of the actors involved, the modus operandi and the realms in which it takes place. Based on this view a+t has chosen 8 tactical actions which it considers to be action types, including low-cost self-building, farming the city and aspiring to utopia. Included in this issue are projects by Atelier Bow-Wow, BIG, Superflex, and Topotek1 among many others.
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2G 56 Abalos + Sentkiewicz
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This number of 2G presents 15 recent works and projects carried out by I–aki Abalos and Renata Sentkiewicz that extend from museum programmes - like the rehabilitation of the Fundaci— Antoni Tapies in Barcelona and two projects for Caixaf—rum in Saragossa and Seville by way of works relying on private enterprise - painter Albert Oehlen's atelier in Switzerland, the(...)
2G 56 Abalos + Sentkiewicz
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This number of 2G presents 15 recent works and projects carried out by I–aki Abalos and Renata Sentkiewicz that extend from museum programmes - like the rehabilitation of the Fundaci— Antoni Tapies in Barcelona and two projects for Caixaf—rum in Saragossa and Seville by way of works relying on private enterprise - painter Albert Oehlen's atelier in Switzerland, the apartment block in Calle Orfila and the Lolita office building, both in Madrid to international competitions for huge complexes, such as the Porte de la Chapelle tower and Osmose Station in Paris, and the Performing Arts Centre in Taipei.
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C3 402 : (un)familiar places
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New architecture in the Arab world is the leading feature of this instalment, which focuses on preeminent projects such as the National Museum of Qatar by Jean Nouvel, OMA’s Qatar National Library, and the Apple Dubai Mall by Foster + Partners. Another feature, entitled “Houses, the Art of Landing”, looks at four dwellings that show how architects use compositional,(...)
C3 402 : (un)familiar places
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New architecture in the Arab world is the leading feature of this instalment, which focuses on preeminent projects such as the National Museum of Qatar by Jean Nouvel, OMA’s Qatar National Library, and the Apple Dubai Mall by Foster + Partners. Another feature, entitled “Houses, the Art of Landing”, looks at four dwellings that show how architects use compositional, material, and technological innovations to perfect a building’s connection to its site. Included are designs by Atelier Branco Arquitectura, Marià Castelló, Pavol Mikolajcak, and Elemental. Finally, the magazine explores the meaning behind projects that deliver non-routine experiences in “(Un)familiar Places”.
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This book is a scientific anthology and a text mosaic on the modern interior, its origins and its historic development. In recent years, science has increasingly focused on the subject of the interior; this book investigates the subject from different perspectives, the resumé of a symposium at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna. Experts in the fields of architectural(...)
Private utopia: cultural setting of the interior in the 19th and 20th century
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This book is a scientific anthology and a text mosaic on the modern interior, its origins and its historic development. In recent years, science has increasingly focused on the subject of the interior; this book investigates the subject from different perspectives, the resumé of a symposium at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna. Experts in the fields of architectural history, philosophy and psychology analyze the modern trend towards the individual design of interiors beyond fashion and good taste; the atelier and practice of Lucian and Sigmund Freud, the interiors in Proust's novels, Wittgenstein's house and Kiesler's Endless House.
Interior Design
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'Go field and towers' is the result of the conversations that occurred in studios taught by Guillaume Othenin-Girard and Nigel Peake between 2012-2014 as part of the first-year course in architectural design directed by the Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace (ALICE) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). By the nature of tutorials, their(...)
Go field and towers: Guillaume Othenin-Girard, Nigel Peake
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'Go field and towers' is the result of the conversations that occurred in studios taught by Guillaume Othenin-Girard and Nigel Peake between 2012-2014 as part of the first-year course in architectural design directed by the Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace (ALICE) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). By the nature of tutorials, their conversation would often stray to other fields – academic and artistic and in-between. As they worked on this book, they invited guests to make contributions, some of which appear as short essays, others as notes from a conversation.
Architectural Theory
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This edition explores the thresholds between landscape and architecture in a feature that includes an inverted pyramid space with an underground pavilion (Atelier David Telerman), a chapel and meditation room surrounded by natural hills in Portugal (Studio Nicholas Burns), Majara Residence on Hormuz Island (ZAV Architects), and the Yangliping Performing Arts Centre(...)
C3 414 : Thresholds between landscape and architecture
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This edition explores the thresholds between landscape and architecture in a feature that includes an inverted pyramid space with an underground pavilion (Atelier David Telerman), a chapel and meditation room surrounded by natural hills in Portugal (Studio Nicholas Burns), Majara Residence on Hormuz Island (ZAV Architects), and the Yangliping Performing Arts Centre (Studio Zhu-Pei). A second theme covers local identity and community buildings, featuring diverse projects such as a rammed earth healthcare hub in Australia, a mixed-use mud construction in rural Bangladesh, a new brick-vaulted church for a Mexican community, a repurposed historic hall in France, and more.
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