domingo, 30 de junio de 2019

#books #architecture | Under one roof : EPFL ArtLab in Lausanne by Kengo Kuma

Under one roof : EPFL ArtLab in Lausanne by Kengo Kuma / Philip Jodidio. Munich [etc.] : Prestel, 2018.
167 p. : il.
ISBN 9783791358055

/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Suiza / Construcciones universitarias - Suiza / Kengo Kuma
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-727.3 UND
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1101427510

[.en] This book looks at ArtLab, an innovative facility in Lausanne, Switzerland, intended to bridge the gap between science and the humanities on a university campus. This superbly illustrated volume presents the ArtLab project, which highlights the intersection of science, art, and the public at the Lausanne Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Switzerland. Designed by the renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, ArtLab is a symbolic place of art, culture, and technology. The project combines three structures: the first is a welcome area to learn about the university's research, the second structure is an exhibition space that hosts art installations, while the third pavilion houses the newly digitized Montreux Jazz Festival archives and a caf . The three pavilions are connected, constituting a single building with a folded roof, a topographical flow, and a hybrid steel and wood frame. ArtLab is located near buildings by SANAA and Dominique Perrault, forming a new heart for the EPFL campus. Kuma's building, originally entitled "Under One Roof," is an example of how innovative, problemsolving, and adaptive architecture is transforming the world.

sábado, 29 de junio de 2019

#books #architecture | Archigram : the book

Archigram : the book / Warren Chalk ... [et al.] ; editor, Dennis Crompton ; [essays by Reyner Banham ... et al.].
London : Circa Press, 2018.
300 p. : il.
ISBN 9781911422044

/ EN / Libros / Archigram / Arquitectura – Siglo XX
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.036 ARC
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1101620944

[.en] Archigram comprised Warren Chalk (1927-88), Peter Cook (1936-), Dennis Crompton (1935-), David Greene (1937-), Ron Herron (1930-94), and Michael Webb (1937-). Together, in the 1960s and early 1970s, they envisioned the future of architecture in ways that enthralled a generation. In an era defined by the space race, they developed a 'high-tech', lightweight, infra-structural approach that stretched far beyond known technologies or contemporary realities. They devised autonomous dwellings and focused on survival technology; they experimented with mega-structures and modular construction systems; they explored mobility through the environment, and the use of portable living capsules: all through the medium of an incredible series of drawings and models. Archigram's influence has been profound and enduring. They gave the High-tech movement its impetus; they inspired architects such as Renzo Piano and Norman Foster; and they laid the ground for the design of buildings such as the Pompidou Centre. This book catalogues Archigram's activities over fourteen years, together with commentaries by the architects and critics writing then and now. Edited and designed by Archigram member Dennis Crompton, it has been 40 years in the making.

viernes, 28 de junio de 2019

#books #architecture | Renzo Piano World Tour 01 : forty days journey discovering the architecture of the RPBW

Renzo Piano World Tour 01 : forty days journey discovering the architecture of the RPBW = un viaggio di quaranta giorni alla scoperta delle architetture di RPBW / Silvia Pellizzari.
Siracusa : LetteraVentidue, 2018.
141 p. : il.
Ed. bilingüe inglés – italiano.
ISBN 9788862423243

/ EN / IT / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / Renzo Piano
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72PIANO REN
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1101187187

[.en] Studying the history of a project through its drawings, models, the client's profile, pictures of the construction site and the finished building, is a fundamental excursus, but it cannot replace the deeper understanding that materializes during a visit to the place. I reread Silvia's diary during my trip from Genoa to Athens, flying at an altitude of 30,000 feet, with the concentration required to grasp the nuances of her experience and retrace through the eyes of a young architect her visit to all the buildings designed by Renzo Piano and RPBW, which I too have equally studied over the years. I really appreciated her passionate story and trust that her wonderful adventure will spark the curiosity of any reader fond of architecture.

jueves, 27 de junio de 2019

#books #architecture | A2o-architecten : Statie Stuifduin

A2o-architecten : Statie Stuifduin / authors, Philippe Breels ... [et al.] ; editor, Jo Berben ... [et al.].
Rotterdam : Nai10 Publishers, 2018.
136 p., [62] p. de il.
ISBN 9789462084957

/ EN / Libros / a20-architecten / Cementerios – Bélgica
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-726.8 A2O
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1101967486

[.en] In this book, Belgian architecture office a2o presents an investigative and connecting approach to architecture through an evocative reading of their latest project, crematorium Statie Stuifduin in Lommel, Belgium. This thoughtful yet radical design blends architecture and landscape in a succession of spaces that reveals a deep understanding of both the fundamental aspects of and changing attitudes towards death, burial and the journey of life. Rather than through explicit religious symbols, the sacral is represented by the universal power of nature and by Romantic notions of finding meaning in rediscovered nature. In doing so, Statie Stuifduin goes beyond the specifics of the building to explore new visions of what contemporary funeral architecture can be.

miércoles, 26 de junio de 2019

#books #architecture | Lautner A-Z : an exploration of the complete built work

Lautner A-Z : an exploration of the complete built work / Jan-Richard Kikkert and Tycho Saariste.
Arnhem, Netherlands : ArtEZ Press, 2018.
386 p. : il.
Serie: ArtEZ Academia.
ISBN 9789491444418

/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Estados Unidos / Arquitectura doméstica – Estados Unidos / John Lautner
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72LAUTNER LAU
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1104227901

[.en] Through no fault of his own, John Lautner's contributions to Modern architecture have been widely recognized only in the last ten or fifteen years. Even so, he still remains an enigma for some critics. We still have more to learn – and understand – about how he expanded the boundaries of Modern architecture. After years of research, Tycho Saariste and Jan-Richard Kikkert's book adds an invaluable resource for our understanding of Lautner. This book contains a description of the research and the travels to all built Lautner houses. It also contains a description of these houses and photographs the authors made during their visits. With an introduction by American architecture expert Alan Hess.

martes, 25 de junio de 2019

#books #architecture | International architecture

International architecture / edited by Walter Gropius.
Zurich: Lars Müller, 2019.
106 p. : il. + 1 hoja.
Serie: Bauhausbücher ; 1.
ISBN 9783037785843

/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX / Bauhaus / Walter Gropius
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.036 INT
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1099466392

[.en] When the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1924, it was finally possible to publish the first of the Bauhausbücher that Walter Gropius (1883–1969) and Làszlò Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) had first conceived of in Weimar. The series was intended to give insight into the teachings of the Bauhaus and the possibilities it offered for incorporating modern design into everyday aspects of an ever-more-modern world. First in the series was Gropius’ International Architecture, an overview of the modern architecture of the mid-1920s and an early attempt to articulate what would come to be known as International Style architecture. In a brief preface, Gropius summarized the guiding principles he identified uniting the avant-garde around the world. But the real thrust of the book is visual, with an extensive illustrated section showing buildings in Europe and the Americas. According to Gropius, these illustrations show the “development of a consistent worldview” that dispensed with the prior decorative role of architecture and expressed itself in a new language of exactitude, functionality and geometry.

Published for the first time in English, this new edition of the first of the Bauhausbücher is accompanied by a brief scholarly commentary. Presented in a design true to Moholy-Nagy’s original, International Architecture offers readers the opportunity to explore the Bauhaus’ aesthetic and its place in the world as Gropius himself was trying to define them. 


Walter Gropius’ International Architecture (1925).
The Charnel-House, 2014-08-25

https://thecharnelhouse.org/2014/08/25/walter-gropius-international-architecture-1925/

The following translation of Walter Gropius’ International Architecture (1925) is adapted from Kenneth W. Kaiser’s 1964 translation for his thesis at MIT. It is, to date, the only translation of the brief text which accompanies the photos and plans featured in the volume. All the images and pages reproduced here come from scans uploaded over at the excellent Monoskop archive. Here’s the full-text PDF of Gropius’ groundbreaking Internationale Architektur.

Further on, directly after the translation, there’s the original German text. Quite short,though not quite Miesian in its brevity. Of course, Gropius openly admits that the book’s primary function was intended to be visual. Enjoy!

International Architecture
Walter Gropius. Bauhaus Books 1. Weimar, 1925


Foreword
‘International Architecture’ is a picture book of the modern art of building. It will in concise form give a survey of the works of the leading modern architects of the cultured countries of the world and make the developments of today’s architectural design familiar.

The works pictured on the following pages carry beside their differing individual and national characteristics, common features that are the same for all countries. This relationship, which every layman can observe, is a sign of great significance for the future, foretelling a general will-to-form of a fundamentally new kind represented in all the cultured countries. 

In the recent past the art of building sank into sentimental decorative conceptions of the aesthete,, whose goal was the outward display of motives, ornaments, and profiles taken mostly from past cultures, which were without essential importance to the body of the building. The building became depreciated as a carrier of superficial, dead decoration, instead of being a living organism. The indispensable connection with advancing technology (and its new materials and construction methods) was lost in this are many for each building problem — the creative artist, within the boundaries his time sets upon him, chooses according to his personal sensibilities. The work therefore carries the signature of its creator. But it is wrong to infer from this the necessity for emphasis on the individual at any cost. On the contrary, the will to develop a ‘unified’ world picture, the will which characterizes our age, presupposes the longing to liberate spiritual values from their confinement to the individual and to elevate them to ‘objective importance’. Then the unity of the arts, which leads to culture, will follow by itself. 

In modern architecture the objectification of the personal and the national is clearly recognizable. A uniformity of the character of modern buildings across natural borders, to which peoples and individuals remain bound, caused by world trade and technology is invading all cultured nations. Architecture is always national, also always individual, but of the three concentric circles — individual, people, humanity — the last and greatest encompasses the other two. Therefore the title: 

International architecture
Study of the photographs of this book will reveal that strict utilization of time, space, material, and money in industry and management decisively determine the factors of the physiognomy of the modern building-organism: exactly cut form, singleness in multiplicity, organization of all parts of the building for the functioning of the building complex, the street, and traffic, concentration on typical plan forms, their development and repetition. A new will is discernible, to design the buildings of our environment from inner laws, without lies or gaming, their sense and purpose elucidated by the functional tensions of their own building masses, with anything unnecessary that would mask their absolute form thrust off. The architects of this book affirm the contemporary world of the machine and its tempo; they strive for ever bolder means of design with which to overcome, with action and example, the suspended torpor of the world.

lunes, 24 de junio de 2019

#libros #catalogos #arquitectura | Fernando Higueras : desde el origen = from the roots

Fernando Higueras : desde el origen = from the roots / comisaria Lola Botia ; coordinación, Lola Botia, Gonzalo Doval Sánchez.
Madrid : Fundación ICO : Ministerio de Fomento : ediciones Asimétricas, 2019.
447 p : il. 

Ed. bilingüe español - inglés.
Catálogo de la exposición "Fernando Higeras : desde el origen, from the root" organizada en el Museo ICO, Madrid, del 27-02 al 19-05 de 2019.
ISBN 9788493656881 / 9788494979897

/ ES / EN / Libros / Catálogos / Arquitectura - Siglo XX - España / Fernando Higueras
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72HIGUERAS FER
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1099654996

[.es] Ediciones Asimétricas, en colaboración con la Fundación Fernando Higueras, la Fundación ICO, Museo ICO y el Ministerio de Fomento, publica la 2ª edición del catálogo ‘Fernando Higueras. Desde el origen’. Se trata de un libro que recopila exhaustivamente las obras más emblemáticas realizadas por Fernando Higueras desde sus primeros dibujos en 1950 hasta su fallecimiento en 2008. Profusamente ilustrado y rigurosamente documentado, es la más completa monografía dedicada al arquitecto. Se organiza como un recorrido cronológico y sumamente visual por toda la obra de Fernando Higueras, con maquetas originales de la época, fotografías, planos, etc. con los que el arquitecto nos habla sobre sus edificios y su concepción de la arquitectura. También recoge numerosos textos críticos sobre la obra y la figura irrepetible de Higueras. Editado en español y en inglés el catálogo cuenta con textos de la comisaria Lola Botia, Álvaro Martínez-Novillo, Andrés Perea, Óscar Tusquets, Darío Gazapo y Concha Lapayese, Antonio Miró, Iñaki Ábalos, Juli Capella, Josemaría de Churtichaga, Salvador Pérez Arroyo, Félix Candela, Javier Manterola Armisén, Alberto Humanes Bustamante y un extenso ensayo de María Isabel Navarro Segura.

domingo, 23 de junio de 2019

#libros #arquitectura | Escritos de un arquitecto

Escritos de un arquitecto / Salvador Pérez Arroyo ; editado por Eduardo Delgado Orusco.
Donostia-San Sebastián : Nerea, 2019.
ISBN 9788496431966

/ ES / Libros / Arquitectura – Filosofía / Arquitectura – Teoría
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.01 ESC
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1101970645

[.es] Salvador Pérez Arroyo nace en Madrid en 1945. Estudia en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, ETSAM, donde, en 1981, presenta su tesis doctoral sobre tratados de construcción en los siglos XVII al XIX. En 1982 accede a la cátedra de Construcción en la ETSAM. Colaborador habitual en diversos libros y revistas, enseña invitado en Londres, Cracovia, Berlín, Copenhague, Rotterdam, Cagliari y Venecia entre otras universidades. Es profesor honorario de la Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, de la Universidad de Londres. Funda en 2008 el estudio CRAB en Londres con Peter Cook, con quien trabaja durante tres años. Obtiene en 2014 el premio Europa Nostra por su proyecto de restauración de la basílica de Palladio en Vicenza, en colaboración con otros arquitectos italianos. En el 2015 gana el Premio Nacional de Arquitectura de Vietnam por su edificio del Museo de la Historia y la Biología de la bahía de Ha Long. Su proyecto de teatro y centro múltiple situado en el lago Mayor de Italia obtiene el premio a uno de los mejores edificios construidos en el mundo en el año 2016, concedido por el Chicago Museum y el European centre of Architecture. Desde hace varios años desarrolla su actividad en Asia y Rusia.

La memoria de todo lo anterior cobra pertinencia en este libro con los escritos que Salvador Pérez Arroyo ha ido escribiendo y publicando en estos últimos años como respuesta a su circunstancia, sus inquietudes, sus viajes y sus amigos. Podría decirse que esta publicación es una especie de memoria de sus intereses, escrito al dictado de la actualidad. Así los temas tratados deambulan entre el futuro de las ciudades, su identidad y sus relaciones con el medio natural y el paisaje; el impacto de las transformaciones técnicas y tecnológicas de nuestro tiempo; la vivienda contemporánea; sus encuentros con ciudades y personas. Pérez Arroyo no escribe solo como arquitecto; lo hace más bien como un científico que adelanta el futuro, o mejor, como un científico del futuro. Junto a los textos de Salvador Pérez Arroyo, el libro ofrece una colección de imágenes de su trabajo como arquitecto.

sábado, 22 de junio de 2019

#libros #arquitectura #urbanismo | Cuatro entrevistas

Cuatro entrevistas / Jane Jacobs ; [entrevistas realizadas por Eve Auchincloss...(et al.)] ; traducción de María Serrano.
Barcelona : Gustavo Gili, 2019.
144 p.
ISBN 9788425232060

/ ES / Libros / Arquitecura – Siglo XX – Estados Unidos / Jane Jacobs / Urbanismo – Siglo XX
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4 CUA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1101967307

[.es] Desde la publicación en 1961 de su obra mítica ‘Muerte y vida de las grandes ciudades’, el respeto y la fascinación por la mirada lúcida e incisiva de Jane Jacobs acompañó para siempre a la intelectual norteamericana. Este libro recoge cuatro entrevistas, inéditas en castellano, en las que descubrimos la cara más humana y vivencial de Jacobs: desde los años de precariedad laboral, el descubrimiento de la metrópolis o sus paseos aleatorios y sin rumbo por el Manhattan de la década de 1930, hasta su incursión en el activismo político y sus reflexiones más afiladas contra la planificación urbana y los grandes dogmas de la modernidad. Una lectura imprescindible de una de las grandes voces del siglo xx.

viernes, 21 de junio de 2019

#libros #arquitectura | Tiny mobile homes : small space, big freedom

Tiny mobile homes : small space, big freedom / edition, concept, and project director, Anna Minguet ; art director, Eva Minguet.
Sant Adrià de Besòs : Monsa, 2018.
144 p.
Ed. bilingüe español – inglés.
ISBN 9788416500925

/ ES / EN / Libros / Casas individuales / Casas prefabricadas
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-728.7 TIN
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1099655050

[.es] Cada vez son más las personas que prefieren la simplicidad de una mini casa con ruedas para disfrutar de la naturaleza en lugar de una casa convencional. Se trata de cambiar el lujo por la libertad. Estas casas están construidas sobre un remolque integrado en su estructura para poder moverlas. Son más completas que una caravana, con un diseño y acabados de gran calidad.

jueves, 20 de junio de 2019

#books #architecture | Ricardo Bofill : visions of architecture

Ricardo Bofill : visions of architecture / edited by Robert Klanten, Maria-Elisabeth Niebius and Valentina Marinai.
Berlin : Die Gestalten Verlag, 2019.
300 p.+ 1 h. : il.
ISBN 9783899559408

/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX / Ricardo Bofill
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72BOFILL RIC
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1099527857

[.en] Ricardo Bofill is one of the 20th century’s most unique architects and radical visionaries. His visions for urban and communal life challenged preconceived notions of shared space and proposed alternative styles of living. This monograph explores his revolutionary approach by profiling his greatest projects like La Fábrica, Walden 7, La Muralla Roja or Abraxas. Spectacular new photography by Salva López, texts by experts like Nacho Alegre and Douglas Murphy as well as by Bofill himself are complemented with sketches and floor plans. Bofill’s fantastic creations satisfy a longing for originality, personality and progressive ideals.

Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill has been an industry leader since the early 1960s, his architectural and urban design practice Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura having completed an impressive 1,000 projects in more than 50 countries; each of them groundbreaking and inspired. 

Having designed his first summer home in Ibiza at the tender age of 23, the now 79 year old—inspired by vernacular architecture through early travels in Spain, before studying at the Barcelona School of Architecture—is widely and justly considered one of the 20th century’s most unique architects and radical visionaries, a fact that is celebrated in a new landmark gestalten monograph. 

Edited by the publishers and Bofill, the 300-page hardback book explores his revolutionary approach by profiling his greatest works—including La Fábrica which, located on the outskirts of the architect’s hometown Barcelona, serves as headquarters to his practice; as well as nearby Walden 7, a visionary work dreamt up in Algerian desert and known affectionately by locals as the ‘kasbah’. 

Outside of Barcelona, La Muralla Roja—or ‘the red wall’—is a housing project located within the La Manzanera development in Spain’s Calpe that foresaw Instagram aesthetics. Striking colours on the exterior and inner façades either contrast with nature or complement its purity. Over in neighbouring France, his landmark project Les Espaces d’Abraxas has a close eye cast upon its almost inconceivable enormity. 

With photography by Salva López; texts by experts like Nacho Alegre and Douglas Murphy, as well as by Bofill himself; and original sketches and floor plans, the monograph showcases the work of an authentic revolutionary—a man who brought together a a multidisciplinary, multitalented group in order to confront the complexity of architectural practice. A man whose visions will endure in ambitious, frequently surreal, always inspired structures. 

[.es] Espacios poéticos, estructuras surrealistas y visiones dramáticas. La extraordinaria carrera de Ricardo Bofill se recoge en esta monografía, que revela su enfoque inspirador de la arquitectura y la vida. Ricardo Bofill es uno de los arquitectos y visionarios radicales más singulares del siglo XX. Sus visiones para la vida urbana y comunitaria desafiaron nociones preconcebidas de espacio compartido y propusieron estilos de vida alternativos. Esta monografía explora su enfoque revolucionario al perfilar sus grandes proyectos como La Fábrica, Walden 7, La Muralla Roja o Abraxas. La espectacular fotografía nueva de Salva López, los textos de expertos como Nacho Alegre y Douglas Murphy, así como el propio Bofill, se complementan con bocetos y planos de planta. Las fantásticas creaciones de Bofill satisfacen un anhelo de originalidad, personalidad e ideales progresistas.

DOCUMENTACIÓN
Los últimos 60 años de trabajo de Ricardo Bofill Taller De Arquitectura, en un nuevo libro.
Ramiro Pérez Toledo | Metalocus, 2019-06-08

https://www.metalocus.es/es/noticias/los-ultimos-60-anos-de-trabajo-de-ricardo-bofill-taller-de-arquitectura-en-un-nuevo-libro

miércoles, 19 de junio de 2019

#books #urbanism | Urban renewal design

Urban renewal design / editing, Dandan Song.
London : Design Media Publishing, 2018.
287 p. : il.
ISBN 9781912268283

/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Aspecto del medio ambiente / Ciudades – Renovación / Espacios públicos / Urbansimo – Aspecto del medio ambiente
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-712.25 URB
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1099465493

[.en] Urban renewal means reconstruction practices conducted upon structures and places that can no longer adapt themselves to new developments of the urban environment. Urban renewal plays a critical role in improving the living environment for modern urban dwellers, and renovation and regeneration of public open spaces has become a key component of urban renewal. The book collects many fabulous world landscape projects and focuses on urban renewal design from three aspects: conservation of historical sites, eco-sustainability of urban environment, and artistic regeneration. In this way we hope the book can help explore new strategies for urban development driven by renovation and landscape architecture.

martes, 18 de junio de 2019

#books #architecture | Snøhetta : collective intuition

Snøhetta : collective intuition / Snøhetta.
London : Phaidon, 2019.
255 p. : il.
ISBN 9780714877174

/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / Snohetta
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72SNOHETTA SNO
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1100421113

[.en] The first in-depth monograph on one of the most important contemporary architecture practices working today. With offices in Oslo, Innsbruck, San Francisco, and New York, and projects all over the world, Snøhetta's architecture, landscape, interior, and branding design projects are created across political boundaries, at all scales, and are fundamentally concerned with the unique interactions between people and places. Through stunning imagery and evocative narrative text, this book showcases 24 exceptional projects - including the 9/11 Memorial & Museum Pavilion and the Oslo Opera House - which, together, illustrate Snøhetta's boundary-pushing and highly collaborative approach to design. The book is organized into three chapters: Integration of Disciplines, Political Space, and Generosity and Collective Ownership. The books is the perfect expression of the firm's values and how it has evolved over its 30-year history. Conversations with Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Gaute Brochmann lend depth and focus. An illustrated chronology and detailed architectural drawings provide deeper insight.

lunes, 17 de junio de 2019

#books #architecture | Buildings and almost buildings : Narchitects

Buildings and almost buildings : Narchitects / Eric Bunge, Mimi Hoang.
New York : Actar, 2019.
400 p. : il.
ISBN 9781948765084

/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Filosofía / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / nARCHITECTS
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72 nARCHITECTS BUI
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1100420952

[.en] Is architecture inherently complete? Or is it a state of incompletion and seeming inadequacy that incites us to imagine architecture as an armature for an ever-changing daily life?

Buildings and Almost Buildings, made possible in part through a grant from the Graham Foundation, explores the work of nARCHITECTS as a single project – an anti-monograph with a subtle manifesto about the open-ended, incomplete, and ambiguous in architecture. Structured around a variety of modes of representation specially prepared for the book, Buildings and Almost Buildings reveals the ways in which the celebrated New York office led by Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang addresses contemporary issues of a world in flux. Across a range of buildings, public spaces, and ephemeral installations, nARCHITECTS argues for the formal and social potential of an architecture that remains somehow incomplete and ambiguously perceived—or in the authors’ words, Almost Buildings.

nARCHITECTS is a Brooklyn based architecture office led by Principals Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang. In recent projects such as Carmel Place (New York City’s first micro unit building), the design center A/D/O, and the renovation of Chicago Navy Pier, nARCHITECTS is tackling the most pressing issues that our cities face – how we live, work and activate public spaces in response to our nation’s changing demographics, housing shortage, evolving workplace technologies and need for equality in the public realm.

The firm’s awards and honors include a 2017 national AIA Institute Honor Award in Architecture, the 2017 NYS AIA Firm of the Year, a 2016 Academy of Arts and Letters Award in architecture, the AIANY Andrew J Thomas Award for Pioneers in Housing, the 2006 Architectural League’s Emerging Voices and the Canadian Professional Rome Prize in 2005. The firm has been ranked within the top 10 in the US in the design category for the past five years by Architect Magazine.

domingo, 16 de junio de 2019

#books #aarchitecture | Richard Neutra : the story of the Berlin houses 1920-1924

Richard Neutra : the story of the Berlin houses 1920-1924 / Harriet Roth ; translations, Paul Bewicke.
Berlin : Hatje Cantz, 2019.
301 p. : il.
ISBN 9783775745154

/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Alemania / Arquitectura doméstica – Alemania / Berlín (Alemania) / Richard Neutra
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72NEUTRA RIC
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1100420982

[.en] Mention of the name Richard Neutra conjures the light-flooded bungalows that characterize the architectural style of the West Coast around Los Angeles. Because he is so closely associated with Los Angeles, it is sometimes overlooked that Neutra’s career actually began in the Berlin-Zehlendorf neighborhood in the early 1920s. And yet these houses in Zehlendorf represent a fascinating phase in Neutra’s work. With their complex color schemes and extravagant interior design, they reveal themselves to be more than just experimental and radically innovative designs. Indeed, these lesser-known buildings already hint at elements that Neutra would take up again in his future projects.‘Richard Neutra in Berlin’ allows for a long-overdue, rightful reassessment of Neutra’s early works. Alongside historical sources, it collects countless new and unpublished documents about the houses and their first residents.

Austrian-born architect Richard Neutra (1892–1970) finished his architectural studies in the midst of the First World War, and worked in Switzerland and Germany for a few years before moving to the United States in 1923. Settling in California after working briefly for Frank Lloyd Wright, Neutra became identified with a West Coast variant on mid-century modern architecture: rigorously geometric buildings designed in the International Style of Neutra’s European training, with an open, airy, flexible atmosphere suitable to Neutra’s new California home.

sábado, 15 de junio de 2019

#monographs #architecture | DD 45 | Pony tricks

Pony tricks / CEBRA ; editors, Mania Bien, Jinyoun Na.
Seoul : Damdi, 2019.
240 p. : il.
Serie: Design Document Series ; 45.
ISBN 9788968010873

/ EN / Monográficos / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Dinamarca / CEBRA
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72CEBRA PON
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1100421378

[.en] CEBRA is known for its cheeky, intelligent nature and the playful universe its architecture inhabits. Established in Aarhus 20 years ago by three founding partners, Mikkel Frost, Carsten Primdahl, and Kolja Nielsen, the Danish firm recently added a fourth, Mikkel Schlesinger. Recognised for their daring design approach and disruptive innovation, their projects constantly mutate from place to place, yet share a similar language nonetheless by connecting to the context in a broad sense, whether climatic, economic, or other. From Scandinavia and Russia to Abu Dhabi, the 26 projects spotlighted in this volume explore the main themes that run throughout CEBRA’s architecture.

viernes, 14 de junio de 2019

#monographs #architecture | DD 44 | XS S M L XL

XS S M L XL / Fuksas ; editor, Jinyoun Na.
Seoul : Damdi, 2019.
272 p. : il.
Serie: Design Document Series ; 44.
ISBN 9788968010866

/ EN / Monográficos / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / Doriana O. Mandrelli / Massimiliano Fuksas
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72FUKSAS XSS
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1100421328

[.en] Studio Fuksas, the brainchild of Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, has built its reputation over the past four decades with an innovative approach and a wide variety of projects. Whether an urban intervention, airport, museum, cultural centre, space for music, office building, interior, or design collection, the husband and wife duo creates complex mixtures of forms and spaces with an environmental intricacy seldom seen in architecture. This volume features 26 exemplary projects by Studio Fuksas arranged in sections by scale, from design objects to enormous works like the New National Archives of France and Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport – from extra small to extra large.

jueves, 13 de junio de 2019

#books #architecture | House plans for challenging sites

House plans for challenging sites / editor and project director, Anna Minguet ; art director & layout Eva Minguet.
Sant Adrià de Besòs : Monsa, 2019.
144 p. : il. 

Ed. bilibgüe español - inglés.
ISBN 9788417557027

/ ES / EN / Libros / Arquitectura doméstica – Dibujos y planos / Casas individuales
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-728.3 HOU
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1099657725

[.es] ‘House Plans for Challenging Sites’ contiene más de 350 planos de plantas, secciones, bocetos y alzados, así como detalles constructivos de un total de 35 proyectos de viviendas que ya sea por su topografía o por la composición geológica del terreno, suponen un verdadero reto para los arquitectos. Exteriormente, son casas que quieren integrarse en el paisaje y minimizar cualquier alteración del entorno, al tratarse en su mayoría de paisajes naturales de gran belleza y diversidad ecológica.

miércoles, 12 de junio de 2019

#books #architecture | Eco China : roof gardens and green walls

Eco China : roof gardens and green walls / Jialin Tong.
London : Design Media, 2019.
272 p. : il.
ISBN 9781912268559

/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – China / Jardinería vertical / Plantas en arquitectura / Tejados vegetalizados
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-712.3 ECO
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1099465916

[.en] Vertical greening and roof gardening is an important element of sustainable urban planning, and also a significant aspect in the construction of an 'eco-friendly China'. Especially now, when the greening area available to citizens is becoming less and less, vertical greening can give some compensations. It is also an important means to alleviate the urban heat island effect and deal with heavy storms. It also plays a key role in achieving the goal of sustainable development. This book aims to review developments of eco-cities in China in recent years. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 introduces basic knowledge and technical know-how about vertical greening, including a general introduction and suggestions about site analysis, planning and design, green wall and roof construction techniques and maintenance. Part 2 is a collection of 32 projects, showing the latest achievements in vertical greening and roof gardens in China. All these projects are selected carefully and presented with photos, drawings and narratives to demonstrate the design process, conception, and installation/realisation in a professional way. Besides, important elements and factors that will have an impact on vertical landscaping are discussed in detail. It will be helpful to vertical greening practitioners around the world to learn from experiences and lessons in China.

martes, 11 de junio de 2019

#books #architecture | Gran Mediterraneo : project, process, progress

Gran Mediterraneo : project, process, progress / David Tajchman.
New York : Actar, 2018.
206 p. : il.
ISBN 9781948765015

/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Israel / Rascacielos / Tel Aviv (Israel)
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.011.27 GRA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1101431575

[.en] David Tajchman's first book about a self-initiated architectural research for a White City-specific High-Rise: the Gran Mediterraneo. Gathering working documents, sketches and rare pictures in an object specifically designed by graphic designer and art director Sara Jassim. In 2016, architect David Tajchman made public a self-initiated high-rise proposal on which he worked in secret during a few months. He decided to propose a new typology of skyscraper, more city-specific for Tel Aviv. Based on his previous observations that a new skyline is appearing in the White City, which according to his experience of the city and his knowledge of the local architectural history, does not take enough into account the 1930s and later Brutalist legacies. His yet unbuilt (but surely to get built) skyscraper is a spontaneous proposal from a foreign architect to the local decision makers, to open their eyes and their mind to other visions, for a more Tel Aviv-specific ver-tical architecture. The Gran Mediterraneo has been widely published as an architectural innovation and has won several awards gaining international recognition, with the recent Architizer A+ Awards 2017 received in New York. During the design process, David sketched, wrote, read and photographed about the various topics involved into his high-rise proposal. This book is an opportunity to share his references, background, research docu-ments, notes, drawings and working (3d) models. The book was first an exhibition-catalogue, presented last September 2016 in Paris in the framework of a solo show entitled ‘Gran Mediterraneo - Project Process Progress’. It contains archive documents on different topics and texts from invited contributors. 

The Gran Mediterraneo is an innovative concept of High-Rise that integrates a public automated car-park, operates as the first induction charging station for public and shared electric driverless vehicles in the city (future 'sherut'), and mixes programs of vertical living: residential apartments and hotel, bars and restaurants, farming and public gardens, swimming pools and dead sea spas, co-working spaces for offices and start-ups, educational and events spaces. Innovative also with its topological geometry giving a spiral effect to the high-rise, the Gran Mediterraneo breaks with the global and usual stacking of horizontal slabs wrapped with mirrored glass, aiming to renew Tel Aviv skyline with a 'Unesco proclaimed white city' specific vertical architecture. To be built with white concrete, using the latest construction and digital technologies, the curvy high-rise is filled with mediterranean and dead sea natures.

lunes, 10 de junio de 2019

#books #architecture | Claudio Silvestrin's timeless Italian style : architecture, design, philosophy

Claudio Silvestrin's timeless Italian style : architecture, design, philosophy / Claudio Silvestrin.
London : Design Media, 2017.
355 p. : il.
ISBN 9781910596340

/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / Claudio Silvestrin
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72SILVESTRIN CLA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1101969574

[.en] Highly creative, Claudio Silvestrin was born in 1954, studied under A.G. Fronzoni in Milan and at the Architectural Association in London. His interest in philosophy, his vision, his integrity, clarity of mind, inventiveness and concern for details are reflected in his distinctive architecture: austere but not extreme, contemporary yet timeless, calming but not ascetic, strong but not intimidating, elegant but not ostentatious, simple but not soulless. Claudio Silvestrin is a man of vision, the vast as well as the minute. Creativity is never delegated, his artistic supervision is total. Claudio Silvestrin is not a mere creative: what he creates in his designs, in turn, creates. He stands for difference rather than uniformity, quality rather than quantity, fewer projects rather than many. He is not a business man nor a PR man. He cares, advises, invents, teaches; he inspires. Claudio Silvestrin s golden touch always adds value to his clients projects.